This footage was filmed and produced 16 April 2024.

The Chief of the General Staff to the Aerial Defense soldiers: your readiness and high alertness enable almost complete routine in the Home Front

Today (Tuesday), The Chief of the General Staff, LTG Herzi Halevi visited the "Arrow" Aerial Defense System Battery of the 136th Battalion in the Aerial Defense Array with the Commanding Officer of the Aerial Defense Array, BG Gilad Biran.
During the visit, the Chief of the General Staff spoke with the soldiers of the battalion, both in regular and reserve duty, who took part in the interception of surface-to-surface missiles in the Iranian attack against Israel as part of the “Iron Shield” operation.

SOUNDBITE:
"I am now finishing a visit here, and beforehand I also saw the results, processes and decisions that were made at the Interception Management Center, and also came to understood a little about your jobs and the connection between the training you do, the very high level of preparedness you maintain and the very good results that were seen on Saturday night.

All of this together is led first and foremost by excellent people and technological superiority, we need you at a very high level of preparedness, knowing how to act again and again, to maintain this readiness over time at a very high level of alertness, with very good preparedness.

We are just before Passover and we are enabling a policy this week in the home front to allow civilians to live with almost complete normalcy because we trust you very much and the level of readiness and alertness you maintain. And I tell you truly, all the civilians of the State of Israel trust you very much.”