11 the universities immediately atfer their military service . Putting off binding decisions is characteristicof youth in Israel today, as it is in the western world, and this stage lasts even longer in the kibbutz . Even today, when kibbutz youth is more like other high school graduates elsewhere, their future concerns them less than it does their city peers . Many want the chance to try life outside the kibbutz, in a less binding framework . Most students appear to have reached a decision after deliberating and weighing options, following a moratorium period of searching and investigation, satisfying needs for new, liminal experiences not necessarily connected with studies . However, one cannot ignore a minority that neither plans nor deliberates, and begins to study in the spirit of "What will be, will be . " Women expressed less determination than men in choosing their fields, and more women arrive at the threshold of higher education without definite plans . Possibly the perceptio...
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