Israel has adopted a new tool in the fight against army draft evaders, and it involves looking at people’s Facebook pages.
Service in the IDF is compulsory for Israeli school-leavers, except under specific circumstances. Those exempt from duty include some Orthodox Jewish men and women.
But with draft-dodging on the rise, the army has turned to Facebook to check those avoiding service are doing so for a legitimate reason.
The method has enabled the IDF to catch some 1,000 women exaggerating the extent of their religious observance.
