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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 569

Yigal Allon

Israeli premier Golda Meir, during a press conference at the Israeli embassy in Rome, Italy, on January 15, 1973. (AP Photo/ Giuseppe Anastasi)
July 31, 2023, 10:56 pm
Declassified protocols indicate Golda Meir considered Palestinian statehood
Documents show that former prime minister gave serious thought to possibility of formation of a Palestinian entity, despite public comments
By ToI Staff
File: A general view of a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit, taken March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
February 9, 2017, 9:24 am
As Trump era begins, what does Israel actually want in the West Bank?
The settlements grow apace, peace remains stalled and Israel’s intentions seem a genuine mystery in Western capitals. Yet the question has a surprisingly simple answer, one which hasn’t changed since 1948
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan meet with troops on the Golan Heights, on November 21, 1973. (Ron Frenkel/GPO)
October 3, 2013, 8:39 pm
‘Dayan pushed PM Meir to consider using nuclear weapons in 1973 war’
Former government aide says the defense minister, badly shaken on day two of the Yom Kippur War, suggested the ultimate option… and Meir told him to ‘forget it’
By Mitch Ginsburg
Villa Tehila (photo by Shmuel Bar-Am)
June 15, 2013, 3:47 pm
Natural cornerstone: The blossoming of Rosh Pina
Lush and colorful, you’d never know that this little town was once plagued by starvation, drought, disease — and a wedding shootout
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin accompanied by Henry Kissinger on their way to a meeting with president Ford at the White House, June 1975. (photo credit: Yaakov Saar/GPO)
April 8, 2013, 9:16 pm
We don’t intend to build nukes, Israel told US in 1975
Newly published documents also shed light on Rabin, Peres visits to Tehran in 1976 and Dayan plan to give citizenship to Palestinians in Ramallah and Bethlehem
By Raphael Ahren
Mount Arbel fort (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
March 27, 2013, 2:11 am
Caves of Arbela: The ultimate hiding place
Even Herod could not vanquish the guerrilla cave dwellers who lodged in these extremely steep cliffs atop a very deep valley
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Divisional commander Ariel Sharon consulting with Lt. Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev and other officers on the southern front (Photo credit: GPO/ Flash 90)
October 24, 2012, 6:04 pm
Egypt’s Sadat is ‘not worth tomatoes,’ reservist professor assured Israel’s military intelligence before 1973 war
39 years after Yom Kippur War ends, newly released material shows more Israeli blunders, but also indicates that Syria could have held the Golan Heights but for an elementary mistake
By Mitch Ginsburg
Protesters in Tel Aviv Saturday night. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
June 24, 2012, 1:52 pm
Gripes of wrath
Leef’s minions wreak havoc in Tel Aviv, rockets rain on Sderot, and a toddler learns the joys of smoking
By Joshua Davidovich
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