There are many ways to escape military service in Israel, some of them
dishonest, others sanctioned by the government. Secular Israelis with moral
and political objections to military action enjoy no such options." Human
rights legal expert Joanne Mariner examines the plight of conscientious
objectors like Jonathan Ben-Artzi (pictured).
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