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- 1) This is first codified in “Defence
Army of Israel Ordinance” (1948), section 5, wherein the
policies of numbers of pre-State Zionist governments are adopted,
which all had Jew-only policies --
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DEFENSE ARMY OF ISRAEL ORDINANCE
(17th Iyar, 5708 (26th May, 1948).) |
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5. Orders, declarations, regulations and
any other directions concerning matters of the national service
which were published by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the
General Council (Vaad Leumi) of the Jewish Community in Palestine,
the People's Administration, the Provisional Government or any
of their departments between the 16th Kislev, 5708 (29th November,
1947) and the date of publication of this Ordinance, shall remain
in force so long as they have not been varied, amended or revoked. |
- 2) This section was then cancelled in section 21 in the “Defence
Service Law” (1949). But this new law then empowers the
Minister of Defence to ban from military service either individuals
or a "particular class of persons" for various reasons including
undefined ones (sections 12 & 15(a)). Section 15(b) then says
that such bannings need not be published in the official government
law journal (Reshumot; nor is it published any where else).
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DEFENSE SERVICE LAW
(passed by the Knesset on the 14th Elul, 5709 (8th September,
1949) ) |
Release from
obligation and
postponement
of service. |
12. If the Minister of Defence considers
that reasons connected with the size of the Regular Forces or
the Reserve Forces of the Defence Army of Israel or with the
requirements of education, settlement or the national economy,
or family reasons, or other similar reasons, so require, he
may by order direct --
- (a) that a person of military age shall be released from
the obligation of regular service or that the period of
regular service of such a person shall be reduced;
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Orders --
general
provision. |
15.
- (a) An order under section 12 may be either personal or
to a particular class of persons. Any other order under
this Law may be either general or to a particular class
of persons.
- (b) It shall not be necessary for an order under this
Law to be published in Reshumot.
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Revocation
and saving. |
21.
- (a) Any order, declaration, regulation and direction validated
by section 5 of the Defence Army of Israel Ordinance, 5708-1948(1)
and any order made under that Ordinance, are hereby revoked.
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- 3) Then the "Defense Service Law (Consolidated Version) of
1986 passes recruitment decisions to the ‘calling-up officers’
themselves, who then follow the unpublished policy of only accepting
applications from Jews, some Druids, Beduoins, and members of certain
other native Arab groups, but not the general Palestinian Arab population.
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