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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a conference in memory of former IDF chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on December 25, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 25, 2019, 12:38 pm
IDF chief warns Israelis: The next war will hit our home front extremely hard
Top military commander vows Israel will block Iranian threats ‘even at risk of war,’ laments IDF is alone in fight against Tehran
By Judah Ari Gross
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, left, and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, right. (Yonatan Sindel/Isaac Harari/Flash90)
January 2, 2018, 2:00 pm
Army chief denies claim by ex-PM Barak that officers might refuse orders
Speaking at conference on IDF and society, Eisenkot says military has to work to maintain unity, encourage universal enlistment
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on January 2, 2018. (Adi Cohen Zedek)
January 2, 2018, 11:32 am
IDF chief: Calls for massive retaliation in Gaza are ‘irresponsible’
In wide-ranging speech, Gadi Eisenkot says Iran remains the main threat to Israel through Hezbollah and terror-funding throughout the Middle East
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinian members of the armed wing of the Hamas movement gather around a mock Israeli tank on January 31, 2016 in Gaza city during a gathering to pay tribute to Gazans who died in a tunnel collapse. (AFP / MAHMUD HAMS)
February 12, 2016, 11:06 pm
Israel said to have spent $250M trying to thwart Hamas tunnels
Finding cross-border tunnels a ‘central’ priority’ for IDF, TV report says, amid heightened concern over Gaza rulers’ capabilities
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference in memory of former chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on February 9, 2016. (Adi Cohen Zedek/IDC Herzliya)
February 9, 2016, 12:20 pm
Army chief hints at hidden efforts to counter Gazan tunnels
Eisenkot says some 100 engineering vehicles are sniffing out Hamas’s underground passages, notes terror group not directing West Bank violence
By Judah Ari Gross
Then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Navy ceremony on September 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
November 21, 2015, 11:15 pm
Survey shows Gantz preferred to Netanyahu as PM… except he can’t run
Where other challengers would fail, poll finds the ex-chief of staff would sweep into office. Problem is, the law says he has to wait 3 years
By ToI Staff
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz speaks at a conference in memory of Amnon Lipkin-Shahak at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on Feb. 1, 2015. (Photo credit: Avital Rehayev/ IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
February 1, 2015, 4:36 pm
IDF chief: No link between IS and Palestinian issue
Gantz says conflict with PA is a red herring, criticizes Abbas for turning to the international community
By Judah Ari Gross
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)
December 20, 2012, 5:13 pm
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
Lipkin-Shahak as a young captain in the 1960s (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Office)
December 20, 2012, 3:35 pm
Lipkin-Shahak remembered and construction dismembered
The press looks at the UN bashing of Israeli building in the West Bank, and says farewell to a chief of staff
By Ilan Ben Zion
Illustrative: Former IDF chiefs of staff (from left) Benny Gantz, Dan Halutz, Ehud Barak, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak and Shaul Mofaz in Tel Aviv, October 2011 (Meir Partush/Flash90)
December 20, 2012, 10:53 am
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
By Aaron Kalman and ToI Staff
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, died on Wednesday at age 68 (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)
December 19, 2012, 10:22 pm
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
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak in 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)
December 19, 2012, 12:11 pm
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
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak in 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)
December 18, 2012, 4:02 pm
Former IDF chief Lipkin-Shahak critically ill
Retired general previously recovered from bout of leukemia
By ToI Staff
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, died on Wednesday at age 68 (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)
August 14, 2012, 3:26 pm
Former army chief speaks out against Iran strike
US is far more capable of eliminating the Iranian threat, reasons Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, and there’s no imperative for action this autumn
By Stuart Winer
Meretz supporters wear masks depicting Shelly Yachimovich, Tzipi Livni and Yair Lapid, protesting their alleged willingness to join a Netanyahu government, December 17, 2012. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
May 4, 2012, 9:45 am
Back to two-party politics?
Unless a certain charismatic TV anchor defies precedent, the elections of 2012 – which nobody seems to want, but which are happening anyway – may mark a return to the traditional Likud vs. Labor race, albeit with Netanyahu firmly in the driving seat
By David Horovitz
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