We are not told that he “saves” Israel, which we are told with respect to Tola. This may be a reading between the lines, but in light of all the other aspects mentioned regarding Jair, the absence of the verb “to save” would seem to support the notion that Jair and sons were more concerned with building a power base for themselves than with saving Israel.
3 After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.