Tag: Moshe Yaalon

The aim is to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be more flexible in his conditions for the establishment of a unity government.

Using the Arab card is the only move left for Netanyahu, who realizes that allowing Blue&White take over—even for a very short while—would change the political scene radically.

The unnatural alliance between Gantz and Lapid is what is preventing the formation of a government and may bring about new elections.

If Netanyahu comes in with 55 seats, he shouldn't really have to offer a rotation at the helm, seeing as Gantz only has 44 backers.

Rivlin pointed out as they gathered for the meeting that not even five months had passed but "we are back at the same table."

Fifth Dimension senior officials participated in police discussion about contacting their company to check the suitability of the system they offered for police needs, which gave them the upper hand over competing companies.

Barak presents himself as the statesman who can lead the left to victory. That's a big difference between himself and the generals at Blue & White: he is unafraid to declare himself part of Israel's left.

"The turnover government will be elected only if out of 900,000 eligible Arab voters, 800,000 will show up."

The accusations that tweaking the high court's power to intervene in the political process means the demise of Israel's democracy is clearly an exaggeration.

You can use the veil of "national security" to hide things from the press, but to hide them from the very stewards of national security?

The Likud would rather not confront Ya'alon, who has been on the record from the start against purchasing that extra submarine.

"I will not sit with Netanyahu in the government," Gantz declared, but it was on radio so you couldn't see if he was crossing his fingers.

All the different polls are predicting a resounding win to the Gantz-Lapid union, yielding together a higher figure than they would have going it alone, the fact remains that there are more right- than left-wing Israeli Jews.

This brings the number of former IDF commanders on the new slate to three, making it the most militaristic party since Augusto Pinochet.

A long list of political leaders immediately pointed out that the destruction of the tombstone (which according to pictures may or may not have been an accident) was a deliberate attack on them.

Gantz is expected to run as part of the opposition bloc against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.

This could be the ultimate case of tunnel vision.

All Liberman has to offer in response to Bennett's jabs is scorn and sarcasm, which reveals an echo chamber mentality that could come back to hurt him in the next elections.

"On the existing map, we can preserve our interests, so that there will not be a bi-national state."

Rebbetzin Henkin reminded Ya'alon of the actual findings of the investigation that followed her loved one's murder, as they were reflected in the court proceeding against the killers – something an expert on Ya'alon's level should be familiar with.

"If Bogey is feeling guilty, it should be for the fact that he was guided by his preference of maintaining the fabric of life of Arabs over the actual lives of Jews," Mesika wrote angrily.

Rothkopf's attack is so bereft of fact and so dependent entirely on the ways the author maligns facts and impressions about Israel's tough issues, one must wonder from which yard this cat has dragged his other gifts into the house.

Welcome to the next big Israeli sovereignty story – which on Wednesday morning is expected to take place in Hebron. The Hebron brigade commander...

In 2014, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon rejected the same plan outright.

The inherent philosophy of the Iron Dome anti-missile system matches Ya'alon's inherent philosophy of risking life and treasure not to defeat and eliminate, but to catch and release the enemy.

Sources in Ya'alon's circle said the former defense minister would not align himself with the left, and that any attempt to associate him with the left 'is ridiculous.'

Israelis would be more willing to forgive the PM for smoking thousand-dollar gift cigars than for losing the creative edge of the defense apparatus.

To sum up: cynicism is a common trait among politicians, but cynicism while your own hands are stained with the blood of your victim… that's special.

The mixed battalions will be relocated to their own boot camp base, apart from the rest of the infantry's training facilities.

The AG and Prosecutor have decided there's nothing criminal to investigate against Netanyahu from Channel 10's report.