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Kurdish protesters demonstrate with placards reading "No to dictatorship" and the portrait of the leader of the Kurdistan PKK Workers' Party, Abdullah Ocalan in the city center of Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on March 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/dpa/Boris Roessler)
September 13, 2017, 12:54 am
Rebuffing former top general, Netanyahu says Kurdish PKK a terror group
PM chides Turkey for not recognizing Hamas as a terror group in kind, expresses support for Kurdish independence
By Joshua Davidovich and Agencies
Former IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Golan addresses the Washington Institute's 2017 Zeev Schiff Memorial Lecture on September 10, 2017.
September 10, 2017, 10:52 am
Israel would need US military help to confront Iran, ex-deputy IDF chief says
Yair Golan says IDF 'must know its limitations' if it hopes to score a meaningful victory over the Islamic Republic
By Tamar Pileggi
Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Yair Golan in August 2015 (Gefen Reznik/IDF Spokesperson)
July 11, 2017, 5:56 pm
Outgoing general defends his controversial Holocaust Remembrance Day speech
In exit interview, IDF No. 2 Yair Golan says he was shocked by backlash last year when he compared Israeli societal trends to those of pre-WWII Germany
By Judah Ari Gross
Incoming Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi Golan shakes hands with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot at a ceremony in the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on May 11, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
May 11, 2017, 7:07 pm
Aviv Kochavi takes over from Yair Golan as IDF deputy chief
Muni Katz replaces Tal Russo as head of mysterious Depth Corps; Liberman says army's 'human element' has no parallel
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Cybertech Israel Conference and Exhibition, in Tel Aviv on January 31, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 26, 2017, 5:44 pm
Israeli cyber authority says it stopped ‘major’ hacking attack
Details released by PM's office days after defense and intelligence heads reportedly slammed the contentious National Cyber Authority
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Cybertech Israel Conference and Exhibition, in Tel Aviv on January 31, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 24, 2017, 10:22 pm
Security chiefs slam Netanyahu over planned cyber defense body
Defense and intelligence heads say powers given National Cyber Authority 'too broad,' could harm state security
By Jacob Magid
Gen. Petr Pavel speaks during the Munich Security Conference in 2016. (Zwez/MSC/Wikimedia/CC BY 3.0)
March 9, 2017, 12:51 am
NATO general visits Israel after stops in Egypt, Jordan
Chairman of organization's military committee meets with IDF deputy chief of staff, top generals
By Judah Ari Gross
Head of US European Command Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti meets with IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot in the military's Tel Aviv headquarters, as part of an official visit, on March 6, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
March 6, 2017, 10:56 am
US’s European military chief visits Israel in first trip under Trump
EUCOM's Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti meets IDF chief in Tel Aviv, slated to speak with heads of Military Intelligence, Gaza Division
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, July 13, 2016 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
January 21, 2017, 9:03 pm
IDF chief released from hospital after cancer operation
Gadi Eisenkot to recuperate at home until next month; doctors removed tumor on his prostate
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot at a ceremony in Jerusalem, on March 25, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 19, 2017, 8:11 pm
IDF chief undergoes surgery to remove cancerous tumor
Doctors found growth in Gadi Eisenkot's prostate 2 months ago; deputy Yair Golan assumes post of acting chief of staff
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya January 2, 2017. (Flash90)
January 19, 2017, 2:08 pm
IDF chief hospitalized for unspecified treatment
Gadi Eisenkot's condition was discovered 2 months ago; deputy Yair Golan assumes post of acting chief of staff
By TOI staff
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 31, 2016, 4:45 pm
IDF chief lands in US for cross-country work visit
Traveling to Washington, Florida and Utah, Eisenkot will meet American counterparts, as Israel, US finalize aid package
By Judah Ari Gross
Meeting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Rome, Italy, on June 27, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
June 27, 2016, 12:48 pm
Families of missing soldiers to meet Netanyahu, UN chief
On heels of Israel-Turkey deal, Erdogan apologizes to Putin for downing fighter jet in November; Liberman says he opposes Turkey deal
By Ilan Ben Zion
Ehud Barak speaks at the Herzliya Conference, June 16, 2016. (Adi Cohen Zedek)
June 16, 2016, 9:35 pm
Barak flogs Netanyahu, laments ‘budding fascism’ in Israel
Former PM accuses premier of lying about his desire for Palestinian statehood, cheapening the Holocaust by 'Hitlerizing' every threat
By Judah Ari Gross
Veteran military correspondent Roni Daniel responds to the furor over his recent comments that he is not sure he wants his children to remain in Israel, during a panel discussion on Channel 2's Friday night news program, on May 27, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)
May 27, 2016, 10:13 pm
Top Israeli reporter doubles down on ‘not sure I want my kids to stay here’ critique
'I do not take back a single word of what I said,' Roni Daniel says, warning Israel 'is on a slippery slope'
By TOI staff
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