On Tuesday evening, a political earthquake shook Israel: In the midst of war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed his defense ... their self-segregated community—and exemption from the military draft, on the grounds that young ultra-Orthodox ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed his popular defense minister, Yoav Gallant, in a surprise announcement that came as the country is embroiled in wars on multiple fronts across the region.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday, just two days after he was fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Austin told Gallant that he was “a trusted partner and friend” and one whose “expertise,

Dismissed minister wants to stay in the ruling Likud party, but PM's loyalists, who view him as part of the opposition, will be seeking a pretext to declare him a defector The post Gallant’s firing isn’t the end of Netanyahu’s campaign against his ex-defense minister appeared first on The Times of Israel.