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What Matters Now to Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser: Breaking the terror wave

After a bloody week, a leading intelligence expert analyses recent IDF successes in the West Bank, offers points for improvement and tells us what keeps him up at night

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the former head of the research division in the IDF’s Military Intelligence division and former Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs outside the Nomi Studios in Jerusalem, June 21, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

June 23, 2023, 5:56 am

What Matters Now to Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser: Breaking the terror wave

After a bloody week, a leading intelligence expert analyses recent IDF successes in the West Bank, offers points for improvement and tells us what keeps him up at night

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Palestinian demonstrators clash with Israeli security forces during a protest in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus, December 2, 2022 (Courtesy Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

December 6, 2022, 1:00 pm

Daily Briefing Dec. 6: Uptick in West Bank TikTok attacks; COVID vaccine study

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian discusses West Bank intel and Iron Beam project as health reporter Nathan Jeffay talks side effects of COVID shots and women’s health research

By ToI Staff

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a press conference in Ramat Gan, August 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

August 31, 2022, 4:57 pm

Israel sanctions 20 people and companies accused in Hamas money laundering front

Defense Minister Gantz says terror group manages hundreds of millions in investments through a network of shell companies in various countries

By ToI Staff

June 9, 2021, 2:21 pm

Daily Briefing June 9 – Netanyahu will not go gentle into that good night

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

By ToI Staff

Ori Kol of FakeReporter in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy of Ori Kol via JTA)

May 16, 2021, 5:00 am

To curb ethnic riots, ex-intel officers volunteer to spy on extremists online

Despite flagging imminent threats, such as the anti-Arab mob violence in Bat Yam, police are slow to act, says activist

By Asaf Shalev

A digital mock-up of a proposed Military Intelligence base that will be constructed in southern Israel. (Defense Ministry)

July 13, 2020, 2:13 pm

Mega-builder Shikun & Binui gets tender to build IDF intel complex in south

After delays and amid ongoing pushback by military, Defense Ministry moving forward with plan to relocate Intelligence Directorate to the northern Negev

By Judah Ari Gross

Still from video of IDF soldiers singing in Persian, which went viral on Iranian social media on May 3, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

May 4, 2018, 1:50 pm

Video of IDF soldiers singing Persian love song goes viral in Iran

IDF asks proud dad to take down clip of some 50 trainees in Intelligence Corps, but not before Iranian accounts repost the footage

By David Sedley

Ehud Olmert, right, and Ehud Barak in the Knesset on March 30, 2009. Miriam Alster/Flash90)

March 23, 2018, 5:09 am

Decade after clandestine Syria strike, revelation sparks a war for credit

Former leaders snipe at each other over who said what in lead-up to Israel’s bombing of Assad’s nuclear facility in 2007, while ex-spies blame each other for failing to spot danger

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset, March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

March 21, 2018, 6:29 pm

Defense minister regrets releasing details of attack on Syrian nuclear reactor

Liberman condemns public spat between former military intelligence and Mossad chiefs over who uncovered intel on reactor

By Stuart Winer

Working on a building for Gulliver's Gate. (Courtesy)

April 6, 2017, 1:48 am

It’s a small world, after all: Israeli creates a tiny universe in Times Square

Conceived by retired IDF officer Eiran Gazit, a $40m. fantastical 1:87 scale environment opens its doors in New York

By Cathryn J. Prince

Israeli soldiers at their base in the Jordan Valley (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

March 29, 2017, 3:55 am

IDF soldier dies after found unconscious on base

Army investigating death of Intelligence Corps soldier Lottem Kordover, 18, of Rishon Lezion

By ToI Staff

Scene of the accidental drowning death of Ilan Yankilevich, near Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel, on July 27, 2016. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

March 7, 2017, 12:43 am

3 former IDF officers charged in case of drowned soldier

Military prosecutor accuses 2 suspects of negligent manslaughter in drowing death of Ilan Yankilevich last July

By ToI Staff

Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi speaks at the Herzliya Conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on June 15, 2016. (Screen capture: IDC Herzliya)

September 20, 2016, 12:47 pm

Commanders of drowned IDF soldier to be dismissed

Army investigation into death of Ilan Yankilevich finds problems with senior officers’ command, routine safety procedures

By Stuart Winer

Projected aerial view of the IDF's advanced technology and training facilities near Beersheba (Courtesy: Ministry of Development for the Galilee and Negev)

August 17, 2016, 1:01 am

IDF takes first step to build new intel center in Negev

Move comes as part of multi-year relocation project to free up land in center of country, consolidate operations in south

By ToI Staff

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman awards an unnamed Military Intelligence officer with the Israel Defense Prize, alongside President Reuven Rivlin and Director-General of the Defense Ministry Udi Adam, left, during a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 28, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

June 28, 2016, 10:49 pm

It’s classified: Israel Defense Prize awarded for top-secret work

Rivlin, Liberman laud honorees for their shadowy but critical achievements; even images of the ceremony are blurred

By Judah Ari Gross