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Kfir fighter jet

Handout picture released by Colombian Air Force showing Kfir combat airplane from the Colombian Air Force and a F15 jet (L) of the US Air Force during a military exercise in Puerto Salgar, Colombia, on September 8, 2023. (Handout / Colombian Air Force / AFP)
April 4, 2025, 7:51 pm
Colombia, which cut ties with Israel, to replace aging Israeli fighter jets with Swedish
Bogota says maintaining Kfir aircraft too complicated after severing relations with Jerusalem last year, though previous governments had also planned to replace them
By AP and ToI Staff
Kfir aircraft of the Colombian Air Force overfly a Colombian flag during a ceremony commemorating Colombia's Independence Day in Bogota on July 20, 2021. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP)
May 3, 2024, 11:46 am
How cutting ties with Israel could hamstring Colombia’s military, ground Air Force
Jerusalem is sole provider of maintenance to Colombia’s aging fleet of Israeli-made Kfir fighter jets, and a key supplier of other arms, cyber security; trade will also be harmed
By ASTRID SUAREZ
Colombian President Gustavo Petro attends a swearing-in ceremony for the newly appointed attorney general at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
March 26, 2024, 8:07 pm
Israel slams Colombian president as a ‘disgrace’ after he threatens to cut off ties
Pro-Palestinian leader Gustavo Petro says measure will be taken if Israel doesn’t implement UN Security Council ceasefire demand; FM says Israel won’t give into threats
By AP and Lazar Berman
Former defense minister Moshe Arens, in his home in Savyon, on July 28, 2016 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 8, 2019, 5:28 pm
Thousands mourn ‘great leader’ as 3-time defense minister Moshe Arens buried
Netanyahu says he feels as though he has ‘lost a father,’ Rivlin remembers the Likud stalwart as an ideologue and ‘a man in service of the people’
By ToI Staff
Then-defense minister Moshe Arens, center, meets with then-deputy IDF chief of staff Maj. Gen. Ehud Barak and then-head of the southern command Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Mordechai in 1991. (Ofer Lafler/Israel Defense Forces/Defense Ministry's IDF Archive)
January 7, 2019, 10:37 am
Moshe Arens, former defense minister and envoy to Washington, dead at 93
‘I loved you as a son loves a father,’ says Netanyahu of his mentor, a founding member of Likud credited with shepherding advances in Israel’s military capabilities
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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