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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 494

Moti Almoz

Equipment is handed out to members of the IDF's new David Division, in a photo issued by the IDF on December 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 17, 2024, 5:58 pm
IDF announces new light infantry division based on volunteer reservists
New David Division to be tasked with defense of the Jordan border or West Bank barrier; members will keep weapons at home, be able to respond to sudden events in their area
By Emanuel Fabian
Family, friends and Israeli soldiers attend the funeral of Cpl. Lihu Ben-Bassa who was killed in a plane crash in southern Israel, in the military cemetery in Rishon Lezion on November 25, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 3, 2021, 4:54 pm
Suicides down in IDF in 2020, but remain leading cause of death for troops
28 soldiers died over the past year — the second lowest number in Israel’s history — but only one in an attack
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Soldiers of the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion study at the Peles Military Base, in the northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
February 20, 2020, 5:35 pm
IDF admits egregious failure to accurately tally ultra-Orthodox recruits
Senior officers, including Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz, censured for their role in the years-long inflating of Haredi enlistment numbers
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at an award ceremony at a military base north of Tel Aviv on December 16, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 16, 2019, 9:49 pm
IDF head promises reckoning over misreported Haredi draft figures
Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi vows to learn and improve from scandal in which numbers were seemingly inflated; warns Iran entrenching deeper in Syria and Lebanon
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Soldiers of the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion study at the Peles Military Base, in the northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
December 4, 2019, 10:39 pm
IDF officer says was pressed ‘to fix the numbers’ on ultra-Orthodox enlistment
Officer in Manpower Directorate tells Israeli TV that pressure to meet conscription targets came from higher-ups; general denies inflated figures result of ‘malicious intentions’
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
Gil Messing, who was tapped to take over as IDF spokesperson, in an undated photograph. (Sigal Naftali Kessel/Israel Defense Forces)
April 29, 2019, 10:29 pm
In shift, army taps new spokesman from business world, a former aide to Livni
Gil Messing, currently at tech firm Check Point, has scant military experience compared to predecessors; Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis’s tenure to end in coming months
By Judah Ari Gross
Members of the LGBT community and supporters participate in a demonstration against a Knesset bill amendment denying surrogacy for gay men, in Jerusalem on July 22, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 22, 2018, 6:08 pm
IDF bars soldiers from participating in ‘political’ LGBT protests
But head of manpower directorate says soldiers won’t be punished for joining nationwide strike protesting exclusion of gay men from new surrogacy law
By ToI Staff
A male soldier from the co-ed Caracal Battalion applies camoflage paint to a female soldier's face before an exercise in 2011. (Ori Shifrin/Israel Defense Forces/Flickr)
December 13, 2017, 3:12 pm
Female politicians fume, rabbis rejoice as IDF updates its gender policies
Few substantive changes are made to Joint Service Order, but softened language, subtle tweaks seen as reinforcing separation of men, women
By Judah Ari Gross
Moti Almoz (Abir Sultan/Flash90)
May 19, 2017, 5:18 pm
Ultra-Orthodox protesters compare top IDF official to Hitler, army service to Auschwitz
Police launch probe into extremists’ actions; chief-of-staff expresses ‘revulsion’; defense minister calls behavior ‘intolerable’
By ToI Staff
IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis enters his new position during a ceremony at the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on May 18, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
May 18, 2017, 7:01 pm
Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis appointed new army spokesperson
Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz finishes term, will now focus solely on running IDF’s Manpower Directorate
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF troops filmed by a Palestinian activist with the left-wing B'Tselem human rights organization in February 2017. (Screen capture: B'Tselem)
May 10, 2017, 8:16 pm
IDF accuses B’Tselem of ‘manufacturing’ conflicts
On Facebook, spokesman Moti Almoz defends army officer who appeared in a video published by the left-wing group
By Judah Ari Gross
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri speaks at a Shas party conference in Jerusalem on February 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 9, 2017, 4:30 pm
Interior minister praises ‘brave’ rabbi who called female IDF troops ‘crazy’
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri hails Yigal Levinstein for not being afraid ‘to say the truth’ about women soldiers
By Alexander Fulbright
IDF Spokesperson Moti Almoz speaks to the press on June 15, 2014. (Flash90)
March 9, 2017, 2:10 pm
After rabbi chides ‘crazy’ female soldiers, IDF says army is ‘for everyone’
Yigal Levinstein, who said women who do military service end up as ‘non-Jews,’ apologizes for ‘style’ but not content of his remarks
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria, who shot dead a disarmed and injured Palestinian attacker in the West Bank city of Hebron in March 2016, is surrounded by family and friends as he awaits to hear his sentence in a courtroom at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on February 21, 2017 (Jim Hollander/POOL)
February 22, 2017, 4:55 pm
Elor Azaria was sentenced, but the army was the one on trial
Unlike guilty verdict, which focused on the Kfir Brigade soldier’s actions, Tuesday’s sentencing was more about the IDF’s failures
By Judah Ari Gross
From left, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, outgoing IDF Spokesperson Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz and incoming spokesperson Col. Ronen Manelis in an undated photograph. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
February 7, 2017, 10:40 am
Eisenkot aide named new army spokesman
Col. Ronen Manelis, currently assistant to IDF chief, set to take over for Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz as military flack
By Judah Ari Gross
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