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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 526

Ami Ayalon

Head of the Otzma Yehudit party National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
August 29, 2023, 12:30 pm
Ben Gvir bars cops from ‘radical left’ Wexner Foundation leadership program
Alongside police, all National Security Ministry employees also prohibited from participating in vaunted fellowship that allows Israeli civil servants to study policy at Harvard
By Canaan Lidor
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (center), Justice Uzi Vogelman (left) and Justice Isaac Amit (right) at a hearing of the High Court of Justice on petitions against the appointment of Shas party leader Aryeh Deri as a minister due to his recent conviction for tax offenses, January 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 19, 2023, 8:05 pm
High Court sets September date to hear petition demanding Netanyahu ouster
September 12 hearing on alleged conflict of interest breach to be presided over by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, Justice Uzi Vogelman and Justice Isaac Amit
By ToI Staff
Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 8, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 21, 2023, 2:29 pm
Over 400 ex-Shin Bet agents urge Likud minister Dichter to abandon judicial overhaul
Security service veterans warn former agency chief, now agriculture minister, that legislation is ‘coup’ against democracy; among signatories, 3 other past leaders of organization
By ToI Staff
Arab Israelis protest rising violence, organized crime and recent killings in their communities, in the Arab town of Majd al-Krum in northern Israel. October 3, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)
October 3, 2021, 7:48 pm
Government move to enlist Shin Bet to fight rising crime splits Arab Israelis
As murders sweep Arab cities, state hopes to bring the secretive agency into the fight. Some worry about cost to civil liberties
By Aaron Boxerman
Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin speaks in Tel Aviv in 2012. (Tali Mayer/Flash90)
February 28, 2020, 6:12 am
Former Mossad, Shin Bet heads call Netanyahu ‘a danger’ who puts country at risk
In video, six ex-security chiefs say prime minister has lost right to lead country, uses sensitive classified information for personal gain
By ToI Staff
Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 1, 2018, 5:46 pm
Former Shin Bet chief pleads with president to not sign nation-state law
Ami Ayalon tells Rivlin his ‘hand will tremble’ if he moves to approve controversial legislation, warns it will deepen rifts between Israeli ‘tribes’
By ToI Staff
Retired IDF major general Amnon Reshef of the Commanders for Israel's Security group seen at press conference in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2015, where the group criticized the security and political conduct of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
January 15, 2017, 11:39 am
Advertising in Arabic, ex-generals urge separation from Palestinians
Group warns in full-page poster that lack of Palestinian state threatens Israel’s security and Jewish character
By ToI Staff
The West Bank settlement of Eli, north of Ramallah. (Akivapath/Wikipedia/CC BY 3.0)
September 5, 2016, 10:40 pm
Ex-security men urge referendum on fate of West Bank territories
Activist group led by Ami Aylon, Amram Mitzna issues plea to Netanyahu ahead of next year’s 50th Six Day War anniversary
By AP
An Israeli Navy ship during a major exercise held in the Red Sea off the coast of Eilat, March 2016. (IDF spokesperson)
September 2, 2016, 7:42 pm
Can Israel become a maritime power?
A commission of former Israeli and American navy admirals and policymakers is calling for the Jewish state to take a far greater role in securing and administering the Eastern Mediterranean, so the US doesn’t have to
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Moshe Ya'alon in the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 25, 2016, 7:26 pm
Ya’alon rips coalition chair for scorning security chiefs as ‘leftist’
Ousted defense minister says Likud MK David Bitan enabling ‘dangerous political attempts to destroy the security establishment’
By ToI Staff
Coalition Chairman MK David Bitan on January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 25, 2016, 2:12 pm
Coalition chair: Security chiefs ‘all become leftists’ on the job
Likud MK David Bitan says ‘there’s a problem’ with officials that lead Mossad, Shin Bet, as their positions take them left over time
By ToI Staff
Jordan's King Abdullah (left), pictured with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on a visit to Ramallah in November, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
June 4, 2016, 3:31 am
Ramallah fumes at Jordanian meddling in question of Abbas’s successor
Palestinian sources say Amman officials have met with several possible candidates to lead the Palestinians
By Avi Issacharoff
Pro-Palestinian activists bang on the windows of an Israel Society event featuring former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon at King's College, London on January 19, 2016 (screen capture: Facebook)
January 20, 2016, 7:23 pm
Pro-Palestinian activists riot as London university hosts ex-Shin Bet chief
Protesters set off fire alarms, hurl chairs as they try to break into King’s College Israel Society event featuring Ami Ayalon
By ToI Staff
Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 22, 2015, 3:10 pm
Ex-Shin Bet chief, -top cop support Breaking the Silence
Ami Ayalon and Elik Ron join other former defense officials backing controversial NGO’s efforts to highlight alleged IDF abuses
By ToI Staff
Palestinians carry the corpses of terrorists through the streets of Hebron during a massive funeral march in the West Bank, October 31, 2015. (Flash90)
November 3, 2015, 12:12 pm
Israel agonizes over the dirty business of terrorists’ corpses
Defense minister is resolved to return the bodies of Palestinian attackers to their families, despite objections from within the cabinet
By Judah Ari Gross
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