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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

Yom Tov Samia

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz seen with members of the Druze community and activists outside his home in Rosh Ha'ayin, during a protest against the nation-state law, January 14, 2019. (Flash90)
January 24, 2019, 8:55 pm
Gantz said looking to enlist labor union chief for Knesset slate
Former IDF chief is reportedly seeking to diversify a list of candidates believed to be heavily populated with ex-generals
By ToI Staff
FILE: Former IDF brigadier general Gal Hirsch gives a press conference in Tel Aviv announcing his entry into politics, December 26, 2018. (Flash90)
January 8, 2019, 4:46 pm
Despite possible indictments, ex-IDF general Gal Hirsch launches political party
Former candidate for police chief, under investigation for tax evasion, names his party ‘Shield of Israel’; his is the fourth new party launched by ex-generals
By ToI Staff
Fans are pumped for the arrival of Britney Spears in Israel for her July 3 show (Courtesy Britney Spears)
April 5, 2017, 12:21 pm
Oops! Britney concert bumps back Labor primaries
Party officials are worried about traffic caused by Spears’s Tel Aviv concert in July, though Herzog not planning to attend
By Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff
Yair Golan salutes after laying a flower wreath at a memorial during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem on May 5, 2016. (Noam Moskowitz/Pool)
May 9, 2016, 2:26 pm
Generals say the darnedest things
Never mind it’s two days before Memorial Day. Comments made by normally lionized army brass spark crossfire from pundits and politicians
By Joshua Davidovich
Maj. Gen. Sami Turgeman speaks at an event for Israeli reserve soldiers at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on May 8, 2016. (Flash90)
May 9, 2016, 8:40 am
Generals tangle over blemished legacy of 2014 Gaza war
Southern chief during Protective Edge blasts his former deputy for ‘foolish’ claim the IDF is trying to cover up its failure
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF infantrymen congregating around a tunnel entrance in Gaza, July 24, 2014. (Courtesy IDF Flickr)
February 1, 2016, 6:50 pm
Be more aggressive in Strip, ex-Gaza general urges
Retired major general Yom-Tov Samia says army should have maintained presence along Philadelphi Corridor
By Daniel Douek and ToI Staff
Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz delivers a speech during a conference called 'From Operation Protective Edge to the Third Intifada' at Sapir College in Sderot on Nov. 2, 2015. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
November 3, 2015, 1:35 am
A year after Gaza war, Israel’s military experts wonder: Was it worth it?
Then-IDF chief Benny Gantz blandly defends operation against Hamas as ‘the right thing to do,’ but joins chorus concluding it achieved little
By Judah Ari Gross
Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog (L), with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2013. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
December 26, 2014, 3:36 pm
Likud and Labor-Hatnua neck and neck in new poll
In wake of graft scandal, Liberman down one mandate; former general Yom-Tov Samia set to join Labor
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Yom-Tov Samia (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 17, 2014, 5:00 am
Top general says Israel should have hit tunnels sooner
Alongside his criticism, Yom-Tov Samia praises military for Gaza operation, says Hamas sustained a ‘mortal blow’
By ToI Staff
Philippe Karsenty, Jewish-French politician and focus of legal battle over the al-Dura video. (photo credit: CC BY Philippe Karsenty, Wikimedia Commons)
June 26, 2013, 4:40 pm
Leading critic of French al-Dura coverage convicted
Philippe Karsenty found guilty of defamation for accusing France 2 of staging Palestinian boy’s death
By ToI Staff and AP
A screen capture of the video showing the Muhammad al-Dura incident.
May 20, 2013, 1:30 am
Father of al-Dura disputes Israeli claim, says open to probe of death
Jamal al-Dura rejects report that his son was not shot by Israeli forces and not killed in 2000 incident
By Joshua Davidovich and Mitch Ginsburg
A screen capture of the video showing the Muhammad al-Durra incident. (Image capture from YouTube)
May 19, 2013, 6:20 pm
Second Intifada icon Muhammad al-Dura didn’t die in 2000 shooting, Israel claims
Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all
By Mitch Ginsburg
Nahum Shahaf at work in his study (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)
April 4, 2013, 10:43 pm
Nahum Shahaf’s relentless Muhammad al-Dura dissent
The man who spurred on much of the investigation into the killing of the Gaza 14-year-old reflects on the controversy and vows to persevere
By Mitch Ginsburg
An infantry soldier on the Israel-Gaza border at the height of Operation Cast Lead, Jan 6 2009. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 12, 2012, 5:22 pm
Time to clear out Gaza terror once and for all, say some on right
But opposition warns against escalation and government rules out ground offensive, for now
By Raphael Ahren
A farm building in southern Israel which was hit directly by a rocket. (photo credit: IDF Spokesman's Office)
March 11, 2012, 9:11 pm
Egypt without Mubarak may have trouble brokering ceasefire
‘Egypt cannot continue to play the good and the bad guy whenever it’s convenient,’ says one former IDF division head
By Raphael Ahren
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