Moshe Yaalon

Israel's Minister of Defence has criticised his country's Prime Minister for the escalating diplomatic crisis with Turkey. Media sources in Israel say that Ehud Barak has for the first...

Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon has said that the Turkish government has decided not to resume security coordination with Tel Aviv. Such coordination stopped in mid-2010 following Israel's...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, after his meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, "First stop firing, then we'll talk." Half of Israel is under constant...

Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Moshe Ya'alon, has revealed that Egypt recently requested that Israel re-negotiate the terms of the peace agreement signed between the...

Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs, has criticised the country's Deputy Prime Minister for "not understanding the conflict with the Palestinians". Ehud Barak, who...

Israel's Chief of the General Staff has said that four decades of "calm" with Syria on the occupied Golan Heights "have ended". Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper claims that General Benny...

As Israeli justice minister, Tzipi Livni, met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on Wednesday, the Israel Civil Administration approved a plan to build 296 housing...

A senior officer in the Israeli police force has admitted that he and his colleagues are unable to prevent the attacks carried out by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in...

On Tuesday evening, the Channel Ten news website reported the Minister of the Israeli army, Moshe Yaalon, as saying that "the Egyptian army has reinforced the presence of its...

Israeli officials said on Tuesday that the country has reinforced its missile defence system near its southern border with Egypt to counter possible attacks by 'Islamist terrorists' who are...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon stated on Thursday that the Israeli border with Egypt is Israel's most dangerous border at the present time. Israeli media reported Yaalon saying that...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has criticised the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and refuses to consider the evacuation of settlements in the occupied West Bank to be negotiable. "The negotiations...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has insisted that Israel is ready to deal with repercussions resulting from any US-led strike against Syria. The minister added that if the US...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli occupation forces detained more than 200 Palestinian citizens in pre-dawn campaigns on Monday, most of them from the West Bank city of Hebron where an Israeli...

Israel's Channel 2 TV has revealed that high-ranking Israeli figures have held a series of secret meetings over the past few weeks with representatives of Arab Gulf states to...

Israeli defence minister, Moshe Ya'alon, said that he does not oppose a political settlement with Iran over its nuclear program as long as it ensures that Iran does not...

The spokesperson of the Palestinian Islamist Movement Hamas, Sami Abu-Zuhri, has accused the Israeli occupation of using any pretext to tighten the siege on the Gaza Strip. Abu-Zuhri was...

Whilst the Israeli defence ministry is seeking further budget provisions, the Israeli finance ministry is insisting on budget cuts. The Defence minister has warned that this could affect army...

Israeli human rights organisation Peace Now has revealed that Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon approved building 3,000 new housing units in the West Bank during the first four months...

A member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Dr Hanan Ashrawi, has warned that since Israel is sending a clear message to the US and the...

Israel's Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has called for Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. In an interview on Sunday with Israel radio, the leader of the...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon said on Monday that the conflict with the Palestinians would not end by signing a peace agreement or resolving the issue of borders, Israeli...

Israel is to tell the Palestinian Authority to change the history syllabus used in its schools as a condition ahead of negotiating final status issues. According to a specialist...

Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon warned on Sunday of the serious consequences of an immediate Israeli army withdrawal from the occupied West Bank. "It would lead, probably, to the collapse...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has said that the current negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority aim to create a framework for more talks. They are not, he...

Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon denounced on Wednesday the "price tag" attacks committed by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, describing them as terrorist acts. Israel's Yedioth...

Israeli defence minister Moshe Ya'alon apologised for calling US Secretary of State John Kerry "obsessive and messianic." The remarks caused a diplomatic uproar between the two allies. The US...

Why did Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon attack John Kerry and his staff a few days ago? Although he has since apologised, the fact that Ya'alon spoke out against...

Israel's extreme right-wing foreign minister has said that the policy gaps between the government and the US "could be bridged". Avigdor Lieberman was responding to questions about the plan...

American officials have said that Israel has asked the US administration not to halt the $1.3 billion annual aid to the Egyptian army because it might affect Israel's national...

The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Israel on Monday where he will be a guest of his Israeli counterpart, Israel Defence Forces Chief of...

American defence secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday that Israel would be the first US ally to receive the American V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor military aircraft. The deal was negotiated...