Gadi Eisenkot addressed members of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee amid the conscription exemption law crisis, writing that "the current government is failing to formulate a genuine conscription law, discriminates between blood and blood and harms precisely those who are willing to bear the heaviest prices for it." According to him, "any bill that allows mass exemption will constitute a betrayal of reservists and fighters. A series of immediate steps must be demanded that can and should be taken by any means."