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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exits a submarine during a visit to the military port of Haifa on November 17, 2009. (GPO)
October 21, 2026, 2:39 pm
Netanyahu, other officials summoned to testify in state inquiry over submarine affair
Former Mossad head Yossi Cohen, ex-defense chief Moshe Yaalon among those summoned under warning; IDF chief Zamir, ex-president Rivlin also to give testimony, but not as suspects
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a press conference in Jerusalem, March 19, 2026. (Ronen Zvulun, Pool Photo via AP)
October 5, 2026, 2:07 pm
The cost of Netanyahu’s consistent evasion of responsibility is paid in lives
From the 2021 Mount Meron disaster to October 7 and the flydubai hijacking attempt, the prime minister repeatedly ignores warnings and shifts the blame to others, with fatal consequences
By Tal Schneider
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) chats with her foreign policy adviser Christoph Heusgen before the opening session of the North Atlantic Council during the NATO Summit on May 20, 2012, at McCormick Place in Chicago. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
July 11, 2025, 10:33 am
Report: PM tried to get Merkel adviser fired 13 years ago over pro-Palestinian demands
Christoph Heusgen reportedly sought to condition submarine deal on settlement freeze, Palestinian state; Netanyahu confidant Dermer, acting on orders, said to have demanded his sacking
By ToI Staff
Hostage family members speak to the media after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, December 8, 2024. (Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
December 12, 2024, 1:32 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 12: Day 433 – US security adviser arrives for renewed hostage talks
US bureau chief Jacob Magid and political correspondent Tal Schneider discuss the latest round of negotiations, Israel in the Syrian buffer zone, and the PM’s second day on the stand
By Jessica Steinberg, Jacob Magid and Tal Schneider
Residents in the Israeli Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights celebrate on December 9, 2024, after Islamist-led rebels declared that they had taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
December 11, 2024, 1:37 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 11: Day 432 – ToI reports from a Druze village on Syria’s border
Reporter Diana Bletter on the complicated identities of Israeli-born Druze as they hope to see loved ones in Syria soon; legal reporter Jeremy Sharon on the PM’s first day at court
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jeremy Sharon and Diana Bletter
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives to begin his testimony at the district court in his long-running corruption trial, in Tel Aviv, December 10, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / POOL / AFP)
December 10, 2024, 2:29 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 10: Day 431 – Decrying ‘witch hunt,’ PM begins to testify in trial
Editor David Horovitz on the allegations Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing and his goals in taking the stand; how the PM frames the IDF’s defensive actions in Syria
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz
Former Keren Hayesod chair and government minister Eliezer (Modi) Zandberg on July 21, 2004. (Flash90)
October 3, 2022, 6:31 pm
Former Keren Hayesod chair, an ex-minister, convicted in ‘submarine affair’
In plea bargain, Eliezer Zandberg found guilty of breach of trust for having received over NIS 100,000 from shipbuilder’s representative while serving as fundraising group’s head
By Jeremy Sharon
Avriel Bar Yosef, arrested in the submarine affair also known as Case 3000 appears at a court hearing in the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on July 24, 2017. (Flash90)
September 20, 2022, 4:52 am
Police reportedly installed cameras at home of key witness in submarine affair
In an unusual move, officers placed surveillance devices inside Avriel Bar Yosef’s house while he was behind bars, report says
By ToI Staff
Activists call for the opening of a committee of inquiry in the so-called submarine affair, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 15, 2022, 6:00 pm
Hearings in submarine affair probe to be open to public, despite state’s request
Knesset committee rejects government’s request for confidentiality, but allows for certain specific discussions to remain behind closed doors
By ToI Staff
Former Supreme Court president Asher Grunis (Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)
February 20, 2022, 5:22 pm
Former Supreme Court chief Grunis to head state probe of ‘submarine affair’
Expanded commission of inquiry approved last month by the cabinet; Netanyahu expected to be called as chief witness
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli Navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 24, 2022, 10:12 am
Netanyahu expected to be called as central witness in state probe of submarine deal
The five members of the government-backed commission of inquiry will need to have no ties to the scandal-ridden procurement deal from a German shipbuilder
By ToI Staff
Foreign Affairs Minister Yair Lapid walks through a protest supporting the establishment of a committee of inquiry into the submarine affair, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 23, 2022, 5:50 pm
Cabinet votes to establish state inquiry into submarine affair
Committee will evaluate decision-making by political echelon surrounding sensitive procurement, in case that has already snared several close associates of Netanyahu
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside a court hearing on the submarine affair, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, January 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 23, 2022, 12:44 pm
Gantz proposes larger team to probe submarine affair, with ‘public representative’
Defense minister says decision to expand committee to five members from original three, ahead of Sunday’s vote, came after discussion with top legal officials
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a press conference in Tel Aviv, January 11, 2022; Israelis protest against then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside a court hearing on the so-called submarine affair, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, January 25, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton; Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 22, 2022, 11:36 pm
Bennett to abstain on vote for state inquiry into murky submarine deal — reports
Right-wing ministers Shaked, Elkin said expected to vote against commission’s formation; Defense Minister Gantz says probe a ‘national need,’ not political
By ToI Staff
Defense Ministry Director-General Amir Eshel, right, and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Rolf Wirtz sign an agreement for Israel's purchase of three submarines at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, January 20, 2022. (Defense Ministry)
January 20, 2022, 12:39 pm
Israel signs scandal-ridden €3 billion deal with Germany to buy new submarines
Agreement will see three new vessels delivered to Israeli Navy, includes reciprocal contract for German shipbuilder to make €850 million in purchases from Israel
By ToI Staff
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