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January 9, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5439138,00.html

"This Is My Country, I Serve in the IDF," Says Muslim IDF Soldier

(Ynet News) Nadav Glick - Corporal Bilal Taha, 21, from the Galilee village of Deir al-Asad, is an Israeli Arab who chose to serve in the IDF. "There are many who are not happy with my being a soldier," he says, "and I don't know what their reaction would be if I entered the town in uniform." Before enlisting in 2017, Taha spent a year volunteering with a youth movement in Israel, where he says he made up his mind to enlist. "We spent a week at a Safed Yeshiva (seminary), a month at the Ofra settlement, and we also visited my village....There is no difference; only the location, language and the residents' religion. Judaism and Islam are very similar. A Jerusalem household welcomes you the same way as one in Deir al-Asad."

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