Forty-five years after that war, every Israeli asks themselves whether the IDF is at a level of fitness suitable for war. The public has reason to be confused: Is the army fit and ready, as determined in a document prepared by the IDF top brass and signed by Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, or is the situation as bad and worrying as an opposing document, shows?

The more pessimistic document was issued by the IDF Ombudsman Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Brick, a medal of courage recipient from the Yom Kippur War, calls for the establishment of an external commission of inquiry to examine the IDF’s preparedness for war.

In January, when his term ends, Brick will have served as ombudsman for a decade. During that time it was possible, and even vital, to compose far more serious reports about the IDF and its preparedness for battle, but he did not do so.

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