Starting at the local level, the requirements are as follows: an applicant must be a high school graduate; for the state level, the requirement is to have a higher education degree, sometimes an associate's or bachelor's degree, as well as some experience. At the federal level, a bachelor's degree is often required to be accompanied by a master's degree, which is even higher, and sometimes experience is essential. Another factor that varies by level is the age requirement which varies from eighteen to twenty-three years old from local to federal respectively. Israel requires all citizens, with few exceptions for religious and educational reasons, to enlist and serve in the military. Men serve three years and women 2 years and once initial service is completed, enlistees can either reenlist or become reservists and requalify and train for a month once a year until middle age ( CIA FACTBOOK). Most of the training required for law enforcement will occur during mandatory enlistment; however, some Israeli police departments require a diploma. According to 2008 statistics, the United States had approximately 1.3 million law enforcement officers at all three levels (BJS CITES BOTH). Israel, for its part, has approximately twenty-seven thousand officers in the Israeli police and more than one hundred thousand