Druze

Yes 2nd. LT in infantry is a platoon commander. Its a junior officer training course that is about 6 months long. For Armoured Corp, and Mechanized infantry the course to get a junior officer grade is about 3 months+ depending on your division. A 3-4 month course precedes the junior officer training to achieve NCO status. If accepted to take the junior officer course you agree to an additional year to two years. Once at the grade of 2nd. LT you can opt to to continue on a couple of further specialized courses, and then if you are accepted and are seriously committed to a full career in the IDF you can enroll in a Command and Staff school. If you get that far and preove yourself you can go further and attend a National Defense course and or be accepted in military training courses in the US and Britiain. The higher command courses after 2nd grade LT are about a year each course.

But once you finish active duty as a 2nd LT. as I did you can't take command of a platoon in time of war if its an active duty unit. My platoon leading days were in Gaza and Lebanon.