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A couple of points, in addition to what others said.
First, cheer up, you are in a very good company, Richard Feynman was famously rejected because the army psychiatrist declared him mentally unfit.
Second, a desire to join the IDF seems rather contrary to the spirit of rationality, unless you have an instrumental goal of getting some personal benefits from it, like free training/cheaper education/better employment. Certainly it is not the best way to express your patriotism, given the current realities in Israel.
Re the second point, please avoid telling people what is in the spirit of rationality unless you identify specific inconsistencies between their behavior and their goals, or between different goals that they have simultaneously. "Rationality" does not dictate goals.
You do have a point, hence my qualifier about instrumental goals. The point I was trying to make is that I cannot imagine joining the IDF to be a terminal goal, and there are better actions to actualize one's love for the country than joining its military, at least in the case of Israel. As it happens, I was right and the OP does have instrumental goals unrelated to patriotism.
I do have an instrumental goal, and the Israel-Palestine conflict is massively overrated.
Wouldn't it be nearly impossible to conceal this judgment of unfitness from prospective employers? I really don't know anything about Israeli hiring culture.
I'm not interested in finding out. I do know that service is a big part of your qualifications.