So did every serving Israeli chief of staff, including the incumbent.
Ten of the soldiers who fought in this battle were given citations by the Israeli chief of general staff.
The Israeli chief of operations and prime minister apologized officially, saying they were unaware, due to faulty intelligence, that civilians would be in the house.
An Israeli military chief was quoted this week as saying cryptically that Iran should expect more "unnatural" events in 2012.
Yesterday, the Israeli military chief of staff, Moshe Yaalon, told a parliamentary committee that the agreement looked likely.
Later in the afternoon, a meeting was held between the Israeli Chief of Staff and the Phalangist staff.
The Israeli Chief of Staff recently confirmed that the Palestinian Authority had done nothing against the terrorist infrastructure in areas under its control.
Yitzhak Mordechai, a former Israeli military chief of staff, defense minister and transportation minister, was given an 18-month suspended sentence for sexual assault.
In December, General Shihabi and the previous Israeli chief of staff made inflexible presentations, then did not even talk about the other side's positions.
The Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz admitted to failings in the conflict.