jdb:
“But to say that most people going into the IDF come out abandoning religion is just false. ”
No, it’s the simple truth, of course. The Zionist army is expressly designed to change Jew and Judaism to Zionist and Zionism – and it has done exactly that, as we all know. Rav Steinman told a boy who came to him that no matter what framework he used, he would come out of that shmad army as “a total goy”.