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The second difficulty relates to calling up the reserves.
The IDF cites various estimates that it would have to call up between 120,000 and 250,000 reservists for the operation. The lower estimates appear to be more realistic, but this is the same general staff that, this year, tried to stabilize the operations graph and promised the reservists that it would reduce combat troops' average service to 74 days in 2025.
Moreover, the number of reservists reporting for duty is in free fall and commanders are covering this with a feverish calling up of unit-less reservists, who in hard times have turned reserve duty into a livelihood, moving between the changing headquarters and battalions.
What will the reservists' families think of another mass mobilization between the end of the summer vacation and the Jewish New Year holidays? How many of them will be able to keep their jobs? Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz don't bother themselves with such petty details.
In practice, it's a recipe to delay the start of the operation by at least two months.
