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From the Cockpit to the Knesset: Nimrod Sheffer on Fixing a Broken State
Maj. Gen. (res.) Nimrod Sheffer spent 37 years in uniform — fighter pilot, squadron commander, head of Air Force operations, Chief of Air Staff — then four years as head of the IDF Planning Directorate under Gantz and Eizenkot, then three years as CEO and President of Israel Aerospace Industries. He could have retired to his grandchildren. Instead he is number 11 on the Democrats’ list, two weeks out from the election.
He explains what moved him: the judicial overhaul of January 2023, and then the conclusion he reached after October 7 that the dismantling of Israel’s public systems was not…
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