Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak referred to the election committee's examination of the fitness of Maj. Gen. (res.) Tal Russo to run for the Knesset.
"There is no reason to interfere with the candidacy of Tal Russo to the Knesset, Russo did not serve in the army at that time," he said, "on a permanent basis," which is the only legal way to pay a salary for an officer doing reserve duty of more than 100 days a year. To pay the discharged officers that we needed for long periods of time, "Barak wrote on Twitter.