Nonconscription

An agreement on the "deferral" from army service or nonconscription of a certain number of yeshiva students was reached soon after the establishment of the state, when about 400 haredim were of the age of conscription.

Marriage, pregnancy, and motherhood, however, are grounds for compulsory nonconscription for women while religious conviction is grounds for voluntary nonconscription.

On the structural level, this exclusion has many modes, such as the exclusion of the Arabs from the centers of political decision-making, their nonconscription into the army, the non- employment of Arabs in senior positions, the existence of special offices to deal with Arabs, and the attitude that they constitute a security risk.