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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 644

commission of inquiry

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
Bereaved families, hostages' families and survivors of the October 7 massacre react as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a 40-signatures debate in the Knesset, March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 3, 2025, 11:25 pm
Knesset guards violently prevent victims’ families from attending debate on Oct. 7 probe
Relatives of victims pushed, hit and dragged away, 3 need medical attention, before they are let into visitors’ gallery; Yarden Bibas urges PM to join him when he returns to kibbutz
By Sam Sokol and Lazar Berman
Yarden Bibas carries flowers at the funeral of his wife Shiri and sons Ariel and Kfir, near Kibbutz Nir Oz, February 26, 2025. (Eitan Uner/ Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
March 2, 2025, 11:27 pm
Yarden Bibas joins hundreds of families of Oct. 7 victims demanding state inquiry
1,500 survivors of captivity, families of hostages have signed on to ‘October Committee’ calling for highest-level independent probe of failures surrounding Hamas attack
By ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers walking next to buildings destroyed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, November 21, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 27, 2025, 11:45 pm
Bereaved parents, opposition MKs welcome IDF’s October 7 probes, urge state inquiry
Prime Minister’s Office complains military didn’t brief Netanyahu on probes into failures surrounding Hamas attack, but report indicates otherwise; Halevi acknowledges blame
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Likud MK Ariel Kallner speaks during a protest in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 26, 2025, 7:19 pm
Likud MK presents plan for alternate October 7 commission of inquiry
Unlike an apolitical state commission of inquiry, the members of Ariel Kallner’s proposed ‘egalitarian state commission of inquiry’ would be appointed by the Knesset
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on February 9, 2025. (GPO/Screenshot)
February 10, 2025, 10:33 am
At rowdy meeting, cabinet delays for 3 months decision on state inquiry into Gaza war
Netanyahu, ministers clash with attorney general, who supports setting up probe of Oct. 7 Hamas invasion; PM said to call Shin Bet chief ‘a bureaucrat,’ insist war not over yet
By ToI Staff
Lawmakers and ministers listen to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addresses the first plenum session of the Knesset’s winter 2024 legislative session, October 28, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
January 22, 2025, 6:39 pm
Coalition votes down legislation on state Oct. 7 probe, annexation of Jordan Valley
Ministers express support in principle for annexing part of West Bank but say the process must involve US, and call opposition bill supported by Otzma Yehudit ‘just trolling’
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, December 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 1, 2025, 5:05 am
1,000 people directly impacted by Oct. 7 sign letter urging state commission of inquiry
As Netanyahu government continues to oppose move, which polls show is backed by large majority, 4-page newspaper notice features call by ex-hostages, survivors, bereaved families
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Weapons and other equipment that the Israeli army says belonged to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, seized by the army during its ground operation in south Lebanon, are displayed for the media on December 23, 2024, in a northern Israeli military base. (Jack Guez/AFP)
December 25, 2024, 4:44 pm
IDF’s prewar complacency replaced by wariness on every front, proactivism where possible
Security chiefs mistrust Syria’s new rulers and don’t think Hezbollah is finished; assess Iran will seek the bomb but wait to see how Trump will act; favor a hostage deal, for moral and practical reasons
By David Horovitz
Relatives of some of those killed and taken hostage on October 7 at a hearing at the High Court of Justice for a petition calling for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry, Jerusalem, December 11, 2024 (Courtesy October Commission)
December 11, 2024, 4:10 pm
High Court hears petition for Oct. 7 state inquiry: ‘Most terrible failure ever here’
Bereaved father: ‘How can the government not want to know how children went dancing and did not return?’; brother of fallen soldier to court: ‘Don’t let them escape responsibility’
By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
December 5, 2024, 6:49 am
Attorney general says state commission needed urgently to probe October 7
In latest tussle with Netanyahu, Gali Baharav-Miara responds to petition demanding inquiry, saying panel would be ‘most appropriate legal tool’ to investigate massacre and war
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)
December 3, 2024, 4:17 am
Netanyahu: High Court has no right to order state commission of inquiry into Oct. 7
Responding to petitions demanding state commission, lawyer for PM asserts the court would ‘shred the principle of separation of powers’ if it ordered the government to set it up
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference at the Government Press Office in Jerusalem, September 4, 2024. (Abir Sultan/Pool via AP)
November 26, 2024, 9:09 pm
‘Arrogance and inherent blindness’: Civil probe slams Netanyahu for Oct. 7 failures
PM is ‘responsible for undermining all decision-making centers’ and breaking relationship ‘between the political and military echelons,’ independent commission of inquiry finds
By Sam Sokol
Gazans celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the broken Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Khan Younis, October 7, 2023. (AP/Yousef Masoud)
November 21, 2024, 5:26 am
Report: Netanyahu looking to ban formation of state committee of inquiry into Oct. 7
Draft legislation said to propose establishing political committee to probe Hamas atrocities, would outlaw any other body from investigating failures that led to devastating attack
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a plenum session at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 12, 2024, 7:45 pm
PM looking to establish probe to head off Oct. 7 commission of inquiry — report
‘The worst disaster we faced since Israel’s founding cannot end with a window-dressing committee,’ says former war cabinet minister Benny Gantz
By Sam Sokol
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