Tag: Yoav Gallant
Gallant asks ministers to eschew politics on Memorial Day
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant sent a letter to government ministers and Knesset members on Thursday requesting that they stress unity in official state speeches on Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day next week.
“I would...
Netanyahu, Gallant hold traditional Passover toasts in sign of unity
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Israel Defense Forces Deputy Chief-of-Staff Maj. Gen. Amir Baram held a traditional Passover toast on Monday with soldiers at the Adam Base, near Modi’in.
The...
Netanyahu, Gallant to address nation amid mass civil disobedience
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has delayed his trip to London and will address the nation at 8:40 p.m. on Thursday amid mass civil disobedience by opponents of the government’s judicial reform program.
His announcement...
Netanyahu, Gallant, Smotrich reach deal on authority over Civil Administration
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday signed a document of understandings regarding the division of responsibility in the Defense Ministry, in which Smotrich also...
Smotrich slams Gallant over razing of Jewish-owned property in Samaria
he Israeli Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration ordered the razing on Wednesday of a Jewish-owned olive grove and orchard in Samaria, in defiance of instructions by Minister in the Defense Ministry Bezalel Smotrich.
Security forces reportedly...
Smotrich assumes reins of Civil Administration after meeting top defense officials
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich held a meeting on Thursday with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the head of the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), in a bid to delineate their...
Israeli ex-security leaders sound warning over deteriorating domestic security
Former Israeli minister Maj. Gen. (res.) Yoav Gallant said on Tuesday that unless immediate action was taken regarding the deteriorating domestic security situation, there was a “large concern” security forces could lose control.
Speaking at...
Israel bars anti-Zionist groups from lecturing in schools amid B’Tselem claims of ‘apartheid’
Earlier this month, Israel’s education minister moved to ban B’Tselem from lecturing in Israeli schools after the self-described human-rights group accused the government of being an “apartheid regime.”
“The Ministry of Education under my leadership...