draft dodgers

New IDF conscripts put on uniforms for the first time, November 20, 2006. (Photo by IDF Spokesperson)
‘Draft dodger law’ robs Israel’s poor of higher education
The vast majority of draft dodgers and deserters refuse to serve for economic reasons. Those youngsters, who already come from Israel’s weakest communities, are the ones who will be harmed most by a new law that strips them of funds for higher education. By Sahar Vardi While clashes between in East Jerusalem took place surrounding…
By +972 Magazine November 18, 2014
Udi Segal walks in the direction of the Draft Center in Haifa, where he will refuse to enlist.
WATCH: Israeli teen refuses to serve in army, likely to face jail time
Dozens of supporters, including past refusers, hold demonstration outside Haifa draft board office in solidarity with 19-year-old Udi Segal. By Moriel Rothman-Zecher and Yuval Orr For the past month, the news in Israel/Palestine has been filled with reports of more and more people killed, the vast majority of them Palestinians. As much of Israeli society…
By +972 Magazine July 28, 2014
IDF on ‘hunt’ for draft dodgers, deserters
According to Israeli military records, there are a 2,700 deserters and 1,780 draft dodgers in Israel. In the last week alone, the IDF has arrested 474 of them as part of its largest-ever operation to apprehend them. Who are these “deserters”and in whose interest is it to invest so much of the military’s resources to…
By Haokets May 21, 2012
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