The General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces or General Headquarters (), abbreviated Matkal (מטכ"ל), is the supreme command of the

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, and ...

. It is based in the Kirya compound (Rabin Camp) in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

Members

Flickr - Israel Defense Forces - Honor Guard at IDF Headquarters for Outgoing Chief of Staff Lt

The majority of members in the General Staff Forum are officers ranked as

Aluf ( or "first/leader of a group" in Biblical Hebrew) is a senior military rank in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) for officers who in other countries would have the rank of general, air marshal, or admiral. In addition to the ''aluf'' rank, fo ...

and heads of the following military and civilian bodies:

Chief

* Chief of the General Staff – Rav Aluf Eyal Zamir * Deputy Chief of the General Staff –

Tamir Yadai

Arms

* Commander of the Ground Forces – Aluf Nadav Lotan * Commander of the Air Force – Aluf Tomer Bar * Commander of the Navy – Aluf David Saar Salama

Directorates

*Head of the

Operations Directorate The Israeli Operations Directorate (, ''Agaf HaMivtza'im'', abbreviated as ( ''Agam'') is the Operations (military staff), operations branch in the Israeli General Staff, General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. It was established in 1999, al ...

– Aluf Oded Basyuk *Head of the

Intelligence Directorate Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It can be described as the ...

– Aluf Shlomi Binder *Head of the Technological and Logistics Directorate – Aluf Michel Yanko *Head of the Personnel Directorate – Aluf David Bar Kalifa *Head of the Planning and Multi-Domain Force Design Directorate – Aluf Eyal Harel *Head of the Computer Service Directorate – Aluf Aviad Dagan *Head of the Strategy and Third-Circle Directorate – Aluf Eliezer Toledano

Commands

*Commander of the Northern Command – Aluf Ori Gordin *Commander of the Central Command – Aluf Avi Bluth *Commander of the Southern Command – Aluf Yaniv Asor *Commander of the Home Front Command – Aluf Rafi Milo

Other

Military Secretary to the Prime Minister The military secretary to the Prime Minister (, ''HaMazkir HaTzva'i Shel Rosh'' ''HaMemshala''), is the senior military adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel on military and national security issues. As a member of the Staff (military), Militar ...

– Aluf Roman Gofman *Military Secretary to the Minister of Defense –Tat-Aluf Guy Markizano *Military Secretary to the

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

– Tat-Aluf Na'ama Rosen Grimberg * Commander of the Depth Corps and of the Military Colleges – Aluf Nimrod Aloni * Commander of the Northern Corps and Head of Maneuver Array – Aluf Dan Goldfuss * Commander of the General Staff Corps and the Education and Training Command – Aluf David Zini * Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories – Aluf Ghassan Alian *

of the Military Court of Appeals – Aluf Orli Markman * Military Advocate General – Aluf Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi * IDF Spokesperson – Tat-Aluf Effie Defrin *The Financial Advisor to the Chief of Staff – Tat-Aluf Gil Pinchas *Assistant to the Chief of Staff –Aluf-Mishne Chaim Ben Moyal

Civilian

Director-general A director general, general director or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''general directors'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals'') is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer ...

of the Ministry of Defense – Aluf (Res.) Amir Baram * Defense Establishment Comptroller – Tat-Aluf (Res.) Yair Volansky *IDF Internal Comptroller – Tat-Aluf (Res.) Ofer Sarig *Head of Administration for the Development of Weapons and the Technological Industry – Tat-Aluf (Res.) Daniel (Danny) Gold

References

"The General Staff," official list
Staff (military) Military units and formations of Israel {{Israel-mil-stub