Yes. Until you are 40 ...Read and hear for yourself: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/28/

"Now Avishai has left 8200 and went off to co-found Wix, the website building tool. It’s crazy to think that the co-founder of Wix is an expert hacker, someone who’s broken into multiple countries and conducted massive amounts of espionage."

"Once you get out of 8200 you’re then a reserve and have to spend up to three weeks a year going back to 8200, refreshing your skills all the way until you’re forty"

"There’s also a yearly reunion where you leave your family and spend a week with your fellow soldiers you served with. Every year they do that. Keep in mind, all this is happening in a place not even as big as New Jersey with roughly the same population. Look at how dedicated they are to keeping these connections with one another. This has powerful results. Everyone knows everyone."

"Imagine if one 8200 member goes off to work at Google to help "develop the Chrome browser and then goes back to 8200 as part of their yearly duty and while there, they see a soldier building exploits for the Chrome browser. What do they do? Do they take the exploits from 8200 and patch it in Chrome or do they help their fellow soldier by sharing the source code?"

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/28/

Everybody who did army service in Israel does reserve service every year

Including the CEOs of security companies, who have access to the credentials of the cloud environments of thousandths of other companies.

ceos actually frequently get waiver from doing reserve service. because they are essential for operation of company.

Yeah, I remember listening to this. So that settles it.

Haha

You start with "ever" and then you go to "well, only until 40 for the military reserve service". Mental gymnastics at its finest.

BTW, when you reach a certain income level you never called for reserve. It's too expensive for the government to pay people like that.