Operations Directorate

Template:Short description Template:Pp Template:More citations needed Template:Template otherTemplate:Short description The Israeli Operations Directorate (Template:Langx, Agaf HaMivtza'im, abbreviated as (Template:Langx Agam) is the operations branch in the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. It was established in 1999, alongside the regional commands, the air force and navy. Since June 2021, it is headed by Aluf Oded Basyuk.

Tasks

The directorate has the following responsibilities:

• Preparing the IDF for war, emergencies, and day-to-day security
• Deriving an operational strategy from the national security agenda and military doctrine
• Coordinating the IDF's work with the other security forces, and drafting IDF recommendations for the political echelon
• Instructing the regional command, air force, navy, GOC Army Headquarters and other directorates, with respect to the exercise of force and its coordination

Units

• Operations Division
• Instruction, Doctrine and Evaluation Division
• IDF Spokesperson
• Special Means Division
• Department for Campaign Design
• Centre for Consciousness Operations
• Inspection and Supervision Department
• General Staff Security Department

Commanders

The list includes those who served as heads of operations prior to when it was spun off from the IDF's General Staff. The list also includes pre-IDF Haganah commander Yigael Yadin who also served in that capacity during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Dan Halutz, who original served as the Aide to Chief of the Operations Branch, was appointed to the head of the Operations Directorate soon after its establishment.

Name	Term start	Term end	Notes
Yigael Yadin	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Mordechai Maklef	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Moshe Dayan	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Yosef Avidar	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Meir Amit	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Later Director of Mossad
Haim Laskov	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Meir Amit	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Tzvi Tzur	1958
Meir Zorea	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Yitzhak Rabin	Template:Start date	Template:End date	5th Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Haim Bar-Lev	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Ezer Weizman	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Later President of Israel
David Elazar	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Israel Tal	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Rehavam Ze'evi	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Yitzhak Hofi	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Later Director of Mossad
Herzl Shafir	Template:Start date	Template:End date	Later Commissioner of Police
Yekutiel Adam	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Rafael Eitan	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Yekutiel Adam	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Moshe Levi	Template:Start date	Template:End date
David Ivry	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Dan Shomron	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Amir Drori	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Ehud Barak	Template:Start date	Template:End date	10th Prime Minister
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Matan Vilnai	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Shaul Mofaz	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Uzi Dayan	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Dan Halutz	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Giora Eiland	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Dan Harel	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Israel Ziv	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Gadi Eizenkot	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Tal Russo	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Yaakov Ayash	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Yoav Har-Even	Template:Start date	Template:End date
Nitzan Alon	Template:Start date

Assistant Head of the Operations Branch

The list is of those who served as Assistant Head of the Operations Branch prior to establishment of the Operations Directorate in 1999.

Name	Term	Notes
Tzvi Tzur	1950–1951
Haim Ben-David	1951–1953
Ilan Meyer	1953–1954
Asaf Simhoni	1954–1956
Meir Zorea	1956
Uzi Narkiss	1956–1957	During Sinai War
Ariel Amiad	1957–1958
Shalom Iron	1958–1960
Israel Tal	1961
Oded Masar	July to December 1961
Yeshayahu Gavish	1961–1962
Elad Peled	1962–1963
Gideon Elrom	1963–1964
Rehavam Ze'evi	1964–1968	During Six-Day War
Yitzhak Hofi	1968–1969
Herzl Shafir	1969–1971
Yona Efrat	1971–1973
Arie Levy	1973–1974	During Yom Kippur War
Mordechai Tzipori	1974–1976
Avigdor Ben-Gal	1976
Natan Sharoni	1976–1978
Eitan Barak	1978–1980
Uri Simchoni	1980–1981
Giora Ram-Forman	1981–1983	During the First Lebanon War
Uri Sagi	1983–1986
Amram Mitzna	1986–1987
Giora Romm	1987–1989
Zeev Livne	1989–1992
Nehemiah Tamari	1992–1993
Meir Dagan	1993–1995
Eitan Ben Eliyahu	1995–1996
Gabi Ashkenazi	1996–1998
Dan Halutz	1998–1999	Post terminated; Halutz became head of the Operations Directorate

See also

• General staff
• Staff (military)