Politicians across the political spectrum welcome the nomination of Maj. Gen. (res.) Eyal Zamir to become the next Israel Defense Forces chief of staff.
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid calls the current Defense Ministry director-general the “the right person for the job” while The Democrats’ chairman Yair Golan lauds him as “a talented officer and leader [who] will have to deal with the task of rebuilding the army, and with the burden of protecting the IDF from a dangerous and corrupt political echelon.”
MK Yuli Edelstein (Likud), the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, says that Zamir is entering his position “at an intense and fateful time” and will have the “historic task of shaping the face of the IDF for future generations.”
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir both call on Zamir to reshape the IDF to be more aggressive and to shed alleged defeatist ideas about national security that are allegedly prevalent among its leadership.... Read More: Times of Israel