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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

National Security Adviser

Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout image cleared for publication on May 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 29, 2024, 8:41 pm
Top Israeli official says fighting in Gaza likely to last at least another 7 months
National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi says battle in Rafah is ‘not for no reason,’ points to need to take control of Philadelphi Route along Strip’s border with Egypt
By ToI Staff
Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva speaks at the annual conference of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy (ICT) at Reichman University in Herzliya on September 13, 2022. (Gilad Kavalerchik)
October 17, 2023, 6:53 pm
IDF intel chief says he ‘bears full responsibility’ for not warning of Hamas attack
Maj. Gen Aharon Haliva admits ‘intelligence failure’ in not alerting to coming assault; national security adviser says country’s leaders, past and present, failed
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Yossi Cohen, then the national security adviser, is seen in a committee meeting at the Knesset on December 8, 2015, sitting behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 11, 2023, 10:42 pm
Former Mossad chief, ex-national security aides urge compromise on judicial shakeup
Group of former advisers, including close confidante of Netanyahu Yossi Cohen, warn social and political divides are ‘endangering national resilience’ and call for dialogue
By ToI Staff
Tzachi Hanegbi attends a Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Kedem, in the West Bank, on September 5, 2019. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)
December 27, 2022, 10:10 pm
Netanyahu taps veteran Iran hawk Tzachi Hanegbi to lead National Security Council
Longtime ally and former minister recently said incoming PM would strike Islamic Republic if US failed to stop Tehran’s nuclear program
By Lazar Berman
National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata speaks during the IISS Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Manama on November 21, 2021. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)
July 15, 2022, 5:59 pm
National security adviser says Israel not afraid to differ with US on Iran
After Biden meeting, Hulata says ‘Israel will act as it sees fit,’ and has done ‘quite a lot in Iran over past year’; on potential peace with Saudi Arabia: Israel’s ‘working on it’
By ToI Staff
National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat delivers a statement upon his arrival at the Bahraini International Airport on October 18, 2020. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)
July 1, 2021, 12:01 am
National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat announces he’s stepping down
NSC head will leave position at end of August; PM Bennett thanks Netanyahu appointee for ‘many years of contributing to Israel’s security in a professional and successful manner’
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Mossad head Yossi Cohen during a toast for the Jewish new year on October 2, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO/File)
March 11, 2021, 10:31 am
For promotion, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen pledged loyalty to Netanyahus — report
Testimony by Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan to police said to reveal Cohen urged him to lobby premier to give him the national security adviser job in 2013
By ToI Staff
US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 13, 2020. (courtesy US Embassy)
December 13, 2020, 6:37 pm
If unstopped, Iran will become ‘global bully,’ Netanyahu tells top Trump aide
Visiting Jerusalem, US National Security Adviser O’Brien says Israel’s Morocco normalization deal even more remarkable than other agreements with Arab states
By Raphael Ahren
In this July 30, 2019, file photo, Robert O'Brien, then-US Special Envoy Ambassador, arrives at the district court where U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky is to appear on charges of assault, in Stockholm, Sweden. (Erik Simander/TT via AP)
September 18, 2019, 5:35 pm
Trump names new US national security adviser after Bolton’s ouster
Appointment of Robert C. O’Brien, special presidential envoy for hostage affairs at the State Department, announced on Twitter
By AP and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump attends a ceremony in observance of the 18th anniversary of the September 11th attacks at the Pentagon in Washington, September 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
September 12, 2019, 12:00 am
After Bolton ouster, five vie to be Trump’s fourth national security adviser
US president doesn’t offer any names, explains that while he ‘got along very well’ with his ex-national security adviser, the hawkish diplomat also made some ‘very big mistakes’
By Deb Riechmann and Zeke Miller
Russian Federation Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 1, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
June 2, 2019, 9:54 am
Israel, US to suggest legitimizing Assad if Russia curbs Iran in Syria – report
Arabic newspaper quotes Western diplomats on proposal regarding Syrian leader at upcoming meeting in Jerusalem of US, Israeli, Russian national security advisers
By ToI Staff
US National Security Adviser John Bolton, left, is greeted by Russian Security Council chairman Nikolai Patrushev in Moscow, Russia, October 22, 2018. (Press Service of the Russian Security Council via AP)
May 30, 2019, 1:45 am
Jerusalem to host ‘unprecedented’ Israel-Russian-US security summit
US National Security Advisor John Bolton and Russian counterpart Nikolay Patrushev expected to discuss Syria, Iran with Meir Ben-Shabbat next month
By Raphael Ahren
PLO official Hanan Ashrawi (Ahmad Gharabli/Flash90)
March 23, 2018, 3:19 pm
Palestinians slam Trump national security adviser pick John Bolton
Hanan Ashrawi says appointment shows US administration has joined ‘with extremist Zionists, fundamentalist Christians and white racists’
By AFP
Former deputy national security adviser Chuck Freilich. (Courtesy)
March 13, 2018, 4:01 am
Israel’s as secure as it’s ever been but that can change quickly, new book warns
Former deputy national security adviser Chuck Freilich talks about his new work, ‘Israeli National Security,’ and his grim but hopeful vision of the future
By Judah Ari Gross
Safra Catz, co-chief executive officer of Oracle, arrives at Trump Tower in New York City on December 14, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
March 2, 2018, 7:17 pm
Israel-born Oracle CEO said to be contender to replace McMaster
Report naming Safra Catz as a leading choice for next national security adviser comes amid speculation about incumbent’s future
By ToI Staff
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