Tag: Israel Katz
Katz orders IDF to prepare for Judea and Samaria escalation
Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the Israel Defense Forces on Thursday to raise the state of alert in Judea and Samaria and prepare for a possible uptick in terrorist attacks in the area.
Katz said...
Katz orders IDF to create security zone beyond border with Syria
Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the Israel Defense Forces to create a secure area free of "heavy strategic weapons and terror infrastructure" beyond the buffer zone with Syria, the Defense Ministry announced Monday.
Katz said he...
Katz to forgo disciplinary action against Hagari following apology
Defense Minister Israel Katz will not tolerate partisan political statements from "anyone wearing a uniform" in the future, sources in the ministry told reporters on Thursday, a day after IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel...
Israeli DM tells IDF to suspend anti-government activist’s reserve duty
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has instructed the Israel Defense Forces to rescind leading anti-government activist Sgt. Maj. (res.) Eyal Naveh's call-up for reserve duty, the Defense Ministry announced on Sunday.
Naveh, one of the...
Netanyahu convenes closed-door meeting on Lebanon ceasefire talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a consultation on Sunday night with Defense Minister Israel Katz and other senior security officials to discuss the Lebanon ceasefire efforts, Hebrew media reported on Monday.
“We are close...
Netanyahu point man Ron Dermer meets Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at his Florida estate on Sunday, Axios reported on Monday, citing two Israeli and two American officials.
The former said that Dermer conveyed messages to Trump from...
Katz: ‘There will be no ceasefire and no pause’ in Lebanon
"There will be no ceasefire and no pause" in the fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday.
Following his first meeting on Monday with the IDF General Staff Forum,...
Israeli FM Katz: ‘There will be no ceasefire in the north’
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Thursday pushed back vehemently against reports of an impending ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
“There will be no ceasefire in the north," Katz wrote in a post to X.
"We...
British and French foreign ministers on way to Israel, Jerusalem says
The foreign ministers of France and the United Kingdom are set to touch down in Tel Aviv on Friday in a last-ditch attempt to prevent Iran from dragging the Middle East into all-out war,...
Israel cancels Norwegian diplomats’ status: ‘Attack us and pay a price’
Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz informed Oslo on Thursday that he was canceling the diplomatic status of eight Norwegian representatives operating out of the country’s embassy in Tel Aviv whose sole role was to...