Camp Bar-Lev : Army General Office Command (Mazi)

 military, headquarters, Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

HQ, MAZI- GOC Army Headquarters located @ Camp Bar-Lev

The Israeli GOC (General Office Command) Army headquarters (Hebrew: זרוע היבשה‎, Zro'a HaYabasha), is a multi-corps command headquarters created in 1998, which amalgamates the ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces. As of December, 2007, Mazi is headed by Aluf Avi Mizrahi. The current size of the Israeli Ground Forces is estimated at a rough 125,000 active soldiers and 600,000 soldiers in reserve.

The IDF's third arm
Under the IDF 2000 reforms, Mazi is set to become the IDF's third Arm, alongside the Air and Space Arm and the Sea Arm. Until the creation of Mazi, IDF ground forces were directly subordinate to the Chief of Staff; Mazi is still in the midst of being structured, which means to some extent they effectively remain so. Likewise with combat support and rear-line corps, which in part remain subordinate to respective Directorates. As an IDF arm, Mazi is designed to deal with the building of the ground forces' strength and working toward balance, combination, and coordination between the ground corps. Mazi's authority ranges from the battalion to the command level.

Corps
The command headquarters is located here in Camp Bar Lev, between Ashkelon and Qiryat Mal'akhi. Mazi includes the five ground-warfare corps of specific military functions:

Order of Battle

The Maneuvering Corps comprising:
The Infantry Corps
The Armor Corps

The Combat Support Corps comprising:
The Artillery Corps
The Engineering Corps
The Field Intelligence Corps

The Ground Forces of the IDF are arranged geographically into three principal commands, per :
The Northern Command (Patzan) - HQ @ in Safed : new.wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=32.981056&lon=35.512147&...
The Central Command (Pakmaz) - HQ @ Camp Nehemiah in Neve Ya'akov : new.wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=31.840552&lon=35.236641&...
The Southern Command (Padam) - HQ @ in Beersheba : new.wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=31.240797&lon=34.787859&...