.EVEN BEFORE Hamas, the militant group that operates Gaza, struck Israel on October 7th, Mate General Herzi Halevi was in a complicated placement. In January 2023, when he ended up being principal of standard staff of the Israel Defence Troop (IDF), the absolute most senior position in Israel's soldiers, the policeman as well as book corps were actually rent through divisions over proposed reforms to the country's Supreme Court. Some reservists threatened certainly not to provide if the disruptive head of state, Binyamin Netanyahu, and also his far-right union passed legislations compromising the powers of the court. It was among the soldiers's most unstable time periods in latest times.