More than 10,000 reserve pilots, intelligence officers, commandos, military instructors, army medics and infantrymen had threatened to resign from volunteer duty if the government pressed ahead with the judicial overhaul bill that was approved by Parliament on Monday.
It is too soon to tell how many will make good on their promises, like Mr. Herzel, because reservists are called up on a rolling basis.
But estimates provided by reservists prominent in the protest movement suggest that at least 1,000 have so far made the wrenching decision to resign.
The turmoil surrounding the reservists’ resignations casts doubt on that sense of common mission.
For now, the worries center mostly on the air force, given its reliance on reservist pilots who are often more experienced than those in the active military.
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