IDF appoints Druze officer to head Medical Corps – Colonel Dr. Badar Tarif – soon to be Brigadier General – will be the first Druze officer to hold the senior position. | Israelnationalnews

The Israeli army on Monday named an officer from Israel’s Druze Arab minority as its most senior medical official.
Colonel Dr. Badar Tarif, formerly the Deputy Surgeon General of the IDF, will be promoted to the rank of Brigadier General when he takes up the post of IDF Chief Medical Officer.