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...October 1998, Hiller and several other women formed New Profile, a feminist organization that “strives to replace Israel’s predominant military profile with a humanistic and egalitarian one,” according to the organization’s literature...
...February 2002, the Israeli high court cited incompatibility as its reason to pardon Hiller’s son from his military service. Hiller had hoped the court would instead grant the pardon because of her son’s conscientious objection...
...Profile currently has over 1,000 subscribers to its mailing list. The organization holds open monthly meetings and gives presentations in schools throughout Israel. Hiller stressed the fact that New Profile supports all conscientious objectors...
...organization has also faced a great deal of opposition. Hiller recalled one New Profile meeting that was met by protestors who shouted that Israel needed a standing army to prevent another Holocaust...
...What’s troubling is that the groups that brought Mrs. Hiller were pretending as though refusing to serve in the Israeli Army was a brave appeal to humanitarian standards,” Trager said. “If anything, it’s an affront to the Israeli democracy and affront to the very humanitarian means through which it is fighting Palestinian terror in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...