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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
UN commissioners Chris Sidoti, left, Navi Pillay, center, and Miloon Kothari, right, discuss their probe into Israel and the Palestinians at the United Nations in New York, October 27, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
September 16, 2025, 4:19 pm
UN panel claims genocide underway in Gaza; Israel blasts members as ‘Hamas proxies’
Commission of inquiry into Israel cites statements by officials, IDF’s ‘pattern of conduct’ as evidence of intent to ‘destroy Palestinians in Gaza’; barely mentions October 7
By Ariela Karmel, Agencies and ToI Staff
Navi Pillay (center), chair of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, briefs reporters on the first report of the Commission, June 14, 2022. On the right is Miloon Kothari, and at left is Chris Sidoti. (UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré)
August 26, 2025, 8:10 pm
UN inquiry on alleged Israel violence hampered by funding shortfall, document shows
Head of panel, who resigned last month, says it is unable to hire staff, won’t be able to present mandated reports to UN Human Rights Council in March 2026
By Reuters and ToI Staff
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 18, 2025, 5:07 pm
State comptroller looks to question Netanyahu and ex-defense chiefs on Oct. 7 failures
Matanyahu Englman demands full cooperation from PM, as well as Yoav Gallant, Ronen Bar and IDF leaders, though his wide-ranging probe lacks teeth of state commission of inquiry
By Stav Levaton
L to R: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the District Court in Tel Aviv, before the start of his testimony in the trial against him, March 12, 2025. (Tomer Appelbaum/POOL); Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 2, 2025, 12:01 pm
PM appoints Shin Bet deputy as interim chief, even as Bar’s firing remains frozen
Netanyahu’s office says he is continuing to interview candidates for the role, insists dismissed incumbent will be out of office by April 10
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
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