Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF are at odds over how many haredim the military can absorb. Netanyahu believes that the military needs more time to establish haredi-tailored programs and environments for their service, while the IDF claims that it is already prepared to receive an additional 3,000 haredim per year. Netanyahu suggests that the IDF's need for more soldiers could be fulfilled by extending the service of mandatory soldiers and calling up reservists who never answered their call-ups. The IDF has already added new options for haredim to make service more attractive, such as serving in technical and logistical capacities at an Air Force base section. Despite the IDF's readiness, a spokesman for Netanyahu maintains that the military lacks capacity for a new major influx of haredim.