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(IsraelNN.com) The IDF Rabbinate is hard at work on the development
of a special touch screen that would make it possible to use vital
computer systems without violating Sabbath, reports IDF magazine BaMachaneh (In the Camp). Operational
considerations mandate the use of computer systems like ‘Masua’ or
‘Sheder Cham 400’ during the Sabbath. These systems inform their
operators of the location of IDF units during operations and battles.
Other systems, like the IDF’s medical information system, named CPR,

must also be used on Sabbath.

Add-on touchscreen, Sabbath keyboard, Sabbath mouse. (IDF website)
“The CPR system, for instance, serves medical personnel whenever a soldier
walks into a clinic, and we cannot avoid using it on Sabbath,”
explained Capt. Rabbi Ronen Aharon, Staff Officer for Halacha and
Technology at the Rabbinate. While Halacha (Jewish law)
stipulates that the Sabbath can be violated for life-saving activity,
the IDF Rabbinate has been searching for ways to cut down Sabbath

violation to a minimum.

The Tzomet Institute's Sabbath mouse (Tzomet Institute website)The
IDF Rabbinate has developed two options for Sabbath-friendly screens.
One is a specially designed touch screen and another is an add-on that
is connected to a regular screen and turns it into a touch screen, for
all intents and purposes. There is no decision yet as to which system
will be put into use. Sabbath Keyboards?
Another project, currently in its pilot phase, involves special Sabbath
keyboards. Three prototype Sabbath keyboards have been put into
experimental use in recent months, after being approved by the
military’s Computer and Information Systems Center (MAMRAM) and
Information Security Department. The Rabbinate is awaiting feedback
from the soldiers who use them, in order to decide if they are
preferable over the virtual keyboard/Sabbath mouse combination
currently being used by the IDF. The IDF is also examining the
possibility of changing the incandescent bulbs in the IDF’s
communications equipment with LEDs (light emitting diodes), since
turning on an incandescent light involves the actual lighting of a
fire, which is explicitly forbidden by the Torah. An LED is activated
by an electrical current – an act forbidden by the Sages and not by the
Torah, and thus more flexibly permitted in cases of dire necessity.

Sabbath Switches
Rabbinate
crews are also planning to install special electrical switches that
will enable opening of electrical gates on Sabbaths in IDF bases that
use them. The device is currently being tested at five entrances to IDF
bases, including Yafo Gate at Tzerifin Base.The Sabbath-friendly
switch is one of the Rabbinate's earliest developments. It also saves
the IDF money, because manufacturing it inside the IDF is cheaper than
buying it outside the army. if The internal mechanics and electronics of the Sabbath mouse, which
was developed by the Tzomet Institute for Halacha and Technology,
employ the Talmudic concept of ‘grama,’ which allows an
observant Jew to indirectly cause certain events to take place on
Sabbath, without direct action on his part. The same concept makes it
possible to re-adjust certain Sabbath timers during the Sabbath

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