Topic: Avner Cohen

June 4, 2017
1:27 pm

Kulanu MK Michael Oren, who would later that year be appointed as Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's office in charge of public diplomacy, seen here on June 20, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Historian Oren rejects report Israel planned to drop atom bomb in 1967

Deputy minister who penned bestseller on Six Day War says claim in NY Times report doesn’t ‘hold water,’ and it’s ‘unacceptable’ to cite just one source

By Times of Israel staff

June 3, 2017
11:31 pm

An Egyptian transport burning after a direct hit from an Israeli tank during the Six Day War, June 5, 1967. (David Rubinger/Government Press Office)

Report says Israel planned atomic detonation in Sinai if Six Day War went wrong

New York Times, quoting newly released interview, says the display of nuclear strength was a ‘doomsday’ scenario not needed after IDF victory

By Times of Israel staff

September 17, 2013
6:18 pm

A postal service employe walks next to columns of gas mask kits at a distribution center in Jerusalem, August 29, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

‘Should there be a need’: The inside story of Israel’s chemical and biological arsenal

What weapons does the Jewish state possess? Why did it seek them? And could Assad’s apparent capitulation prompt calls for a wider cleansing?

By Mitch Ginsburg

May 22, 2013
12:52 am

Beersheba shooter Itamar Alon. (photo credit: image capture from Channel 2)

Mother of bank killer defends son, mourns victims

Itamar Alon was ‘good, decent, honest,’ but ‘my pain right now is not for my son; it is for those families,’ says Hanna Alon

By Asher Zeiger

May 21, 2013
9:42 am

Security forces are seen in the Beersheba bank where Itamar Alon, 40, killed four people before taking his own life on Monday, on May 20, 2013. (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

One killer, four shattered families

Two bank employees, specifically targeted by the Beersheba gunman, lost their lives, as did two bystanders who were in the wrong place at the wrong time

By Gavriel Fiske and Times of Israel staff