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New Delhi, India Published: Mar 03, 2021, 10.37 PM(IST) Bar Pinto (R) and Gilad Levi, two red-bearded 29-year-olds and founders of "Beard for All" ("Ptor Zakan" in Hebrew), a campaign challenging Israeli military rules compelling all male troops to be clean shaven, pose for a photo in Tel Aviv Photograph:( AFP ) Story highlights Many orthodox Jewish men often go unshaven, a relig...

Share Bar Pinto (right) and Gilad Levi – founders of ‘Beard Exemptions for All’, a campaign challenging Israeli military rules compelling all male troops to be clean shaven – pose for a photo in Tel Aviv last month. AFP Israeli army battling over by-law on beards Wed, 3 March 2021 Israel’s military is facing a challenge on the home front unrelated to traditional threats against the Jewish state: it’s over facial hair, and activists say the army’s future is at stake. Bar Pinto and Gilad Levi, two red-bearded 29-year-olds, have founded “Beard Exemptions for All” (“Ptor Zakan...

New 'Beard Exemptions for All' campaign seeks to cut discrimination in the IDF against secular soldiers, who are compelled to be clean-shaven, while their religious counterparts are exempt from the rule

Military duty at age 18 is mandatory in Israel, with young men compelled to serve for nearly three years