History
With the founding of the IDF, Meitav was called Kelet (Hebrew: קלט) and was under the jurisdiction of the manpower branch of the Ministry of Defense. It was located in Tzrifin. The Kelet unit, which inducted soldiers, was separate from the sorting unit/base, which was located in the Kiryat Meir base in Tel Aviv. In the 1950s, the two units were merged into the Bakum, and moved to Tel HaShomer.
In 1966, the jurisdiction of the Bakum passed from the Defense Ministry to the army.
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