him in the days following the attacks. however, his resignation has only come now. this likely reflects the greater visibility of his resignation and indeed replacement at this point in time. originally when we go back to the 7th of october, the idf was going to launch a large—scale ground operations into gaza and those required incredible intelligence collection needs, and therefore didn't make sense from a human resources perspective for haliva to remain in place. however, now that we are seeing the shift into more targeted operations in gaza, less of these large—scale territorial operations we saw in the early days in november or december and that becomes more feasible now. it is now more possible to find out put in his replacement as we see this operational shift. replacement as we see this operationalshift. i replacement as we see this operational shift. i suppose that's the question, isn't it? how does this leave the idf militarily? how much of a loss is this for them? obviously any loss of a senior commander is going to have