Is Ofer Vinter really anti-female?

More and more voices are coming out now and saying that Givati Commander Ofer Vinter has been viciously attacked for no reason, regarding the canceled Sarit Hadad performance. While many ignore the details and assume Vinter said no to a Sarit Hadad concert so as not to have a female perform before his religious soldiers, many are coming forward, including other soldiers and some journalists, and are stating clearly that Vinter did not make the decision and had left the decision in the hands of the soldiers - he let them decide which performer they preferred.

Furthermore, even with moshe peretz performing there are women singing in the performance. There are dancers, and women in the choir and backup vocals. The accusation that he nixed Sarit Hadad because she is a woman does not even make sense because that issue is not solved by having Peretz perform instead.

As well, it has been revealed that a while back there was a female performer for his unit and when a umber of soldiers wanted to walk out he stopped them and told them "derech eretz kadma latorah".

And, NRG reveals, the unit has gone out to enjoy a performance by Roni Daloumi -  a female performer.

The entire attack on Vinter was simply an attempt to discredit him because he is religious and is a popular and successful commander that is on the rise.

But now that the attack about Vinter being too religious and anti-female has been dispelled, even if too many people ignore the truth, now he might come under attack from people on the other side who will now accuse him of being to compromising on religious values. They might point to Vinter not having a problem with female performers and might use it to claim that religious people cannot be in the army because they must compromise on their religious ideals. I expect it to happen. I wonder if it will.

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