The Army has halted forcible discharges of soldiers who were recruited through a program that offers citizenship to skilled immigrants in exchange for military service.
Over the last few months, dozens of recruits in the program, known as Mavni, have been abruptly discharged from their service, often with little or no explanation.
The Army, in a brief statement, said only that it had stopped the discharges “in order to conduct a review of the administrative separation process.”