The war in Lebanon has added another 1,100 members to the Association of Disabled War Veterans, according to its chairman, Yaacov Maoz, in an interview with the current issue of the army’s Bamahane weekly magazine. The association now has some 37,000 members, 97.5 percent of whom are self-supporting, Maoz reported. The membership is probably among the highest in the world on a percentage of population basis.
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