Eyal Zamir is the current IDF chief of staff and is a former director-general of the Defense Ministry.
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The outgoing IDF chief of staff's wife explained that the bracelets were given to her by the families of fallen IDF soldiers she had visited during the Iron Swords War.
New IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir moves to restructure IDF strategy on Gaza, Iran.
New IDF chief Eyal Zamir makes swift command changes merely hours after his swearing in.
Both Zamir and Halevi left notes between the stones of the Wall, a common Jewish tradition when visiting the site.
"He and we face many operational and ethical challenges. I am confident that he will lead the IDF in rebuilding after the largest disaster in our history," Lapid wrote.
Zamir said that he will press for an "equal burden sharing" of service, wanting to increase the number of haredim serving in the IDF.
"A state inquiry is necessary, not to accuse, but to get to the root of the problems, and to make it possible to fix them,” Herzi Halevi said.
According to the IDF, controversially, Halevi will not lay specific blame publicly on individual officers in the written reports.
The probes are expected to find that the military had an over-reliance for security visa vise Gaza on its multi-billion dollar, ultra hi-tech border fence.
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