Ground Forces Commander Major General Nadav Lotan held a clarification talk with the commander of the Force's Operational Learning Center, Brigadier General (res.) Guy Hazut - and reprimanded him for the internal document he wrote and recently presented to reserve officers. Brig. Gen. Hazut defined the 'Merkavot Gideon' operation as a failure and listed a series of failures and deficiencies in the ways the operation was carried out and managed in recent months. "Hazut caused damage and this is not the way to present internal criticism in the military, which is always heard with openness. He apologized and the affair is behind us," the IDF said.