Aviv Kochavi
Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi will meet with top American officials to discuss “issues related to strengthening cooperation between the armies.”
Joint U.S. training and development has been accelerated in the face of rising threats in the region, the Iranian threat in particular, says IDF chief of staff.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid: Halevi joins a long and elite series of thoughtful and bold commanders who knew how to march the IDF forward.
“If we need to bring another two battalions to Judea and Samaria and stop all training, we will do so,” says the IDF chief of staff.
The goal is to rapidly and systematically destroy enemy capabilities in built-up areas, and to deliver new capabilities to field units.
Aviv Kochavi says Iranian Holocaust denial “is an additional reminder that such people must not be allowed to possess any sort of capability to develop lethal weapons.”
The military leaders, including the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the commander of CENTCOM, are in Israel for an IDF innovation conference.
Lt. Gen. Belkhir el-Farouk will take part in the International Operational Innovation Conference, which the IDF is set to host.
As tensions with Hezbollah rise, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi adds that IDF does not rule out preemptive attack.
The spread of weapons and lack of governance in Palestinian-controlled areas are harming “both the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority itself,” says Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
The Palestinian Authority has lost control in several parts of Judea and Samaria, says IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi.
The Israeli military has released the final conclusions of its investigation into the death in Jenin of Shireen Abu Akleh.
