do machal volunteers get a chafshash?

[LivingTruth]

i've started in machal already, i'm serving kravi in nachal and doing 14 months (passed the hebrew test and did not do the ulpan). i have a question that came up, and that so far for some reason i haven't been able to get a straight answer to - so maybe someone here knows?

do machal guys get a chofesh shichrur (chafshash), a vacation at the end of the soldier's service before his official release? i don't expect that i will get a full month like most soldiers do, but do machalniks get any chafshash at all? if so, how long?

thanks!

[rafi]

i've started in machal already, i'm serving kravi in nachal and doing 14 months (passed the hebrew test and did not do the ulpan). i have a question that came up, and that so far for some reason i haven't been able to get a straight answer to - so maybe someone here knows?

do machal guys get a chofesh shichrur (chafshash), a vacation at the end of the soldier's service before his official release? i don't expect that i will get a full month like most soldiers do, but do machalniks get any chafshash at all? if so, how long?

thanks!

There is no IDF mandate to receive a Chufshat Shichrur, just a tradition of giving them. It is 100% subjective on your unit, your commanders and their relationship with you.

[Dan from Boston]

Please keep what Rafi said in mind, as you are an active-duty soldier until your actual shihrur. In most cases, though, the length of your chafshash will be commensurate to actual time served.

[LivingTruth]

just in case anyone later on may be looking for information on this (i know i personally searched the forum for "chafshash" and came up empty), i recently got my official dates. i'm getting about 3 weeks of chafshash before my official release date. not sure if this is typical for machal volunteers, but it's what i'm getting.

cheers!

[Dan from Boston]

Yes, this is typical. Thanks for sharing the updated information, though! And, of course, thanks for your service and good luck.

[drorh]

If I remember correctly, I got around 1 week of chafshash and I did 14 months of service.