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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Yair Golan

Left: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, January 16, 2025; Right: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, January 13, 2025. (Both photos by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 2, 2025, 1:35 pm
Ben Gvir said seeking partnership with Smotrich to thwart emerging hostage deal
Finance minister denies cooperation, says Ben Gvir ‘playing game’ with media leaks; Sa’ar says majority in cabinet for a deal; opposition promises to back government if needed
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Relatives of Israelis held hostage by Hamas in Gaza and supporters protest for their release, outside the Likud party's headquarters in Tel Aviv, June 21, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
June 24, 2025, 6:36 pm
As Iran ceasefire takes hold, hostages’ families plead for renewed effort on Gaza
Qatari PM says ‘discussions ongoing’ with Israel and Hamas, aiming for indirect talks within days, amid renewed calls in Israel and abroad for an end to war in the Strip
By Sam Sokol and Nurit Yohanan
Handout photo released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) official Sepah News Telegram channel on June 13, 2025 shows smoke billowing from a site apparently targeted by an Israeli strike in the capital Tehran early in the morning. (Sepah News / AFP)
June 13, 2025, 9:15 am
As Israel hits Iran, prayers, fortitude at home amid alarm, concern from abroad
Coalition and opposition lawmakers declare support for Iran strikes; mixed responses from US; UN chief urges restraint as Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and UAE condemn strikes
By Stuart Winer, Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)
June 9, 2025, 9:57 am
3 murders within hours; victims include woman stabbed to death, son arrested
Same man also suspected of moderately wounding his pregnant wife in Umm al-Fahm; man shot dead in Daburiyya amid criminal feud, another man gunned down in Tiberias, motive unclear
By Stuart Winer
L to R: The Democrats leader Yair Golan, National Unity leader Benny Gantz, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, lead their respective faction meetings at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2025. (All photos Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 29, 2025, 4:52 pm
Yair Golan urges center-left merger for ousting Netanyahu, but Lapid uninterested
The Democrats head calls for Yesh Atid and National Unity to join forces with him, insists broad center all on the same team; officials close to opposition leader say it’s a losing strategy
By Stav Levaton and Michael Bachner
Yair Golan (right) speaks at a conference in Beersheba as hecklers call him a traitor, on May 27, 2025. (screen capture: Kaye College's Sderot Conference via Facebook)
May 27, 2025, 4:20 pm
With calls of ‘traitor,’ hecklers disrupt Yair Golan speech at conference
The left-wing Democrats party leader argues back that protesters are tearing the country apart; opposition leaders condemn jeers, far-right minister Ben Gvir praises them
By ToI Staff
The Democrats party chairman Yair Golan is interviewed on Channel 12, May 24, 2025. (Channel 12)
May 25, 2025, 5:05 am
After controversy, Yair Golan says Israel ‘certainly does not’ kill Gaza babies ‘as a hobby’
After backlash, left-wing leader says he was expressing his fear that extremist government members would like to do so; ‘Is this the Israel we want? I genuinely ask myself that’
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Israel Katz seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 23, 2025, 7:23 pm
Katz bans former deputy IDF chief Yair Golan from reserves for ‘blood libel’
After defense minister bars him from bases or from wearing uniform, Golan notes he last donned it on Oct.7 when rushing to save people from ‘government’s horrific security failure’
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Left to right: The Democrats party chairman Yair Golan holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, May 20, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu at the archaeological site of Sebastia in the West Bank on May 12, 2025. (Courtesy of Heritage Ministry)
May 22, 2025, 1:43 pm
Far-right ministers blame Yair Golan for shooting of Israeli embassy staffers
‘Yair, the blood of the embassy employees is on your hands and on those of your friends,’ tweets Amichay Eliyahu; President Herzog calls on public to ‘stop this ugly mudslinging’
By Sam Sokol
Ehud Olmert testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 21, 2025, 10:45 am
Former PM Olmert tells BBC Israeli actions in Gaza ‘close to a war crime’
Comments criticizing war spark immediate backlash from right-wing politicians, who accuse him of ‘stabbing soldiers in the back’
By ToI Staff
The Democrats party chairman Yair Golan holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, May 20, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 20, 2025, 9:24 pm
Golan defends ‘killing babies’ comment, says it was directed at ‘failed’ government
Amid condemnation, left-wing leader, a former deputy IDF chief, says he supports soldiers and his words are meant for government that ‘sounds like Hamas’ when talking about starving children
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Leader of the Democrats party Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 19, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
May 20, 2025, 2:21 pm
Daily Briefing May 20: Day 592 – Fury as politician claims Israel kills Gazan babies ‘as a hobby’
Editor David Horovitz on world condemnation of Israel as the Gaza war ramps up and humanitarian aid enters the Strip slowly, and on domestic condemnation of Democrats head Yair Golan
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz
Leader of The Democrats party Yair Golan heads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 19, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
May 20, 2025, 2:15 pm
Outrage as opposition party leader Golan says Israel ‘killing babies as a hobby’ in Gaza
Ex-general says Israel becoming ‘pariah state’; PM accuses him of ‘antisemitic blood libel’; IDF chief condemns comment casting doubt on soldiers’ morality; Lapid: ‘Gift to our enemies’
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Head of The Democrats party Yair Golan, head of National Unity party Benny Gantz, head of Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid and head of Yisrael Beytenu party Avigdor Liberman hold a joint press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 20, 2025, 3:32 am
Liberman urges opposition parties to draft own version of Haredi enlistment bill
Lapid says ‘Zionist parties’ will meet next week to discuss the issue; Golan says he is on board; former PM Bennett also invited to join effort, but hasn’t yet responded
By Sam Sokol
The Democrats chairman Yair Golan leads his party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
May 12, 2025, 8:10 pm
As Edan Alexander freed, opposition chiefs accuse PM of bungling ties with Washington
The ‘Americans are fed up with Netanyahu,’ says Lapid, while Golan asserts release of hostage lone soldier due to US intervention constitutes an Israeli ‘national failure’
By Sam Sokol
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