WATCH: The IDF officer who wrecked his chances to be chief of staff January 23, 2019 Tweet WhatsApp Email https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-yair-golan-idf-officer-who-torpedoed-his-own-candidacy-for-chief-of-staff/ Email Print On Jan. 15, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi became IDF chief-of-staff. But there was another candidate in the running who arguably had a better operational record, i24 News reports.Maj. Gen. Yair Golan was pegged early as a promising future leader of the Israel Defense Forces. But he wrecked his own chances with an inopportune choice of words during a speech at a ceremony marking Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2016. Aviv KochaviIDFIDF chief of staffYair Golan