The Israel Broadcasting Authority has quoted war minister, Yoav Gallant, as saying the Israeli army needs 10,000 additional soldiers immediately.

According to Al Jazeera, Gallant told the foreign affairs and defense committee that 4,800 of those required can be recruited from Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, which makes up about 13% of people in Israel.

Israel’s supreme court ruled last month that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men must be drafted into military service, upholding an interim decision in May that said Israel had no authority to offer an exemption for ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, men.