Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine (69 page)

^74.
El Liberal
, September 3, 1909. See also
Ha-
erut
, December 10, 1909.

^75.
Antébi to AIU, September 10, 1909. AAIU, Israel-IX.E.27. Early on a satirical play printed in the Hebrew press mocked the process of appeals, where the local officers refused to hear the objections of an old Jewish man (obviously too old to be drafted) as well as a small boy (who was clearly too young).
Ha-
erut
, December 13, 1909.

^76.
Ha-
erut
, May 18, 1909; November 1, 1909; December 31, 1909; January 8, 1910; March 29, 1910.

^77.
“Letters from Turkey [sic],”
Ha-‘Olam
, June 8, 1909;
El Liberal
, September 24, 1909;
Ha-‘Olam
, July 6, 1909;
Ha-
erut
, November 29, 1909 and December 3, 1909. It seems that while Jewish soldiers were initially released to eat kosher food at Jewish homes, in the winter of 1910 the Ministry of War decided that they must eat together with the rest of the soldiers, since it was forbidden to differentiate between Muslim and non-Muslim soldiers.
Ha-
erut
, November 23, 1910. A later article noted that due to the intervention of the military doctors, it was decided that soldiers could bring their own cooking utensils with them rather than eat from the collective pot.
Ha-
erut
, December 14, 1910.

^78.
Ha-
erut
, May 18, 1909.

^79.
Ha-
erut
, September 29, 1909.

^80.
“Military Service and the Jews,”
Ha-
erut
, October 22, 1909.

^81.
See
Ha-
erut
, August 18, 1909; August 20, 1909; September 3, 1909; December 8, 1909; September 16, 1910.

^82.
Ha-
erut
, March 16, 1910.

^83.
Ha-
erut
, November 9, 1910.

^84.
El Liberal
, September 10, 1909. At one recruiting session in Jaffa, for example, only three of the seventeen youth called to the
mu'ayyina
showed up.
Ha-
erut
, February 18, 1910. See also
Ha-
erut
, December 1, 1909.