41.  Gonzalez declared that he would maintain the length of mandatory military service at nine months.

42.  Additionally, mandatory military service was abolished, and all forms of forcible recruitment for the National Police and army were banned.

43.  All male university students are required to join the program as part of their two-year mandatory military service.

44.  The problems continue in the army, where the Ethiopians do their mandatory service alongside other Israelis.

45.  Last week the army said it was also planning on opening a Hebrew language Internet site to provide information to youths about to be drafted for mandatory military service.

46.  Last November President Vladimir Putin approved a preliminary plan to phase out mandatory service in the armed forces, without a specified timetable.

47.  Since the end of World War II and the murder in Nazi death camps of six million Jews, Jews have been exempt from mandatory military service in Germany.

48.  The Israeli army plans to open a site on the Internet to provide information to youths about to be drafted for mandatory military service, army officials said Friday.