Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein announced at the conclusion of draft law discussions that 'We have finished the discussion phase and are moving to the law writing phase by the committee's legal team.' According to him, 'We need a real solution, and I very much hope we will have the power to deliver one.' Brigadier General Shai Tayeb, head of IDF's Manpower Planning Division, updated during the discussion that since early January, 340 people attempting to evade service were detained at Ben Gurion Airport, of whom only 23 enlisted.