Referring to three recent incidents in which officers were found to have abused power or been negligent, Kohavi maintains that the military must learn from its mistakes
Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi vows to learn and improve from scandal in which numbers were seemingly inflated; warns Iran entrenching deeper in Syria and Lebanon
Senior officers from Manpower Directorate acknowledge that mistakes were made in counting ultra-Orthodox enlistment rates, but maintain there was no effort to deceive the public
Officer in Manpower Directorate tells Israeli TV that pressure to meet conscription targets came from higher-ups; general denies inflated figures result of ‘malicious intentions’
Knesset panel to convene to discuss years-long inflation of enlistment statistics; army insists change in policy over who counts as Haredi led to incorrect tally
Military reported to have purposely doubled and even tripled the actual number of recruited soldiers to meet required quotas; army claims discrepancy was a 'mistake'
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