The Israel cabinet has approved measures aimed at tightening governmental control over skilled manpower needed by the military or for work in the new settlements. One measure amends the emergency regulations so as to require validation by the Defense Ministry of exit visas for reservists of military age. A second measure amends a 1948 law to give the government authority to mobilize any individual or class for requirements of the Labor Ministry.
A six-man ministerial committee was set up to seek voluntary means to find physicians, nurses, teachers and agricultural instructors for rural communities. If voluntary measures do not succeed, under the amended law the Labor Ministry would be able to draft the necessary personnel.
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