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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

Avigdor Kahalani

Former minister and army general Avigdor Kahalani gives an interview at his home in Tel Aviv on September 7, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
October 1, 2023, 6:49 am
Yom Kippur War was a needed ‘slap in face,’ says vet who helped reverse battle’s tide
Avigdor Kahalani recalls how unit he commanded in Golan Heights managed to halt the Syrian momentum after twin attacks by Egypt and Syria on October 6, 1973 caught Israel off guard
By Delphine Matthieussent
President Isaac Herzog and Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (center) pose for a photo with honorary consuls in the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Independence Day, April 26, 2023. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
April 26, 2023, 11:20 pm
Herzog tells foreign envoys mass protests and internal debate are a ‘mark of pride’
Hundreds rally outside president’s home in call for judicial compromise; torch-lighter Avigdor Kahalani: ‘Shut [negotiators] in a room and don’t let them out’ until deal is reached
By Amy Spiro
Maccabi Tel Aviv's former head coach David Blatt poses for photographers with the Israeli cup, European club champions cup and the Israeli club champions trophy after a news conference in Tel Aviv, Israel,Thursday, June 12, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)
April 17, 2023, 5:53 am
Basketball coach Blatt, ex-general Kahalani tapped to light Independence Day torches
After delay, minister names honorees chosen to ignite beacons at annual ceremony, including philanthropist Sylvan Adams, comedian Shalom Assayag and head of Duvdevan commando unit
By ToI Staff
Soldiers pose on top of a tank during the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War on October 6, 1973. (Avi Simhoni/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archives)
August 16, 2022, 1:18 pm
Ami Palant, war hero who stopped Syrian advance during Yom Kippur War, dies at 71
He served as a company commander in the 7th Armored Brigade under Avigdor Kahalani, and as director general of the Public Security Ministry after the war
By Tobias Siegal
Israel Defense Forces veteran Brig. Gen. (res.) Avigdor Kahalani with Ichilov hospital staff as he is released after battling a bacterial infection, September 2, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)
September 2, 2021, 3:22 pm
Famed IDF ex-general Kahalani discharged from hospital after serious infection
‘I came in resembling a dead person, and now I’m alive,’ says decorated war hero, who was also a Knesset member and minister, leaving Ichilov hospital
By ToI Staff
Avigdor Kahalani speaks at the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism ceremony in Jerusalem, May 29, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 18, 2021, 11:52 am
Famed IDF veteran Avigdor Kahalani in serious condition with bacterial infection
Ichilov hospital says no danger to life of decorated war hero who was also a Knesset member and minister
By ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, July 13, 2016 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
December 13, 2016, 9:31 pm
IDF chief slams ‘ignorant’ criticism of mixed-gender units
Eisenkot says famed general Kahalani’s claim that ‘role of a woman is to be a mother’ is ‘inappropriate, uncharacteristic’ of Israeli army
By Tamar Pileggi and Judah Ari Gross
Avigdor "Yanush" Ben-Gal in a Channel 1 interview in 2014 (YouTube screen grab)
February 13, 2016, 9:44 pm
Yom Kippur War hero Avigdor Ben-Gal dies at 80
General commanded defense of Golan Heights against overwhelming odds, led IDF’s Northern Command, helped plan Entebbe rescue
By ToI Staff
The Valley of Tears (Emek Habaha), where Israel stopped the Syrians in 1973 Yom Kippur War. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 22, 2015, 11:00 pm
A Valley of Tears where Israel stopped Syria in 1973
A site in the Golan Heights memorializes the fallen members of the 77th Brigade, who fought a decisive battle in the Yom Kippur War
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Photo collage. Left, tank battle from the Yom Kippur War (US Government/Wikimedia Commons). Right, dead Federal soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg (Timothy O'Sullivan/Wikimedia Commons). (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
September 22, 2015, 4:33 pm
A Yom Kippur battle through the lens of the US Civil War
In new book ‘From Gettysburg to Golan,’ a former IDF officer finds the parallels between Israeli and Union tactics in the 1973 war and the American conflict
By Judah Ari Gross
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