The World - News from Oct. 27, 1985
The Israeli army has persuaded 2,500 deserters to return to their units as part of a two-week-old campaign to find Israelis who are not fulfilling their military obligations, military sources said. The sources said that 300 of the 2,500 were sentenced by military tribunals to terms in military prisons and that the remainder were fined and given suspended jail terms. Military police will start a crackdown Nov. 3 to catch deserters who do not report back voluntarily.
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