What is the difference between the advertised alleged “Mahal pre-military” civilian program and the official IDF Mahal recruitment programs that Mahal-IDF-volunteers.org promotes?
For over a year, civilian organizers have been advertising an alleged “Mahal pre-military” program without it ever having taken place in reality at all. They are also using a website address similar to ours and are even asking for donations, while making the outrageous claim that “program participants will carry on the tradition of the 1948 volunteers, and walk in the footsteps of Mahal members from 1948 until these days”. Please note that Mahal volunteers, called Mahalniks, have been coming to Israel since 1948 to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces, but not in tourist programs. The expensive 5-months-civilian-touristic-program advertised is not a bona fide IDF Mahal program. The organizers charge considerable sums of money for services automatically provided FREE OF CHARGE to IDF soldiers. All services stipulated on our Mahal-IDF-Volunteers.org website are provided free of charge: we NEVER ask for, nor accept, donations. If you wish to volunteer for service in the IDF, don’t waste yo
