"We took the best out of the Harvard system and made it a community service, " says Dosoretz.

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At the village level, Falintil has helped the reintegration of returning militia members in the absence of a functioning judicial system by administering home-brew justice, generally relying on community service-type sentences but sometimes veering to beatings.

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Mr Lapid called for a more equitable system of national service, ending exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox community - a state of affairs to which there is growing opposition in Israel.

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