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Ynet: Encouraging IDF service through carrots rather than sticks, by Yoaz Hendel

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One thing’s for certain: The next elections won’t be over the draft law. A moment after the elections, a year after the elections, nothing will change.

We’re afraid of looking the problem in the eye. This reality, in which only 50 percent of young Israelis enlist in the army, was dictated decades ago. David Ben-Gurion was the initiator, Menachem Begin was the accelerator, and all prime ministers since then have given it a hand and even a push.

As outrageous as it may be, there is no equality in rights and responsibilities in Israel.

The place I live in sends children to the army and encourages them to serve in combat roles. Others don’t. There are groups in the population that encourage service in the home front. There are countless draft dodgers in the Left and in the Right. And there are two groups which the State of Israel has failed to deal with from the very beginning: The Haredim and the Arabs.

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