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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Ronen Manelis

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 3, 2024, 11:37 pm
Latest hostage rally demanding deal with Hamas takes on stronger political tones
Organizers and speakers at weekly protest in Tel Aviv say faith in the government needs restoring, accuse Netanyahu of being guided by desire to avoid elections
By Canaan Lidor and Charlie Summers
Blue and White MK and former Yeruham mayor Michael Biton, in the Knesset on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
December 23, 2020, 9:14 pm
Strategic affairs minister says he’s examining shuttering his own ministry
Weeks after taking up post, Blue and White’s Michael Biton adopts position of ministry’s resigning director-general who says it should be merged with other government offices
By ToI Staff
Incoming IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman speaks at a ceremony in which he took over for outgoing spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis on September 15, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 13, 2020, 3:56 pm
After lengthy battle, IDF admits ToI reporter to military correspondents’ group
IDF Spokesperson sets clear criteria for defense reporters following Times of Israel petition to High Court of Justice over preferential treatment given to other news outlets
By ToI Staff
A 'wounded' IDF soldier, in a staged evacuation, at the scene of an APC that was struck by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile on the Lebanon border on September 1, 2019. (Screen capture/Twitter)
September 5, 2019, 7:14 pm
IDF spokesman boasts staged ‘rescue’ of troops duped Hezbollah
Ronen Manelis says that for 2 hours, Hezbollah leader was convinced his operation had successfully targeted Israeli soldiers, insists ambiguity policy intact
By Jacob Magid
From left, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, outgoing IDF spokesperson Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz, incoming spokesperson Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot raise a toast at a ceremony in which Manelis officially entered his position, at the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on May 18, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
September 3, 2019, 3:18 pm
In shakeup, IDF to establish new criteria for military correspondents
Army spokesman’s decision follows Times of Israel petition to High Court of Justice over preferential treatment of other news outlets
By ToI Staff
This picture taken on September 1, 2019, from a location near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, shows a fire blazing in a field along the border with Israel on the Lebanese side following an exchange of fire. (ALAA MAREY / AFP)
September 2, 2019, 6:38 am
No fatalities, mercifully, though truth is a casualty as the IDF fools Hezbollah
Why did the IDF come clean about faking an evacuation of ‘injured soldiers’ from an APC after a terror strike Sunday? And what else got obscured in the fog of near-war?
By David Horovitz
Hamas political bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas website)
August 23, 2019, 3:28 pm
Hamas lauds ‘heroic’ perpetrators of bombing attack in which Israeli teen killed
Terror chief Haniyeh extols West Bank Palestinians for proving they’re ‘no less faithful, steadfast than Gaza brethren’; Islamic Jihad hails ‘natural response’ to Israel aggression
By ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers set up a roadblock as part of a search effort to find terrorists who set off a bomb near the Israeli settlement of Dolev in the West Bank on August 23, 2019, killing an Israeli teenage girl and seriously injuring two other people. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 23, 2019, 2:50 pm
After deadly attack, right-wing calls to annex West Bank, criticizes PM
Netanyahu vows assailants who targeted Israeli family with homemade bomb will be caught, but political rivals slam his policy of ‘containment’ vis-à-vis Palestinians
By ToI Staff
This photo released by the IDF shows a collection on weapons, including rifles, RPG launchers, grenades, bold cutters and knives carried by four Gazans who tried to cross the border into Israel, August 10, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 10, 2019, 12:59 pm
IDF says large-scale terror attack thwarted as troops prevent Gaza infiltration
4 Gazans with AK-47s, RPGs, hand grenades and hunting knives killed when one throws grenade at soldiers during attempt to scale barrier; Hamas says they ‘acted independently’
By ToI Staff
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
File: Masked operatives from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas terror group, ride vehicles as they commemorate the 30th anniversary of their group, in Gaza City, December 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
March 25, 2019, 4:08 pm
Hamas investigating rocket fire; official cites ‘bad weather’ as possible cause
After rocket smashes into central Israel, terror group said to have ‘no interest’ in targeting Israel ahead of arrival of Egyptian delegation in Gaza
By AFP and Adam Rasgon
Israeli troops operate next to the entrance point to attack tunnel from southern Lebanon into an apple orchard south of the town of Metulla in northern Israel that Israel says was dug by the Hezbollah terror group on December 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
December 20, 2018, 11:36 pm
On the rainy Lebanese border, IDF fights tunnels and drums up support
Military says Operation Northern Shield has set back nemesis Hezbollah by several years, will last as long as it takes to find and destroy all passages
By Judah Ari Gross
The Israeli military drills into the soil south of the Lebanese border in an effort to locate and destroy Hezbollah attack tunnels that it says entered Israeli territory, on December 5, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 6, 2018, 12:53 pm
Ex-defense minister admits officials lied about Hezbollah tunnels for years
Moshe Ya’alon defends hiding knowledge of subterranean threat from residents of northern Israel, says it was for their own good and to trick the Lebanese terror group
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli troops insteall machinery near the town of Meiss al-Jabal in southern Lebanon on December 5, 2018, according to the Hezbollah terror group. (Hezbollah Military Media)
December 6, 2018, 2:47 am
All may not be as it seems as IDF, Hezbollah play hide and seek over tunnels
Army promises more ‘surprises’ for the Lebanese terror group as it reportedly expands its tunnel-busting operation to two other locations
By Judah Ari Gross
An Israel Defense Forces delegation meets with UN peacekeepers and representatives of the Lebanese Armed Forces at the Israel-Lebanon border, December 5, 2018. (IDF spokesperson)
December 5, 2018, 10:33 pm
Israel says it shared tunnel details with Lebanon and UN, calls for sanctions
Netanyahu calls UN chief Guterres to update him on Operation Northern Shield, urges world condemnation of Hezbollah for violating Israeli territory, breaking UN resolution
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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