"Protect the state, take care of yourself"

Prime Minister and Defense Minister Binyamin Netanyahu paid a visit on Tuesday to the exercise of the commando brigade in the company of IDF chief of staff General Gadi Eizenkot, and to the defense team. other senior officials.

During the exercise, Netanyahu was briefed by the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Eizenkot, by the head of the Israeli Army's commando brigade, Colonel Kobi Heller. , and by other senior officials. Netanyahu later had a discussion with the fighters participating in the exercise.

Netanyahu told the soldiers: "The greatest correction of anti-Semitism is the state of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces.It was once a leaf blowing in the wind and everyone could kill us today, we have the power to respond. "

"We are on the eve of Hanukkah, the spirit of the Maccabees is there.You are the Maccabees.We overcome our enemies with extraordinary strength and in an extraordinary spirit that I see here, in the Israeli army and in all our fighters, I am proud of you and I believe in you and the Israeli people, believe in you, continue the success, protect the state, take care of yourself and take care of the other ", added Netanyahu.

The commando brigade is organizing a ten-day exercise in different parts of the country. The exercise is intended to practice a variety of scenarios.