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Several new recruits with poor understanding of the Passover holiday got into a scuffle over the sudden change of the food menu at their army base, according to press reports in Israel.
The new recruits who were stationed at an Israeli army base in southern Israel faced off with a cook in protest at the small amount of food served at the base because of regulations related to Passover.
The altercation quickly turned physical. Witnesses said that the fight also involved several soldiers at one point.
However, a military leader at the base said no one else was involved in the fight, only the soldier and the cook.
The unusual event occurred at a training camp after a group of recruits expressed frustration with the small amount of food on the menu when the kitchen was in the process of being prepared for Passover.
One of the soldiers came into the kitchen with the intention of taking food for him and his friends. A kitchen assistant noticed him and ordered him to leave. The two soon began exchanging blows.
An IDF spokesperson said: "There is absolutely no shortage of food at the base and no soldier has been hungry. According to the orders of the General Staff, the IDF goes through an extensive process of preparation before Passover.”
“Some new recruits, who often are non Jews from the U.S., fail to understand the importance of Passover. After the first Passover in the army they have a better understanding of Judaism, so problems like these do not happen again,” a person familiar with the situation told YourJewishNews.com.
“The soldiers go through a hard day of work and at the end of the day instead of getting a hot meal they get some cold sandwiches,” one person told YourJewishNews.com that one soldier complained.