The cost of recruiting a single male into reserve service in Israel is $13,339 per month, and $7,503 per month to recruit him into regular service. The Ministry of Finance issued an assessment of the economic costs of the various alternatives to increase the number of occupation army recruits.
The report predicted various types of economic damage as a result of increased manpower needs. About a thousand soldiers and reserve officers in the occupation army have been forced to close their businesses and commercial interests since the outbreak of the war on Gaza.