(Telegraph-UK) Robert Tait - Amir Shalayan, 26, is one of a small number of Christians to have volunteered to serve in Israel's armed forces. Having spent three years in the Israeli navy, he now performs regular reserve duty and is a member of the Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum Association, which attempts to persuade other Christians to join the army. "Christians have been persecuted all over the world and this is the only country (in the Middle East) that gives me the right to be Christian and practice my rituals," he says. Shalayan says that Christians should assimilate in Israeli society and serve the country which protects them.
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