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Middle-class American 12th graders might be figuring out if and where they're going to college. When I was going to high school in Israel, the question was where you would serve in the military.

A key difference between Zionist Jewish political parties and non-Zionist Jewish parties is that the voters of the former serve in the military. Culturally the IDF is the key Zionist institution: whether one regards oneself as "left-wing" or "right-wing", military service is a fundamental premise.

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