Yisroel Levy
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The Honorable Yisroel Levy | |
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 General Levy at a Provisa military parade after the 2004 Sackings. | |
| General, General Staff, Imperial Armed Forces of Belhavia | |
| In office May 26th, 1998 – December 17th, 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Michoel Wertheimer |
| Succeeded by | Jeffrey Sacks |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 19th, 1938 Bukenia, Asland |
| Nationality | Belhavian |
| Political party | Liberal Democrat (1957 - 1963) Conservative Party (1963 - Present) |
| Spouse | Rebeccah Y. Levy |
| Residence | Dakos |
| Alma mater | B.S., Military Science, Freeport Military Academy |
| Profession | Military officer, Functionary |
Yisroel Levy (born September 19th, 1938) is a former four-star general in the Imperial military's General Staff, a notable Belhavian Army field commander, military strategist, and adviser to President Julian Settas in the 1980s. He is a member of the Conservative Party. He is a recipient of the Imperial Silver Badge for "meritorious field action" on the battlefield for his actions in the South Akkadiya Ocean War in 1959-60.
Levy is an important military thinker and officer of the 20th century. He attended the elite Freeport Military Academy from 1956 -1960, where he graduated in the top 1% of his class and was commissioned as a first lieutenant. He fought briefly in the South Akkadiya Ocean War, where he won the Imperial Silver Badge in combat. He later fought in the wars in Nazali, Myrdesia/Dacia, South Ashizwe, and Tippercommon.
Throughout his extensive wartime experience, he became noted for his strategic and tactical skill and quickly climbed the ranks, achieving colonel by 1976 with just 16 years of military service under his belt, which was a rare feat. By the mid-1970s, he had became the mentor and friend of Imperial Army officer Zalman Yitzchak Katz, who would later become a senior military commander of note himself.
A strong neoconservative and defense hawk, Levy helped draft the Settas Doctrine and served as the senior military policy adviser to President Julian Settas throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s under Settas's successor, Naftali Katz. However, he would often take leaves of absence to take field commands for conflicts in Ashizwe.
In the mid-1990s, as a "Neo-detente" was underway under the Holleran presidency, Levy was largely pushed into political wilderness due to his strong anticommunist and hawkish views. When the Tories returned to power, albeit briefly for one-term, in the late 1990s, Levy was appointed to the Imperial Army General Staff by President Yehuda Fiedler.
One of the last chapters of his public life ended on a sour note, however, as Levy was sacked along with half of the Army's General Staff in the infamous 2004 Sackings, although the sackings enabled Levy's protégé and mentee, General Zalman Y. Katz, rise to prominence as President Eli Goldman's War Minister. After 2004, Levy retired from public life, although he occasionally gives speeches or talks in specific forums on military affairs.