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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

Moshe Arens

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
The destruction caused by an Iraqi Scud missile that hit the 'Danny House' in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood in January 1991. (Bamahane/
January 18, 2018, 10:20 pm
‘We’re going to attack Iraq,’ Israel told the US. ‘Move your planes’
On 27th anniversary of Saddam’s 1991 Scud missile strikes at Israel, Defense Ministry releases interviews with senior officials on how close Israel came to bombing Baghdad
By Judah Ari Gross
Moshe Arens (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 6, 2016, 9:49 pm
6 immigrants to Israel awarded ‘Bonei Zion’ prize
English-speaking olim honored by Nefesh B’Nefesh for making a ‘major impact on the State of Israel’
By JTA
Shlomit Krigman, 23, died of her wounds a day after being stabbed in the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon on January 26, 2016. (Facebook)
January 26, 2016, 4:32 pm
Cold, rain and tragedy — but very little snow
Israelis wake up to learn one of the victims of the Beit Horon attack died and the promised flurries never came
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz briefs Israeli cabinet ministers during the conflict with Gaza, July 18, 2014 (Photo by Flash90)
June 2, 2015, 6:27 am
Can Netanyahu’s security cabinet rise above rubber stamp role?
Will the new forum of 10 top ministers be capable of defying the generals, resisting the PM, and ensuring Israel is steered effectively in war?
By Mitch Ginsburg
File: An F-35 taking off for its first night flight on January 18, 2012. (US Air Force/ Tom Reynolds)
April 19, 2015, 7:18 pm
Could Israeli F-35s turn the tables on Iranian S-300 missiles?
Purchase of the costly jets has provoked years of controversy. But with Russia now to deliver its air-defense system to Iran, the IAF’s chief acquisition officer stands firmly behind much-maligned aircraft
By Mitch Ginsburg
Meir Rosenne (photo credit: screen grab YouTube)
April 14, 2015, 10:24 pm
Meir Rosenne, former top diplomat, dies at 84
Romanian-born legal expert was ambassador to France and US, played key role in talks that led to peace treaty with Egypt
By Raphael Ahren
A military exhibition displays the Shahab-3 missile under a picture of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, in 2008. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
February 21, 2015, 6:43 pm
Would a nuclear Iran truly pose an existential threat to Israel?
Netanyahu fears a second Holocaust, but even top security officials say Tehran is unlikely to use a bomb if it had one. Yet the emboldening of the ayatollahs, and a likely regional arms race, are worrying enough
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: US president Ronald Reagan, left, and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, 1981. (photo credit: AP)
November 10, 2014, 5:41 am
Secret Begin-Reagan tapes highlight tense ties over Lebanon
Historian uncovers recordings from 1983 of PM declining a US request to delay an Israeli troop withdrawal
By Justin Jalil
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Chief Test Pilot Alan Norman briefs Israel’s Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon in the cockpit of an F-35 while IAF Brig. Gen. Ya’akov Shaharabani, IAF Air Attache to the United States, observes. (Photo credit: courtesy: Lockheed Martin/ Angel Delcueto)
October 29, 2014, 6:53 pm
Israel to buy second squadron of stealth F-35 jets
The deal, which will cost upwards of $3 billion, is a controversial purchase in the age of assymetric warfare
By Mitch Ginsburg
August 15, 2014, 1:46 am
The new US-Israeli quarrel. How bad is it, really?
The withholding of a missile shipment is nothing to worry about, an ex-defense minister says. Others call it a ‘very serious rupture’
By Raphael Ahren
Moshe Arens (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 25, 2014, 1:45 pm
Group backs former defense minister Arens for president
Newspaper ad urges support for Likud veteran, 88, who brought Netanyahu into politics and who has not declared an interest in the presidency
By Yifa Yaakov
A Palestinian youth prepares to throw a stone at Israeli policemen near Jerusalem's Lion Gate, October 2009 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 10, 2013, 12:55 pm
Israeli ex-officials pelted by stones in East Jerusalem
A bus carrying three former ministers and a Nobel Prize laureate was attacked on the Mount of Olives, with no injuries
By Elhanan Miller
Moshe Arens (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 5, 2013, 2:39 am
Former defense minister suffers mild heart attack
Moshe Arens transferred to hospital in stable condition after fainting in Tel Aviv
By ToI Staff
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