IDF in the process of enlisting ‘new media fighters’.
IDF Spokesman Avi Benayahu said Tuesday that the army is currently in the process of enlisting “new media fighters”.
Benayahu told a panel on the subject of “the digital medium as strategic weapon” that the army was searching for “little hackers who were born and raised online”.
“We screen them with special care and train them to serve the state,” the spokesman told the panel, which was part of the Herzliya Conference.
He added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally supporting the venture and that he had supplied a budget of NIS 6 million ($1.63 million) for the enlistment of 120 soldiers.