The IDF suspended Thursday a senior reservist who stopped reporting for volunteer duty in protest of the judicial reform.
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The decision comes following talks held by Israeli Navy chief Vice Adm. David Sa'ar Salama with the heads of the operational headquarters who announced they would cease their volunteer duty, including the suspended officer, Ofer Doron, who said he "refuses to serve in the army of a dictatorship."
A military statement said that the status of a second rear admiral, who made a similar announcement, may also be taken out of the reserves call-up list for good. Being relieved from reserve duty usually means that you are no longer called up in cases where major hostilities erupt, and if you do choose to join the fighting, you are downgraded in your assigned role.
It added that Salama's decision was approved by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and assured that the headquarters continued to operate "according to plan and without change."
The statement also noted that both officers are over the age of mandatory reserve duty and, as such, performed their service voluntarily.
Nevertheless, due to their yearslong service, the navy came to rely on them in the operational headquarters, and their absence is said to have been felt.
A political source stressed the vital work of the reserve officers and estimated that the way to ensure their return was to build broad consensus on the judicial reform.
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