.EVEN BEFORE Hamas, the militant team that manages Gaza, assaulted Israel on October 7th, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi was in a tough posture. In January 2023, when he became principal of overall personnel of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), the most senior setting in Israel's military, the policeman as well as reserve corps were actually lease by departments over recommended reforms to the nation's High court. Some reservists threatened not to serve if the dissentious prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and also his reactionary union passed laws diminishing the powers of the court. It was one of the soldiers's very most rough periods in current times.