The Excellent • Former IDF Spokesperson Assesses: This is the Candidate Who Will Be Elected as the Next Chief of Staff

June 14, 2022   

Ronen Manelis, IDF spokesman and former director general of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and commentator on 'Kan 11,' spoke today (Tuesday) with Yinon Magal and Ben Caspit on 103FM following the opening of the race for chief of staff - following up on a tweet he posted yesterday, in which he wrote: "I appreciate, like everyone else, that the 23rd IDF chief of staff is the worthy and excellent Major General Herzi Halevi, but the attempt to ascribe to Major General Zamir a closeness to Netanyahu or his entourage is an attack on one of the most apolitical officers I have ever met in my life.". It's worth eating healthy: healthy recipes for snacks and family meals These are the changes to the intercity public transportation routes in Jerusalem • All the details In the conversation, Manelis commented: "There are no rules, it's a problem that there are no rules because you can use this as a tool to attract such and such people who will be good soldiers until they decide about them. It's true that there will be several months to prepare for the position of Chief of Staff. The Minister of Defense is mainly trying to deal with the possibility that the government will fall and then there will be no Chief of Staff or it will be complicated to appoint him. "The appointment will eventually involve the same people in another government, but I think he wants to have a businesslike process that is free from politics. "I think that on the issue of the claims of who wants whom, there are two very serious candidates who have done all the roles that need to be done, the Deputy Chief of Staff, and I think it's right to keep the race free from Bibi and not Bibi and the right and left. I think the last thing that can be painted about Eyal Zamir is as a political person. It hurts him for no reason. Herzi Halevi, the excellent of the excellent. Gantz is doing the process right, I don't know who will be elected in the end, but it seems to be going in the direction of Herzliya." Regarding Yoel Strick's candidacy, Manelis said: "I have mixed feelings, I really like him and think he is an excellent officer. He is a very worthy candidate, but he was not deputy chief of staff, an almost necessary position, and it would have been right to appoint him deputy chief of staff first." Regarding the expected entry of former chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot, into politics: "I think he is busy with his own affairs. I think if he decided to jump into the pool, to check that there is water in it, it is too early to pin parties and decisions on him. As I know him, he is a great believer in the end of action with forethought.".