if you dont know english then dont print lies....but thats all haaretz does....a defector is a person who goes over to the enemy side

And how many are dodging the draft by attending yeshivot? This female desertion story looks like a highly exagerated statement.

...put them all in jail and make them work harder than they would if they did their service.

AWOL = Absent Without Official Leave

Why not follow the Olmert family way and leave the country before military service. Why fight to defend a land which the Israeli leaders reward the terrorists with after so much Jewish blood was shed for. You have to be blind not to see the trickle down immorality of Olmer ,Bush and the other phony peace scammers . They go out of their way to reward the Islamic terrorists in achieving their goal of removing the last traces of Jews from their dar al islamia . I think Bush nad Olmert are Islamic converts who work by stealth for the Caliphate in waiting.

What do you expect from a paper that refers to a tribal conflict as "racism"

Where do you see the word defector here?

In the subheading.

Can they not use Interpol, to at least let the rest of the international community know these individuals are wanted and out there? Abandoning service to ones country is serious. Especially in times like these.

abomination for a woman to wear that which pertains to men. Women should not wear men's garments. But what are men's garments? The mother of King Lemuel warned in the last chapter of Proverbs that men should not give their "STRENGTH" to women. That word strength means "ARMY DEFENSES, FORTIFICATIONS". What happened when rockets from Gaza hit a military training camp? The men recruits returned, but the women did not. Men and women are not the same, but both are necessary. It is not surprising that women go AWOL more often than men since they have less testosterone in their biological makeup to give them courage.

Uncle Sam may need you in Iraq.

Your choice of picture for this article is completely tasteless. Perhaps that's the only part of a female you consider?

The picture that was degrading and disgusting was the one on the home page referencing this article. The one on this page is just fine.

They haven't called. I would have no problem going if called. Believe me.

With almost every top political leader embroiled in a scandal and willing to give away everything that past Israelis died for why would anyone want to be in the iDF. Why die in a "cause" that is abandoned later and trivialized. The deaths of todays Israelis will be trivialized tomorrow by Olmert giving away all that they die for. The memory of 1967 is gone forever with the scandalous hypocrisy of todays Israeli leaders willing to negotiate away Jerusalem before there are even negotiations. If Israelis dont get rid of these crap leaders they should expect to lose Israel.