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Yair Golan, leader of The Democrats party and a former IDF deputy chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Netanya, Israel, August 27, 2026. (Gili Yaari/Flash90.)
September 1, 2026, 7:36 pm
Yair Golan warns Sara Netanyahu of $825,000 suit for airing Oct. 7 conspiracy theory
Democrats leader, who rescued multiple people from Nova festival, tells PM’s wife to donate to rave’s survivors and retract suggestion he had advance knowledge of Hamas onslaught
By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner
Left: Sara Netanyahu in a Channel 14 interview broadcast on August 31, 2026. Right: Yair Golan, October 14, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 14; Kan TV screenshot)
September 1, 2026, 6:49 am
Sara Netanyahu pushes conspiracy theory that left-wing leader Golan had advance knowledge of Oct. 7
Golan, former deputy chief of staff, dashed to fight at Nova after invasion; his party decries ‘slander’ that ‘crosses a red line bordering on insanity’; PM’s wife also avoids ruling out ‘treason’ by security chiefs, which her husband has dismissed
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu interviewed on the Channel 14 program "The Patriots" on June 30, 2026. (Screen capture)
July 1, 2026, 4:09 am
Asked how Hamas’s October 7 invasion and massacre changed him, Netanyahu jokes that he ‘lost a little weight’
Quip sparks outcry from political rivals; PM quickly moved on to a serious response, saying Hamas invasion also led him to see need for buffer zones beyond Israel’s borders and importance of a broad mobilization of reservists
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Demonstrators protest against the government at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, June 13, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 14, 2026, 5:15 am
Anti-government protesters pan bill for political Oct. 7 inquiry, said set for vote this week
Relative of slain hostage rails against Netanyahu’s ‘populist, fascist’ bid to avoid establishing state probe into failures that enable the Hamas attack
By Noam Lehmann, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a 40-signature debate at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, January 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 8, 2026, 4:07 pm
Saying others tied his hands, Netanyahu rewrites own role in allowing Hamas to fester
In response to state ombudsman, PM depicts himself as seeking Hamas’s demise while military leaders objected — a history-altering narrative he hopes will serve him as elections approach
By Michael Bachner
People attend a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, December 27, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 28, 2025, 12:31 am
Former police chief slams Netanyahu at rainy anti-government protest in Tel Aviv
Addressing ministers as new revelations emerge on Qatargate scandal, Roni Alsheich says: ‘How dare you sit in the cabinet eating bourekas without asking Netanyahu tough questions?’
By ToI Staff and Noam Lehmann
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the plenum hall of the Knesset, December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
December 22, 2025, 8:27 pm
Netanyahu: Politically appointed Oct 7 inquiry must probe Oslo deal, Gaza disengagement
Ministers lend government backing to a commission of inquiry whose members could be chosen by the coalition, not the Supreme Court president, as under existing law
By Jeremy Sharon, Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 22, 2025, 12:56 am
AG slams government’s ‘political’ Oct 7. inquiry: ‘Tailor-made for coalition’s needs’
Gali Baharav-Miara warns coalition’s plan would politicize the investigatory commission, undermine its independence and let those under scrutiny shape the probe
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman attends a rally in Jerusalem for the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, on February 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 24, 2025, 7:39 pm
More Likud ministers join panel to define mandate of coalition’s controversial Oct. 7 probe
Families of October 7 victims denounce government committee as a ‘cover-up,’ slamming ministers who oppose an independent inquiry into the Hamas-led atrocities
By Ariela Karmel
File: Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 18, 2025, 4:46 pm
Minister says Oct. 7 inquiry will probe ‘judicial system,’ those who ‘weakened deterrence’
Amichai Eliyahu says investigation will look at ‘those who imposed delusional moral rules on the IDF’; Lapid derides ‘one of the ministers Netanyahu has appointed to whitewash his blame’
By Sam Sokol
A candle bearing the portrait of 24-year-old Yulia Chaban, who was killed on the beach in Zikim during Hamas' October 7, 2023, attacks, is left inside a bomb shelter on the beach in the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Zikim, the closest Israeli beach to the Gaza Strip, on October 16, 2025. (Maya Levin / AFP)
November 18, 2025, 2:24 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 18: Day 774 – Can a governmental probe into Oct. 7 be independent?
Legal and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon compares the possible commissions of inquiry at the PM’s disposal and weighs in on the demolition of an ‘anarchist’ illegal settlement
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon
L-R: Yoram Yehudai, whose son Ron was killed at the Nova festival, in a video statement released on November 5, 2025. (Screenshot/October Council); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the graduation of an IDF officers' course, October 30, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)
November 5, 2025, 2:19 pm
Bereaved father interrupts PM’s court hearing with demand for state Oct. 7 inquiry
Yoram Yehudai, whose son Ron was killed at the Nova festival, says Netanyahu has refused to meet him, but he will ‘pursue’ premier until an impartial panel is established
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Oct. 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)
October 19, 2025, 12:16 pm
Government said working to appoint own Oct. 7 inquiry, angering bereaved families, opposition
Government commission would also examine ‘role’ of protest movement and High Court in Hamas invasion; critics, urging state commission, accuse Netanyahu’s coalition of seeking to investigate itself
By Jeremy Sharon
A Palestinian stands on an Israeli tank at the border fence near the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after some 3,000 Hamas terrorists burst through the border and entered Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people, October 7, 2023. (Yousef Mohammed/Flash90)
October 15, 2025, 8:17 pm
‘No real argument’ against need for state inquiry into Oct. 7, High Court tells government
Top court tells government to inform it within 30 days if it will establish a state commission of inquiry into devastating Hamas invasion; ‘everyone deserves the truth’ says NGO
By Jeremy Sharon
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich gestures toward a map of the West Bank during a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 12, 2025, 11:44 am
Smotrich: Israel delayed sending troops south on Oct. 7 for fear of Hezbollah attack
Contradicting IDF, finance minister says government thought Hamas invasion aimed to divert attention from northern border, declares ‘God did us a favor’ that day by alerting Israel to threat from Gaza
By ToI Staff
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