Some insights on the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the conscription law:
1. The Supreme Court of Justice stated the obvious. The operational need and the cost of the war oblige us to increase the scope of recruitment for the IDF. This is a need that is true both on an ethical level and on a professional-operational level.
2. We are facing unusual security challenges that will accompany us for several years. Even if we don’t initiate endless wars all over the Middle East, the defense needs require it.
3. Security service for all is the current need also from a social perspective. This is an opportunity to create a more equal, more moral, and more cohesive Israeli society.
4. The IDF can recruit everyone, and this requires preparation. There is no long-term significance to the number 3,000. Its meaning is tactical, irrelevant in the long run, and I suggest abandoning this number before it becomes sacred.
5. The Supreme Court’s decision is an opportunity to implement a national plan for an adapted and integrated service for all, in accordance with the policy recommendation published by the Institute for National Security Studies: “A multi-dimensional service model”—a proposal to change the personnel structure of the IDF.
To read INSS’s policy recommendation on the conscription law
Some insights on the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the conscription law:
1. The Supreme Court of Justice stated the obvious. The operational need and the cost of the war oblige us to increase the scope of recruitment for the IDF. This is a need that is true both on an ethical level and on a professional-operational level.
2. We are facing unusual security challenges that will accompany us for several years. Even if we don’t initiate endless wars all over the Middle East, the defense needs require it.
3. Security service for all is the current need also from a social perspective. This is an opportunity to create a more equal, more moral, and more cohesive Israeli society.
4. The IDF can recruit everyone, and this requires preparation. There is no long-term significance to the number 3,000. Its meaning is tactical, irrelevant in the long run, and I suggest abandoning this number before it becomes sacred.
5. The Supreme Court’s decision is an opportunity to implement a national plan for an adapted and integrated service for all, in accordance with the policy recommendation published by the Institute for National Security Studies: “A multi-dimensional service model”—a proposal to change the personnel structure of the IDF.
To read INSS’s policy recommendation on the conscription law