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Half of the businesses there require "military service" for a job, which is conveniently 99% done by jews only.

Its known as the covert way to discriminate against arabs..

That’s complete nonsense. It wasn’t true even in the 70s-80s, at the height of the Israeli nationalism.

I guess my friends living in Israel lied to me then.

Edit: for precision they said it was like that for many small business who look for seasonal guys like waiters ..

Maybe not lied just exaggerated to impress you. There may be hidden bias but no army service is not mandatory in 50% of the economy. In fact 50% of Israelis dont finish the whole military service or even begin it.

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