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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

Uzi Arad

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
Energy Minister Karine Elharrar speaks at conference of her Yesh Atid party in Shefayim, September 22, 2021. (Gili Yaari/ Flash90)
October 17, 2021, 5:06 pm
Energy minister accuses Netanyahu of using ‘fake news’ to harm ties with Jordan
Karine Elharrar rejects opposition leader’s claim Israel getting nothing out of water deal with neighbor; former Netanyahu adviser slams ex-PM’s ‘provocative’ attitude to kingdom
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press regarding the Iranian nuclear program, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on September 9, 2019. (Sindel/Flash90)
February 22, 2021, 8:00 pm
Former defense officials back US return to Iran deal, urge new long-term pact
In letter to Netanyahu and Gantz, ex-senior military and intelligence figures call for fresh international agreement to curtail Tehran’s military activities in the region
By ToI Staff
An election poster showing Blue and White party Benny Gantz, posted alongside the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
February 22, 2021, 12:52 pm
130 former top defense officials call on Gantz to pull out of election
Senior officers, security figures publish open letter to Blue and White chief, whose party is polling below Knesset threshold, urging him to avoid a waste of anti-Netanyahu votes
By ToI Staff
Syrian President Bashar Assad addresses the newly elected parliament in Damascus, Syria, on June 7, 2016. (SANA, the Syrian official news agency, via AP)
June 6, 2018, 6:57 pm
Netanyahu held ‘serious’ talks with Assad on relinquishing Golan — ex-adviser
Uzi Arad affirms that Jerusalem and Damascus had 2 rounds of negotiations between 2009 and 2011, with premier not dismissing talk of full withdrawal; PM’s office denies claim
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative: B61 nuclear bombs on a rack. (Courtesy US Department of Defense)
October 18, 2017, 11:14 pm
As nuclear threat mushrooms, experts group says situation worse than Cold War
At anti-nuke Luxembourg Forum’s annual confab, experts discuss Iran deal, North Korea, India-Pakistan conflict, but most fear deteriorating Russia-US relationship
By Judah Ari Gross
Uzi Arad, former national security adviser, March 2012. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
October 13, 2017, 4:37 pm
Israeli experts: Trump won’t kill nuke deal, but expect the unexpected with Iran
Ahead of US president’s speech on upholding or imperiling the JCPOA, PM’s ex-security adviser Uzi Arad questions sincerity of both sides
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 19, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)
October 12, 2017, 10:45 am
Netanyahu at odds with security team over Iran deal
Some of the prime minister’s own security chiefs believe that scuttling 2015 accord could erode US credibility in the Middle East
By Josef Federman
Miki Ganor is brought for a hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion, July 10, 2017. (Moti Kimchi/POOL)
July 18, 2017, 3:53 pm
As a key figure turns, papers stay locked on Netanyahu
The prime minister isn’t implicated in the submarine scandal, but with middleman Miki Ganor mulling singing for the prosecution, media sonar picks up echoes of Netanyahu
By Joshua Davidovich
Strategist Uzi Arad at the Knesset on December 2, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 7, 2017, 6:51 pm
PM ‘on the wrong side of the law’ on convicted soldier, former adviser says
Uzi Arad, once national security consultant to Israeli leader, says Netanyahu will always put politics ‘above the public interest’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visit the Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve, Northern Israel, on August 19, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
August 19, 2016, 10:13 pm
TV report: ‘No entry’ to PM’s inner circle without Sara Netanyahu’s okay
Aides dismiss ‘recycled, false allegations’ in Channel 2 report that depicts PMO as dysfunctional, PM surrounded by mediocre yes-men
By ToI Staff
Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on September 7, 2015. (AP/Charlie Neibergall, File)
January 1, 2016, 4:35 am
New Clinton emails reveal critiques from Israel-bashing son of adviser
Sidney Blumenthal’s input to secretary included materials by his son Max, a self-described anti-Zionist who wrote a volume seen as the ‘I hate Israel’ handbook
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
A US Navy F-35 fighter jet during a test flight. (US Navy/Wikimedia Commons)
September 2, 2015, 2:20 am
What America will offer Israel after the nuclear deal
Extending aid by a decade, R&D collaboration, F-35 strike fighters among measures eyed for heightened US-Israel security cooperation; ‘Band-Aids on a hemorrhage,’ says one critic
By Ron Kampeas
Professor Uzi Arad greets attendees at the first annual lecture in memory of Professor Zvi Yavetz in Tel Aviv, January 28, 2014 (photo credit: Roee Shpernik)
January 29, 2014, 1:51 am
Iran’s nuclear bid ‘only a matter of time,’ says PM’s former top adviser
Uzi Arad also reveals settlers-in-Palestine idea has been widely discussed, says evacuation of settlers must be kept to a minimum
By Elhanan Miller
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
July 29, 2013, 12:19 pm
Can Netanyahu go all the way in peace talks? And does it matter?
Conventional wisdom says the gaps are too wide, but analysts believe the PM is ready for a demilitarized ‘Palestine,’ or an interim deal. And if all that fails, he’s hoping to prevail in the blame game
By Raphael Ahren
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