"About a month ago, in Jerusalem, a 13-year-old terrorist opened fire on a family that was walking near the City of David on Saturday morning. He wounded the father of the family and one of the sons, Nadav, a team commander in the paratrooper brigade on vacation. 

Despite his injury, Nadav reacted quickly, hit the terrorist and saved the lives of those around him and his family members among them. When Nadav stood on this parade ground just four months ago, he did not know that a day would come when his behavior on vacation under fire would set an example of what we expect from every soldier and soldier, soldiers and certainly officers: to take the initiative with courage and remove any threat to civilians or soldiers. 

We wish Nadav a complete and speedy recovery from here. Take an example from a volunteer. His behavior is exemplary of the character of the officer.'

"These days a controversy is rocking Israeli society. The IDF is a unique meeting point of the army and society, and therefore the controversy also reaches its servants: its soldiers - its citizens, its commanders - its sons. 

IDF soldiers and officers do not serve in distant countries, they protect the home, near the home, go and return to the home. And the debate in the House is up. Just as we knew how to contain this uniqueness throughout the years of the IDF's existence as the people's army, we will know how to do it today as well.''

"We, the commanders of the IDF at all ranks, and from today you too, the male and female officers, stand by the principle - the mission of the IDF is one national mission, and there is no end to it: protecting the state and maintaining the security of its citizens; Those who serve in the IDF are subject to the law and the orders of the army and act according to the spirit of the IDF and its values."