Leila Molana-Allen:
But some of the new recruits will have no baseline military skills to up.
The Haredim, or Ultra Orthodox Jews, make up about 15 percent of Israel's population, and are its fastest growing community. They don't traditionally undertake military service, instead believing that they serve by having young men between 13 and 22 to commit to full time study of the Torah, which casts a protective net over Israel and Jewish society.
Earlier this year, the "NewsHour" was on the ground as protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's extreme right coalition government swept through Israel's cities. This was one of the demonstrators' chief grievances.
Some secular Israelis felt their young people were being sent to serve their country, while the Ultra-Orthodox, as they saw it, got a free pass.
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