Conscription and Exemption
This calculation is based on data from the following sources: Statistical abstract of Israel 2017 no. 68, table 2.3, Population by Population Group, Religion, Sex and Age; Amos Harel, Haaretz, Israeli Army Combating a New Kind of Cyber Threat, Oct 6, 2017; Security-social department candidates for military service, Ministry of Defense, Druze (in Hebrew); Amir Buhbut, Walla, Unprecedented – some 200 Arab-Christians youth will enlist in the IDF this year, Aug 4, 2015 (in Hebrew); IDF spokesperson, Response for information query, March 15, 2018, (in Hebrew).
Rate of candidates for conscription who were issued conscription order 66.9%
Rate of conscripts among candidates for conscription
Rate of conscripts among those who were issued conscription order
56.3% Men
70.6% Men
57.6% Men
44.7% Women
56.5% Women
42.4% Women
[Source: IDF spokesperson, December 3, 2020, Response for information query of New Profile – Hebrew]
Men:
Women:
Exemption during service:
Imprisonment (2018)
9,657 entries of soldiers in regular service into military prison
and the rest are women
declared refusal to enlist
[Source: IDF spokesperson, December 3, 2020, Response for information query of New Profile – Hebrew]
[IDF spokesperson, Aug 23, 2020, Response for information query of New Profile (in Hebrew). IDF spokesperson, Dec 22, 2012, Response for information query of the association for freedom of information (in Hebrew). Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, A Third of Deaths in the Israeli Army in 2020 Were by Suicide, Jan 4, 2021. Nitzan Rotem, Haaretz, The Fraught Task of Explaining Suicides in the Israeli Army, May 2, 2020. Gili Cohen, Haaretz, More Than a Third of Israeli Army Deaths in 2016 Were Suspected Suicides, Jan 10 2017. Gili Cohen, Haaretz, 7 soldiers committed suicide in 2013 – the lowest in the IDF’s history (Hebrew) Jan 1, 2014. Gili Cohen, Haaretz, IDF Reveals Closely-guarded Statistics on Soldier Suicides, Dec 27, 2012]
Between 2016-2018, the Israeli Military documented 158 cases of suicidal attempts (of those, 9 were repeated attempts)
In 34 of such cases, the soldiers were previously diagnosed by the Israeli Military with medical or psychological disabilities
99 of the soldiers were exempt from service following their suicide attempt
[Source: IDF spokesperson, Aug 23, 2020, Response for information query of New Profile – Hebrew]
- No. of complaints 1706
- Investigation opened 165
- Indictments submitted 38
IDF spokesperson, Aug 23, 2020, Response for information query of New Profile (in Hebrew)