No doubt the army's not perfect. But these teens should be ashamed of themselves, as their parents should be.

I stand up and applause for standing for justice with such determination

Every year the same article. They make up about 0.000003% of the youth going into the army.

Well done for having the guts to stand up for what you belief ,you have my full support.

Does that mean they parents are war criminals?

"S/He who id not a communist at 18 has no heart. S/He that is still a communist at 21 has no brain. " One can understand sensitive teens reacting in this way, but one hopes that they will come to their senses in time.

Have drunk from the waters of international socialist group-think, these poor babies should follow up their letters with applications to other countries for citizenship. How can they stain their pure angel wings in Israel? They absolutely require the pure air of socialism. How much is airfare to Venezuela?

The blockage of escape of Jewish People and Under Oppressed Minorities leading to Genocide is a far worse Crime than the Jewish Security Stand in Judea and Samaria though there have been war criminal abuses.Holocaust Denial and Holocaust Approval can never be Progressive Socialist or even Marxist .

Iphones and we'll see how soon they'll piss in their pants once the rockets fly. Bratty little shits...raised by shits.

These kids don't believe that the heart of the Jewish Homeland belongs to the Jews. They probably don't have a problem with the arabs using that land to try to destroy Israel. Since they don't believe in the existence of Israel, they should move to a more just state like Jordan or Egypt.

send them to Syria and let them fend for themselves. Jews and Christians get special treatment there: their guts are cut out or their heads are cut off or they are buried to the neck and hit with stones until they die or they are shot in the head or other horrific crimes for the crime of being a Jew or Christian in Syria. THEN THE TEENS WILL LEARN but it will be too late to enlist in the IDF so they have a chance to survive in the Middle East, the crybabies.

I'm not even Jewish and I would consider it a huge honor to be enlisted in the IDF.

They could at least do sherut leumi. After all it was the State and the IDF who made posible for them to live, to study and develope in Eretz. Good luck for them to find a decent job in the future

They might still be able to do three years Yeshiva service Torato Omanuto where they can learn about moral and ethical principles or maybe do some time in jail for avoiding enlisted service.

hatred of females in a mostly male organization. But I got two honorable discharges from active duty and the ready reserves. If I could accomplish that then surely other people can survive it. I didn't know at the time of my military service that I have two heart defects and cranio-vertebral joint misalignment (Lehrmitte's Sign) part of an M.S. syndrome which were both aggravated by the military service. Ariel Sharon served in the IDF with a congenital heart defect from birth. But crybaby teens who are probably perfectly healthy except for mental problems to think they shouldn't serve in the IDF when Satan wants to destroy Israel, think they should not do what a female did as a volunteer not a draftee. That is a problem with a lot of countries, raising males to be effeminate, possibly from estrogen in pesticides and estrogenic phthalates from plastics and estrogenic soy in their bodies so they don't know what it a male is supposed to be or feel like. They are afraid, like sissies.

Are you going to throw them in jail the same way you want to throw the haredim in jail for not serving or is there an anti haredi double standard here?

Until danger strikes and you'll scream the loudest for the IDF to rescue you. Your justice is an empty slogan.

These kids literally disgust me. They don't want to join the military because it is unjust? I wonder where these kids were when I was sitting a km away from Gaza during Pillar of Defense hoping not to get hit by rockets while he was playing candy crush in a bunker. .

shameful of these spoiled uninformed teens who have fallen prey to propaganda. Sickening to read.

These annual publicity stunts are orchestrated by American Jewish funded leftist NGOs such as the New Israel Fund. In fact the last group was explicitly directed by the New Israel Fund. The influence of these American Jewish funded left-wing NGOs is deeply corrupting to Israeli society, as the leftist Democratic Party is in the United States.

Some of the details in the letter described in the article are not the kind of things teens would even think of. Clearly, there is some dubious organization behind this. No one is fooled here!

They should be ashamed and their parents embarrassed ! My daughter just entered her service and even though I was not brought up here I understood her desire to do her duty to her country and fully back her decision to serve. If these teens should refuse to serve then when it comes to them receiving benefits from the state their lack of service either military or national should be taken into consideration and they should be treated according, why should the country give to them if they refuse to give to the country ! As the late JFK said " Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for the country", and by refusing to serve the country in either the military or national service they are not doing that and infact putting the nation at risk, what if everyone decided not to serve, where would Israel be, it would not exist !

Your posting clearly proves you have an oversupply of some hormones (the one starting with a T is oversupplied the most,) which makes you into a Virago, apparently. It's too bad you have an MS which blinds you from realizing those youngsters are true believers in what they wrote in their letters. Think about it when you have a good morning after a good night sleep and come back here to post a positive message to those honest and brave idealists.

I am niether proud nor ashamed of them, simply put COWARDS will use any excuse not to serve, and as a former Paratrooper I would not want to depend on COWARDS to back me up, punish them according to the LAW, if they do not perform National Service not only are they COWARDS but also LIARS.......one can not blame the parents of these COWARDS, unless they too chose not to enlist or perform National Service.....AM YISROEL CHAI

This has nothing to do with humanitarianism, other than to abuse the term. It reflects an extreme amount of ignorance of the facts on the ground and shows their inability to deal with democracy - nowhere is there a call for legislation, nowhere is there a call for immediate negotiations for a peace treaty to "end the occupation yadda yadda". Oh yea, there are negotiations going on right now to do just that! Doh! One day they'll understand that marxist-leninism died a long time ago.

Don't blame the kids. Look at their ultra-liberal left wing teachers - and the parents who support those teachers. The despicable virus exposed recently in Kiryat Tivon is entrenched in every school and university.

In Israel, it is kids like these who are the brave ones - to stand up against growing militarism, threats, and bullying across Israeli society to express how they feel. Judging by the angry and violent talkbackers here, the kids are the heroes. The anonymous talkbackers are the craven cowards (especially Al, Rivka and Sarah B - who is apparently taking a short break from her talkback temper tantrums).