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Former prime minister Ehud Olmert attends a celebration at Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan in northern Israel on March 31, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 1, 2018, 12:41 pm
Ehud Olmert takes no prisoners in conspiratorial and unrepentant memoir
Ex-PM rips into rivals, and insists, at remorseless length, he's the victim of a plot encompassing right-wing 'extremists,' the media, US Jewish money, and the entire legal system
By Marissa Newman
Tzipi Livni and Ehud Olmert at a cabinet meeting in 2007 (photo credit: Flash90)
March 24, 2018, 10:28 pm
Livni: Ehud Olmert ‘unfit’ to return to politics
Zionist Union MK, who served under subsequently jailed prime minister, says Israel must be led by 'untarnished people'
By TOI staff
Ehud Olmert, right, and Ehud Barak in the Knesset on March 30, 2009. Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 23, 2018, 5:09 am
Decade after clandestine Syria strike, revelation sparks a war for credit
Former leaders snipe at each other over who said what in lead-up to Israel's bombing of Assad's nuclear facility in 2007, while ex-spies blame each other for failing to spot danger
By Judah Ari Gross
Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo speaks at a conference in memory of his predecessor as head of the spy agency, Meir Dagan, on March 21, 2018. (Tamir Bergig)
March 22, 2018, 12:09 pm
Reactor strike gives way to radioactive reactions: 9 things to know for March 22
With the Syria attack 'secret' out of the box, officials seek credit and point fingers, creating such a toxic atmosphere some wish the news had stayed under wraps
By Joshua Davidovich
This image released by Netflix shows Kevin Spacey in a scene from 'House Of Cards.' (David Giesbrecht/Netflix via AP)
March 21, 2018, 8:28 pm
Barak says Olmert was ‘never really prime minister,’ likens him to Kevin Spacey
Olmert 'played the role very well,' just like Spacey 'played the president exceptionally well' in House of Cards, says Barak. 'That didn't make him president'
By TOI staff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset, March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 21, 2018, 6:29 pm
Defense minister regrets releasing details of attack on Syrian nuclear reactor
Liberman condemns public spat between former military intelligence and Mossad chiefs over who uncovered intel on reactor
By Stuart Winer
Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo speaks at a conference in memory of his predecessor as head of the spy agency, Meir Dagan, on March 21, 2018. (Tamir Bergig)
March 21, 2018, 1:50 pm
Ex-Mossad chief: Only ‘luck’ corrected ‘intelligence failure’ on Syria
Tamir Pardo queries Israel's decision, 10 years after blowing up Assad's nuclear reactor, to confirm responsibility for the strike
By Judah Ari Gross
The pilot of an F-15I fighter jet, from the Israeli Air Force's 69th Squadron, gets into his airplane ahead of an operation to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor on September 5, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2018, 5:01 am
Three minutes over Syria: How Israel destroyed Assad’s nuclear reactor
Israel only wised up to Damascus's bid for nukes after it found Gaddafi had managed to run a similar program covertly. Armed with the facts, Olmert had to decide whether to strike
By Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv
A pilot and navigator from the Israeli Air Force's 253rd Squadron prepare for an operation to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor on September 5, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2018, 5:00 am
Ending a decade of silence, Israel confirms it blew up Assad’s nuclear reactor
Announcement about 2007’s ‘Operation Orchard' sure to remind Iran what happened to last country with atomic ambitions, though real reason for divulging now may be more humdrum
By Judah Ari Gross
Israel's Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 24, 2018, 6:14 pm
Opposition chief: Netanyahu must resign if questioned as suspect in subs probe
Police reportedly set to take testimony soon from PM in Case 3000; Avi Gabbay says corruption in multi-billion dollar deal with Germany could directly harm Israeli security
By TOI staff
Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at a conference for the Darkenu organization in Rishon Lezion on August 17, 2016. (Neri Lider)
February 24, 2018, 11:58 am
Netanyahu would lose if elections were held today, Barak says
Former Israeli leader predicts the 'chapter called Benjamin Netanyahu is over' amid PM's rising legal troubles
By TOI staff
A mural in Gaza City in 2012 shows (left) Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, killed by Israel in a March 2004 missile strike, and PLO chief Yasser Arafat, who died of a mysterious illness in November of the same year (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)
January 26, 2018, 9:46 am
How Israel’s leaders use targeted killings to try to ‘stop history’
Ronen Bergman, author of 'Rise and Kill First,' a revelatory history of Israeli strikes on individual enemies, dissects his discoveries and their often discomfiting implications
By David Horovitz
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, left, and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, right. (Yonatan Sindel/Isaac Harari/Flash90)
January 2, 2018, 2:00 pm
Army chief denies claim by ex-PM Barak that officers might refuse orders
Speaking at conference on IDF and society, Eisenkot says military has to work to maintain unity, encourage universal enlistment
By Judah Ari Gross
Coalition chairman Likud party MK David Bitan leaving the Lahav 433 national crime unit of the Israel Police on December 10, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
December 19, 2017, 11:40 am
Israel is turning into a Mafia State
Widespread endemic corruption is destroying the values and solidarity upon which this country was established
By Eliad Shraga
Composite photo (from left): Ehud Barak, Avi Gabbay, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair Lapid, Moshe Ya'alon (All pictures: Flash90)
December 4, 2017, 4:26 pm
If Netanyahu is so corrupt and dangerous, why don’t rivals unite to defeat him?
Lapid, Gabbay, Barak and Ya'alon all insist the PM must go, urgently, for Israel's sake. Their refusal to put egos aside for the greater cause rather undermines their credibility
By David Horovitz
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