The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has instructed its soldiers serving at the HaKiryah base in Tel Aviv to stop ordering food deliveries directly to the base gates. According to the directive, soldiers are required to arrange a meeting point with the delivery driver outside the base.

The reason for this is not culinary, but security-related: There is concern that an increase in orders during unusual hours could serve as an intelligence indicator of an imminent attack in Iran.

The comparison made is to the “Pizza Meter” theory at the Pentagon. Last June, internet users claimed they identified early signs of an Israeli attack on Iran by tracking the sales data of pizzerias near the Pentagon, signifying intensified activity at the US Defense HQ.