Meanings
- uncountableExemption from conscription.
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.
2011, Stephen Sharot, Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities, →ISBN - uncountableFailure to serve in the military.
Marriage, pregnancy, and motherhood, however, are grounds for compulsory nonconscription for women while religious conviction is grounds for voluntary nonconscription.
1993, Leonore Loeb Adler, International handbook on gender roles, page 1511 more example
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.
2001, Sarah Ozacky-Lazar, Asʻad Ganim, Between two Octobers: the Palestinians in Israel, October 2000-October 2001, page 16
Origin
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