Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Gantz visited the Tel Nof base where Barak told the soldiers: "The political echelons see it as their responsibility to ensure that if wars can be postponed we will do so, we will make sure that if we go to war it is after all other options have been exhausted."
Gantz said: "We will not hesitate to act and do the work we are required to do, be it Gaza…or any other field." (Neri Brenner)













