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Israeli army cites rise in number of overseas volunteers joining its ranks
A resurgent desire to defend the Jewish state, along with improved support for recruits from abroad, have boosted the number serving over the past two years.
He was the youngest of four, from a comfortable Jewish home, with loving parents who gave him everything he wanted, and he had always dreamed of being a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/.premium-1.653125The disaster that Judaism won’t survive
Both internationally and in Israel itself the distinction between the state’s Jewish character and its democratic regime is growing more acute.
About five weeks after the election, we can declare the advent of a new genre among those who write about Israel in the international media: the lamentation. It’s hard to find a media outlet, certainly in the Western democracies, that hasn’t given a platform to a writer who will explain, whether with sentimentality or cold didacticism, that in the wake of the shelving of the...
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