As Eisenkot absorbed those first reports, he called out to one of his five children, his twenty-five-year-old son, Gal. “It’s war,” Eisenkot said again. “His idea, his dream, was to be either a doctor or a scientist,” Eisenkot told me. Eisenkot had served under Netanyahu as chief of the general staff from February, 2015, to January, 2019, but was now a political opponent. “I didn’t know that Netanyahu had just gotten off a call with Biden, and Biden had told him, ‘Do not.’