New IDF International Spokesperson Ariella Mazor Debuts in i24News Interview

Lt. Col. Ariella Mazor, appointed IDF international spokesperson in June, sat down with i24NEWS on Wednesday for her first English-language broadcast interview and said the military remains ready to act if the Iran ceasefire collapses again. If we will be needed to be called or need to go into another battle, we'll do whatever will be needed to operate, as long as the political echelon will give us our directive, Mazor said, hours after U.S. Central Command struck Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz. Mazor, born in Texas to an American mother and an Israeli father, served more than twenty years in the Israeli Air Force with senior roles in personnel, logistics and operational support before taking the international-media role. She called a female combat soldier's completion of elite-unit training an unprecedented achievement, said her guiding values are transparency, accuracy, context and highlighting the human beings behind the headlines, and pushed back on settler-attack allegations by saying soldiers receive education on IDF values and reports of civilian harm are very hurtful.