January 24, 2015
9:59 pm

Netanyahu eyes journalist Caroline Glick for Likud Knesset slot

Yadlin won’t be on Zionist Camp list; Livni indicates she would not sit with PM in coalition; Steinitz defends PM’s trip to US

By Times of Israel staff

January 19, 2015
11:57 pm

Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog (center), Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni (right) and the new 'defense candidate' on their joint Zionist Camp list, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, during a press conference in Tel Aviv, January 19, 2015 (photo credit: Flash90)

Left’s new defense pick Yadlin: ‘Peace requires security’

In first interview as politician, ex-IDF intelligence head Amos Yadlin vows no compromises on security in future peace talks

By Times of Israel staff

January 19, 2015
6:02 pm

File photo: Amos Yadlin, former head of IDF military intelligence (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Ex-intel chief Amos Yadlin joining Labor list

Left-wing party to announce addition of former Air Force pilot who participated in the bombing of Osirak

By Times of Israel staff

January 19, 2015
2:21 pm

Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz arrives at a press conference in the Knesset, July 23, 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

As Yadlin draws closer to Labor Party, Mofaz backs off

Kadima leader had been in talks to join Herzog’s list, but former IDF intelligence chief shaping up as more likely candidate

By Stuart Winer

January 13, 2015
6:19 pm

Labor Party chairman Isaac Herzog visits the party's primary headquarters in Holon, January 11, 2015. (Flash90)

For Labor, a primary focused on women, unity and victory

Even as the party soars in the polls, its 49,000 eligible voters make this its smallest primary in history

By Haviv Rettig Gur

December 7, 2014
12:54 pm

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the Saban Forum in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Annual Washington powwow is all about Israeli elections

Peace talks, Iran take a backseat at this year’s Saban Forum — as does Israel’s relationship with the Obama administration

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

November 24, 2014
8:53 pm

An Iranian student at a demonstration outside the Tehran Research Reactor to show support for Iran's nuclear program, November 23, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Atta Kenare)

With Iran secure as a threshold state, has Israel failed?

There’s no deal, but the full dismantling of Tehran’s nuclear program, so ardently sought by Netanyahu, is clearly off the table. Could things have gone differently?

By Raphael Ahren

September 1, 2014
9:19 pm

Al-Nusra Front fighters standing near the Quneitra crossing between Israel and Syria. (screen capture: YouTube)

A different sort of dangerous: The new jihadi threat from Syria

A very wary Israel watches as an al-Qaeda offshoot wrests control of the Quneitra crossing area from Assad’s forces

By Mitch Ginsburg

August 5, 2014
8:56 pm

Israeli soldiers next to a Merkava tank stationed at an army deployment area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, on July 24, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Jack Guez)

With Gaza war ostensibly over, Israelis ask what’s next?

Some observers are sure that operation’s best possible outcome is a time-out, while others wonder how the Strip will be demilitarized

By Raphael Ahren

July 28, 2014
8:54 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with IDF Chief Benny Gantz (standing directly behind him) and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (seated right), monitoring IDF ground operations in Gaza during a meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2014. (Photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

IDF at Gaza crossroads as cabinet pulls in different directions

The tunnels are being neutralized. The question now is whether Israel will order troops into the heart of the Strip, where the Hamas military wing is holed up

By Mitch Ginsburg

July 27, 2014
4:48 pm

Amos Yadlin, former director of military intelligence, Jan 2012. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Ex-intel chief: Incremental strategy in Gaza op a mistake

Former head of IDF Military Intelligence suggests a middle road between full demilitarization and immediate ceasefire

By Mitch Ginsburg

July 11, 2014
2:13 pm

IDF soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade during a training exercise in southern Israel, on July 10, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)

Looking back, looking ahead

In predicting the next stages of the Gaza campaign, the Hebrew papers turn to past wars for guidance

By Marissa Newman

July 8, 2014
1:36 am

An illustrative photo of an Israeli tank overlooking the Gaza Strip (photo credit: Courtesy Yad L'shiryon)

How war with Hamas might play out

Hit by 100 rockets in 24 hours, Israel is being goaded into a major Gaza offensive. Some ministers want the Strip reconquered; other voices urge more ‘modest and attainable’ objectives

By Mitch Ginsburg

July 6, 2014
12:13 am

Hamas gunmen parade with an M-75 rocket on the first anniversary of Operation Pillar of Defense, in Gaza City, 14 November 2013. (Photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas boasts that all Israeli cities are within its reach

As rockets rain down on southern Israel, Bennett says Israel’s strategy is hurting its deterrence; IDF chief: Soldiers prepared for any action needed

By Ilan Ben Zion and Itamar Sharon

June 30, 2014
5:31 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference organized by the Institute for National Secuirty Studies in Tel Aviv on Sunday, June 29, 2014 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/FLASH90)

Netanyahu’s commitment to 2 states seems shakier than ever

With speech cementing Jordan River as Israel’s border and ignoring calls for unilateral withdrawal, PM gives annexationists cause for hope

By Raphael Ahren

Topic: Amos Yadlin

Netanyahu eyes journalist Caroline Glick for Likud Knesset slot

Yadlin won’t be on Zionist Camp list; Livni indicates she would not sit with PM in coalition; Steinitz defends PM’s trip to US

Left’s new defense pick Yadlin: ‘Peace requires security’

In first interview as politician, ex-IDF intelligence head Amos Yadlin vows no compromises on security in future peace talks

Ex-intel chief Amos Yadlin joining Labor list

Left-wing party to announce addition of former Air Force pilot who participated in the bombing of Osirak

As Yadlin draws closer to Labor Party, Mofaz backs off

Kadima leader had been in talks to join Herzog’s list, but former IDF intelligence chief shaping up as more likely candidate

For Labor, a primary focused on women, unity and victory

Even as the party soars in the polls, its 49,000 eligible voters make this its smallest primary in history

Annual Washington powwow is all about Israeli elections

Peace talks, Iran take a backseat at this year’s Saban Forum — as does Israel’s relationship with the Obama administration

With Iran secure as a threshold state, has Israel failed?

There’s no deal, but the full dismantling of Tehran’s nuclear program, so ardently sought by Netanyahu, is clearly off the table. Could things have gone differently?

A different sort of dangerous: The new jihadi threat from Syria

A very wary Israel watches as an al-Qaeda offshoot wrests control of the Quneitra crossing area from Assad’s forces

With Gaza war ostensibly over, Israelis ask what’s next?

Some observers are sure that operation’s best possible outcome is a time-out, while others wonder how the Strip will be demilitarized

IDF at Gaza crossroads as cabinet pulls in different directions

The tunnels are being neutralized. The question now is whether Israel will order troops into the heart of the Strip, where the Hamas military wing is holed up

Ex-intel chief: Incremental strategy in Gaza op a mistake

Former head of IDF Military Intelligence suggests a middle road between full demilitarization and immediate ceasefire

Looking back, looking ahead

In predicting the next stages of the Gaza campaign, the Hebrew papers turn to past wars for guidance

How war with Hamas might play out

Hit by 100 rockets in 24 hours, Israel is being goaded into a major Gaza offensive. Some ministers want the Strip reconquered; other voices urge more ‘modest and attainable’ objectives

Hamas boasts that all Israeli cities are within its reach

As rockets rain down on southern Israel, Bennett says Israel’s strategy is hurting its deterrence; IDF chief: Soldiers prepared for any action needed

Netanyahu’s commitment to 2 states seems shakier than ever

With speech cementing Jordan River as Israel’s border and ignoring calls for unilateral withdrawal, PM gives annexationists cause for hope

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