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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman on May 26, 2021. Credit: U.S. State Department photo by Ron Przysucha.

Jordan is ‘the eastern security zone against Iran’

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As the fallout from the latest Israeli conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip continues, Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz has spoken repeatedly in recent days of the need to strengthen a “coalition of...
A truck loaded with humanitarian aid passes through the Kerem Shalom border crossing, the main passage point for goods entering the Gaza Strip from Israel, May 21, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Israel resumes supply of goods, aid to Gaza Strip; fishing allowed

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has issued instructions to resume shipments of humanitarian goods into the Gaza Strip for the first time since “Operation Guardian of the Walls” ended in an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire that...
Israeli Border Police in Jaffa, where Arab Israelis have been rioting and causing damage, as part of a wave of internal violence in the Jewish state, May 11, 2021. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Gantz orders emergency call-up of Border Police to quell Arab-Israeli riots

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered the emergency call-up of 10 reserve Border Police companies to bolster beleaguered Israel Police forces dealing with widespread violence in Israeli cities. Gantz said he opposed dispatching Israel Defense...
An Orthodox Jewish man visits Mount Meron in northern Israel, where 45 Israelis lost their lives during a stampede at a Lag B'Omer celebration, May 3, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israeli AG: Provisional government can launch state probe into Meron disaster

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said on Monday that there is no legal impediment to establishing a state commission of inquiry into the Lag B’Omer disaster, not even in the case of a provisional government. “Although...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the Knesset, Oct. 21, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Cabinet approves Gantz as Israel’s justice minister, after about-face by Netanyahu

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Israel’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved the appointment of Blue and White leader Benny Gantz as Israel’s justice minister for the duration of the transitional government after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to the...
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and then-Cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Feb. 2, 2014. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel’s cabinet votes to appoint new justice minister, attorney general says vote is illegal

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A stormy cabinet session and a vote over the appointment of a new justice minister have thrown Israel into yet another political crisis. At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meet in Tel Aviv on April 11, 2021. Credit: Ariel Hermoni/Israeli Defense Ministry.

US secretary of defense arrives in Israel amid Iran tensions

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin touched down in Israel on Sunday for his first official visit to the country. The visit comes in the shadow of growing military tensions between Israel and Iran,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Finance Minister Yair Lapid at a cabinet meeting on October 7, 2014. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90.

The differences between Israel’s 2020 and 2021 elections

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Israelis will head to the polls next week for the fourth parliamentary elections in two years. The voters will determine which of the 13 parties polling near the electoral threshold will enter the 120-member...
Israeli Defense Benny Gantz during a visit on the Israel-Lebanon border on Nov. 17, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israel’s defense minister anticipates ‘special security arrangement’ with Gulf allies

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that Israel will develop a “special security arrangement” with its new Gulf allies, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Gantz, who was on a visit to the...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits the Israel-Lebanon border, on Nov. 17, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israel’s defense minister: Lebanese government must assume responsibility for Hezbollah

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Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned on Monday that “Israel will not hesitate to act” to defend itself against Iran or its proxies near Israel’s northern border. Gantz made the remarks during a memorial ceremony...