-President Shimon Peres

-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,

-Defense Minister Ehud Barak

-Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni

- Commander-in-Chief of Israeli Air Force Major General Ido Nehushtan --

- Israeli Chief Intelligence Officer Brigadier General Yuval Halamish

- Israeli Chief of Staff General Gabi Ashkenazi

- Major-General Yoav Galant -- the IDF's Southern Command Chief

- Israel's Military Intelligence Chief Major General Amos Yadlin

- Head of the Israeli 51 battalion Colonel Avi Peled

- Colonel Hartzi Halevi -- paratroops brigade commander

- Colonel Yigal Slovik -- commander of 401st Armored Corps Brigade convoy

- Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg

- Colonel Ron Ashrov -- commander of the northern Gaza operation and deputy to the Givati Brigade

- Brigadier General Zvika Fogel -- head of Southern Command in charge of artillery fire for Operation Cast Lead

- Brigadier General Jonathan Locker -- head of the Israeli air forces that operated in Gaza

- Major Nimrod Aloni

- Colonel Tomer Tsiter -- a Givati squad commander from Ra'anana

- Lieutenant Colonel Shlomo Saban

- Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi

- Brigadier General Moshe Ya'elon

- Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz