{"id":4341,"date":"2025-12-28T10:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/28\/israeli-army-recruits-children-foreign-workers-manpower-shortage\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:30:17","slug":"israeli-army-recruits-children-foreign-workers-manpower-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/28\/israeli-army-recruits-children-foreign-workers-manpower-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Army Considers Recruiting Children of Foreign Workers Amid Manpower Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid an escalating shortage of manpower, the Israeli army has turned to recruiting the children of foreign workers residing in the occupied territories as a potential solution to fill this gap.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s Channel 12 reported that, based on current assessments, thousands of children of foreign workers are of conscription age, and military officials are currently considering enlisting them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, approximately 3,700 children of foreign workers living in these areas have reached the age for military service, a fact that has attracted the army\u2019s attention amid the shortage of personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Previous reports had indicated that the Israeli army faced a significant shortage of manpower in the first half of 2024. Meanwhile, an Israeli source acknowledged that the uncertain residency status of these workers&#8217; children is being leveraged to enlist them, raising questions about the rights and legal status of these individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli army is considering recruiting children of foreign workers due to a manpower shortage, raising concerns over their legal and residency status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}