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However, as of late Tuesday night the flight was not yet approved, the trip is in danger of being canceled and U.S. officials are reportedly shocked over the issue.
Born 8 November 1958) and now 66, he is an Israeli politician and retired military general. A member of the Knesset for Likud, he has served as Minister of Defense since 2022. He appears to be an excellent choice for Defense. Gallant is a former commander of the Southern Command in the Israel Defense Forces. In January 2015, he entered politics, joining the new Kulanu party. After being elected to the Knesset, he was appointed Minister of Construction. At the end of 2018, he joined Likud. Gallant also previously held the posts of Minister of Aliyah and Integration and Minister of Education.
It was Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu who prevented the Defense Minister from traveling to Washington to coordinate retaliation against Iran with the Pentagon. Bibi wanted to speak with Biden and his Cabinet first to approve his next steps in the war. Gallant was to meet with his counterpart to ask for assistance in case of further Iranian assaults.
Perhaps Netanyahu feels a little apprehensive of Gallant speaking his mind without conferring with him. Politically, Gallant had been breaking away from Likud.
A 2015
candidate list of
Kulanu (Hebrew: כולנו, lit. 'All of Us') which was a centrist political party in Israel founded by Moshe Kahlon that focused on economic and cost-of-living issues.The party's candidate list for the 2015 election was:
- Moshe Kahlon, former Likud MK and Kulanu party founder and chairman.
- Yoav Gallant, retired IDF major general (remains in reserves) and former head of IDF Southern Command.
- On 25 March 2023 Gallant spoke out against his own government in support of the protests against the government's proposed judicial reforms. He asked for the government to delay the proposed legislation to allow for negotiations between the ruling coalition and the opposition, which resulted in National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calling for Gallant's dismissal. Netanyahu announced on 26 March that he was dismissing Gallant, sparking massive protests that night in several major cities across Israel. The following day, Gallant's office stated that he would be continuing in his post, as he had not yet been given an official notice of his dismissal. On 10 April, Netanyahu announced that he would not fire Gallant
- Gallant with Prime Minister Netanyahu, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, US military chief CQ Brown and IDF Chief Herzi Halevi in Tel Aviv, 18 December 2023 (Supposedly he was in this picture-to our right of Netanyahu) Names circle to the left. Women remain unnamed.
On 15 May 2024, during the Iron Swords War, Gallant convened a press conference in which he criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu for rejecting dealing with the question of "the day after" in the Gaza Strip. The Defense Minister called on the Prime Minister to announce that Israel will not control Gaza, and expressed his opposition to a military government in the Strip.
Yoav Gallant was born on 8 November 1958 (age 66) in Jaffa to Polish Jewish immigrants. His mother, Fruma, was a Holocaust survivor who had been on the SS Exodus as a child. Along with other Exodus refugees, she was deported by the British to Hamburg, and arrived in Israel in 1948. She was a nurse by profession. His father, Michael, fought the Nazis as a partisan in the forests of Ukraine and Belarus, and also immigrated to Israel in 1948. He served in the Givati Brigade in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, including the Samson's Foxes unit, and was considered one of the finest snipers in the IDF. He participated in Operation Yoav, during which he was the first soldier to break into the fort at Iraq Suwaydan. He named his son for the operation. In Gallant's youth, the family moved to Givatayim, where he studied at David Kalai high school. He received a BA in Business and Finance Management from the University of Haifa.
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