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Brigadier General (Res.) Prof. Jacob Nagel presents his committee's report on Israel's defense budget, January 6, 2024 (Maayan Toaf/Times of Israel)
January 7, 2025, 1:57 pm
Trump’s return creates opportunity to remove Iran threat, says blue-ribbon committee
Panel appointed by Netanyahu to examine future defense budget calls for focus on Tehran’s weaponization efforts, says all Israelis must serve equally
By Lazar Berman
File: Israeli soldiers are seen in Metula, on the border between Israel and Lebanon, northern Israel, on May 15, 2021. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
October 6, 2022, 8:35 pm
Gantz puts IDF on alert in north as Lebanese maritime border talks falter
US says it is continuing ‘robust engagement’ to reach deal after Israel rejects Lebanon’s proposed changes; Hezbollah has threatened Israel for months over disputed gas
By ToI Staff
Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech at a memorial ceremony in Tel Hai on February 23, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
February 24, 2021, 12:31 am
Netanyahu: Israel will prevent a nuclear Iran whether or not a deal is in place
PM issues warning after Tehran begins restricting access to IAEA inspectors, in further breach of nuke deal; top Israeli officials hold policy meeting as US seeks to reenter accord
By ToI Staff
An Egyptian Type 209 submarine in Kiel, Germany in 2017 (YouTube screenshot)
May 4, 2019, 9:40 am
Egypt receives third German submarine of four promised in deal
Cairo Navy chief takes charge of vessel in formal ceremony in Kiel; sale has caused controversy in Israel because PM approved it without notifying top defense officials
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with outgoing Mossad chief Tamir Pardo during a farewell ceremony in Tel Aviv on January 5, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
March 28, 2019, 12:35 pm
Ex-Mossad chief: Netanyahu’s version on Egypt submarine deal ‘makes no sense’
Tamir Pardo says PM didn’t update him on approval of German sale to Cairo, joining several former top officials who say they had no knowledge of the issue
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, at a cabinet meeting on January 4, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90/File)
March 24, 2019, 10:10 pm
Contradicting PM, Mandelblit says he wasn’t given intel on Egypt sub sale
Attorney general says Netanyahu offered to share the sensitive information that prompted him to green-light the Germany deal, but it was deemed irrelevant to probe
By ToI Staff
Talia Einhorn (l) and Moshe Tery. (Screen capture: YouTube/ Channel 10)
October 3, 2018, 6:49 pm
Liberman aide quits so his mother can help pick next IDF head
Departure of Yisrael Einhorn, media adviser to the defense minister, paves way for Talia Einhorn to join committee vetting new heads of army, police
By Judah Ari Gross
Head of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel Iris Shtark in July 2018; and Israeli National Security Adviser Yaakov Nagel on September 18, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube/ Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
September 12, 2018, 3:41 pm
2 members of appointments panel resign, paving way for new heads of army, police
Yaakov Nagel and Iris Shtark step down from 4-person committee following High Court ruling that they may be too close to Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Then Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony welcoming Alsheich to the job, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 6, 2018, 5:20 pm
High Court ruling may delay imminent choice of next heads of IDF, police
In Thursday decision, justices freezes work of appointments committee over concerns that half its members are too close to Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett on November 13, 2017, in the Knesset. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 5, 2018, 5:17 pm
Bennett: Israel-Poland Holocaust declaration ‘a disgrace, saturated with lies’
Following criticism from Yad Vashem, education minister calls agreement a ‘betrayal of Holocaust victims,’ says it won’t be taught in schools; opposition leaders slam Netanyahu
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath of flowers during the official state ceremony for the national Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem, on April 27, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash 90)
July 5, 2018, 4:16 pm
Yad Vashem slams ‘highly problematic’ Israeli-Polish Holocaust statement
Joint declaration includes ‘grave errors and deceptions,’ institution’s historians argue; senior minister demands Netanyahu rescind it
By Raphael Ahren
A copy of the Polish-Israeli agreement appearing in Yedioth Ahronoth on July 5. 2018. (Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)
July 5, 2018, 11:48 am
Poles launch global drive to promote Holocaust law deal, roiling Israeli critics
Knesset members charge Jerusalem handed Warsaw a PR victory as full-page ads with joint declaration appear in English, Hebrew, German, Spanish and French
By Raphael Ahren
People from all over the world participating in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 24, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
July 4, 2018, 6:22 am
Does the Israeli-Polish Holocaust law agreement defend truth or betray history?
Jerusalem feted Warsaw’s cancellation of law banning claims of Polish complicity in Holocaust, but eminent Israeli scholar says mundane realpolitik trumped historical verity
By Raphael Ahren
Former national security adviser Yaacov Nagel in Tel Aviv, March 29, 2017. (Flash 90)
November 23, 2017, 6:51 pm
Ex-national security adviser praises Saudi crown prince
Yaakov Nagel says Mohammed bin Salman leading kingdom ‘to the right place,’ but adds Riyadh unlikely to formalize ties with Israel before Palestinian peace deal reached
By Raphael Ahren
Meir Ben-Shabbat, who was named National Security Adviser on August 13, 2017. (Courtesy)
August 13, 2017, 2:02 pm
PM appoints new national security adviser: Meir Ben-Shabbat
Ex-Shin Bet officer fills role vacant since 2015, takes over for acting adviser Eitan Ben-David
By Judah Ari Gross
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