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Israeli settlers attempt to reach the site of the former Nisanit settlement in the northern Gaza Strip, July 26 2007. (Edi Israel/Flash 90)
December 12, 2025, 3:28 am
Group of ministers seeks OK for Hanukkah flag-raising ceremony at former Gaza settlement
Signatories, including from ruling Likud party, endorse pro-settlement movement’s call for defense minister to approve event in order ‘to proudly affirm that Gaza is part of Israel’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking on a cellphone during a Knesset session on June 5, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 12, 2019, 6:33 pm
In campaign stunt, Gantz releases personal phone numbers of Netanyahu, Likud MKs
Israel Resilience party urges supporters to send messages to lawmakers and candidates criticizing Israel allowing Qatar to make cash payments to Hamas
By Raoul Wootliff
Avi Gabbay, leader of the Labor Party, at the 16th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 12, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 12, 2019, 4:55 pm
Gabbay hails Gaza disengagement, is booed by right-wing audience
Sderot had been pummeled by rockets from the Strip even before Israel withdrew all its soldiers and settlers, Labor head reminds a gathering in Jerusalem
By Raoul Wootliff
Former Israeli chief of staff Benny Gantz attends an electoral rally in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)
February 7, 2019, 8:13 pm
Holding cards close to chest, Gantz doesn’t rule out settlement evacuations
Netanyahu challenger says he won’t go into detail about his plans for West Bank since it ‘isn’t relevant’ as long as there are no Israeli-Palestinian negotiations
By Raoul Wootliff
Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz (C) is greeted by supporters as he arrives to give his first electoral speech in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)
February 6, 2019, 7:22 pm
Palestinians ‘encouraged’ by Gantz’s remarks on possible West Bank pullback
Spokesperson for PA chief stresses there is no info yet on what policies Netanyahu’s rival will actually implement if he becomes prime minister
By ToI Staff
Israel Resilience party leader Benny Gantz, center, meets with residents of the Kochav Hatsafon neighborhood in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2019. (Sraya Diamant/Israel Resilience)
February 6, 2019, 11:55 am
Gantz positive on Gaza disengagement in first interview, drawing right’s ire
Lashed as a ‘leftist,’ former chief of staff mocks Netanyahu for backing 2005 pullout, vows no uprooting of settlements, says Israel should end ‘control’ over Palestinians
By ToI Staff
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani (AP/Vahid Salemi)
May 30, 2017, 10:53 am
Iran parliament speaker says Israel ‘a threat to humanity’
Marking 17th anniversary of IDF pullout from southern Lebanon, Ali Larijani urges Palestinians to follow Hezbollah’s lead and ‘liberate’ lands
By Stuart Winer
Zionist Union MK Omer Bar-Lev holds a press conference at the Knesset on November 30, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 1, 2015, 7:02 pm
Zionist Union MK proposes unilateral ‘separation’ plan from Palestinians
Omer Bar-Lev outlines steps to ‘keep Israel Jewish and democratic’; Likud’s Avi Dichter calls proposal unrealistic
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Education Minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset, June 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 23, 2015, 4:01 pm
Netanyahu raps Bennett for saying he put ‘a bullet between his eyes’
Prime minister seethes over ‘unworthy’ claims that ‘contradict the truth’ about West Bank policy-making
By ToI Staff
Then Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, April 22, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 23, 2015, 12:35 pm
Bennett: I shot PM ‘between the eyes’ to stop talk of West Bank pullout
Jewish Home leader told private meeting of West Bank party activists how he made Netanyahu reverse talk of unilateral moves; watch your words, colleague warned him
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press statement regarding the Security Council's decision to outlaw the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel on November 17, 2015 (Haim Zach / GPO)
November 18, 2015, 2:20 pm
Netanyahu hints at possible annexations in West Bank
PM says he prefers ‘negotiated moves’ but will act if necessary, blasts EU’s ‘heinous’ settlement goods labeling scheme
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in a conversation at the Center for American Progress with CAP president Neera Tanden, November 10, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
November 11, 2015, 6:29 pm
Netanyahu backpedals on possiblity of unilateral pullout
Likud party statement says PM’s comments were misinterpreted, promises mistakes of 2005 disengagement won’t be repeated
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in a conversation at the Center for American Progress with CAP president Neera Tanden November 10, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
November 11, 2015, 2:47 am
PM: Unilateral W. Bank pullout ‘possible, I suppose’ if security conditions met
At leftist US think tank, PM says Jerusalem must remain under Israeli sovereignty; Israel to maintain security control over areas ceded in any deal
By Raphael Ahren
Tzipi Livni on November 2, 2014. (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90/pool)
November 3, 2014, 10:26 am
Livni slams Abbas for praising would-be assassin
Israel’s top peace negotiator warns the Palestinian leader his tough rhetoric could escalate violence
By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference organized by the Institute for National Secuirty Studies in Tel Aviv on Sunday, June 29, 2014 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/FLASH90)
June 30, 2014, 5:31 pm
Netanyahu’s commitment to 2 states seems shakier than ever
With speech cementing Jordan River as Israel’s border and ignoring calls for unilateral withdrawal, PM gives annexationists cause for hope
By Raphael Ahren
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