There is nothing new here
Sorry for those that want to hate on Joseph but this statistic is one of many reasons the IDF has been considering going the way of a Volunteer army, similar to Britian and the US.
The argument for a volunteer army
1) Quality over quantity, the recruits want to be there and studies show that the british and us armies got better bc they were able to get more out of their volunteers
2) retention; a country spends a lot training a recruit and they dont want to lose that recruit after 2 years
3) specialization; modern armies are much more specialized and it takes longer to train a good soldier
4) stop all the fighting over exemptions
5) the Israel army doesn’t even have the capability of absorbing all potential recruits
the following comes from wiki (and the footnoted source)
The IDF has reportedly concluded that it will, at some point in the future, have to end conscription in favor of an all-volunteer force. Reasons include growing unpopularity of military service among Israeli youth, a growth in draft-dodging, and budgetary constraints that would prevent the IDF from conscripting all those eligible even if draft-dodging were not an issue. Israel is reportedly studying how the United States and European nations ended conscription and transitioned to all-volunteer forces, for a possible future transition.[15]