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Avi Gil

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (L), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Maj. Gen. Avi Gil during the hostage rescue in southern Gaza's Rafah, February 12, 2024 (Shin Bet)
March 2, 2025, 6:04 am
Netanyahu’s office admits staff didn’t pass on alert hours before Oct. 7 attack
Confirming a report about IDF sending out a document detailing unusual Hamas activity, premier’s office defends intelligence officer’s conduct as the info was framed as non-urgent
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
February 23, 2025, 2:28 pm
Netanyahu ignored Shin Bet chief’s bid to kill Sinwar days before Oct. 7 – report
PMO denies Channel 12 report; Ronen Bar was reportedly suspicious of Hamas behavior hours before onslaught began, but became convinced terrorists were preparing to repel an Israeli strike
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from right) attends a security briefing during an IDF operation in Jenin on July 3, 2023. At left, is IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, and next to him is Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet is at center. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
December 13, 2024, 5:18 am
Report: Weeks before Oct. 7, Shin Bet and IDF chiefs warned Netanyahu of looming attack
TV probe says Bar and Halevi told PM, who was hospitalized after having pacemaker fitted, that Israel’s foes saw overhaul tensions as chance to strike; PM’s office: ‘Slander and lies’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with then-cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman during the weekly government meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 17, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
November 13, 2024, 8:25 am
Netanyahu’s chief of staff reportedly to be questioned over blackmail allegations
Police said seeking to lift gag order in relation to accusation that Tzachi Braverman sought to pressure IDF official to change minutes of meetings linked to October 7 attack
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2024. (Yariv Katz / Pool)
July 13, 2024, 5:27 pm
Reports: PM working to prevent accurate transcription of his wartime discussions
Public broadcaster says premier has been holding sensitive talks on WhatsApp so they’re not recorded, after news site reports on concerns that minutes of meetings are being altered
By ToI Staff
Screenshot from IDF footage of an airstrike on a Gaza apartment in which Tayseer Jabari, the commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in northern Gaza, was killed, August 5, 2022. (IDF)
August 10, 2022, 1:21 pm
Some ministers say they were kept in dark about strike that kicked off Gaza fighting
PM’s office insists Lapid’s military secretary updated security cabinet members before operation to kill PIJ commander, but some say they were told ‘absolutely nothing’
By ToI Staff
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has a briefing on the Israel-Gaza conflict with Prime Minister Yair Lapid, August 7, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)
August 7, 2022, 12:48 pm
Netanyahu attends 1st security briefing with Lapid, gives ‘full backing’ to Gaza op
Former prime minister says he ‘listened carefully’ and offered advice during consultation, after refusing for over a year to meet with PMs Bennett and Lapid
By ToI Staff
A composite image of Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yair Lapid during their respective Likud and Yesh Atid faction meetings at the Knesset, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 6, 2022, 7:52 pm
As Gaza fighting rages, Netanyahu to attend first security briefing with PM Lapid
Former prime minister refused for over a year to meet with leaders whose legitimacy he questioned
By ToI Staff
Government Military Secretary Avi Gil (right) poses for a selfie with NSO spokesman Oded Hershkovitz at a New Year's party in Tel Aviv. (Channel 12 screenshot)
January 5, 2022, 2:13 am
Government military secretary spotted partying with NSO executives
Military secretary Avi Gil criticized over large, unmasked New Year’s gathering, where he was seen alongside NSO CEO Shalev Hulio and the underfire spyware company’s spokesman
By Tal Schneider
Then-Defense Minister Naftali Bennett (L) speaks with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (R) and Brig. Gen. Avi Gil, head of Northern Command's 36th Division, in the Golan Heights on December 18, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
July 12, 2021, 10:07 am
Bennett names Avi Gil as his military secretary
In return to previous practice, Gil to be promoted to major general in order to receive his new position, will replace Brig. Gen. Avi Blot
By Judah Ari Gross
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