The Chief of Staff, Major General Hertzi Halevi today (Tuesday) visited the “Hatz” battery of the 136th Air Defense Battalion with the Commander of the Air Defense Army, Lieutenant Colonel Gilad Biran. During the visit, the Chief of Staff had a conversation with the men and women of the regular and reserve battalion who took part in the interception of surface-to-surface missiles in the Iranian attack against Israel in Operation Iron Shield.
“I am now finishing a visit here and I first saw both the results and the processes and the decisions that were made at the National Assembly and also understand a little about your roles and really the connection between the training you do, the very high level of preparedness you maintain, the very good results that were on Saturday night,” he said. Chief of Staff for the fighters.
“All of this together is first and foremost great people and technological superiority, we need you at a very high level of readiness, knowing how to act again and again and again, is to maintain this alertness for a long time at a very high level of vigilance, very good readiness.” he added.
“We are just before Passover and we are allowing a policy in the rear to allow citizens this week to live almost normally because we trust you very much and the level of alertness and vigilance you maintain. And I tell you truly, all the citizens of the State of Israel trust you very much.' said in closing.
Photo: IDF spokesman
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