Israel is to conduct its largest military exercise for nearly 20 years on its northern border simulating a full-scale war with Hezbollah.
The exercise, which is expected to start on Tuesday and will last ten days, involves dozens of divisions and thousands of reserves and includes land, air and sea forces.
The major drill will include a scenario of instant escalation, in which the army has to defend Israel against multiple terrorist infiltrations in the north.
It comes as the Syrian army has been almost totally eroded by the long-running civil war and with Hezbollah viewed as Israel’s primary enemy in Lebanon.
