The following is a chronological list of the IDF chiefs of staff who entered politics and what became of them:

• Yaakov Dori – Served only as deputy mayor of Haifa and was in the Rafi Party.

• Yigael Yadin – Served as deputy prime minister under Menachem Begin for only one term, from 1977 to 1981, as head of the Dash Party until the party broke up.

• Moshe Dayan – Was defense minister, foreign minister and a Mapai and Labor MK during 20 years in politics.

• Tzvi Tzur – was an MK in the Rafi Party for only 16 days before returning to business. But then he was assistant to defense minister Dayan for seven years.

• Yitzhak Rabin – Arguably the most successful IDF chief of staff in politics, having been prime minister twice, as well as defense and foreign minister during more than 20 years in politics. But his first term as prime minister ended in scandal – and before he was assassinated, Israel was facing a wave of deadly terror attacks.

• Haim Bar-Lev – held the industry and trade, police and development portfolios as a Labor MK during 18 years in politics, which ending in 1992.

• Mordechai Gur – served as health minister and deputy defense minister as a Labor MK during 14 years in politics.

• Rafael Eitan – served as deputy prime minister and agriculture and environment minister, and headed the Tzomet Party, which ran together with Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud in the 1996 election. Was in politics for 15 years.

• Ehud Barak: Was prime minister, defense minister and foreign minister, and twice led the Labor Party in 18 years on and off in politics. But after breaking up Labor and forming the short-lived Independence Party so he could remain Netanyahu’s defense minister, he became among Israel’s most controversial public figures.

• Amnon Lipkin-Shahak – Started off as a candidate for prime minister in the 1999 election, but he ended up only as minister of both tourism and transportation for the Centre Party in just two years in politics from 1999 to 2001.

• Shaul Mofaz – Served as defense minister and headed Kadima during 13 years in politics. But in the 2013 election, his party won only two seats.

• Moshe Ya’alon – served as defense minister and a Likud MK, and has been in politics for a decade. But burning bridges with Netanyahu and Likud took him from being a likely candidate for prime minister to the leader of a party that is expected not cross the electoral threshold if it runs on its own.

• Dan Halutz – joined Kadima, but quit after 19 months and ended up not seeking elected office after a series of poor political moves and the negative Winograd report about his handling of the Second Lebanon War.