Tag: Benny Gantz
Sa’ar breaks from Gantz, demands to join War Cabinet
Israeli Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced an end to his political partnership with Benny Gantz on Tuesday night, five months after their National Unity Party joined the country’s wartime government.
“I respect my friends, the representatives...
British PM, Gantz hold unscheduled London meeting
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joined a meeting between his National Security Adviser Tim Barrow and Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz on Wednesday at 10 Downing Street.
Sunak’s participation provided an additional air of...
War Cabinet’s Gantz, Eizenkot propose reducing aid to Gaza
Ministers-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz and Gadi Eizenkot, who both serve in the War Cabinet, proposed that Israel limit the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
They made the suggestion during closed-door meetings in recent...
Gantz: PM must decide on 7 issues for ongoing conduct of war
Minister-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz, a member of the War Cabinet, recently presented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Council with a list of seven issues he demanded be clarified for the continuation of the war.
According...
Israel posts pics of the 40 kids held hostage by Hamas in Gaza
On Monday, World Children's Day, Israel tweeted a picture collage of the 40 Israelis under the age of 18 being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.
The day commemorates the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by...
Gantz: This isn’t the time to replace Netanyahu
Benny Gantz, currently serving as part of Israel's War Cabinet, has said in private conversations that the idea of replacing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the middle of the war is "nothing less than...
Netanyahu, Gantz agree on unity government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz reached a deal to establish a unity government on Wednesday, the fifth day of Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
According to the...
Gantz meets with Biden officials amid Saudi normalization talk
Israel's National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz paid a visit to Washington, D.C., this week for meetings with top Biden administration officials, the opposition politician revealed on Thursday.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter),...
Dutch Supreme Court: Gantz immune from 2014 ‘war crimes’ suit
The Netherlands' highest court ruled on Friday that former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was immune from civil prosecution over the deaths of six Palestinians in an airstrike undertaken by the Israel Defense Forces...
Trump, Netanyahu and the renaissance of Soviet apparatchiks
During the Cold War, when Soviet émigrés tried to tell Westerners what it was like living under Soviet communism, their explanations usually began with a discussion of the media.
They would say something like, “You...