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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting on May 17, 2026. (Screenshot/GPO)
May 17, 2026, 5:44 pm
Netanyahu speaks with Trump amid reports Israel, US preparing Iran strikes
PM to convene limited security cabinet; drone strikes UAE nuclear station; Iran media says US offered no concrete concessions, demands shutdown of all but one nuclear facility
By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Stav Levaton
Smoke and fire rise from southern Lebanon during an Israeli military operation, as seen from northern Israel, April 15, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
April 15, 2026, 11:34 pm
Security cabinet said to consider one-week Lebanon ceasefire amid US pressure
US claims it didn’t ask Israel to hold fire at Hezbollah, but would welcome truce as part of Lebanon talks; IDF chief says south Lebanon to be ‘kill zone’ for terrorists; 5 soldiers wounded in Hezbollah attack
By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and Agencies
Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at his office in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. (Nava Freiberg/Times of Israel); IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir in Jerusalem on March 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 1, 2025, 1:42 pm
At stormy cabinet meet, IDF chief said to warn Gaza op will lead to full-fledged occupation
Netanyahu rejects Zamir’s push for hostage-truce agreement; far-right ministers reportedly accuse army chief of cowardice for backing a deal over expanded war
By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) leads a cabinet meeting at an undisclosed secure location on August 31, 2025 (Screenshot/GPO)
September 1, 2025, 6:49 am
Security cabinet meets, reportedly discusses West Bank annexation but not hostage deal
PM and ministers said focusing on Gaza City takeover plan and potential extension of sovereignty to settlements, while continuing to ignore truce outline Hamas okayed weeks ago
By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Protesters gather with signs and Israeli flags during a demonstration in Tel Aviv on August 26, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
August 26, 2025, 8:54 pm
As cabinet meeting glosses over deal, mediators say Israel ignoring Hamas proposal
Egypt reportedly fumes, Qatar says it seems Israel doesn’t want to reach deal; Netanyahu said to again insist on comprehensive deal, while barreling ahead with Gaza City op
By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Protesters hold a banner reading: "Occupation of Gaza endangers hostages and soldiers" at a demonstration in Tel Aviv, August 7, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
August 8, 2025, 12:52 pm
‘A disaster’: Opposition, world leaders, families of hostages blast Gaza City takeover plan
Lapid says newly approved war expansion is ‘exactly what Hamas wanted’; hostages forum says cabinet ‘sentenced the living hostages to death’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A security cabinet meeting, in Jerusalem, June 14, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
August 6, 2025, 6:44 pm
Netanyahu to convene security cabinet Thursday evening to approve Gaza war plans
Military officials said to warn occupying Gaza will lead to heavy Israeli casualties; IDF says Hamas weapons plant struck in Gaza City, 107 pallets of humanitarian aid airdropped
By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Armed Palestinians sit on trucks carrying humanitarian aid near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 25, 2025. (Ali Qariqa/Flash90)
July 6, 2025, 1:43 pm
Cabinet approves plan to let more aid into northern Gaza over hardliner protests
Smotrich joins Ben Gvir in opposing expansion of UN-backed distribution, accuses IDF chief of failing to keep supplies out of Hamas’s hands, PM of letting army make its own decisions
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Humanitarian supplies earmarked for Gaza are stored at Egyptian Red Crescent warehouses in the Egyptian border town of El-Arish during an Israeli blockade on aid deliveries to Gaza, on April 8, 2025. (Benoit Tessier /POOL/AFP)
May 19, 2025, 4:09 am
Netanyahu orders immediate renewal of humanitarian aid to Gaza, under heavy US pressure
PM announces move to ministers without a vote, amid growing international concerns following 2.5 months without food entering Strip, and as IDF launches expanded ground offensive
By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Michael Bachner
IDF troops operate in the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza City, in images released on May 3, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 5, 2025, 8:36 am
Israel okays ‘conquering Gaza, holding the territories,’ as IDF chief said to warn ‘we could lose’ the hostages
Plan approved unanimously by ministers envisages gradually expanded military operation; implementation only after Trump visit to region next week; revamped aid delivery also okayed
By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends the Land of Israel Caucus at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 10, 2025, 4:33 am
Security cabinet officials said to suspect IDF source regularly leaking info to Smotrich
Minister does not deny the matter, saying he ‘maintains continuous dialogue with soldiers and officers, both past and present’
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a news conference in the East Room of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
February 12, 2025, 12:13 pm
Trump’s ultimatum is directed at Hamas, but it’s also a direct rebuke of Netanyahu
US president openly rejects the phased framework for the hostages’ release — an approach initiated by the PM, who sought to avoid confrontation with the far right
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Likud MK Haim Katz speaks at a Knesset plenary session regarding his request for parliamentary immunity from prosecution, February 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 23, 2025, 6:20 pm
Tourism Minister Haim Katz tapped to run all 3 of Otzma Yehudit’s former ministries
‘Even the most diligent minister in the world cannot invest effort in four ministries at the same time,’ protests Opposition Leader Yair Lapid
By Sam Sokol
IDF soldiers near the Israeli border with Syria, December 7, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
December 7, 2024, 9:29 pm
Syria rebels take areas near Israel border; IDF warns them not to ‘turn in our direction’
IDF helps UN forces repel attack by gunmen in Syrian Golan, holds drill simulating rapid deployment, and sends more troops to its side of Golan; Netanyahu convenes security cabinet
By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on April 17, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/ GPO)
November 25, 2024, 9:28 pm
Israel set to okay 60-day Lebanon truce, but pledges to act against Hezbollah
Official claims threat of US action at UN played into Jerusalem’s decision-making, and asserts that ministers will get in line behind cessation of hostilities, even if reluctantly
By Lazar Berman
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