The Israeli army launched a large-scale operation in 2018 to kill Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, but was unsuccessful, former Israel military Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot has revealed in an interview with Israeli publication Maariv. Israel tried to kill the Iranian commander in ‘Operation House of Cards’, when 100 Iranian sites in Syria were targeted, following the firing of rockets at the Golan Heights, Eisenkot said. “We decided that if he was in a command center or operations room or somewhere in the area, we would take him out. And we had approval for that. But we could not close the cir…