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Brigadier General (res.) Itai Brun speaks to Channel 12 news, November 16, 2024 (Channel 12 screenshot)
November 17, 2024, 1:15 am
Ex-IDF intel analysis chief: Replacing people won’t fix Oct. 7 strategic intel failure
Inability to recognize what Hamas was planning showed multi-year failure of culture and approach, says Itai Brun; even after massacre, intel didn’t internalize Iran-led axis believed it could destroy Israel
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (left), and then-Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot when Eisenkot learned he had won the appointment to head the Israel Defense Forces, November 27, 2014. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)
December 11, 2015, 6:43 am
New phase in Syria war brings Israeli disputes to light
Which is greater threat, Islamic State or Shiite axis? Defense Minister Ya’alon seems to be sending different message from IDF chief
By Mitch Ginsburg
US President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office, July 25, 2014. (photo credit: Pete Souza/White House)
April 9, 2015, 2:10 pm
How I learned to stop loving Obama and worry about the bomb
The Times of Israel’s military correspondent takes stock, six years after writing a heartfelt letter in support of the presidential candidacy of a young senator from Illinois
By Mitch Ginsburg
Illustrative photo: This image, from a video posted on September 18, 2013, shows Syrians in protective suits and gas masks conducting a drill on how to treat casualties of a chemical weapons attack, in Aleppo, Syria. (AP)
September 18, 2014, 8:19 pm
Syria still has many chemical weapons — Israeli official
Assad regime has stashed many of its WMD and could cause ‘very serious’ damage in war-torn region, official tells Reuters
By ToI Staff
Syrian opposition commander Sharif As-Safouri confesses to collaborating with Israel (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)
August 13, 2014, 3:42 pm
Syrian rebel commander says he collaborated with Israel
Sharif as-Safouri, abducted by Al-Nusra Front in July, confesses to receiving antitank weapons in return for protecting the border
By Elhanan Miller
Hamas security forces in Gaza City stand guard as employees paid by the Palestinian Authority wait to receive their salaries outside a closed bank, on Thursday, June 5, 2014. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
June 14, 2014, 5:18 am
Even after unity deal, Hamas still runs failing Gaza
The Islamist group, with hundreds of missiles pointed at Tel Aviv, continues to flex its muscle against Abbas
By Avi Issacharoff
Turkish President Abdullah Gul (R) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speak during a press conference at the presidential palace in Ankara, on June 9, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN)
June 10, 2014, 7:44 pm
Iran head says he will ‘do best’ to secure nuclear deal
US, Tehran begin second day of talks as July 20 deadline approaches; Washington warns of ‘tough choices’
By AFP
Presidential candidate Reuven Rivlin walks past the ballot box with former candidate Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, during Israel's presidential vote in the Knesset, June 10, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 10, 2014, 1:25 pm
Prez dispenser
MKs vote on the next president, with candidates offering their best and most predictable ‘pick me’ arguments to a disenfranchised (and somewhat disgusted) public
By Joshua Davidovich
Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research and analysis division, at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee hearing at the Knesset in 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
June 9, 2014, 8:28 pm
80% of Syria rebels are Islamist, senior IDF officer says
Military Intelligence research chief says Iran abiding by interim nuclear deal but hasn’t abandoned nuke drive
By Elhanan Miller
YouTube footage posted April 16 purporting to show victims of a poison gas attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 17, 2014, 12:42 am
In footage, rebels claim new Assad chemical attack
YouTube video purportedly shows victims of latest poison gas strike near Damascus
By Lazar Berman
Syrian rebel fighters in gas masks against a chemical weapons attack, 2013. (screen capture: Youtube/MrMrAsi)
April 7, 2014, 6:28 pm
Assad using chemical weapons again, Israeli official says
Source claims nonlethal agent used last week in two attacks around Damascus
By Stuart Winer
Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research and analysis division, at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee hearing at the Knesset in 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
September 14, 2013, 10:43 pm
Israel: We’ve been ‘absolutely certain’ for months Assad using nerve gas
Army’s top intelligence analyst, in rare interview, also says it is ‘extremely unlikely’ Israel could be taken by surprise as it was in the 1973 war
By ToI Staff and Mitch Ginsburg
A victim of an alleged chemical weapons attack is treated by doctors in Aleppo, Syria, in March (photo credit: AP/SANA)
September 3, 2013, 8:40 pm
Syrian opposition alleges chemical attack in Aleppo
Man who defected to Turkey claims to have ‘hard proof’ regime carried out gas assault on rebels on March 19; IDF said the same five months ago
By Adiv Sterman
Syrian rebel fighters in gas masks against a chemical weapons attack, 2013. (screen capture: Youtube/MrMrAsi)
From the WebJune 16, 2013, 3:58 pm
Israel and US said to be coordinating how to foil Assad
Time: Jerusalem is working with Washington behind the scenes to keep the Syrian threat from crossing the border
An Israeli leaving a gas mask distribution center in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Flash 90/ Yonantan Sindel)
May 27, 2013, 4:37 pm
Demand for gas masks up by 30 percent
Sharp rise comes in the wake of reported Israeli airstrikes on Syria and subsequent retaliation threats from Damascus
By Mitch Ginsburg
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