"By combining some of the army’s most specialized units — Egoz, Rimon, Maglan and Duvdevan — which are currently scattered throughout the IDF, Eisenkot will be able to do away with redundancies and ultimately strengthen the individual units, whose services will surely be needed soon, he said during the ceremony.
“You don’t need to be an especially clever strategist to understand the sensitivity of the current time period,” Eisenkot said. “We saw the threats last night from the leaders of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the wave of escalation we’re dealing with in the West Bank and the threats from down south.”
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"By combining some of the army’s most specialized units — Egoz, Rimon, Maglan and Duvdevan — which are currently scattered throughout the IDF, Eisenkot will be able to do away with redundancies and ultimately strengthen the individual units, whose services will surely be needed soon, he said during the ceremony.
“You don’t need to be an especially clever strategist to understand the sensitivity of the current time period,” Eisenkot said. “We saw the threats last night from the leaders of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the wave of escalation we’re dealing with in the West Bank and the threats from down south.”