Defense! What's love got to do with it?! You need clear vision & goals. The rest is up to the professionals: the generals.

Deserve to be thrown out on your ass. Pompous fool of a man..the kind that lets his soldiers hang out to dry as long as they do not follow his demented view of morality. At the same time the COS ought to thrown out as well. Fat overgrown dimwit.

Bibi is just a scheming politician with a power problem and he is damaging the State of Israel

This defense minister yahalon boogy woogy did a great job defending terrorist and hurting Jews. He was only concerned of destroying right wing settlers and Torah Judaism. He should of been kicked out long ago. He was not defending israel. Now we got a good man Lieberman who is tough like Trump. He is not a whimp. A real leader. He is great for Israel's defense. Now we see the reaction of our enemies. If they become nervous that's good. Lieberman will deport the families of terrorists and not be a coward. Smartest move by natenyahu.

... or putting Palestinian "civilians" over the lives of his own soldiers, Israel's position would have been stronger and Yaalon would probably still have a job. And what gave him the authority to act contrary to the government decision regarding the return of terrorist bodies?

Lieberman's joining the Likud-led right-wing coalition is the natural way for Likud to expand its coalition. The high price paid for Lieberman's joining is dictated by the weak status of this coalition, since it only has 61 mandates. We are certain that Lieberman will do a good job as Defense Minister because we know that he cares about the well-being of Israel. It's a shame that Ya'alon has to pay a price for Lieberman's party, Yisrael Beytenu, joining the coalition. Coalition stability is required in coalition-based governments and this necessity is more important that the job of any one minister, no matter who he/she is.