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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Ariel Sharon

President Isaac Herzog attends the Ashmoret conference in Tel Aviv, January 24, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 25, 2023, 10:36 am
Herzog must threaten to resign as the government begins to enact a judicial overhaul
The president warned that Israelis are facing a struggle ‘that could consume us all’; with the Netanyahu coalition determined to remake the country, he will have to take a stand
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Israeli troops in Lebanon, 1982. (Michael Zarfati / IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
June 19, 2022, 9:04 am
40 years after the First Lebanon War, Israel’s wounds still aren’t healed
As country ponders complex legacy of 1982’s Operation Peace for Galilee, the fear of getting stuck in hostile territory and the distrust of leaders remain
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 2, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)
March 20, 2022, 4:24 am
Bennett to visit India next month to mark 30 years of diplomatic ties
Prime minister to meet with Indian leader Narendra Modi as the two nations seek to expand on increasingly close relations, will also meet local Jewish community
By ToI Staff
US Secretary of State Colin Powell (left) meets with Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon on February 25, 2001. (Shauli Shem-Tov/Flash90)
October 18, 2021, 6:39 pm
Colin Powell dead at 84: An Israel admirer, he pushed for compromises for peace
Former US secretary of state who brokered ‘road map’ to Mideast peace, which still informs much of US policy in region, was also 1st military chief to speak Yiddish as 2nd language
By JTA and ToI Staff
Efraim Halevy, the ninth director of the Mossad intelligence agency, on January 27, 2015. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
September 11, 2021, 3:35 pm
Mossad spy chief on 9/11: We realized rules for fighting terror had to change
Efraim Halevy was meeting the PM when the news came in: ‘Sharon told me something has happened. You should be in your office’
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in Humsa al-Fouqa on Thursday, February 4, 2021 (Credit: WAFA/Suleiman Abu Srur)
July 7, 2021, 7:13 pm
Israel again tears down contested Palestinian hamlet in Jordan Valley
Courts have ruled that Khirbet Humsa, thrice demolished by authorities in recent months, was built illegally in an Israeli military firing zone
By Aaron Boxerman
Then-IDF chief of staff David Elazar visits the Egyptian front during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, as seen in footage released from the IDF archives on October 6, 2020. (Defense Ministry)
October 6, 2020, 4:07 pm
47 years on, Defense Ministry releases color footage of Yom Kippur War
Soldiers on the Suez, actor Chaim Topol visiting troops, top brass visiting the Egyptian front among scenes in high-quality video released from military archives for first time
By Judah Ari Gross
An Israeli police officer at the scene of a public bus bombing in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Wednesday, March 5, 2003. A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up aboard the crowded bus, killing at least 17 people and injuring dozens. (Ronen Lidor/ Flash90)
October 2, 2020, 12:54 pm
Twenty years since the Al-Aqsa Intifada, what do Palestinians hope for now
Optimism generated by the Oslo Accords has long since given way to grave pessimism regarding the possibility of ever resolving the conflict
By Avi Issacharoff
Soldiers wait as Jewish settlers in Neve Dekalim are escorted from their houses in the Gaza Strip on August 18, 2005, the morning of the Gaza pullout, the event written about in Daniella Levy's 2020 book 'Disengagement.' (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 1, 2020, 9:32 am
A reluctant settler examines the Gaza disengagement in her fiction
Daniella Levy, an immigrant from the US, eyes the Jewish settlements, the traumatic 2005 pullout, and the meaning of home in a multi-narrative new novel, ‘Disengagement’
By Jessica Steinberg
Co-authors David Makovsky (far left) and Ambassador Dennis Ross, with Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz at the National Library of Israel, January 6, 2020. (Udi Alfassi/Tranquilo Productions)
January 7, 2020, 3:45 pm
Israel is on precipice of losing option of two-state solution, say US advisers
Authors ambassador Dennis Ross and David Makovsky warn that Israel is nearing the point of no return with Palestinians, in a live interview with ToI editor David Horovitz
By ToI Staff
Justice Minister Amir Ohana delivers a statement to the press, at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, on October 29, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 30, 2019, 11:16 am
Justice minister rant on ‘biased’ prosecution seems partly taken from Wikipedia
In citing example of 2003 AG probe into leaked information from police investigation, Amir Ohana’s speech appears to repeat online encyclopedia almost verbatim
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a memorial ceremony to mark the 22nd anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Ronen Zvulun/ File)
October 8, 2019, 10:37 am
Is Israel past the age of heroic leaders?
In a new book, Dennis Ross and David Makovsky recall iconic moments of Israeli decision-making… and ask if Israelis still have what it takes to separate from the Palestinians
By Haviv Rettig Gur
An Israeli cannon artillery cannon opens fire from the Sinai Peninsula during the Yom Kippur War, on October 6, 1973. (Avraham Vered/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archive)
October 7, 2019, 4:21 pm
Fearing shortages, Dayan mulled drafting young, old in 1973 war, papers show
Defense Ministry declassifies an intel report from the day before the Yom Kippur War, transcripts from IDF General Staff meetings, and a phone call that relieved a general of duty
By Judah Ari Gross
Ariel Sharon. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
September 5, 2019, 3:44 pm
What Israel still needs to learn from Ariel Sharon
He was a hawk who put the needs of the state above his own politics, even when that led him to withdraw from Gaza
By Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
In this November 6, 2018, file photo, Sen. Amy Klobuchar waves to supporters after winning re-election during the Democratic election night party in St. Paul, Minnsota (AP Photo/Hannah Foslien
February 7, 2019, 2:41 am
5 Jewish things about 2020 presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar
The Minnesota Congresswoman has a strong bipartisan history, is close to her state’s small Jewish community, and was one of the few Democrats to vote for the anti-BDS bill
By Ron Kampeas
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