Dafrin beat out Col. Beni Aharon, who had been a key tank brigade commander during the Gaza war, for the post.

Gen. Eyal Zamir, with the approval from Defense Minister Israel Katz, appointed Brig.-Gen. Efi Dafrin  as the new IDF ...

Zamir warns IDF troops that another Hamas attack is not a question of if, but when, as he pushes for enhanced combat ...

Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, the new chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), visited Israel’s border ...

The former tank commander also served as the head of the Foreign Relations Brigade in the IDF • Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir ...

Incoming chief Zamir says the IDF 'will work to integrate all populations' amid a push for ultra-Orthodox men to enlist • ...

In parting speech, outgoing military chief of staff calls for state commission of inquiry in October 7; successor says he ...

New Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir conducted a situational assessment and security tour of the buffer zone between Israel and Syria on Sunday. Northern Command Chief Maj. Gen ...

Zamir replaces Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, who resigned after intelligence failures left Israel unprepared for Hamas’s ...

No rest 'until our brothers and sisters are returned from the tunnels of captivity — this is our moral duty. In the book of ...

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir announces Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari's retirement from the military. Hagari has been ...

Even in Israel’s reality of Ashkenazi and Sephardic “intermarriages,” a Yemenite chief of staff is cause for celebration.