Any assessment of IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir after a year and a half in the job has to begin with the circumstances in which he took command. Not since Israel’s 1948 War of Independence has a chief of staff entered office while the IDF was engaged on six active fronts.
At the same time, Zamir has had to resist pressure from some of the most powerful forces in the governing coalition in order to preserve public confidence in the military, prevent the politicization of the
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