Naveh helped plan and execute Israel's expulsion of nearly 16,000 Jews
from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank in 2005. When he was rejected for
the post of Defense Ministry director-general, Naveh went to India where he
served as adviser to the government on how to clear squatter villages.
In early 2010, Naveh, the brother of a former senior Cabinet minister,
was identified as the commander of a soldier who transferred more than 2,000
classified documents to an Israeli journalist
and which later went missing. The soldier, Anat Kam, who worked in Naveh's
office, has been under house arrest awaiting a plea bargain arrangement.
The source said Barak approached Naveh, who resigned in 2007, to become
deputy chief of staff after two current officers rejected the offer. They
were identified as Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, head of Northern Command, and
Maj. Gen. Avi Mizrahi, head of Central Command.