{"id":572404,"date":"2026-08-02T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/572404\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:32:11","slug":"katz-to-appoint-new-idf-central-command-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/572404\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz to appoint new IDF Central Command head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Minister Israel Katz stated his intention to appoint current IDF Manpower Directorate Chief Maj.-Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa as the new head of the IDF\u2019s Central Command during a live interview with Channel 14\u2019s \u201cThe Patriots\u201d on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Katz told Channel 14 that his decision was made due to Bluth\u2019s allegedly unsatisfactory handling of extremist settler violence in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the IDF, Katz\u2019s statement was not coordinated with IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir. The military stated that Zamir does not intend to remove Bluth from his position at this time and that when any such decision is made, it will require Zamir&#8217;s approval in accordance with the required protocols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Katz\u2019s office released a statement claiming that as early as the end of April, Zamir recommended Katz appoint Bar Khalifa as the Commander of the IDF\u2019s Central Command.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the statement, Katz interviewed Bar Khalifa in June and deemed him a suitable candidate to take over the position when the time comes to appoint a new Central Command head.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz stated his intention to appoint current IDF Manpower Directorate Chief Maj.-Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[171481,1031,29414,85,46,2723,43],"class_list":["post-572404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-channel-14","tag-idf","tag-idf-central-command","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-katz","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}