President Reuven Rivlin, visited The Kirya

llan Harari ( he, אילן הררי; January 7, 1959) is a retired

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who served as chief education officer of the Education and Youth Corps. Harari served in various combat positions, including a command position in the

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and as a battalion commander in the

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. On September 22, 2006, he announced his retirement and stated that Israel had lost the Lebanon War. General

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voiced the same opinion. Israel's

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Dan Halutz disputed this assessment. As head of a project to identify acts of heroism during the war, Harari said: "We heard about the complaints, the difficulties, the confusion, but in all that, there are plenty of heroic tales ... and these should be elevated so that every division in the IDF knows what happened there..."

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