Gadi Eisenkot has been unrestrained in his criticism of the Israeli prime minister. But he’s no dove.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot.(Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch Photos via Getty Images.)
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The Palestinian terrorist who stabbed an Israeli soldier near Hebron on March 24, 2016, had already been lying wounded on the ground for several minutes when Elor Azaria, another soldier who arrived on the scene, shot him dead. It didn’t take long for Israel Defense Forces commander Gadi Eisenkot to condemn Azaria’s actions: “This is not the IDF’s values,” he said the day of the incident.
Tomer Almagor is an international affairs correspondent and news anchor at Israel’s Channel 12, based in Tel Aviv. When he’s not keeping up with breaking news in Israel or around the world, he’s probably playing or watching whatever ball game he can find.