IDF Central Command

Crash-and-burn: Inside Israel’s self-defeating defense against ‘NAZA,’ BBC's war crimes allegations

When the NAZA film came out in mid-September, a week after the EU sanctioned Israel's West Bank, a new chapter started.

Graffiti depicting Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the directors of the documentary film NAZA, and the word "traitors" in Hebrew, on a wall in Ashdod Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a conference of senior command staf at the Glilot IDF base on October 4, 2026.

Zamir: IDF to overhaul intelligence, force readiness after October 7 investigations

Israeli soldiers take part in a military operation in the market in the Old City of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, September 27, 2026

IDF reinforces West Bank amid growing tensions as settlers, Palestinians clash in villages

A vehicle on fire at a Palestinian village in the West Bank, allegedly due to far-right Jewish extremists, September 28, 2026.

Jewish settler extremists torch vehicles, vandalize Palestinian property in West Bank villages


Israel, CENTCOM ties have been essential amid Gaza war

The war in Gaza has been a showcase of how US-Israel relations, and particularly military-to-military relations are important. Central Command is a key component of this.

 IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and US CENTCOM commander Michael Eric Kurilla holding a situation assessment on the threat from Iran, April 12, 2024.

'Act patiently and cautiously in the North,' says former senior defense official

Zohar Palti, a former senior defense official at Israel's Defense Ministry, commended former Major General Yehuda Fuchs' resignation speech and cautioned action in northern Israel.

 IDF brigades training in northern Israel, June 13, 2024.

New right-wing central commander likely to be harder on Palestinian terrorism

Israeli settlers have accused the last few IDF central commanders of spending too much time cracking down on Jewish violence versus Palestinian violence.

Brigade Commander Colonel Avi Bluth 370

IDF, defense heads meet settlers to smooth over terror wave tensions

IDF Central Commander Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs has been a regular verbal punching bag for some Religious Zionist party and local West Bank political officials.

 Israeli security forces seen at the entrance to the West Bank city of Hebron, after the deadly shooting attack on Route 60, August 21, 2023