The Israeli defense establishment is exploring the possibility of reducing the number of enlisted reservists and releasing some of them due to the high financial cost and the harm to the economy caused by their absence from their homes and places of work.
According to a report by Kan News, the IDF called up more than 200 thousand reservists, and the reservists' duty directly costs the state approximately five billion shekels a month.
To this sum is added the loss of workdays, which adds up to an additional 1.6 billion shekels.
Among other things, the possibility is being examined to make the reserve units flexible so the reservists could return for work for extended periods of time.