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January 3, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-service2jan02,1,4646531.story?coll=la-news-a_section

Israeli Arabs Split Over National Service Plan

[Los Angeles Times] Ken Ellingwood - In a bustling classroom in Kafr Qara, Israel, school volunteer Hanan Masarwa, 18, is teaching first-graders to add as part of an Israeli national service program. Civilian volunteers agree to work full time for one or two years. In return, they receive a $150-per-month stipend and qualify for up to $2,000 more in payouts upon completion of their term. Masarwa, one of 600 volunteers to sign up for the program, sees it as a way for her to help children in the Arab village where she grew up. But Arab politicians and activists in Israel have denounced the program as a government attempt to co-opt young Arab citizens into serving the Jewish state.

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