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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 339

Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir, pictured in 1992. (photo credit: Flash90)
July 7, 2023, 5:37 pm
No government ministers attend state memorial for former Likud PM Shamir
Government also doesn’t send wreath for first time since ex-premier died in 2012; Knesset Speaker Ohana and several other prominent former Likud members attend
By ToI Staff
Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, arrives at a press conference in Jerusalem on February 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 23, 2021, 7:56 pm
Kahane lives? What does Itamar Ben Gvir, backed by Netanyahu, really stand for?
Debate is raging over whether the PM is helping a true disciple of Meir Kahane into the Knesset, or one who is an admirer but less racist. Here’s the evidence, and why it matters
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Yisrael Beytenu head, Avigdor Liberman, right. (Flash90)
July 11, 2019, 3:57 pm
In swipe at Liberman, PM says only he takes action to help Russian immigrants
Yisrael Beytenu head responds with derogatory quote about Netanyahu made by former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir in 2000
By ToI Staff
Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl meets delegates at an international conference on the Middle East in Warsaw, February 14, 2019 (Angelika Lauber)
February 22, 2019, 2:14 pm
Unfazed by current boycott, Austrian FM has fond memories of her time in Israel
Karin Kneissl, still shunned by Jerusalem for her ties with far-right Freedom Party, nostalgically recalls meeting Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Yitzhak Shamir in the late 80s
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, left, confers with Benjamin Netanyahu, a member of the Israel delegation, prior to the start of the opening session of the Mideast peace conference on Oct. 30, 1991 in Madrid. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev opened the conference between Israel and front line Arab States. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin)
December 5, 2018, 1:19 am
Netanyahu hated George H.W. Bush’s peace plan. Now it’s his policy
His opposition to the US-led Madrid peace process as deputy foreign minister made him persona non grata at the State Department
By Ron Kampeas
From left front, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Spanish Premier Felipe Gonzales and US President George H.W. Bush pose in front of delegates at the end of the first session of the Middle East peace conference held in the Palacio Real in Madrid, Spain, on October 30, 1991. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
December 2, 2018, 11:47 am
One little lonely guy, many legacies: 6 things to know for December 2
George H.W. Bush isn’t remembered as a big Israel-lover, but is still recalled for managing to kick off a peace process and helping rescue Jews around the world
By Joshua Davidovich
A person is helped by Spanish policemen and two men after a van ploughed into the crowd, killing at least 13 people and injuring around 100 others, on the Las Ramblas Boulevard in Barcelona, Spain, on August 17, 2017. (AFP/Nicolas Carvalho Ochoa)
August 18, 2017, 2:17 pm
Learning from carnage in the heart of Europe
Covering the terrorist attack in Barcelona, dailies argue that authorities have internalized the Islamist threat and are getting better at dealing with it
By Adiv Sterman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Likud supporters at a rally designed to deliver a powerful show of force as he battles a slew of corruption allegations, August 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
August 10, 2017, 1:37 pm
The king’s speech
The PM’s latest attack on the left and the media is seen by some pundits as an attempt to divert attention from investigations surrounding him, while others assert that he is being ‘persecuted’ because he leads the right
By Adiv Sterman
Former Likud minister and Israeli diplomat Avraham Sharir speaks during an August 2014 interview. (screen capture: YouTube)
March 25, 2017, 12:46 pm
Former Likud minister Avraham Sharir dies at 84
Ex-lawmaker retired from politics in 1992 after becoming involved in a political move that failed to oust then-PM Itzhak Shamir
By ToI Staff
President Shimon Peres at a ceremony upon his reception of the Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday, June 26, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)
October 1, 2016, 3:54 am
Mr. Peres goes to Washington
How Ben-Gurion’s young arms broker gave up on the Americans, only to become Israel’s most beloved figure in the US capital a half-century later
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
Almost a decade after the failed London Agreement, prime minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan meet in the Royal Palace in Amman in December 1995. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 30, 2016, 3:12 pm
Missed opportunity? The 1987 Peres-Hussein peace deal that wasn’t
Pushed by Margaret Thatcher, Shimon Peres believed the London Agreement would have averted the Intifada. Here’s what went wrong
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
President Shimon Peres in 2009 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 28, 2016, 5:19 am
Beloved abroad, polarizing at home, Peres was the peace-making face of Israel
Ultimately respected as Israel’s elder statesman, Peres — who was prime minister and president but never won a popular vote — enjoyed a uniquely lengthy and turbulent political career
By Raphael Ahren
Miriam Eshkol, wife of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, dancing with then Ugandan foreign minister Sam Odaka and army chief (and later president) Idi Amin on a visit to an army base outside Kampala, June, 1966. (GPO)
June 29, 2016, 7:47 pm
When the Israeli prime minister’s wife took a twirl with Idi Amin
As Netanyahu prepares for a whirlwind trip to Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda next week, Israel releases previously unseen pictures of previous PMs’ visits to Africa
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during an evening to mark the 100 years since the birth of former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on February 28, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)
February 29, 2016, 6:04 am
Netanyahu: Palestinian terrorism not motivated by despair
Prime minister says Arabs’ frustration caused not by their inability to build but their inability to destroy Israel
By ToI Staff
US President Barack Obama arrives to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2011 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
July 21, 2015, 11:16 am
AIPAC girds for rare high-noon showdown with White House
Iran deal marks first open rift in more than 20 years over a president’s major foreign policy initiative. Precedents indicate the pro-Israel lobby has cause for concern
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
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