The causes of draft dodging in Israel

According to Ynet, High schools are to help fight draft-dodging. They will check up on students who claim they are socially unfit for the army, by noseying around their high school records. They might get some more warm bodies, but there is something really wrong in Israel when the government has to force people to do army service. Can you think of some reasons why young people just might not be motivated to do army service? Would you like to put your life in the hands of Ehud Olmert? I wouldn't. Would you want to do army service knowing that Yeshiva students are exempt? Is the IDF going to investigate whether every single Yeshiva student is really a genius of Talmudic law, fluent in Aramaic and a religious paragon worthy of sainthood, or is even attending an actual Yeshiva?

 

Ami Isseroff