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Besides ordinary ones, some military high schools include:
-- Mevo'ot Yam with 500 students who wear uniforms, participate in parades, and learn weapons use in preparation for future Navy service;
-- Air Force technical schools for cadets preparing for future IAF service; and
-- the Amal 1 network - one of the largest high school ones in Israel, a joint military-civilian project for future Air Force service.
Courses combine civilian and military studies, children being groomed to become soldiers.
Yet Article 77(2) of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions (1977) prohibits recruiting them under 15. In Israeli military schools, they're "regularly recruited" as young as 13 or 14. It persists because of militarism's pervasive influence in Israeli society and culture.
Military Training for Children
In all Israeli high schools, mandatory Youth Battalion Training Week simulates army life for 11th and 12th graders on military bases. In uniforms, it includes:
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