Here’s from the inside
In Ariel Sharon’s still unpublished memoirs, there is correspondence between Sharon and Ben Gurion dated 1959. Sharon recommended that from a Military View it would be better to cut the draft to, say 4-6 months, then move all those soldiers to the reserves and send them home.
The budget should be spent more efficiently on professional career officers.
(This was from 1959!, more than half a century ago in a much more beleaguered Israel. This would obviate drafting women as women don’t serve in ‘miluim’)