IDF Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, spoke Wednesday with the IDF's delegation to Poland and said the horrors of the Holocaust could happen again. "We must ask ourselves what values we are educating our youth to," he said. "It is very important that there be a state and an army and the society's values and outward face are also important."

 "The horrors that were perpetrated here were man-made," he told the delegation. "They happened once and they could happen again. We must ask ourselves how not to reach that again."

Ashkenazi also said that the IDF would enlarge the number of participants in the officer delegations to the former Nazi death camps.