Number of youths who enlist for military service drops further in 2008. Majority of men who do join army say they are satisfied with their service, desire combat positions
Moran Zelikovich
Only 52% of Israeli teenagers enlist in the IDF – this was the statistic presented Tuesday morning to the education committee by Col. Tziki Sela, head of the army's Department of Planning and Manpower Administration.
The data displays an ongoing trend showing that the amount of youths serving in the Israeli army is decreasing. In 2002, 59% enlisted. The figures include Arab and ultra-Orthodox youths, who are exempt from mandatory service.
Sela estimated that there are approximately 7,000 draft dodgers every year.
He added that in the upcoming years the number of people serving in the army is expected to decline even further.
This is mostly due to the extent of the exemptions authorized and the relatively smaller age groups. However, Sela did say that “the IDF is aware of the situation and this will not affect national security. The army has a solution for the decrease in soldiers.”
According to Sela, about 25% of youths who evade service by declaring themselves ultra-Orthodox Torah scholars never attend Orthodox yeshivas. ... more »
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IDF: 50% of Israeli teens do not enlist
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Jodie A.
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Iran condemns 'Israeli spy' to death
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Jodie A.
on Tue 01 Jul 2008 11:18 PM EDT
Iran sentences to death a man found guilty of spying for Israel, reports say
Tehran's Revolutionary Court convicted Ali Ashtari, 45, of spying Trial prosecutors displayed spying tools that Mossad had allegedly provided Next Article in World » TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran has sentenced to death a man found guilty of spying for Israel, state media reported Monday. Iranian state media report that Ali Ashtari, pictured, has been found guilty of spying for Israel. Tehran's Revolutionary Court convicted Ali Ashtari, 45, of spying for Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, in exchange for money, the news agencies said. According to Ashtari's "confession," published by the news agency Fars, Ashtari was a salesman who obtained high-end but security-compromised electronic equipment from Mossad and sold them to military and defense centers in Iran. During the trial prosecutors displayed pying tools that Mossad had allegedly provided, Iranian Student's News Agency said. Ashtari can appeal his verdict, the Islamic Republic News Agency said. Iran and Israel have been engaged in an escalating war of words. Iran accuses Israel of trying to destabilize the republic. Israel has not ruled out military action to halt Iran's nuclear aspiration Original Source more »
srael is unlikely to feel the need to stage a military strike on Iran in 2008
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Jodie A.
on Tue 01 Jul 2008 11:15 PM EDT
a senior American official said Tuesday, hours after Pentagon officials were quoted as saying the Jewish state was likely to attack the Islamic Republic by the end of the year.
Top pentagon official says Israeli raid on Iranian nuclear facilities likely before end of year "I honestly don't think your government will feel so much pressure to resort to military force" by the end of the year, the official said, adding, however, that he didn't rule out the use of force. The official said there was no consensus in the Israeli government that the use of force against Iran "is inevitable. "I don't sense Israel wants to go it alone," the official said, pointing out that when Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz commented last month that Israel might have no choice but to attack Iran, "there was criticism of those statements." The official said he did not sense that Israel felt the situation was so desperate that there was need for military action by the end of the year. The US, while not taking the military option off the table, was concentrating on increasing its sanctions against Iran, and encouraging other states - especially European countries - to strengthen their own ... more »
'Sleepwalking Into a Nightmare'
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Jodie A.
on Tue 01 Jul 2008 08:19 PM EDT
Gingrich: Iran, Islamist threat require WWII-like resolve, not military
Darkness at the End of the Tunnel
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Jodie A.
on Tue 01 Jul 2008 08:12 PM EDT
Penetrating the Iranian underground.
by Gabriel Schoenfeld Israel has just carried out a major aerial exercise, putting a hundred or so F-15s and F-16s into the skies over the eastern Mediterranean, evidently a rehearsal for a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. The move follows the statement earlier this month by Shaul Mofaz, Israel's deputy prime minister, that an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program is "unavoidable." Israel almost certainly knows the location of some of the critical nodes in the Iranian program that it must hit if it is to set the Iranian effort back by several years. It also possesses the technology to assure that its bombs will fall close to or on their targets. But would such a strike succeed? We cannot know the answer, and neither can the Israelis. The question calls attention to what might be called the ongoing Counterrevolution in Military Affairs. The Revolution in Military Affairs was based upon silicon, in particular the computer chips that make for precision-guided weapons. In the 1980s, the United States developed the technology to drop munitions near enough to their targets to ensure a high chance of destruction. In World War II, the circular error probable--the radius of ... more »
Palm Scanning: Better Than FingerprintsBy Lamont Wood,
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Jodie A.
on Tue 01 Jul 2008 07:54 PM EDT
The PalmSecure scans the veins in the user's palm, which are as distinctive as fingerprints. Credit: Fujitsu |
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