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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

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Former state attorney Moshe Lador attends a conference at the Knesset on December 11, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 14, 2024, 8:47 pm
Ex-state attorney: Air Force reservists should stop flying if judicial overhaul revived
Lador argues refusal is ‘legitimate tool’ against attempts to turn Israel into a ‘dictatorship’; president, lawmakers decry rhetoric; PM, justice minister want him investigated
By ToI Staff, Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon
IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar speaks at a graduation ceremony for pilots, June 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 28, 2024, 5:54 am
Air force chief says IDF ready to face Hezbollah in north, Hamas nearly defeated in Gaza
Tomer Bar notes fatigue given length of fighting, but says Israel has the patience and spirit to battle Hezbollah; IDF head: Allowing evacuees to return home safely our main goal
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Settlements Minister Orit Strock arrives to a government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
December 31, 2023, 8:21 pm
Outrage as far-right minister suggests some pilots refusing air support for Gaza troops
Settlements Minister Orit Strock widely reported to ask at cabinet if some in Air Force are failing to carry out their duties for ideological reasons
By ToI Staff
Aerial footage of the site in South Brunswick, New Jersey of the helicopter crash in which an Israeli pilot was killed, Aug. 31, 2023. (X screenshot)
September 1, 2023, 10:55 am
Israeli pilot killed in helicopter crash in New Jersey
Police say there were no other victims from the crash in South Brunswick; efforts being made to return pilot’s body to Israel
By ToI Staff
Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli speaks at the AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv, on June 14, 2023 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 20, 2023, 1:10 pm
Minister calls for probe into Air Force chief’s handling of unrest in the ranks
Amichai Chikli says Tomer Bar has mismanaged reservists’ refusal to serve over the government’s judicial overhaul, noting that other division ‘have no such phenomena’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Fighter jets from the IAF's second F-35 squadron, the Lions of the South, fly over southern Israel. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 14, 2023, 8:18 am
Netanyahu said refusing to halt overhaul push: We can do ‘without a few squadrons’
PM rails against threats by reservists to stop showing up for duty if government pushes ahead with controversial legislation; veterans say he is endangering national security
By ToI Staff
An El Al plane after takeoff from Ben Gurion Airport. September 7, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
May 8, 2023, 3:04 pm
El Al to rebuke pilot who compared Israel to Nazi Germany in in-flight message
In message to passengers on Holocaust Remembrance day, Captain Doron Ginzburg warned judicial overhaul plan could lead to a dictatorship and bring about ‘things like the Holocaust’
By ToI Staff
An El Al plane after takeoff from Ben Gurion Airport. September 7, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
April 18, 2023, 4:22 pm
El Al pilot under fire for preflight message tying judicial overhaul to Holocaust
Before takeoff on Holocaust Memorial Day, captain says atrocities take place ‘in a dictatorship, and we’re fighting to remain a democracy’; he later apologizes
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative: IDF reservists patrolling along the Lebanese border near the Israeli village of Zar'it. (Roy Sharon/Flash90)
March 8, 2023, 9:40 am
No longer willing to carry the burden: Reservist protest hints at deeper crisis
The IDF is deeply worried that refusal to serve over judicial overhaul will spread. Such threats have been made before, but this time feels different
By Haviv Rettig Gur
FILE: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the graduation ceremony of new Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim Air Force base, December 31, 2015 (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
March 6, 2023, 1:37 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 6: Will Netanyahu be swayed by pushback from reservists?
ToI editor David Horovitz and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discuss opposition in the IDF to judicial reform and growing criticism from Israel’s allies
By ToI Staff
El Al workers seen at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, on March 1, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)
May 6, 2022, 1:00 am
Work dispute forces El Al to cancel participation in Independence Day flyover
Mechanics leave posts, accuse pilots of canceling several commercial flights in recent days; pilots’ union says mechanics playing ‘petty politics’
By Tobias Siegal
Fragments of a Russian jet fighter on a private house in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Stas Yurchenko)
May 2, 2022, 6:13 am
‘A super-hero legend’: Ukraine admits ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ fighter pilot is a myth
Social media credited mystery pilot with shooting down tens of Russian jets since start of invasion, but after media reports falsely identify slain pilot, air force comes clean
By ARIJETA LAJKA
Maj. 'Yud,' the first female squadron commander in the Israel Air Force's flight school, is seen alongside another ariman in an undated photo. Their faces have been blurred due to IAF security protocols (IDF)
November 26, 2021, 6:39 am
Israel Air Force flight school gets first female squadron leader
Major ‘Yud’ will command the school’s combat navigators squadron and train new generation of IDF cadets
By ToI Staff
A 21-year-old, whose name has not been released by Israeli censors, is Israel's first female American air force pilot. (Israel Air Force)
December 31, 2020, 2:21 am
21-year-old from Boston becomes Israel’s first US-raised female Air Force pilot
Lt. O. is 1 of 2 women in her class to pass grueling 3-year training course; will fly Boeing 707 in aerial refueling, cargo operations
By Sam Sokol
The scene of a plane crash near Kibbutz Mishmar Hanegev, November 24, 2020. (Screenshot: Ynet)
December 2, 2020, 8:07 pm
Air force probe unable to find cause for deadly plane crash
Investigation to continue, but IAF chief decides to keep fleet of ‘Snunit’ training aircraft grounded in meantime after last week’s crash in which an officer and cadet were killed
By Judah Ari Gross
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