Details are emerging about suspected leaked intelligence documents after an Israeli court lifted a gag order and said the leak may have caused serious damage to the state’s security and could have hurt efforts to release the hostages held in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister Tuesday, a long rumored move that was announced on election day in the United States. The two have repeatedly clashed over the conduct of the war in Gaza and Lebanon. Gallant will be replaced by Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Netanyahu said in a statement. Gideon Saar, a former Netanyahu opponent, will become foreign minister and cement his support for the fragile ruling coalition keeping the embattled Israeli leader in power.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Washington in early October — a trip Gallant initiated — but the trip was postponed at Netanyahu’s request. Gallant, who has a decades-long military career, has been critical of Netanyahu’s approach to the conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah. His firing drew immediate criticism from opposition leader Benny Gantz, who said it was “politics at the expense of national security.
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