Major General Yair Naveh appointed IDF deputy chief

Major-General Yair Naveh was appointed IDF deputy chief-of-staff. He will replace Major General Benjamin Gantz in the role.

Nave said taking the role feels like coming home. "I find a different IDF, more focused on its assignments, trained and equipped," he said during a ceremony that was lead by Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv. (Hanan Greenberg)