About 300 of the young Israelis recruited into the army each year are rejected because they can neither read nor write, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin was informed during a visit Tuesday to the Israel Defense Force special training center. He was told that about 90 percent of the illiterate youths are native-born.
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