Sharing the national burden in Israel

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In Israel, most Jewish men are drafted into three years of military service soon after they graduate from high school. Jewish women serve two-year stints. The ultra-Orthodox community has been exempt. But this is beginning to change. Israel's Supreme Court just ruled that religious seminaries called yeshivas are being cut off from government funding because they don't send students into the military.


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