Top Israeli general tasked with Iran file announces intention to resign: Report
A high-ranking Israeli army general who serves as the head of the Strategy and Third-Circle Directorate, which is tasked with the military’s Iran file, has announced his intention to step down.
Major General Eliezer Toledano told his subordinates that he does not plan to run for the Israeli military’s chief of staff, and he will resign when his current role comes to an end, according to Israeli media.
This comes as several recent media reports had referred to Toledano as a potential successor to the Israeli army’s chief of staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, who indicated he would resign at the end of the army’s investigations into the failures on the surprise and large-scale attack by Hamas and other Gaza-based resistance groups against the Zionist entity on October 7 last year.
Toledano was the head of the Southern Command until July 2023, and before that, he was the commander of the Gaza Division.
He also served as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military secretary.
Last week, the commander of an Israeli brigade handed in his letter of resignation following an incident that saw the death of an archaeologist in Lebanon.
Yoav Yarom, a reservist colonel and chief of staff in the Golani Brigade, asked to resign from his post over the death of 71-year-old Zeev Elrich, who was dressed in full military attire, was carrying a rifle and had a helmet on. Elrich was on a private tour of the Shamaa Castle, a historical landmark located in southern Lebanon.
Yarom had allowed the controversial researcher to enter the western sector of southern Lebanon to examine the archaeological site. Subsequently, two Hezbollah resistance fighters who were lying in wait opened fire, killing the Israeli archaeologist as well as Israeli Sergeant Gur Kehati.
Yarom himself was wounded in the incident alongside a company commander in the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion.
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