{"id":573030,"date":"2026-08-03T08:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/573030\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:51:16","slug":"katz-rejects-claims-he-called-for-new-idf-central-command-chiefs-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/573030\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz rejects claims he called for new IDF Central Command chief&#8217;s dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday rejected the claim that he called for IDF Central Command chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth&#8217;s dismissal, calling the argument an outright lie that is part of a political campaign directed against the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">During a Sunday interview given by Katz, &#8220;when one of the participants called to &#8216;dismiss the general [Bluth],&#8217; I responded immediately and clearly: &#8216;No.&#8217; The exchange was recorded on camera and is fully documented,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Katz said the appointment process for IDF Personnel Directorate head Maj.-Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa to Central Command commander had already been underway for months; &#8220;therefore, the attempt to suggest that any decision was made as a result of that interview does not stand up to the facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday rejected the claim that he called for IDF Central Command chief Maj.-Gen.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2464,1031,29414,85,46,2723,43],"class_list":["post-573030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-eyal-zamir","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\/573030","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=573030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}