Eyal Zamir promoted to lieutenant general as IDF chief handover ceremony begins

By Emanuel Fabian

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5 March 2025, 11:12 am

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Defense Minister Israel Katz (right) confer incoming IDF chief of staff Eyal Zamir with the rank of lieutenant general as his wife Orna watches, at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv. March 5, 2025. (Screenshot: GPO)

Incoming IDF chief of staff Eyal Zamir is promoted to the rank of lieutenant general at a ceremony at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Zamir is taking over from outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, who is resigning over the military’s failure to prevent Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.

Because the handover ceremony is taking place during a war, the IDF forwent dress uniforms. Both Halevi and Zamir are wearing work uniforms, known in the military as Madei Bet.