Defense Minister Ehud Barak called for a new law to replace the controversial Tal Law, and new provisions that would provide free higher education to those who serve in the IDF. Barak said that the government should extend the Tal Law by one year, as opposed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's proposition to extend it five years, in order to allot a period of time in which to revise the law. The defense minister proposed allowing a quota of somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 ultra-religious citizens that can continue their studies instead of mandatory conscription, as per the Tal Law. The rest would be required to serve in the army.