After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.
There have been several speculative reasons proposed as explanations of why so little is said of this judge.  However, there is no satisfactory resolution of the question.  Perhaps the best view is that the period of his judgeship was a time of relative quiet and peacefulness.  It may be presumed that during his judgeship, Israel avoided the idolatry that later led to their distress.