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IDF didn’t take DNA from 20,000 new recruits, including fighters, amid budget dispute

Military Rabbinate and Medical Corps can't agree on whose budget should pay for equipment used to preserve DNA samples, collected by the army to identify soldiers killed in action The post IDF didn’t take DNA from 20,000 new recruits, including fighters, amid budget dispute appeared first on The Times of Israel .

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IDF didn’t take DNA from 20,000 new recruits, including fighters, amid budget dispute

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