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Druze conscientious object Omar Sa'ad performs outside the Tiberias induction base. (photo: Activestills)
Druze conscientious objector Omar Sa’ad released from military service
Six months after he was sentenced to his first prison term for refusing to join the IDF, Druze conscientious objector Omar Sa’ad was released from military service on Wednesday. Sa’ad, an 18-year-old violist from the northern village Maghar, was sentenced to his first term on December 5th, 2013 in the Tiberias induction base. Since then, he…
By Edo Konrad June 19, 2014
Uriel Ferera walking out of military jail after serving his first sentence. (photo: Ruty Ferera)
IDF denied draft refuser letters, access to his lawyer
‘The sergeant told him that he cannot make a call because he is a military prisoner, and that he cannot use the phone because he didn’t wear his hat on time,’ Ferera’s lawyer says. By Daniel Beller Uriel Ferera, the young Orthodox conscientious objector who was sentenced to military jail for refusing to join the…
By +972 Magazine May 21, 2014
Canadian woman gets 3 months in IDF jail for draft dodging
This has to be one of the strangest, dumbest stories I have unfortunately been following lately. Yana Gurlik, a 30-year-old expat came to Israel for a family wedding last month, and was told on arrival that there were some problems with her status, according to the army. At the airport she was asked to go to an army…
By Ami Kaufman September 27, 2012
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