Israel’s Yishai apologizes for saying soldiers do not have faith

Published on January 18, 2012

Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai apologized for saying that Israel fell short in the Second Lebanon War because its soldiers did not have faith.

WikiLeaks to release more Israel cables

Published on December 23, 2010

WikiLeaks will release sensitive leaked diplomatic cables regarding Israel in the coming months, its founder said.

Barak stays after Winograd Report, Olmert survives

By Leslie Susser
Published on February 7, 2008

After the long-awaited final report of the Winograd Commission of inquiry into the Second Lebanon War was published last week, all eyes turned toward Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

Barak, the Labor Party leader, was the one man whose withdrawal of his party from the governing coalition could topple Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose wartime performance was the subject of much criticism in the report.

Hey, Hezbollah! Stop the rockets, we’re eating dinner here!

By Glenn Yago
Published on July 12, 2007

Adding to the litany of heartbreak, the outbreak that we would soon call the Second Lebanon War erupted more than a week before the accompanying photo was taken in my friend's backyard in the biblical landscape of the Western Galilee village of Clil.

The Second Lebanon War—one year later

By Leslie Susser
Published on July 5, 2007

One year after the Second Lebanon War, Israel's northern front is quiet, U.N. forces are patrolling the border area and Hezbollah fighters have been pushed back deep inside Lebanese territory.

Campfire stories from Israel at Ramah:
'I felt a missile go just over my head'

By Rabbi Daniel Greyber
Published on July 5, 2007

My pre-camp seminar with 35 staff members from Israel had just wrapped up, but Avinoam, our 21-year-old Israeli basketball coach for the summer, lingered behind, looking nervous and shaken.

Fires of war can’t extinguish the magnitude and majesty of Galilee’s forests

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on July 5, 2007

"We're all healing -- emotionally, psychologically, ecologically," said Paul M. Ginsberg, director of the Forest Department in the Northern Region Office of Keren Kayemeth Leisrael (KKL), the Israeli arm of the Jewish National Fund. He stood on a hillside looking over the Hula Valley, north of the Sea of Galilee. At his back was a hillside forest of trees, many of them charred from last summer's rocket fire.

How the victorious IDF of 1967 become the defeated IDF of 2006

By Martin van Creveld
Published on May 31, 2007

Nearly a year has passed since Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon and 40 since the June 1967 war. Those familiar with last summer's war might well rub their eyes in disbelief. Given how badly the Israel Defense Forces performed in Lebanon, where it was stymied by a guerrilla organization numbering just a few thousand fighters, is it really true that once upon a time the IDF routed four Arab armies in just six days?

Incumbency aids Olmert in surviving party ‘coup’

By Leslie Susser
Published on May 10, 2007

By all accounts, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should have been history. The Winograd Commission's interim report issued April 30 on last summer's second Lebanon War could not have been more scathing. The paragraph on the prime minister's responsibility for the failures and shortcomings in top-level decision-making speaks for itself.

What now after Winograd?

By Dina Kraft
Published on May 3, 2007

With "failure" officially stamped on Ehud Olmert's management of last summer's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, the question is: What happens now?

Israel needs to rethink national security

By Gidi Grinstein
Published on April 26, 2007

Celebrations of Israel's 59th year of independence may be overshadowed by the Winograd Commissions' interim report on the political and military leadership's conduct during the Second Lebanon War last summer.