The command, whose main headquarters is in Safed, is responsible for all the units located between Hermon and Netanya.

During the wars in the 1960s and 70s, the Northern Command was in charge of the campaigns directed against Syria on the Golan Heights and the Lebanese border.

During the 1970s and 80s, it mainly faced attacks from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was driven to southern Lebanon following Black September.

[1] During 2000, the Northern Command completed its withdrawal from the Security Zone in southern Lebanon and was dispatched along the UN-sanctioned border.

Although Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon has been met with UN approval, Hezbollah continues its attacks, mainly in the Shebaa farms area of Mount Hermon, an area occupied by Israel from Syria and which Hezbollah claims as Lebanese territory.