Yair Golan: The IDF General Who Can Revive the Israeli Left

Catia Tănase

Getting to the Knesset caucus room of the Labor Party is not easy. Labor is now the smallest faction in the Knesset, and its office is in what looks like a storage hallway. It’s hard not to see this as a metaphor for how the mighty party—Israel’s founding and long-ruling political party for around a quarter-century—has fallen.   Golan is a former IDF deputy chief of staff. A reserve major general, he was also commander of the Home Front Command (in charge of protecting civilians in emergency

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