The IDF is establishing a new reserve battalion to protect the borders: "Closing brigades and divisions was a bitter mistake" - Walla! News. A factor in the dry arm for the decision: "easy to dismantle, difficult to assemble" The new battalion is being established in the shadow of the war, more than a decade after it was decided by the General Staff to close reserve divisions.
Its establishment is causing tensions, among other things, around the placement of an ultra-Orthodox battalion and a female combatant battalion in the same brigade.