Vegans in the battle suit

Vegans in the Israeli army will look forward to your new Boss, Aviv Kochavi, is also one, so that in the future more to your needs respected is likely to be. In the previous year, there were 550 complaints from vegans about the food in the Israeli armed forces.

Aviv Kochavi has been introduced a few days ago with all sorts of ceremonies in his office as the chief of the General staff. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pinned him with his new shoulder Patten, and the soldiers received him with all honor.

It is a serious Job, the 54-Year-old inaugural. As chief of the General staff, he may be forced to decide on the war effort, an army of 176'000 active soldiers serve. Crises abound. Kochavi know very well what awaits him, because since may of 2017, he was Deputy of his predecessor. He moved so only his room in the 14. Floor of the Kiryat, the headquarters of the Israeli forces in the centre of Tel Aviv. From there you have a good Overview of the city and the Central area of Israel.

sketches for the swarm

That he would land on the head of the army, had not emerged in his Childhood and youth. Kochavi grew up in Kiryat Bialik, a city in the North, his father had a business, his mother worked as a gym teacher. The parents had "given a moral compass," he said at his inauguration. In his youth, Kochavi was in the Zionist movement, the labour party actively. His teacher told now Israeli media that she had expected from him an artistic career, "because he could draw beautifully". This ability is left to him, apparently, to get, his teammates are raving about how he decorates sketches of military operations in the drawing.

Aviv Kochavi studied philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and earned two Master's in the USA: according to a study of public administration at Harvard University, the other at John Hopkins University in International relations. His army service he began as an 18-Year-old in the paratroopers, where he remained throughout his military career.

"No unnecessary war"

He was chief of the Northern command and was commander of the Gaza Division in the year 2005, as Israel's military withdrew after a decision by the then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from the coastal strip. During the second Intifada, the inventors Kochavi has developed a five Kilo heavy Hammer, with which one can penetrate into the building. This military unit and his tactics made use of later on, the US armed forces in their missions in Afghanistan and in Iraq.

At eight war the ascetic has participated in operations acting Kochavi, he was also Director of the military intelligence service. The army of the married father of three daughters, to be referred to as his "second home". At his inauguration he promised that there would be "no unnecessary war". On the other hand, he stressed that The Israeli military should retain its "deadly, efficient and innovative power."

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 20.01.2019, 18:33 PM