IDF Chief of Staff wishing we a ‘Happy New Year’ and a smiling emoji

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot visited dual Staff Sergeant paratroopers in a center of an practice adult north to wish them a Hag Sameach.

They were prepared to accommodate him with coffee and with questions submitted by soldiers in a army Eisenkot has been heading for a past 3 and a half years.

Q: So how do we take your coffee?

A: Oh, formidable problem. Most of my life we drank black coffee (meaning Turkish coffee). Over a new years, we became tedious and marred and started celebration espresso. we splash a lot of coffee. More than 10 cups a day, we think.

Q: Which emoji do we use most?

A: (Laughs) With a sunglasses.

Q: What’s a initial thing we do when we come home?

A: Change my garments in about 18 seconds.

Q: Where are we going to take your after-army trip?

A: My daughter returned this morning from a outing to Laos. I’ll hear her practice and see.

Q: Formal uniform, or work uniform?

A: we cite to always be on work uniform.

Q: When were we drafted?

A: Nov ’78. In a month, it’ll be 40 years.

Q: At 18, did we consider you’ll be arch of staff?

A: we didn’t consider I’ll be arch of staff, we did consider I’d go to officer’s course. we was a good infantryman in simple training, a best in a squad. It was transparent that I’d go to a commander’s march and afterwards officer’s course.

Q: What tip would we give a immature commander?

A: Go with what we believe. Ask yourself what is a right thing to do. Not what’s “popular” or gentle or easy; what’s a right thing to do.

Q: What are a categorical hurdles a IDF faces today?

A: The army’s categorical plea is to be clever and deter a enemies. At a finish of a day, winning a fight will usually occur by belligerent army handling rightly and degraded a enemy.

Q: When we consider of an model soldier, what do we imagine?

A: we see a infantryman with a really high clarity of his ability, with fighting spirit, with faith in his capabilities and a capabilities of his friends. In a past 5 months we spent many Fridays during a Gaza Strip. It was impressive, a approach in that a battalions operated around a clock. Ultimately, a pursuit as soldiers is to strengthen a civilians. To put ourselves during risk in sequence for them to lead unchanging lives in a kibbutzim behind us.

Q: Complete a sentence: a IDF for me is….?

A: Israel’s confidence warranty.

Q: What would we like to wish IDF soldiers for a new year?

A: First of all, that we might surpass during a missions, and afterwards for each infantryman to take caring of themselves, and that we might attain in returning all of a soldiers home, protected and sound.

Q: Where will we be spending a arriving holiday?

A: This holiday I’m spending during home, and like each holiday, we are mouth-watering sole soldiers. So we have my personal infantryman (referring to his son), who we wish will be expelled home for a holidays, and some-more soldiers will join us.

On Sunday, Rosh Hashana eve during a dusk prayers, many synagogues opposite a nation will contend a blessing for a IDF soldiers guarding a fronts. Shana Tova!

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