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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

Eliezer Toledano

Maj. Gen. Eliezer Toledano, then chief of the IDF Southern Command, speaks to reporters, June 13, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 8, 2024, 4:23 am
Report: Top IDF general advised preemptive strike against Hamas, year before Oct. 7
In November 2022 , then-chief of Southern Command presented three-step plan to cripple terror group, amid warnings it was planning attack like the one it eventually carried out
By ToI Staff
L-R: Incoming commander of the IDF Southern Command Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, IDF chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, and outgoing head of the Southern Command Maj. Gen. Eliezer Toledano, at the unit's base in Beersheba, July 9, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
July 9, 2023, 1:12 pm
IDF chief Halevi says reservists ‘don’t have the right’ to refuse to show up for duty
With renewed threats by reserve soldiers over judicial overhaul, military chief says IDF must remain ready amid heightened tensions across region
By Emanuel Fabian
Brig. Gen. Ofer Winter attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, on October 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 3, 2023, 3:43 pm
Contentious general once again left out of new IDF promotions
Military announces shuffle in General Staff, with Southern Command chief taking over Iran affairs; Ofer Winter said expected to quit after being snubbed again
By Emanuel Fabian
An IDF soldier seen silhouetted as he is walking through the fields near his army base, in Beersheba, southern Israel, March 31, 2014 (Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90)
October 24, 2022, 11:41 am
IDF official says lax security led to theft of 30,000 bullets from base
In burglary compared to ‘military operation,’ thieves broke into armory, stole ammunition from Sde Teiman base without being noticed
By Michael Horovitz
Border Police officer Barel Shmueli who was critically wounded in a shooting on the Gaza border, on August 21, 2021. He died of his injuries on August 30. (Border Police)
August 24, 2021, 6:53 pm
Sister of soldier shot on Gaza border criticizes politicization of incident
Parents of Barel Shmueli, who remains in critical condition, tell general to resign over incident as he visits hospital: ‘Take off the uniform’
By ToI Staff
In this May 19, 2021, photo, an Israeli artillery unit fires shells toward targets in Gaza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
June 3, 2021, 7:12 pm
Top IDF general says last month’s Gaza battle was only ‘first stage’ of campaign
Head of Southern Command acknowledges difficulties in dealing with rocket attacks after thousands were fired at Israeli home front, says this is army’s top priority
By Judah Ari Gross
A soldier from the Israeli military's Home Front Command walks outside a house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon that had been struck by a Hamas rocket on May 20, 2021. (Edi Israel/FLASH90)
May 23, 2021, 7:16 am
‘Guardian of the Walls’ wasn’t the resounding victory the IDF had hoped for
Though it had clear successes on the tunnel front and elsewhere, the military failed to prevent terror groups in Gaza from firing over 4,000 rockets and mortar shells at Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
Hamas military commander Muhammad Deif (courtesy)
May 19, 2021, 12:00 am
IDF twice tried, failed to kill Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif last week
Israel still said gunning for the elusive terror leader, whom Israeli security forces had previously attempted to kill at least five times, leaving him nearly paralyzed
By Judah Ari Gross
Islamist Hamas terror group leader Yihya Sinwar shouts slogans and flashes the victory gesture as he takes part in a protest near the border with Israel east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018. (AFP/ Mohammed ABED)
May 17, 2021, 5:30 am
Top IDF general says Hamas chiefs Deif and Sinwar ‘remain in Israel’s sights’
Southern Command chief hails intelligence that allows IDF to target Hamas’s underground tunnels; rejects criticism of civilian fatalities, saying Hamas uses Gazans as human shields
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Benny Gantz, center, surveys the northern border with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, right, in northern Israel on June 2, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 2, 2020, 8:25 pm
Gantz tours north, hears threats assessment from IDF, meets local mayors
Defense minister makes first visit to Northern Command, discusses Iranian presence in Syria, gets updates on Lebanon from top brass
By Judah Ari Gross
Defense Minister Benny Gantz, center, meets with soldiers from the 202nd Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade on the Gaza border on May 26, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
May 26, 2020, 8:11 pm
Touring Gaza border amid lull, Gantz said to warn tensions will remain for years
Hours after rocket sirens ring out in false alarm, defense minister meets with top IDF officers, local mayors on first work trip since taking up post
By Judah Ari Gross
Then-Givati Brigade commander Col. Ofer Winter, left, speaks to then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, right, during the 2014 Gaza war on August 2, 2014. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 2, 2019, 7:50 am
General snubbed by previous IDF chief gets long-sought promotion
Ofer Winter, who was accused of subjecting his soldiers to religious coercion during 2014 Gaza War, named next head of Central Command’s 98th Division
By Judah Ari Gross
An Israeli tank drives near the Israel Gaza border, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
November 14, 2018, 8:41 pm
Shaky truce appears to hold, but IDF to keep Gaza reinforcements on border
Eisenkot orders troops to remain on high alert, meets with senior officers from Southern Command after quiet returns to south following two days of intense fighting
By Judah Ari Gross
Residents from the south and activists from the right-wing Im Tirtzu organization block trucks entering Gaza through the Kerem Shalom Crossing, October 29, 2018 (Im Tirtzu)
November 11, 2018, 9:47 am
Southern residents block Gaza cargo crossing in protest of violence
Heavy traffic reported as activists demonstrate over Friday infiltration, in which a Palestinian set fire to a greenhouse in a border community
By ToI Staff
Brig. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, right, Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the head of the IDF Southern Command, center, and Brig. Gen. Eliezer Toledano at a ceremony to install the latter as the new head of the IDF's Gaza Division, October 24, 2018. (IDF Spokesperson)
October 24, 2018, 3:27 pm
Outgoing Gaza Division chief: Hamas in control of Gaza border violence
Southern Command head says terror group that rules the territory is ‘deterred,’ but still looking for a way to attack Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
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