As the IDF seeks to streamline its operating budget, it is cutting about one-third of its non-combatant personnel, soldiers and officers including many stationed in the Defense Ministry, Tel Hashomer, and Tzrifin.
IDF Chief of Personnel Branch Major-General Avi Zamir is only assigning one non-combatant to one of the three bases listed for every two listed. The second inductee is assigned to an administrative post in a combat base in other areas, perhaps in the Golan or Yehuda and Shomron. He is working to thin out the number of homefront administrative personnel assigned to what is referred to in the military as the “Iron Triangle,” the three bases.
According to officials in the army’s logistics and personnel branches, over the last 8 months, personnel has been reduced by 20% and they plan on reaching 30% by year’s end using the same method.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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1. If they really needed them, that will require hiring civilians instead.
2. If the jobs were never needed, and noting that they are disproportionately filled by female conscripts, doesn’t that undermine the zionist argument for drafting 18 year girls (who many would argue were never needed other than for companionship purposes).