In wish I could go sign up with the IDF
Who says you can't?
“I wish I could go sign up with the IDF”
YOU CAN....
The IDF sponsors what’s called the “SAR-EL Program” where Non-Israeli volunteers can help the defense forces. They provide housing and military meals, and usually give you a weekend in Tel Aviv at the end of your stint.
From WIKI-
Sar-El is a volunteer program of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Every year about 5,000 volunteers from overseas serve for two or three weeks with the IDF.
Their job is neither paid nor armed and is mainly in the logistical, maintaining, catering, supply and medical services. Having volunteers do these jobs saves the army money and spares reserve soldiers from being called up. Volunteers must be at least 17 years old (if accompanied by parents: 14 years) and healthy. Sar-El is subordinate to the Logistics Corps.
The program was raised in the summer of 1982 by Brigadier (ret.) Dr. Aharon Davidi (former commander of the IDF Paratrooper and Infantry Corps), when due to the general mobilization during the 1982 Lebanon War in some kibbutzim at the Golan the harvest with crops already ripened was in danger, because all able-bodied farmers were on reserve duty in the IDF.
Within a few weeks Davidi recruited some 650 volunteers to lend their support for Israel through volunteer labor on IDF bases, so the kibbuzniks could be sent to their fields. These first volunteers expressed their wish that this volunteer project should be perpetuated, and in the spring of 1983, “Sar-El - The National Project for Volunteers for Israel” was founded as a non-profit, non-political organization. Volunteers from all over the world came to participate in the project, and today, Sar-El is represented in some 30 countries.
The majority of Sar-El’s volunteers come from “Volunteers for Israel” in the U.S.A., Sar-El Canada (Canadian Volunteers for Israel), and “Volontariat Civil” (UPI) in France.
http://www.sar-el.org/
http://www.vfi-usa.org/