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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 535

IDF Spokesman

Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, the outgoing head of the IDF's international cooperation unit, during a handover ceremony on August 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 9, 2025, 8:44 pm
Former head of IDF’s foreign liaison unit named new military spokesman
Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin to replace Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari soon, after latter was passed over for promotion; appointment made by new IDF chief Zamir, approved by Defense Minister Katz
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari with a motorcycle in a Hamas command center underneath Gaza City's Rantisi Hospital, in a photo released by the military on November 13, 2023. Hagari said the IDF believes the motorcycle was used by Hamas terrorists to bring a hostage abducted from southern Israel to the basement center on October 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 8, 2025, 3:57 am
Hostages activist: IDF’s Hagari should be given a medal rather than shown the door
Gil Dickman, cousin of murdered captive Carmel Gat, relates how outgoing army spokesman went above and beyond his job to personally present family with information about her fate
By ToI Staff
IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari gives a statement to the media in Tel Aviv on October 16, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 7, 2025, 12:47 pm
IDF spokesman Hagari to retire from military, in move widely seen as dismissal
New IDF chief Zamir doesn’t promote popular wartime spokesman after his 2-year tenure; presumed Katz wouldn’t sign off on advancement; he had sought to be next defense attaché to US
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli soldiers during a raid in the village of Shuweika, near the West Bank town of Tulkarem on October 20, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90/File)
October 5, 2020, 9:27 pm
IDF says soldiers fire on Palestinians wielding Molotov cocktails, wounding one
According to the military, men threw firebombs at troops close to Einav checkpoint, east of Palestinian city of Tulkarem
By Aaron Boxerman
This picture taken on September 1, 2019, from a location near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, shows a fire blazing in a field along the border with Israel on the Lebanese side following an exchange of fire. (ALAA MAREY / AFP)
September 2, 2019, 6:38 am
No fatalities, mercifully, though truth is a casualty as the IDF fools Hezbollah
Why did the IDF come clean about faking an evacuation of ‘injured soldiers’ from an APC after a terror strike Sunday? And what else got obscured in the fog of near-war?
By David Horovitz
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, October 12, 2018 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 12, 2018, 9:49 pm
Nasrallah: Hezbollah ‘deliberately’ ambiguous on Israeli claims of missile sites
Terror group chief dismisses Netanyahu’s UN speech as a ‘farce,’ says he does not intend to provide ‘free information’ to the enemy on alleged precision missile facilities
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showing a diagram of what he said was Hezbollah terror group sites near Beirut during his address to the 73rd UN General Assembly in New York, September 27, 2018. (United Nations)
October 1, 2018, 10:30 pm
Netanyahu: Hezbollah ‘brazenly lying’ to world about weapons sites
Israeli PM says foreign ambassadors in Beirut went on ‘fraudulent propaganda tour’ hosted by Lebanese FM as terror group had 3 days to clear the area
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil gathers 73 foreign envoys and journalists at Al-Ahed stadium in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 1, 2018 during a tour he organized of alleged missile sites around the Lebanese capital's international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah movement has secret missile facilities there. (AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO)
October 1, 2018, 8:24 pm
Israel derides Lebanon for what it says is cover-up of Hezbollah missiles sites
As Beirut’s foreign minister leads foreign envoys on tour aimed at disproving Netanyahu’s allegations, IDF issues video noting you can hide a lot in three days
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative: IDF soldiers. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
June 25, 2016, 1:49 am
‘US group pays IDF to hold bar mitzvah parties at army bases’
Channel 2 report pulled after inaccurately stating that Connections Israel lets visitors fire weapons, drive vehicles on army bases
By ToI Staff
In this Monday, Aug. 11, 2014 file photo, Palestinian Ziad Rizk, sits with others in a shelter made of a blanket stretched over four poles next to one of the destroyed al-Nada Towers, where he lost his apartment and clothes shop, in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
From the WebAugust 21, 2014, 4:29 pm
Israeli strikes hit Gaza industries hard
Washington Post: Gazans charge israel targeted their factories; Israel says it hit rocket launching sites
An IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) Merkava tank drives near the Israeli border with Gaza on July 24, 2014. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 26, 2014, 7:16 pm
WATCH: IDF finds explosives-rigged home by Gaza school
IDF releases videos showing its ground forces operating against Hamas terrorists, infrastructure
By Itamar Sharon
Section of a tunnel discovered running from the Gaza Strip to Israel, October 13, 2013. (photo credit: Times of Israel/Mitch Ginsburg)
November 2, 2013, 1:32 pm
Israel allows Hamas to recover bodies from Gaza ‘terror tunnel’
Egyptian mediator coordinates collection of two slain members of terror organization, according to Arab press
By ToI Staff
Injured Israeli soldiers are taken into Soroka hospital in Beersheba on October 31, 2013. The IDF said five soldiers when an explosive device went off as troops were clearing a tunnel dug by Hamas from the Gaza Strip into Israel (Photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
November 1, 2013, 8:46 am
4 Hamas gunmen killed, 5 soldiers injured in clash at ‘terror tunnel’
One soldier in serious condition after device detonated during IDF mission to destroy tunnel; soldiers had been braced for kidnap attempts
By Yoel Goldman and Ricky Ben-David
October 10, 2013, 3:04 pm
IDF spokesman to step down Monday
Yoav Mordechai to be succeeded by former head of Civil Administration in West Bank
By ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz putting an Israeli flag on the grave of a soldier at Mount Herzl, April 10, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 12, 2013, 12:39 am
Gantz’s misplaced flag sparks controversy
Chief of staff skips grave of a non-Jewish soldier at annual ceremony on Mount Herzl; army says procedure will be changed
By Adiv Sterman
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