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The candidate who did not surprise and the position that was accepted after the refusal: The new appointments at the top of the IDF - Walla! News

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The chief of staff has been dealing with the question of placements in the general staff for a long time, and has now managed to untangle the mess. Along with the welcome appointments such as Maj. Gen. Haliva as head of the intelligence division and Brigadier General Selma as commander of the navy, others made background noises.


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The candidate who did not surprise and the position that was accepted after the refusal: the new appointments at the top of the IDF

The chief of staff has been dealing with the question of placements in the general staff for a long time, and has now managed to untangle the mess.

Along with the welcome appointments such as Maj. Gen. Haliva as head of the intelligence division and Brigadier General Selma as commander of the navy, others made background noises.

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Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi has long faced the complexity of appointing generals around the General Staff table, and it seems that today (Thursday) he made progress towards completing the picture at the military top. This is after several moves he sought to promote were recently rejected by officers and lieutenant colonels, including Those who announced that they intended to retire from the IDF.



One of the first moves he made to relieve pressure at the General Staff was the appointment of Brigadier General

Yaniv Asur as

head of the Personnel Division. This is a controversial appointment, as the senior officer grew on the operational axis as Battalion 51, Commander Egoz, Brigadier General Golani and Brigade 210. But time will do its thing and it will be interesting to see if Brigadier General Assur will be appointed commander of a spatial command.

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Controversial appointment.

A decade (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

The next step was to choose a commander for the Navy.

Kochavi consulted with former corps commanders regarding two candidates: Brigadier General

David Selma

and Brigadier General Dror Friedman.

The decision fell today, and the stars chose Brigadier General Selma, Officer rich operational experience, beginning his commando unit 13 fighter commando and fought as a commander and officer in the security zone, the West Bank and Gaza, returned to the Navy where he held a series of key positions.



"Salma is the officer the right time The right one, "said a former senior naval officer." The corps has very big challenges that require an understanding of complex and covert operations.

"Apart from that, Selma has the knowledge and understanding to absorb large-scale war systems that will reach the Navy in the coming years," the officer explained.

"The right officer at the right time."

Selma (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

An appointment that did not surprise anyone at the General Staff was the appointment of General

Aharon Haliva as

head of the Intelligence Division.

Haliva opposed taking on spatial command, even though it was his third staff post in the General Staff.

Some claim he is the right hand of a star.

The appointment came as no surprise.

Haliva (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

But from this point the process begins to become much more complex.

The chief of staff tried to place several veteran generals in the position of commander of the land arm in place of Major General

Joel Strick

, but was refused one by one, and finally turned to Major General

Tamir Yedi

, who did not object, even though he was appointed Central Command only in July 2020



. Simple for the knowledgeable, but self-evident given the circumstances created.

"This is a job with a lot of responsibility - to prepare the ground forces for war," they explained.

"What's more, the position is a future leap for him to the post of deputy chief of staff."



So far, it is unclear whether the outgoing commander of the land arm, Maj. Gen. Strick, will retire. He may be appointed military attaché or run in the future after losing the race. On the role of Deputy Chief of Staff.

Not an easy decision.

Yedi (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Another position that Kochavi tried to speed up his placement was to replace Major General Herzli Halevi as commander of the Southern Command, after he was recently elected the next deputy chief of staff. The decision to appoint Brigadier General Eliezer Toledano hovered in the air, but was rejected in the same breath. As champion.



To Toledano's credit, he is defined as a highly esteemed officer who was in the Second Lebanon War Commander Magellan, the paratrooper brigadier in Operation Eitan, the prime minister's military secretary and commander of the Gaza Division. So the Gaza arena and the surrounding tensions are well known to him.

Who will be the military attache in Washington?

The General Staff estimated that the IDF's military attaché in Washington, General

Yehuda Fox

, would be appointed General of the Southern Command, having previously been commander of the Gaza Division, for whom this was a second position in the General Staff. But there was concern during such a sensitive period in the United States. With Iran, it would be right to leave Fox in the land of unlimited possibilities. Kochavi skipped over the concerns, and decided to appoint him to the Central Command instead of a Yadi general.



However, he has not yet decided who will get the post of military attaché in Washington. General

Tamir Heiman

and General Strick

will run for office

. At the same time, the chief of staff is examining the possibility of bouncing forward a veteran brigadier general. The name of the IDF spokesman, Brigadier General

Hedi Zilberman

, was raised as a significant candidate.

May stay in Washington.

Fox (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Brigadier General

Oded Basiuk

, the armored man who is defined as one of the most brilliant brigades in the IDF today,

was elected head of the Operations Division at

Haliwa. For promotion, such as Eran Niv, Ziv Avtalion, Saar Tzur and more.

Defined as one of the most brilliant officers in the IDF. In Siuk (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

At the same time, there are positions where the chief of staff has chosen not to decide at this stage, to see how the generals' generals and senior brigadiers will react to the decisions, and whether some of them will decide to resign voluntarily or have to make the difficult decisions themselves.



Appointment of Head of the IDF Technology and Logistics is also on the agenda, since it is estimated that GOC

Yitzhak Turgeman

, who played the role successfully despite the crisis beams, intends to retire. Another officer estimated yet reached a decision in the case is the Head of ICT, champion

Lior Carmeli

, who many see as the commander of a regional command.

Problems with the decision-making processes of the inlays?

Kochavi (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

These background noises mainly indicate problems in the decision-making processes of the placements, otherwise no one would have raised an eyebrow against the background of some of the appointments.

A question mark also hovers over the decision on the question of extending Kochavi's term to four years.

Kochavi concluded on January 15 two years into his tenure, and it is unclear whether he will be replaced next year or continue in office.

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