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443: 809:"I look around me, and hear the voices, I look and I don't believe. Whenever a party does not win the status of a ruling party, the most respectable post is the Defense Ministry. And I hear the generals, and the admirals say: 'Why the Defense Ministry?' I hear the voices, and I am happy with myself, because this means we succeeded in changing the agenda in the State of Israel. The revolution is that a social general is no longer ruled out from being a minister of defense, and our generals yearn to deal with social issues." 142: 45: 476: 483: 469: 455: 462: 763:), and is used to refer to the generals of foreign armies. It can also be used colloquially in reference to a senior Israeli officer, in a derogatory sense implying that the officer in question is over-officious, incompetent, or involved in internecine power struggles with other officers, sometimes referred to as the "war of the generals" ( 879: 916: 730:. The three forces have the same ranks, although separate naval ranks were used for a short time in the 1950s; an officer who would be a 674:
is usually translated as "lieutenant general", although it is the most senior rank in the IDF. The rank is given only to the
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used it as a rank of nobility and the later books of the Bible use it to describe Israelite captains as well, e.g.
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Aside from being a military rank, "Aluf" is also used in a civilian context, particularly in
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as the commander of the southern theater. Thus, along with Chief of the General Staff
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rank, four other ranks are derivatives of the word, together, constituting the five
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under normal circumstances. However this can change in a time of war. During the
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55:13, where it is used as a general term for teacher. It comes from a
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The non-Hebrew word "general" was also adopted into Hebrew (
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thousand; the same 3 letters comprise them both, however.
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