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Tzipi Livni and Ehud Olmert at a cabinet meeting in 2007 (photo credit: Flash90)
March 24, 2018, 10:28 pm
Livni: Ehud Olmert ‘unfit’ to return to politics
Zionist Union MK, who served under subsequently jailed prime minister, says Israel must be led by 'untarnished people'
By TOI staff
Ehud Olmert, right, and Ehud Barak in the Knesset on March 30, 2009. Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 23, 2018, 5:09 am
Decade after clandestine Syria strike, revelation sparks a war for credit
Former leaders snipe at each other over who said what in lead-up to Israel's bombing of Assad's nuclear facility in 2007, while ex-spies blame each other for failing to spot danger
By Judah Ari Gross
A site in western Syria suspected of housing a potential nuclear facility, captured on June 19, 2014. (Google Earth)
March 22, 2018, 11:30 am
As Israel fetes 2007 strike on Syria nuclear reactor, is Assad building another?
A US think tank revisits claims that the regime is constructing an underground facility, finding worrying questions but no real answers
By Judah Ari Gross
This image released by Netflix shows Kevin Spacey in a scene from 'House Of Cards.' (David Giesbrecht/Netflix via AP)
March 21, 2018, 8:28 pm
Barak says Olmert was ‘never really prime minister,’ likens him to Kevin Spacey
Olmert 'played the role very well,' just like Spacey 'played the president exceptionally well' in House of Cards, says Barak. 'That didn't make him president'
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in the southern city of Dimona, March 20, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
March 21, 2018, 7:06 pm
Netanyahu: Syrian reactor raid shows Israel won’t let its enemies get nukes
PM hails 2007 strike, doesn't mention Tehran, but intelligence minister sends direct 'message to Iran': We won't let anybody who threatens to destroy Israel get nuclear capability
By AFP and TOI staff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset, March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 21, 2018, 6:29 pm
Defense minister regrets releasing details of attack on Syrian nuclear reactor
Liberman condemns public spat between former military intelligence and Mossad chiefs over who uncovered intel on reactor
By Stuart Winer
An F-16I fighter jet of the Israeli Air Force's 119th Squadron prepares to take off during an operation to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor on September 5, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2018, 2:05 pm
Blast from the past: 8 things to know for March 21
With the open secret now out, coverage looks at details of the 2007 raid on a Syrian nuclear reactor, the intel failures leading up to it and why it was kept under wraps until now
By Joshua Davidovich
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 21, 2018, 12:02 pm
Ministers threaten Iran as details of 2007 strike on Syria emerge
Liberman warns 'enemies' that IDF has grown even stronger, while intelligence minister vows 'Israel will never allow countries like Iran... to have nuclear weapons'
By Michael Bachner
Avigdor Liberman (left) and Tzipi Livni shaking hands in January 2013. (Flash90)
March 21, 2018, 10:14 am
Engineers of Syrian nuclear reactor strike hail it as ‘historic’ and ‘brave’
Officials recount details of newly acknowledged 2007 operation and issue warning to present-day 'enemies,' notably Iran
By Michael Bachner
The pilot of an F-15I fighter jet, from the Israeli Air Force's 69th Squadron, gets into his airplane ahead of an operation to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor on September 5, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2018, 5:01 am
Three minutes over Syria: How Israel destroyed Assad’s nuclear reactor
Israel only wised up to Damascus's bid for nukes after it found Gaddafi had managed to run a similar program covertly. Armed with the facts, Olmert had to decide whether to strike
By Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv
A pilot and navigator from the Israeli Air Force's 253rd Squadron prepare for an operation to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor on September 5, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2018, 5:00 am
Ending a decade of silence, Israel confirms it blew up Assad’s nuclear reactor
Announcement about 2007’s ‘Operation Orchard' sure to remind Iran what happened to last country with atomic ambitions, though real reason for divulging now may be more humdrum
By Judah Ari Gross
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visits the Yamam Counter-Terror Unit base on April 4, 2017. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
April 6, 2017, 9:17 am
Syria chemical attack was ‘direct order’ from Assad, Liberman says
Defense minister confirms Israel will not get involved, imploring international community to do so instead; says unclear if Russia had part in gassing
By Alexander Fulbright
Amir Eshel, the commander of the Israel Air Force. (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger / Flash 90)
April 23, 2015, 11:06 pm
Air force chief can ‘get job done’ if order comes to hit Iran
Israel has invested 'immense sums' over past decade building the capacity to hit Iran's nuclear facilities, TV report says
By TOI staff
From left: EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini; Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif; British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond; and US Secretary of State John Kerry line up for a press announcement at the nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)
April 3, 2015, 9:08 am
Nuclear deal leaves Israel with few options
The immediate result of the Iran agreement will not be a sprint to the bomb but an emboldened posture by Tehran across the region
By Mitch Ginsburg
The site of what a Der Spiegel report says is a suspected Syrian nuclear weapons facility, in the hills west of Qusayr. (screen capture: Google Maps)
January 12, 2015, 7:30 pm
Syria rejects ‘mere lies’ about secret nuclear facility
Source derides Der Spiegel's 'ridiculous claim' about underground site near Qusayr
By TOI staff and AFP
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