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Do Israeli Politicians' adult children get conscripted just like the average adult Israeli citizen as part of mandatory service?

I was just reading about how a current Israeli war minister’s son died in combat and it made me wonder that if Israeli’s politicians who make these decisions know their family will be affected by it personally and directly, does that lend towards the suggestion that it is more likely they are making genuinely ethically and...

demystify,

In theory. In practice, I doubt it.

The Israeli parliament consists of 120 politicians. Their children would need:

  • to not be Haredi, which are exempt from service
  • to be between the ages of 18-21, which is when their mandatory service runs
  • to serve in combat units

Chances are only a few of them answer this criteria (even less considering the extremist portion of this specific government which didn’t serve, and their children likely don’t serve either), and even they are likely not above pulling strings to get them out of danger. Except for that politician you talked about, apparently.

demystify,

Can you opt out of snap on Ubuntu? I’ve heard some system and essential apps use it, so it might break stuff if you do

Are libreddit frontends for reddit already non functional?

I started some time ago using a teddit frontend with local subscriptions, and at some point it was hard for the one I picked to keep up, then I moved to libreddit, at that time libredd.it, then it stopped working and moved to libreddit.spike.codes, but it seems it stopped working as well, and finally I moved to libreddit...

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If you end up taking the browser route, take a look at WebApps

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