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Haaretz
April 2, 2018
Amnon Lipkin Shahak. Barak and Maj. Amnon Lipkin Shahak, another future IDF chief of staff.GPO. The second trauma came in February 1960, a few months after the unit had been formed but long before it had the capabilities or the green light to launch operations. Almost comically, at a cocktail reception,Ãâà...
Lawfare (blog)
February 28, 2018
Dr. Idit Shafran Gittleman is a researcher at the Amnon Lipkin-Shahak Center for Security and Democracy at the Israel Democracy Institute. She is also an adjunct professor at IDC Herzliya, and a research fellow at the Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. Idit holds a B.A. and M.A.Ãâà...
Haaretz
February 2, 2018
Amiram Levin, right, briefing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then-Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak in southern Lebanon, 1995.IDF Spokesperson's Unit. He recommends a series of different steps to what is currently planned to shore up the standing of the ground forces. Levin suggests further cuts inÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
January 31, 2018
Last March, the Knesset, Israel's parliament, passed an amendment requiring the interior minister to deny entry to Israel to foreign nationals who “knowingly issued a public call to boycott the state of Israel,” “pledged to participate in said boycott” or act on behalf of a group or an organization that have doneÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
January 29, 2018
Israel has confronted terrorist attacks for many decades, but in all of those years, the Knesset and the public have not seriously considered whether the justice system should sentence convicted terrorists to death. Instead, despite allowing punishment by death for a narrow range of crimes that mightÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
January 8, 2018
The public has focused on the current wave of protests in Iran and how it might embolden President Donald Trump to fulfill his promise to walk away from the Iran nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). While disparaging the JCPOA and lambasting theÃâà...
New York Times
December 20, 2012
JERUSALEM — Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former chief of staff of the Israeli military and a cabinet minister who was deeply involved in peace talks with the Palestinians, died here on Wednesday. He was 68. His death was confirmed by a spokeswoman at the Hadassah Medical Center in southwestÃâà...
