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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 528

Amir Peretz

The EROS C-3 satellite, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries, blasts off into space on board a Space X Falcon 9 rocket, Vandenberg Space Force Base, December 30, 2022. (Israel Aerospace Industries)
December 30, 2022, 4:42 pm
Israeli private satellite with state-of-the-art camera launched into orbit
Israel Aerospace Industries-built EROS C-3 satellite sent into space by SpaceX rocket, to be operated by private intel firm for ‘governmental and business applications’
By Michael Horovitz
File: An aerobatics team performs in the skies during the Bahrain International Airshow in Sakhir, Bahrain, January 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, file)
October 27, 2022, 4:19 pm
Israel to show off defense tech at Bahrain airshow; paratroopers make joint jump
Officials hail 2020’s Abraham Accords as enabling deeper ties between the countries
By Emanuel Fabian
Tal Kelman, left, head of the Strategic Division of the IDF Planning Directorate, meets with Belkhir El Farouk, Inspector General of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces in Rabat, March 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 25, 2022, 3:56 pm
Top IDF brass meet Morocco army chief in Rabat, agree on military cooperation
In 1st official visit, officer charged with Iran file, head of intelligence operations and international cooperation commander meet Belkhir El Farouk to discuss ‘mutual interests’
By Emanuel Fabian
Amir Peretz seen during a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 28, 2021, 3:14 pm
Cabinet okays Amir Peretz as IAI board chair over objections of vetting panel
Committee members questioned former Labor leader due to lack of experience, ties to defense minister, but ministers ignore their position; Labor, Meretz ministers abstain
By ToI Staff
Amir Peretz meets with Benny Gantz at the Knesset, on October 28, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 12, 2021, 1:26 am
Gantz said to weigh tapping Amir Peretz as IAI board chair
Former Labor party leader was instrumental in getting Iron Dome system approved during a stint as defense minister; move requires approval from Finance Minister Liberman
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin announces he is tasking Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid with forming a new government, during a speech at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, May 5, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)
May 10, 2021, 5:38 pm
Knesset vote for President Rivlin’s successor set for June 2
Secret ballot to take place just over a month before Rivlin’s seven-year term ends; candidates have until May 19 to collect signatures of at least 10 MKs
By ToI Staff
Economy Minister Amir Peretz in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 6, 2021, 10:21 am
Former Labor party chief Amir Peretz says he won’t run for president
Veteran politician, currently economy minister in interim government though not an MK, says he wants to dedicate more time to his family after 37 years in public service
By ToI Staff
Top row (L-R) Osnat Mark, Ayoub Kara, Gabi Ashkenazi, Avi Nissenkorn; 2nd row (L-R) Miki Haimovich, Assaf Zamir, Omer Yankelevich, Tehila Friedman; 3rd row (L-R) Moshe Ya'alon, Ofer Shelah, Gadeer Mreeh, Tzvi Hauser; Bottom row (L-R) Amir Peretz, Itzhik Shmuli, Yitzhak Cohen, Iman Khatib-Yasin
March 30, 2021, 12:43 pm
Renegades, rabble-rousers, TV anchors, army chiefs: The MKs who won’t be back
Dozens depart in latest election’s political culling — from longest-serving lawmaker to some of the briefest, as well as 3 women of 3 faiths who each made history in their own way
By ToI Staff
An election campaign billboard of Tnufa party leader Ofer Shelah, in Tel Aviv on January 17, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 3, 2021, 4:02 pm
After a year of political betrayals, mistrust puts party mergers on hold
Israel’s electoral system facilitates infidelity by letting blocs break up easily; with big parties unable to trust those hitching a ride, smaller factions may be left in the cold
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Economy Minister Amir Peretz in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 26, 2021, 10:32 pm
Former Labor leader Amir Peretz quits party to remain minister
Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli expected to follow; new party leader Merav Michaeli pulls faction from coalition, forcing choice between cabinet posts and party membership
By ToI Staff
Merav Michaeli, leader of the Labor Party (Courtesy)
January 26, 2021, 4:42 pm
Back from the brink? Merav Michaeli has two months to save the Labor Party
Labor’s dwindling membership decided this week it would rather be led, after all, by the one MK who didn’t break her promises. Now she has to win back a wider electorate… fast
By David Horovitz
Labor MK Merav Michaeli votes in the party primaries, January 24, 2020. (Courtesy)
January 24, 2021, 9:25 am
Labor to pick new leader as frontrunner Michaeli looks to renew struggling party
37,104 party members will choose between 7 candidates seeking leadership of the once-venerable political force that faces oblivion in March election
By Raoul Wootliff
Former prime minister Ehud Barak, during a media interview in Tel Aviv, September 30, 2019. (File: Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
January 18, 2021, 11:28 pm
Barak says he will not return to Labor, citing fractured left-wing field
Former PM rejects calls to rejoin his old party, says the political mergers that are a ‘necessary condition’ for a change in government unlikely to happen
By ToI Staff
Labor party leader Amir Peretz speaks in Tel Aviv, January 20, 2020. (Flash90)
January 13, 2021, 9:53 am
Labor chief Peretz says he won’t run for Knesset in March elections
Veteran pledges to ‘continue to work for Israeli public,’ after announcing last month he’d step down as leader having broken promise and taken Labor into Netanyahu’s coalition
By ToI Staff
Labor party head MK Amir Peretz and party member MK Merav Michaeli at a press conference with party members at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, following the announcement of the Trump peace plan, on January 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 3, 2021, 5:34 pm
In win for rebel MK Michaeli, court forces Labor to hold primaries
Left-wing lawmaker announces bid for leadership of embattled party after overturning leader Peretz’s decision to cancel internal vote
By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff
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