Likud MK Shmuel Tamir has demanded that the Knesset Committee on Defense and Foreign Affairs exercise greater control over the military: In a letter to Yitzhak Navon, the committee’s chairman. Tamir said the committee deals with defense issues merely in a general nature without any binding authority. He suggested that subcommittees be created to deal with specific areas of defense and foreign affairs.
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