Maj. Gen. (res.) Eyal Zamir has been designated to replace Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi as the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced tonight.
Zamir, 59, the current director general of the Defense Ministry, will be the first IDF chief who started his career in the Armored Corps since David (Dado) Elazar in the 1970s.
Zamir previously served as deputy chief of staff (2018 to 2021), and before that, he led the Southern Command from 2015 to 2018. During that time, he helped formulate war plans focused on Hamas and contemplated scenarios in which the terrorist faction might be replaced in Gaza, though subsequent Southern Command leaders did not properly update these plans.
While at the helm of the Defense Ministry, Zamir has spearheaded efforts over the past year to greatly ramp up domestic weapons production to reduce reliance on imports, working with local defense companies to do this.
Zamir will replacing Halevi, who said he will step down on March 6. JNS
{Matzav.com}
Rav Avigdor Miller, Tape #E-15 (May 1995):
“Anybody who is not a shomer Torah is not going to help us. You have to know that beforehand… They’re people, mufkarim. They have no connection with Torah, with emunah, so all they can do is kilkul. They can’t help us at all. That you have to know. And they’re doing it very successfully today. No question that they’re ruining the country… And so we have to pray to Hakodosh Boruch Hu that the zechus of all the frum Jews in Eretz Yisroel should protect them, the zechus of all the yeshivos should protect them, the mosdos haTorah. And maybe the zechus of all the Jews who live in Eretz Yisroel and are doing so much good for the world, maybe bzechus this Hakodosh Boruch Hu will frustrate all the intentions of the reshaim who are in power who are trying to ruin Eretz Yisroel.”
Maj. Gen. (res.) Eyal Zamir. The Big E.Z.