Home Front Command, Brigadier General Zviki Tesler, who became one of the people most identified with the war against Iran, explains that on the night of the Israeli attack on Iran, he tried to balance getting to the studio quickly with maintaining secrecy.
According to a report by Ran Booker on the Ynet website, Tesler arrived at the studios in Neve Ilan in the dead of night, when very few in Israel knew about the attack against Iran, and hid for long minutes in the parking lot - so that none of the studio employees would recognize him and suspect that something was about to happen.
The news studios were indeed on alert because an Israeli attack was in the air, but none of them knew it would happen that night.
And so for 45 minutes, Tesler hid in the parking lot in Neve Ilan - and only when the alarm sounded announcing the start of the war with Iran was he revealed and entered the studio.
Tesler confirmed the details to Ynet and said: "That was indeed the case.".
Tesler, 61, began his career in the IDF as a helicopter pilot. In 1996, he was appointed commander of Squadron 193, later also commanding Squadron 118. In 2004, he was appointed head of the Defense Department at the Air Force Headquarters, and from there he continued to the Home Front Command.
After his release from the IDF, he was recruited into the police with the rank of superintendent, and served as head of the Planning and Organization Department.
In 2021, after the Mount Meron disaster, he was appointed by the then Minister of Religious Services, Matan Kahane, as the festival's projector. Tesler is a member of the Yavneh group and still lives there today.
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