The announcement of the Deputy Chief of Staff Amir Baram Retiring from his position did not surprise the top of the IDF. The matter was on the agenda and so was the date – the middle of February this year. General Baram was supposed to retire at the end of the summer and enter the standby position in the race for the position of the next Chief of Staff, but at the end of the summer there was a development in the fighting in the north and The IDF returned to fighting in Jabaliya and the issue of fighting against Iran also entered a state of frontal combat.
Chief of Staff Lt Hertzi Halevi He asked his deputy to extend his position for another six months. It was necessary, it was logical. The role of the Deputy Chief of Staff is twofold. First, to operate and coordinate the work of the headquarters of the IDF High Command. Second, to build the IDF’s power building, while the Chief of Staff is responsible for the operation of the force.
It’s no secret that the dominant personality of Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi more than once overshadowed his deputy who remained in the shadow of the gray activity, away from the spotlight, for better or for worse. The IDF will submit most of the investigations to the Minister of Defense towards the end of the month, some of them by the first or second week of February. Most likely after them the Chief of Staff will announce the end date of his position, sometime at the beginning of this summer.
Now that the things on the table are clear, the flounderer created by the Minister of Defense enters Israel Katz. In the IDF we see how the Israeli government has operated the police and turned it from a state body into a political body of the Likud center and the movement in this way, and this is why the top of the IDF fear that the IDF will act just like Ben Gabir within the IDF.
First, Minister Katz froze all appointments of officers from the rank of colonel and above. But in practice, appointments of colonel and below are also frozen. Battalion commanders and combat brigade commanders are stuck because of the minister’s decision.
In the current state of things, the appointment of a Deputy Chief of Staff may not take place, and precisely in such a sensitive period, the issue is doubly serious. The building of the IDF’s power after the war is critical. The list of names of the candidates is not particularly large: the general Tamir Yedai The veteran of the generals at the General Staff until a few weeks ago served as the commander of the land arm. Another general is the commander of the Northern Command Uri Gordin And also the name of the general came up will yield a decade who until a few weeks ago served as the head of the personnel department in the IDF.
The point here is that alongside the opportunity, doubt which of them is currently ready to jump into the pool. The reason is simple, if the chief of staff retires, each of them will be first deputy to the chief of staff, which reduces their possibility of being appointed chief of staff in about four years. According to the practice that has been in place for years, the second deputy chief of staff is the one who is appointed in the second half of the chief of staff’s term. The chance of being selected is higher than that of the first runner-up.
At the moment it is not clear how the top of the IDF will see who will be appointed Chief of Staff after Harzi Halevi and when. Not appointing senior officers is an attempt by the politicians to get into the bowels of the army and turn it into a political organization just as was done in the police. That the battalion commanders, brigade commanders, be chosen not by the Chief of Staff and the IDF Command Headquarters, but on the basis of proximity to the Minister of Defense and perhaps also according to the list of functionaries that they or their associates will command in the primaries of the Likud Center.
Major General Amir Baram’s publicists are trying to paint and echo the differences between the Chief of Staff and the Deputy, with the understanding that this will give the Major points in the race for the Chief of Staff. By the way, a strong name that should compete for the position is the champion in the res. Eyal Zamir who was the Deputy Chief of Staff lost the competition to Lt. Col. Herzi Halevi and was appointed to the position of Director General of the Ministry of Defense where he did an excellent job in creating a line for the supply of armaments to the IDF and building the future procurement for the IDF.
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