IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman aimed veiled criticism at Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz on Monday for sharing on social media remarks made by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi in a cabinet meeting.
Zilberman was responding to a Twitter message in which Katz had said that Kochavi was behind the decision to discard the policy of ambiguity about Israeli airstrikes to counter Iranian drone activity in Syria.
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After Israel announced that it had carried out the strike in question, opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that he had made the activity public in an attempt to score election points.
Katz, a member of the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet, wrote: "Yesterday, the chief of staff made it unequivocally clear that he was behind the public announcement [about the activity], for completely professional reasons."
Katz said in his tweet that No. 2 on the Blue and White list, Yair Lapid, had attacked the government for the decision and said the announcement was why Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah had decided to retaliate by firing a missile over the northern border at the community of Avivim. No one was injured in the retaliatory attack.
Zilberman chided the foreign minister for making the content of cabinet discussions public, saying, "The IDF keeps cabinet discussions secret."
