A stranger in civilian clothing was outside Liron and Rakefet Eldor's home as they returned from an evening walk in the Israeli port city of Haifa. But the news from the volunteer military notification officers was worse: The Eldors' 21-year-old conscript son, Adi, had been killed in Gaza fighting earlier that day, bringing them into the swelling ranks of Israeli families bereaved by the country's most devastating war in five decades. The armed forces occupy a central place in Israel, where most citizens perform military service, and the war in Gaza triggered one of the largest mobilisations in its history, with some 300,000 reservists called up in a population of 10 million.
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