{"id":325407,"date":"2026-03-27T07:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325407"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:01:38","slug":"zamir-warns-idf-will-collapse-in-on-itself-amid-manpower-shortage-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325407","title":{"rendered":"Zamir warns IDF will \u2018collapse in on itself\u2019 amid manpower shortage \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">IDF Chief of Staff Lt Gen Eyal Zamir (2<sup>nd<\/sup> from right)<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Stav Levaton \u2013 The Times of Israel March 26, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir reportedly warned during a security cabinet meeting last night that the military will \u201ccollapse in on itself,\u201d as it faces mounting operational demands and a growing manpower shortage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am raising 10 red flags before you,\u201d Zamir reportedly told ministers, according to Channel 13 news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IDF now needs a conscription law, a reserve duty law, and a law to extend mandatory service,\u201d he is quoted as saying. \u201cBefore long, the IDF will not be ready for its routine missions and the reserve system will not hold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zamir has issued similar warnings in recent months. In January, he sent a pointed letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials, warning that the shortage of soldiers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/idf-chief-said-to-warn-pm-katz-that-manpower-shortage-harming-armys-preparedness\/\">could harm military readiness<\/a> in the very near future.<\/p>\n<p>Since the war in Gaza was sparked by the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, the military has repeatedly told lawmakers that it lacks 12,000 troops due to the strain of the conflict and other military challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Ultra-Orthodox parties have demanded a law to keep their constituencies out of the military after the High Court in June 2024 ruled that there was no legal basis for the Haredi yeshiva students\u2019 decades-long blanket exemption from the draft. Some 80,000 ultra-Orthodox men aged between 18 and 24 are currently believed to be eligible for military service, but have not enlisted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/zamir-warns-idf-will-collapse-in-on-itself-amid-manpower-shortage-report\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s military chief of staff warns that the IDF faces internal collapse due mounting operational demands and severe manpower shortages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":306875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325410,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325407\/revisions\/325410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}