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Operation Protective Edge

A soldier enters an armored vehicle at a staging area for troops on the border with Gaza, on May 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 17, 2023, 3:09 pm
After years of dead-end air campaigns, pinpoint use of ground forces may offer way out
Yet another round underlined the overreliance on fire power and Iron Dome. The IDF doesn’t want to retake Gaza, but has a ‘Concept for Victory’ that puts troops in enemy territory
By Lazar Berman
Lt. Col. 'Daled,' the commanding officer of the elite Duvdevan unit. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 21, 2023, 11:44 am
Reservists urge Regev to oust ex-battalion head from torch-lighting ceremony role
Reservist paratroopers say Lt. Col. ‘Daled’, now head of elite Duvdevan unit, falsely claimed eye injury occurred during 2014 Gaza battle; IDF backs his version of events
By Michael Horovitz
A masked member of Hamas holds up the supposed weapon of slain Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, as the terror group's Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar looks on during a rally, December 14, 2022 (Video screenshot)
December 14, 2022, 9:58 pm
Hamas, celebrating its anniversary, brandishes gun of IDF soldier killed in 2014
Terror group says window for return of slain soldiers’ bodies is closing as it issues various threats against the Jewish state
By Jack Mukand
IDF veteran Ohad Roisblatt speaks to a group of New York University students in New York City, October 19, 2022. (Courtesy)
November 20, 2022, 3:19 pm
Wounded IDF veterans tour US colleges as campus climate sours
Former soldiers describe experiences with war and terror to Jews coping with collegiate anti-Zionism; new report claims increasing attacks on Jewish student identity
By Luke Tress
Batteries of Israel's Iron Dome defence missile system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, are stationed in southern Israel on August 6, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)
August 7, 2022, 11:19 am
Iron Dome at 97% success rate after 580 rockets fired from Gaza since Friday
Missile defense system has intercepted 200 projectiles, while 120 fell inside Gaza; interception rate has gradually improved since first use in IDF operation in 2012
By ToI Staff
Stuart Steinberg (second from left), Sam Grundwerg, and Evie Steinberg, stand in front of Sgt. Max Steinberg’s grave at Mt. Herzl national military cemetery, July 20, 2022 (Jacob Rivkin/The Times of Israel)
July 26, 2022, 10:23 am
8 years later, fallen soldier’s family returns to Israel, now with deep connections
The parents of US-born lone soldier Max Steinberg, killed in Gaza in 2014, didn’t know anyone in the country at his funeral; now they are embracing the nation that showed its love
By Jacob Rivkin
Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a state ceremony on Mount Herzl commemorating fallen soldiers in Operation Protective Edge, July 10, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)
July 10, 2022, 8:54 pm
Israel must find new way to deal with Gaza, says PM at ceremony for fallen soldiers
At state event marking 8th anniversary of Operation Protective Edge, Lapid and Defense Minister Gantz vow to continue working for return of slain IDF soldiers’ remains
By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff
Smoke billows from a beach shack in Gaza City following an IDF strike in which four children were killed, July 16, 2014. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
April 24, 2022, 11:53 pm
Top Israeli court rejects appeal in 2014 Gaza beach airstrike that killed 4 children
Justices uphold prior rulings that the death of four Palestinian boys during the 2014 war was a tragic mistake, not military malfeasance
By AP
Reuven Magen. (Courtesy)
March 13, 2022, 11:15 am
IDF veteran injured in 2014 Gaza war dies by suicide at 27
Sister of Reuven Magen says his struggle with PTSD became ‘even harder since pandemic,’ says he was ‘a source of light who left a profound impression on everyone around him’
By Tobias Siegal
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, September 29, 2014. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
December 7, 2021, 1:15 pm
Dutch court rejects suit claiming Gantz liable for civilian deaths in Gaza airstrike
Dutch-Palestinian Ismail Ziada seeking damages for 6 relatives killed in 2014; court rules it is not competent to judge case, senior IDF officers were carrying out official policy
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Staff Sgt. Bnaya Rubel, 20 years old, was killed in action during Operation Edge. (Photo credit: IDF)
July 11, 2021, 8:54 am
Family of soldier killed in Gaza seeks to retrieve stolen hard drive of memories
Sister-in-law of Staff Sgt. Bnaya Rubel, who died in 2014, says thieves stole device containing emotionally ‘priceless’ files of fallen serviceman
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a state memorial ceremony marking even years since Operation Protective Edge at the National Memorial Hall at the entrance to the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, June 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 20, 2021, 8:41 pm
Bennett warns Hamas: ‘Our patience has run out’
Sporadic rocket fire won’t be tolerated, PM says at memorial event for 2014 war in Gaza; vows to return remains of soldiers held by Hamas since conflict
By ToI Staff
Incoming ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan in Baghdad, July 27, 2019. (Sabah Arar/AFP)
June 16, 2021, 4:04 pm
With Israel-Hamas probe on agenda, Karim Khan sworn in as ICC chief prosecutor
The British lawyer urges countries to utilize Hague-based court only as ‘last resort’; predecessor warns of efforts to ‘politicize’ investigations
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Iron Dome in action, on May 13, 2021. (Avichai Socher/IDF)
May 13, 2021, 1:11 pm
Iron Dome has saved many lives, but has it made Israel safer?
Though tactically a runaway success, some believe the active missile defense system blunted Israel’s traditional boldness and gave leaders cover to let the Hamas threat fester
By Lazar Berman
In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP Photo)
April 16, 2021, 8:57 am
How Israel kept the Arab Spring from becoming the winter of its discontent
Under Netanyahu’s leadership, the Jewish state survived the difficult early years to come out on top as Iran and jihadists are on the defensive
By Lazar Berman
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