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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Lior Lotan

File: Families of Abera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed hold a press conference calling for the release of the two Israeli citizens from Hamas captivity, on September 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
January 3, 2023, 6:09 pm
Comptroller slams undefined role of Israeli negotiator for release of Gaza captives
Matanyahu Englman says PMO never detailed post’s responsibilities, has only ‘minimal’ information about work done; captive’s relative says meeting had been ‘void of content’
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF soldiers Oron Shaul (left) and Hadar Goldin (right) (Flash90)
September 8, 2018, 12:02 am
Ex-Israeli negotiator: We shouldn’t have ended 2014 war without soldiers’ return
Lior Lotan says he quit his position in 2017 because cabinet did not accept his proposals for advancing talks with Hamas
By ToI Staff
Manal al-Sayed holds up a picture of her son Hisham, held captive in Gaza by the Hamas terrorist group, in 2016. (Yoav Lemmer/AFP)
October 23, 2017, 2:01 am
Unlike slain soldiers, Israeli civilians missing in Gaza largely overlooked
4 Israelis are known to have illicitly crossed into Strip in the past 3 years, yet race, mental illness and complexities of the situation keep the issue on the back burner
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Ronen Zvulun)
October 22, 2017, 2:22 pm
New negotiator for Israelis held in Gaza is right man for job, Netanyahu says
After announcing appointment of Yaron Blum, PM says Israel has a ‘moral and human duty’ to return missing citizens
By ToI Staff
Former Shin Bet official Yaron Blum speaks in a Channel 10 interview on September 15, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)
October 21, 2017, 8:43 pm
PM appoints new chief negotiator for release of Israelis held in Gaza
Shin Bet veteran Yaron Blum to coordinate Israeli efforts to bring back three civilians, remains of two fallen IDF soldiers
By ToI Staff
Parents of late Israeli soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin speak with the press at the protest tent outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on June 29, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 8, 2017, 5:03 pm
Parents of fallen soldier held by Hamas demand negotiator
Relatives of Oron Shaul threaten to go to High Court unless new envoy appointed, say government treating them with ‘contempt’
By Alexander Fulbright
Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attends the opening of a new mosque in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on February 24, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
September 29, 2017, 10:40 am
Hamas says it okayed new Egyptian proposal for prisoner swap with Israel
Gaza leader claims the terror group is awaiting Jerusalem’s response to the offer
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump's peace envoy Jason Greenblatt (L) tours a Hamas terror tunnel near the Gaza Strip with Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories Yoav Mordechai, on August 30, 2017. (COGAT Spokesperson's Office)
August 30, 2017, 7:00 pm
US envoy calls on Hamas to return soldiers’ bodies, prisoners
During tour of Gaza border area, Jason Greenblatt condemns terror group for its ‘commitment to terrorist violence’
By Alexander Fulbright
Left to right: Oron Shaul, Hadar Goldin and Avraham Mengistu. (Flash90/The Times of Israel)
August 29, 2017, 1:24 pm
Hamas official denies his group has upped demands in prisoner-swap talks
Israeli security establishment split over whether restricting privileges of inmates from Gaza could spark a new round of violence
By Avi Issacharoff
Lior Lotan speaking to Channel 2 television in 2011. (screen capture:Channel 2)
August 28, 2017, 12:35 pm
Israel should kidnap enemy fighters to use in prisoner swaps – negotiator
Lior Lotan, who was in charge of efforts to return IDF soldiers’ bodies held by Hamas, says in recording he wants to play ‘with a full hand’ in talks
By Alexander Fulbright
Simha (R) and Leah Goldin, whose during a press conference responding to statements by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman rejecting the possibility of a deal to return the remains of their son Hadar Goldin, killed during the 2014 Gaza War, from Gaza, August 27, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 2)
August 27, 2017, 7:05 pm
Father of fallen soldier held in Gaza blasts ‘weak’ Liberman
Simha Goldin calls defense minister ‘cowardly’ for failing to pressure Hamas to return bodies of his son and Oron Shaul
By Raoul Wootliff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset on July 10, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 27, 2017, 12:25 pm
Liberman: Israel won’t release terrorists in any prisoner swap
After resignation of official overseeing efforts to return captured Israelis from Gaza, defense minister says Israel needs ‘clear boundaries’ in negotiations with Hamas
By Alexander Fulbright
Left to right: Oron Shaul, Hadar Goldin and Avraham Mengistu. (Flash90/The Times of Israel)
August 25, 2017, 12:57 am
Official leading efforts to return captive Israelis in Gaza quits
Retired IDF colonel Lior Lotan steps down from role; family of slain soldier Hadar Goldin says Netanyahu has ‘forsaken’ them
By Raoul Wootliff
Former president Shimon Peres in the 'cleanroom' fabrication facility in Intel's Kiryat Gat facility (Sivan Faraj)
September 14, 2016, 4:57 pm
Heroes get remembered even before they die
Shimon Peres is still alive, but the massive stroke that all but put the elder statesmen on his deathbed gives one paper a chance to start on the eulogies early
By Joshua Davidovich
Left to right: Oron Shaul, Hadar Goldin and Avraham Mengistu. (Flash90/The Times of Israel)
September 14, 2016, 9:54 am
Hamas denies rejecting Israeli prisoner exchange offer
Following Israeli negotiator’s claim that it turned down swap proposal, official in terror group says Israel just trying to ‘calm anger’ of dead soldiers’ families
By Sue Surkes
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