At the end of an IDF forum today and in a celebratory ceremony, the IDF Chief of General Staff presented a decoration for battle in the South Lebanon Security Belt to the NCO responsible for disciple in the IDF Officers Training School since 1968, and longest-serving member of the IDF, Yitzhak Taito.

Taito, who has participated in almost every war Israel has fought, celebrated his 80th birthday yesterday.

He was greeted in the hall with salutes and applause by the dozens of commanders in the audience.

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