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simply kept the pink slip and never retrieved their passports.- El Liberal, 5 November 1909.
44.the one hand, Ottomanist principles demanded an end to the non-Mus- On
lims’ exemption from military service, but practical considerations such as
the lost revenue of the military exemption tax [bedel-i askeri] as well as
concerns about what such social mixing might mean in reality led to foot-
dragging and endless debates in the Ottoman parliament and cabinet. - El Liberal, 6 August 1909.
- Ha-Herut, 29 September 1909.
47.a-Herut H , 22 December 1909. Evasion became so pervasive that it would
eventually necessitate strong punitive measures by the imperial and local
governments, particularly against people who (like Eliach) helped con-
scripted men flee their duty.
48.n Jaffa, for example, only three of the seventeen youth called to the I
mu‘āyana showed up. Ha-Herut, 18 February 1910. - Ha-Herut, 9 March 1910.
50.esignated head of a village, neighborhood, confessional or subconfes- D
sional ethnic group. The main responsibilities of makhātῑr included keep-
ing detailed lists of citizens under their charge for tax payment and census
purposes. - Ha-Herut, 14 March 1910.
- Ha-Herut, 21 September 1910.
- “Jews in the Army! Jews in the War!” ha-Herut, 1 November 1912.
- From ‘Uziel to Haim Nahum, Central Archive for the History of the Jewish
People [CAHJP], HM2/9071.1.
55.a’akov Roi, “Nisyonoteihem shel ha-Mosdot ha-Tziyonim le-Hashpi‘a ‘al Y
ha-‘Itonut he-‘Aravit be-Eretz Yisrael ba-Shanim 1908–1914,” Tziyon 3–4
(1967): 209. - Ha-Herut, 25 May 1910.
- Ha-Herut, 16 August 1911.
- Ha-Herut, 31 December 1912.