Major General (res.) Gal Hirsch has been at the center of the storm for the past two years and four months. He and his family received death threats in the style of: “We will put you before a firing squad.” His wife was subjected to sexual harassment. People demonstrated outside his house with megaphones, calling on all neighbors to boycott him and his family.
One day, he received a threatening phone call saying they were on their way to his home in Rosh HaAyin to murder his wife Donna and his daughters. Hirsch alerted the authorities, immediately left the situation room where he was, and raced home armed.
In these two years, he paid a high personal price. Friends cut off contact with him—solely because he is subordinate to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and allegedly “abandoned the hostages.” Throughout this entire time, he did not break, but he admits it was harder than one can imagine.
Today, after the return of all hostages, dead and alive, Hirsch is not thinking of resigning. He continues to...
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Sobering and sad to read how political tensions have affected this man’s life and his family’s lives. I hope and pray that they will find peace and good new beginnings going forward. He did an amazingly difficult job and I hope that people will appreciate his efforts now that the last hostage has been retrieved.
It is good for there to be many different opinions in Israel, it gives Israel a great advantage over its neighbours.
BUT those who who are intolerant of others ideas and opinions, to the extent of ‘death threats’, are in reality suffering from pride in their own infallibility, and are no better than dictators, and as such pose a serious threat to Israel !