The Jerusalem Post reports: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed war objectives for the coming year in an address to Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, during a meeting with members of the IDF General Staff Forum in Tel Aviv on Monday.

Netanyahu urged that in pursuit of achieving security and overcoming Israel’s enemies, ‘we need to destroy the Iranian axis… this is what stands before us in the coming year, which could be a historic year for the security of Israel.’

The defeat of the Iranian axis of terror proxies across the region ‘is within our means,’ said the prime minister…”