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Although military service in Israel is compulsory, exemptions can be secured on religious, physical, psychological, or legal grounds. There is also a growing, but still very rare, phenomenon of draft dodging , mainly due to conscience or political reasons (See Refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces ).
Accordance with section 36 of the Security Service Law, the security minister may exempt certain people from an army service in the IDF, for reasons related to the volume of the military forces or reserve forces, or for reasons related to educational needs, settlement needs, security needs, economy needs, family needs and various other reasons.
On 15 December 2010, the Parliament of Serbia voted to suspend mandatory military service. The decision fully came into force on 1 January 2011. [266] In September 2024, Prime Minister Miloš Vučević announced that conscription will return in September 2025 with the mandatory military service lasting 75 days. [171] Civil service will still be ...
National service is the system of compulsory or voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term national service comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939. [1] [2] The length and nature of national service depends on the country in question.
Under the plan, Serb men will have compulsory military service consisting of 60 days of training and 15 days of exercises, the government said. The service will be voluntary for girls.
Actually, most voters favor mandatory national service. In a 2023 survey , 75 percent of Americans between 18-24 said they would support a required term of service so long as participation in the ...
Some distinguish between refusal to serve in the military because of a pacifist worldview that rejects any manifestation of violence and encompasses a refusal to submit to compulsory military service in any form, and partial refusal to serve, such as the Courage to Refuse group who "do their reserve duty wherever and whenever they are summoned, but refuse to serve in the occupied territories."
In this week's "It's Debatable" segment, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate if Israel should comply with the Order of the International Court of Justice to stop military operations in Rafah.