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Demonstrators gather with placards during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of hostages held captive since the October 7, 2023, attacks by Gazan Palestinian terrorists, outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, on April 5, 2025. (Hazem Bader / AFP)
April 14, 2025, 9:42 am
Ex-Mossad members, paratroopers, medics join call for hostage deal even if it ends war
3 former security service leaders join wave of statements started by pilots’ letter calling to prioritize captives over fighting: ‘Every day that passes puts their lives at risk’
By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton
Channel 13 defense reporter Or Heller testifying before an independent civilian commission investigating the events leading up to October 7, September 10, 2024. (Civilian Commission of Inquiry)
September 10, 2024, 8:04 pm
Witness: For years before Oct. 7, ‘PM told me he’d never order IDF to topple Hamas’
Channel 13’s Or Heller says PM told him alternative to Hamas was anarchy, ‘did not believe in any way in the possibility of military action to overthrow the Hamas regime’
By Sam Sokol
An election poster showing Blue and White party Benny Gantz, posted alongside the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
February 22, 2021, 12:52 pm
130 former top defense officials call on Gantz to pull out of election
Senior officers, security figures publish open letter to Blue and White chief, whose party is polling below Knesset threshold, urging him to avoid a waste of anti-Netanyahu votes
By ToI Staff
(L-R) New Hope candidates MK Tzvi Hauser, MK Yifat Shasha-Biton and Jerusalem council member Ofer Berkovitch present the party's slate for the March 2021 election to the Central Elections Committee, February 3, 2021. (New Hope)
February 4, 2021, 12:40 am
Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope files election slate, heavy with ex-Likud MKs
Party files a day before deadline ahead of March election, also in top 16 are a former Blue and White MK, and two Derech Eretz MKs
By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff
Yesh Atid, with MK Orna Barbivai at left, presents its candidates' list for the March 23, 2021 election to the Central Elections Committee, in the Knesset, February 3, 2021 (GPO)
February 3, 2021, 3:40 pm
Yesh Atid, Yamina, Blue and White file their election slates, ruling out mergers
A day ahead of the deadline, several prominent parties submit their lists of candidates for March 23 vote; some small parties drop out
By ToI Staff
Ex-Mossad chief Danny Yatom (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)
January 4, 2021, 11:13 am
Former Mossad chief to launch retirees political party
Danny Yatom, also a former Labor MK, begins process of registering party, which will focus on issues relating to senior citizens
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, at his office in Jerusalem, December 1, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
January 3, 2020, 10:32 am
Israeli lawmakers praise US for killing Iranian ‘arch-terrorist’ Soleimani
MKs from across political spectrum commend Trump for assassination seen as game changer for Jewish state, but MK in Arab-majority party denounces ‘American thuggery’
By ToI Staff
Mohammed Dahlan during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on January 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)
October 17, 2018, 10:02 pm
Abbas rival ‘hired Israeli mercenary to assassinate UAE’s enemies in Yemen’
Buzzfeed reports Mohammed Dahlan paid Israeli-Hungarian Abraham Golan’s firm to carry out assassinations in the war-torn country on behalf of the Gulf nation
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni at a faction meeting in the Knesset on January 16, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 23, 2018, 4:58 pm
Amid crisis in Russia ties, lawmakers urge greater US involvement in Syria
‘Netanyahu takes pride in his relationship with Putin, but the Russian leader is much less romantic,’ warns Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah
By ToI Staff
Ex-Mossad chief Danny Yatom (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)
May 2, 2018, 11:56 am
Ex-Mossad chief says Netanyahu’s show on Iran had ‘nothing new’
Danny Yatom, also a former Labor lawmaker, urges US not to leave nuclear deal and fix it instead
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Top row: Former Mossad chiefs from L to R: Danny Yatom, Tamir Pardo, Zvi Zamir, Shabtai Shavit, Nahum Admoni and Efraim Halevy. Bottom row: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin host a candle lighting ceremony for of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at the President's residence in Jerusalem on December 18, 2014. (Haim Zach / GPO)
March 28, 2018, 12:55 am
Ex-Mossad chief: Israel ‘dangerously sick’ under Netanyahu’s leadership
Five former spymasters say PM eroding country’s core values, decry ‘pervasive’ culture of corruption under his tenure
By ToI Staff
Moshe Ya'alon in the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 25, 2016, 7:26 pm
Ya’alon rips coalition chair for scorning security chiefs as ‘leftist’
Ousted defense minister says Likud MK David Bitan enabling ‘dangerous political attempts to destroy the security establishment’
By ToI Staff
Yuval Rabin visits the memorial to his father, slain Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Tel Aviv, October 22, 2014. (Flash90)
October 30, 2014, 4:06 pm
‘Bilateralism has failed, time to bring in the Arab world,’ says Rabin’s son
Abbas alone cannot sign a deal on the thorny issues, says Yuval Rabin, insisting his father always had a regional approach to peace
By Elhanan Miller
Former Mossad director Danny Yatom. (Photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)
May 11, 2014, 1:10 pm
Ex-Mossad chief calls Newsweek spy story ‘delusional’
Danny Yatom says Israel has more advanced methods than crawling through hotel air vents to snoop on vice presidents
By Spencer Ho and ToI Staff
The US Embassy in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: CC-BY Krokodyl, Wikimedia Commons)
October 30, 2013, 1:06 am
‘US has spying unit on roof of its Tel Aviv embassy’
Analyst tells Maariv he has detected similar structures in photographs of US embassies in Beijing, Dubai, Moscow and Madrid
By Spencer Ho
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