During a session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday, Knesset members asked the IDF representatives to tell them how many pre-draft evaluation orders would be sent to haredim on Sunday.
However Brig. Gen. Shai Taib, who was sent to the committee by the IDF, refused to answer the question and said: "I'll only know tomorrow evening when I finish calculating the data."
Ynet published a page out of the notebook belonging to one of the IDF representatives at the session which read: "Do not say how many orders were sent! Do not say what the criteria are." The notes also read: "3,000 heredim, more than the usual 1,800. An operative placement and sorting process."
The IDF Spokesperson responded to the report: "The report on Ynet about supposed 'notes in the notebook of an IDF Spokesperson representative' is baseless. The picture shows the notebook of an officer who was at the session and wrote down the comments of the committee members and not the IDF Spokesperson's 'notes.' Any claim otherwise is incorrect."... Read More: Arutz-7