Herzl "Herzi" Halevi (Hebrew: הרצל "הרצי" הלוי; born 17 December 1967) is the Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, having taken the oath of office on 16 January 2023.

[5] Halevi's mother's family lived in Jerusalem for 14 generations, while his father's parents immigrated from Russia.

Halevi led the brigade's anti-tank company in counter-guerrilla operations during the South Lebanon conflict.

[7] In 1993, he was assigned to Sayeret Matkal, the IDF's special forces unit, where he served as a company commander.

[9] In September 2009, Halevi was promoted to the rank of brigadier general (Tat-Aluf) and appointed commander of the Operational Division in the Military Intelligence Directorate and served in that position until 11 October 2011.

[8] In September 2014, he was promoted to the rank of Major General (Aluf) and appointed chief of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate and served in that capacity until March 2018.

[16] On 12 September 2024, The Times of Israel reported that Halevi is "making preparations" to step down as Chief of Staff in December 2024.

The timeline has been determined, the report claims, on the basis of the IDF being set to have completed all of its internal investigations into the failures surrounding Hamas’s October invasion, as well as the IDF expected to have completed all its preparations for a potential "all-out war in Lebanon," in which preparations the General Staff is overseeing.