Defense minister interviews four candidates for next IDF chief

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman interviews four candidates to replace IDF chief Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, whose term ends at the end of 2018.

The four are Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, a former head of the Northern Command and former IDF intelligence chief; Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, a former head of Southern Command; Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, a former head of Central Command, of the army’s Operations Directorate, and of its most elite commando unit, Sayeret Matkal; and Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, a former deputy chief of staff and head of Northern Command.

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