Poll: 58% of Reserve Soldiers Don't Trust Israeli Chief of Staff | News
8/29/2024–|Last update: 8/29/202409:40 PM (Makkah Time)
The Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, quoted a poll by the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy that 58% of reserve soldiers in the Israeli army have lost confidence in Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.
The poll, which was based on responses from 574 reserve soldiers, showed that 49% of them believe that Halevi should resign as soon as possible.
In contrast, 28% said he should resign only when the war is completely over, which has no clear end date, while another 12% said he should not resign until all of the military's investigations into the October 7 failure are released.
The newspaper reported that a number of senior reserve soldiers had called on Halevi to resign last June, when it seemed that the military operation in Rafah would succeed, and there were no other large-scale operations in the Gaza Strip.
The survey also indicated that reservists have very low confidence in the army's high command's overall management of the war.
It is noteworthy that the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper had predicted last April that Halevi and other senior officers would resign, as part of the “domino effect” of the resignation of the head of military intelligence (Aman) Aharon Haliva, against the backdrop of the failure to predict the Al-Aqsa Flood attack, which did not happen.
A number of senior officers in the General Staff of the occupation army also attacked Halevi last June due to the faltering military operations in the Gaza Strip.
Channel 12 reported at the time that a verbal altercation broke out during a meeting between senior Israeli army generals and Halevi, where the generals blamed him for the army's losses in Gaza and its failure to achieve decisive achievements.