Thousands of reservists and secular citizens have rallied across Israel in recent weeks to demand service for all and an equal distribution of the burden.

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Both proposals are designed to raise the same amount of money as today's system and leave the distribution of the tax burden largely unchanged.

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In Berlin, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called the levy part of the "fair" distribution of the bailout's burden.

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