The IDF Spokesperson addressed reports of a confrontation between the chief of staff and Netanyahu, including the report by our defense affairs commentator Ron Ben Yishai, stating that "the IDF is focused on its missions and maintains high alert across all arenas, in light of various threats and the sensitivity of the period. The operational activity and considerations taken in the IDF are security-related, professional, practical and statesmanlike only, and any other discourse is misleading and irrelevant."