Major-General Bar Kalifa, head of the IDF Personnel Directorate, wrote that the extension of mandatory service approved by the Knesset plenum on Thursday “does not eliminate the ne

Major-General Bar Kalifa, head of the IDF Personnel Directorate, wrote that the extension of mandatory service approved by the Knesset plenum on Thursday “does not eliminate the need to expand the pool of draftees.” Link IDF general warns mandatory service extension will not solve army manpower crisis Bar Kalifa wrote that the extension of mandatory service approved by the Knesset plenum on Thursday “does not eliminate the need to expand the pool of draftees.”