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Military Freezes Deferrals For National Service

November 18 2010

Israel

The Israeli military says it will maintain the current level of deferrals for teenagers permitted to perform voluntary national service or to study at a pre-military academy for one year before beginning their mandatory military service, reports Haaretz.

The decision followed a decrease in the number of recruits, according to military officials.

The army said that overall decrease is due to a rise in the number of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students who do not serve in the army....

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