Tzachi Hanegbi

President Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 31, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

November 17, 2023, 11:43 pm

‘Without further delay’: Calling Qatari Emir, Biden steps up pressure for hostage deal

Israel said to reject proposed deal that would separate mothers and children, insists Gaza terror groups release them together; Hamas warns Israel not to drag its feet

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Michael Levy lowers his head as he becomes emotional after the unveiling of a Times Square digital billboard showing posters of Hamas hostages taken by terrorists, including his older brother Or Levy, during an Oct. 7 assault into Israel, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

November 17, 2023, 7:25 pm

Hanegbi says no ceasefire unless Hamas releases a ‘massive’ number of hostages

National Security Council adviser stresses any pause would be brief and see military pushing on with offensive, adds Israel achieving the goals it set out after terror onslaught

By Jacob Magid

National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi speaks during a statement to the media at the Kirya base in Tel Aviv on October 31, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

October 31, 2023, 9:00 pm

Hanegbi says Gazans should avoid hospitals in north, urges Egypt to accept injured

National security adviser says medical ships are on the way, adds IDF will operate in southern and central Gaza in the future, warns that Hamas must ‘cease existing’

By Lazar Berman

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani arrive for their meeting in Lusail, Qatar, October 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

October 25, 2023, 4:30 pm

In rare praise, Israel hails Qatar’s ‘crucial’ diplomatic efforts in Gaza crisis

National security adviser says Doha an ‘essential party in facilitation of humanitarian solution,’ after Hamas freed four hostages; former PM Bennett: Qatar is the enemy itself

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a press conference in Tel Aviv, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool)

October 17, 2023, 9:13 pm

Visiting Chancellor Scholz says Germany’s place in hard times is ‘alongside Israel’

Netanyahu says ‘Hamas are the new Nazis’; top security official: Israel will allow humanitarian aid to south Gaza as long as it doesn’t reach terrorists

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

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, right, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, attend a meeting, in Doha, Qatar, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

October 15, 2023, 8:22 pm

Qatar pressing Hamas to release women, children and elderly hostages — official

Israel rejects Hamas proposal to free 36 Palestinian female, teen prisoners but talks ongoing, as some in terror group recognize taking civilians has helped legitimize IDF response

By Jacob Magid

Adva Gutman Tirosh and Lee Dan, whose family members were taken captive in Gaza a week earlier hug following a press conference in Tel Aviv demanding medical attention for their loved ones, October 14, 2023. (Courtesy Nadav Cohen Yonatan)

October 15, 2023, 1:17 am

Families of Gaza hostages beg for medical attention, say government forsaking them

Relatives detail urgent medical needs of missing kids, sick and elderly; head of Families Forum says he met Red Cross officials who said they’ve ‘never seen anything like this’

By Jessica Steinberg

National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi speaks to reporters at the Israel Defense Forces' Tel Aviv headquarters, October 14, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash 90)

October 14, 2023, 9:22 pm

Hanegbi: Israel won’t negotiate with Hamas on hostages now, will remove it from power

Security Council head says ‘I was wrong,’ so were others, about Hamas being deterred; admits state failed in its mission to protect citizens; Israel hasn’t identified all hostages

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (C) and military chiefs at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv for a security assessment on October 8, 2023. (GPO)

October 12, 2023, 10:29 pm

Security chiefs got wind of something amiss in Gaza, thought it was a drill – reports

Netanyahu says he was updated only when devastating Hamas infiltration began at 6:29 a.m. Saturday; reports say top brass had ‘scraps’ of info, didn’t raise alert or boost forces

By Emanuel Fabian, Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Left: US President Joe Biden at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, March 28, 2023. (AP/Carolyn Kaster); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 19, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool photo via AP)

October 7, 2023, 5:53 pm

Biden calls PM, as US offers full backing amid massive attack from Gaza

Officials in Washington in contact with National Security Adviser Hanegbi as Israel surprised by deadly assault

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff

National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi (in blue shirt at far left) listens to anti-judicial overhaul protesters in front of his house in Mevaseret Zion on October 3, 2023. (Protest movement)

October 4, 2023, 3:53 am

Hanegbi sits with protesters in front of his home who urge him to obey High Court

NSC chief largely refrains from responding to calls from ex-defense officials, says he was willing to listen but laments that those demonstrating failed to do the same

By ToI Staff

15 Supreme Court justices at the first judicial overhaul hearing in Jerusalem, September 12, 2023 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

September 12, 2023, 2:12 pm

Daily Briefing Sept. 12: Justices take adversarial tone in overhaul hearing

ToI founding editor David Horovitz discusses the showdown in the High Court, as diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman talks about a loaded comment by the national security adviser

By ToI Staff

National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi speaks at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy (ICT) conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, September 11, 2023 (Gilad Kavalerchik)

September 11, 2023, 1:34 pm

Hanegbi says Israel, PA having ‘open’ talks, sees change in Palestinians’ approach

National security adviser says Netanyahu government is willing to make significant concessions to Ramallah for a deal with the Saudis

By Lazar Berman

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (2nd-L) meets IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (R), Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (2nd-R) and Mossad head David Barnea at his office in Tel Aviv on May 9, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry/File)

September 4, 2023, 11:36 pm

Gallant, defense brass met to examine consequences of Saudi normalization – report

Public broadcaster says meeting focused on Riyadh’s demand for civil nuclear program as part of US-brokered deal; Netanyahu also said to hold deliberations on matter

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid