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December 30, 2012
4:38 pm

Soldiers walk through the remains of a makeshift structure in the West Bank outpost of Oz Zion on Saturday, Dec. 29 (photo credit: Flash90)

The folly on the hill

Election rhetoric heats up following military clashes with right-wing extremists, and US lawmakers make last-ditch effort to avoid economic meltdown

By Ron Friedman

December 20, 2012
5:13 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during the funeral of former IDF chief of general staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv, December 20, 2012 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Lipkin-Shahak laid to rest amid outpouring of respect from politicians, top brass

‘He was a true hero,’ Netanyahu says of decorated general and minister who died Wednesday after a lengthy battle with cancer

By Adiv Sterman

December 20, 2012
10:53 am

Benny Gantz (left) and Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (2nd right), along with other former chiefs of staff in Tel Aviv, October 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)

IDF chief Gantz, in farewell note to Lipkin-Shahak, hails his predecessor’s ‘sobering sanity’

Army’s 15th chief of staff, who died of cancer on Wednesday, being laid to rest Thursday in Tel Aviv

December 19, 2012
10:22 pm

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, died on Wednesday at age 68 (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

The unflappable commander: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak’s battle in Beirut

Under fire in the Lebanese capital in 1973, with one man dead and another dying, the IDF chief who passed away on Wednesday nonetheless completed his mission — and won the second of ‘the medals they give you when something’s gone wrong’

By Mitch Ginsburg

December 19, 2012
12:11 pm

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak in 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Amnon Lipkin-Shahak dies in Jerusalem, aged 68

Politicians mourn passing of ‘rare amalgam of military and diplomatic courage,’ praise his contribution to Israel’s security and efforts to advance peace

By Mitch Ginsburg and Elie Leshem

December 18, 2012
4:02 pm

Former IDF chief Lipkin-Shahak critically ill

Retired general previously recovered from bout of leukemia

By Times of Israel staff

December 18, 2012
2:26 am

Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt Gen Benny Gantz meet with US Sen. Daniel K. Inouye in Jerusalem on January 8, 2012. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

US Sen. Daniel Inouye, supporter of Israel, dead at 88

Widely respected Hawaii Democrat visited Israel in January

By Times of Israel staff and AP

December 16, 2012
6:33 pm

Gadi Eizenkot. (photo credit: Moshe Sinai/Flash90)

Attorney general approves appointment of IDF deputy chief of staff

Yehuda Weinstein gives the go-ahead for Eizenkot despite pre-election timing

By Philip Podolsky and Joshua Davidovich

December 11, 2012
4:39 pm

A Chinese boy eats noodles in Beijing (Photo credit: Serge Attal/FLASH90)

Israel’s China challenge

The world’s second-largest economic power knows very little about Israel, although those who wish us ill have been telling it plenty. We should and can change that, and the sooner the better

By David Horovitz

December 10, 2012
3:27 pm

Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem to plead for the return of her diplomatic passport, which was taken away due to her participation in the 2012 flotilla to Gaza (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Defensive positions

Soldiers attack their commanders’ orders to stand down, and one MK may have to fight in order to run for the Knesset

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 10, 2012
9:23 am

Eizenkot snags army’s no. 2 spot

Also-ran in race for chief of staff to be given deputy position, possibly paving way for his ascendance when Gantz steps down

By Joshua Davidovich

December 6, 2012
10:20 pm

Defense Minister Ehud Barak, head of the Independence party, leads a party meeting in the Knesset in May (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Independence party opts not to run in upcoming elections

Ehud Barak’s party says it won’t waste public funds in futile race

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 3, 2012
7:02 pm

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

State comptroller wraps up report into alleged misconduct among military brass

Defense minister, former chief of staff given copies of investigation into so-called Harpaz affair

By Aaron Kalman

December 3, 2012
3:41 pm

Benny Begin with Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Knesset (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

The politics of petulance

Israel is moving to the right — unsurprisingly, given the threats on every front — but the Likud just took that shift to a whole new level. Electing a band of grandstanding populists, and announcing settlement plans as a kind of punishment to the Palestinians, won’t help Israel negotiate the treacherous new regional realities