IDF plans to recruit young Jews from the Diaspora to fill shortages

Amid reports that the IDF is making plans to reach out to Jewish communities in the Diaspora to recruit young men to serve in the Israeli army, author and historian Gil Troy said serving in the IDF is a bold decision. But, he said, the IDF needed to understand that those coming to serve do so from internal motivation rather than some kind of guilt trip. He told reporter Arieh O’Sullivan that the government was too indulgent with local draft dodgers and should solve its manpower problems with them before seeking to recruit young Jews from abroad.(photo: flash90)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.