08.05.2012 16.Ijar. 5772 Tag 31 des Omer
Wehrdienst:
'Arabs less inclined to volunteer for nat'l service'
40% of young Arabs in Israel are willing to volunteer for national service, compared to 53% in 2009, study shows.
Willingness by young Arabs in Israel to volunteer for civilian national service has steadily fallen over the past six years, as the community’s support for contributing to national service, a new study to be published Tuesday by Haifa University’s Jewish-Arab Center has found.
Despite this, researchers Professor Sammy Smooha and Dr. Zohar Lechtman, who interviewed some 968 Arab citizens of Israel, noted that the actual number of young people from the community volunteering for national service has actually increased….