Strategic Assessment

This essay presents a proposal for the division of responsibility and authority between the political and military levels through new legislation: the IDF Law. The idea proposed is to pass a standard law that will complement the Basic Law: The Military (1976), similar to the way the Government Law complements the basic law on the government. According to the proposal described below, the IDF Law will determine the types of decisions for which the government/prime minister is responsible and which decisions should be decided by the minister of defense or chief of staff. A translated text of the proposed legislation appears in the Appendix to this article.