Ultra-Orthodox army service looms over Israel vote

When Yossi Levy decided to quit studying at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish yeshiva to join the Israeli army, his brother told him he would be better off dead. "My heart wasn't in what I was doing at my yeshiva," said 29-year-old Levy, referring to a Jewish academy devoted to the Talmud, the body of Jewish law and legend. At Israel's creation in 1948, haredim were exempted from the military service that was mandatory for all other Jewish citizens -- and were also largely exempted from working.
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