Aviv Kochavi

Former IDF Chief says Gaza wasn't seen as an existential threat; Iran was top priority

Former Israeli Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi discussed the implications of military decisions and strategic focus shaping Israel's recent security policies.

 IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi
 Incoming IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Amir Baram gives remarks at his inauguration ceremony, October 31, 2022.

IDF General Amir Baram assumes Deputy Chief of Staff position

 IDF conducts large-scale exercise to prepare for next round of conflict with Gaza

Senior IDF officer pens scathing report against the Israeli military

 MINISTERS ARE certain he is running for political office. IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi at the Rabin memorial this week.

Kohavi is right to reject court compromise to allow Franken to remain in IDF - editorial


Why Kochavi picked a fight with Biden and why it's not good for Israel

Israel’s focus now should be on getting a seat at the table and ensuring that the White House takes Israel’s security needs and concerns into account when negotiating a new deal with Iran.

Did Aviv Kochavi attack a future deal with Iran to score political points with Benjamin Netanyahu?

Aviv Kochavi: Hail to the IDF chief - opinion

You don't have to be a nuclear scientist to realize that Kochavi’s “briefing” was in complete harmony with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s worldview and policies.

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi speaks at a ceremony marking the IDF’s role in the fight against the coronavirus, June 8, 2020.

Kochavi signals to Biden: Netanyahu, top security agree on Iran this time

“Going back to the Iran deal from 2015, or even to a similar deal with a few improvements, is a bad, wrong thing. It is bad operationally and strategically.”

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi at a graduation ceremony of naval officers at the Haifa naval base in March

IDF Chief Kochavi: Return to Iran 2015 nuclear deal is strategic mistake

Iran’s jumps in enriching uranium could eventually bring it to be "only weeks" away from a nuclear bomb.

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi overlooks a military exercise

Kochavi's Iran speech hints at IDF's long term plan - analysis

“If we take this speech seriously — and we should take it seriously — this process did not start with the chief of staff’s speech, nor with Obama's agreement with the Iranians in 2015.”

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi speaks at the officers graduation ceremony, July 1st, 2020

Gantz denounces terror, condemns settler attack on Golani officer

One of the refusers turned violent against one of the officers, who issued a formal complaint following the altercation. According to an IDF spokesperson, he was punched several times.

An Israeli soldier stand guard at a bus station near the scene where a stolen car broke through a police checkpoint and hit a policeman outside Kedumim, in the West Bank on February 26, 2019.

Aviv Kochavi: The IDF chief of staff in a political minefield

Aviv Kochavi marks two years as Israel’s top military officer – two years of non-stop action against Iran but also of domestic politics that keep getting in the way.

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi overlooks a military exercise

Will Israel and the US succeed in preventing war with Iran?

In recent weeks, the US and Israeli militaries have sent a series of messages and signals to the Iranians.

IDF CHIEF OF STAFF Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi  – not the war he imagined he’d be fighting.

IDF spokesperson: Iranian retaliation likely to come from Iraq, Yemen

In an interview given to the Saudi news website Elaph, Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman addressed Iran and the tactics deployed by the IDF in order to address the looming threat.

IDF spokesman Brig. Gen. Hadi Zilberman

How Israel, the US combined media, military power to prevent war

US President Trump tweeted threats against Iran and US and Israeli submarines were reported to be on their way towards Iran.

US AIR FORCE maintainers prepare a US military drone RQ-4A Global Hawk for takeoff at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, earlier this month.