The chief of the Military Intelligence Directorate tells subordinate officers that Israel is to face “complex days.”
“I have told you more than once that it is not certain that the worst is behind us, and we have complex days ahead of us,” Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva says in remarks released by the IDF.
Haliva’s comments are made during a talk with commanders in the directorate’s Research Department, after the unit’s commander Brig. Gen. Amit Saar, quit upon being diagnosed with cancer.
A former chief of the department, Brig. Gen. (res.) Itai Brun — who led the unit between 2011 and 2015 and has been in reserves since October 7 — will fill his place temporarily.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi meanwhile appoints Col. “Aleph” — who can only be identified by his rank and first initial in Hebrew — to be the next head of the unit.
Aleph will be promoted to the rank of brigadier general and enter the role in the coming months. He previously was a senior commander in the directorate’s Unit 8200.
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