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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: August 19, 2007 |
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The government Sunday created the National Service Administration (NSA), stepping up its efforts to encourage those who are exempt from the army to perform national service, Ynet reported.
The NSA will offer special accommodations and monetary rewards to attract potential participants. Volunteers will receive approximately $120 per month, the same as a combat soldier, and will possibly be rewarded a $1,600 bonus upon the completion of their service, as are regular soldiers.
The program has already come up with ways to draw on religious youth, whose communities sometimes discourage service, and Arab Israelis, whose leaders are sometimes altogether against serving Israel in any capacity. According to Dr Reuven Gal, former chief IDF psychologist, Arabs will be placed in their own communities, and the religious placements will be contingent on rabbinical approval.
Common assignments for regular national service volunteers are tending to needy Holocaust survivors and working with the National Road Safety Authority.
"This is a classic assignment for the national service and we'll have several hundred volunteers doing that" Gal said.
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