The Tal Law, which exempts full-time yeshiva students from mandatory army service, will be replaced with “a more egalitarian and just law,” Israel’s Prime Minister promised activists.
A careful reading of the WikiLeaks trove of State Department cables — which is laying bare some 250,000 secret dispatches detailing private conversations, assessments and dealmaking of U.S. diplomats — reveals a notable if perhaps surprising pattern: how often they get things wrong.