Gadi Eizenkot

Bennett surges to 22 seats as Likud falls, opposition inches toward forming gov't - poll

The Likud would get 25 seats, Religious Zionist party would not cross the threshold, and an opposition coalition would secure 60 seats, putting it on the brink of forming a government.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ministers at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 8, 2025.
MKs Gadi Eisenkot (L) and Benny Gantz (R) seen in the Knesset plenum, in Jerusalem, December 4, 2024

Gantz, Lapid push back against haredi draft exemption bill in the Knesset

Opposition MKs called the proposed haredi draft exemption bill harmful to IDF soldiers and warned of an intense parliamentary and public struggle to block its swift passage.

|ByELIAV BREUER
MK Gadi Eisenkot and Head of the National Unity party MK Benny Gantz hold a press conference in Ramat Gan, September 3, 2024.

Gantz: If Netanyahu is too weak to stand up to international pressure, he should go home

Gantz attacked Netanyahu for failing to progress the war fast enough and then delaying the peace process for his own political interests.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Minister Benny Gantz attend a press conference at the Defense Ministry in November.

Gallant, Gantz, and Eisenkot agree to meet with hostage families' representatives

Defense officials agreed to meet hostages' families before the war cabinet meeting, following their urgent request for updates on efforts to return all hostages.

|ByURI SELA

IDF: Shi'ite militias fired rockets at Israel from Syria

The rockets failed to hit Israeli territory.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Iranian Quds Force sites in Aqrabeh, Syria, targeted to thwart killer drone attack

Eisenkot: UNIFIL has important role in neutralizing Hezbollah tunnels

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot said that the Lebanese government is responsible for Hezbollah's tunnel activity in southern Lebanon.

DECEMBER 9, 2018ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot and UNIFIL head Maj.-Gen. Stefano Del Col

Is the IDF ready for war?

Last June, the IDF’s chief ombudsman, Gen.(res.) Yitzhak Brick, issued an urgent report in which he claimed that the military’s readiness for war is dangerously deteriorating.

NOVEMBER 28, 2018ByAVI JAGER
IDF soldiers near the Gaza border

Two officials resign advisory c'tee over conflict of interest on Netanyahu

The resignations of Yaakov Nagel and Iris Stark comes following an interim order by the High Court of Justice to freeze the proceedings of the Goldberg committee.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Police chief Roni Alsheikh and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot salute at a Remembrance Day ceremony for Israel’s Fallen

Citizen returns phone number found to be recycled from IDF Chief of Staff

It is unclear why the army did not freeze the phone number rather than returning it to the cellular company.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
Gadi Eizenkot IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen.

IDF Chief of Staff calls on troops to keep politics out of the army

Officer suspended for Facebook post: ‘Why do I need to serve the state?’

JULY 31, 2018ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot

Avi Gabbay: Netanyahu must go due to rocket fire from Gaza

"This [rocket fire] is the result of four years of the security cabinet not making decisions," Avi Gabbay said.

JULY 14, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN
Labor Party Chair Avi Gabbay

Nat'l Journalists Assoc. demands inquiry into death of Gaza photographer

Yasser Murtaja, 31, was killed while covering Friday's protests in Gaza.

APRIL 8, 2018BySHOSHANA KRANISH
Mortally wounded Palestinian journalist Yasser Murtaja, 31, is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops at the Israel-Gaza border, in the southern Gaza Strip April 6, 2018.

Eisenkot: War with Gaza could break out this year

Netanyahu said that Israel, by its presence in the region, is the central factor in the Middle East blocking the spread of radical Islam.

FEBRUARY 4, 2018ByHERB KEINON, ADAM RASGON
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot visits Hamas terror tunnels on the Gaza border

National-religious rabbi: IDF head should be fired for integrating women

"Eisenkot needs to wake up and the prime minister needs to tell him to go home," Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu said of the IDF Chief of Staff.

JANUARY 17, 2018ByJEREMY SHARON
Female soldier, Lotem Stapleton, a physical education officer, demonstrates a move during a training session in Krav Maga, an Israeli self-defense technique, at a military base in the Golan Heights March 1, 2017.