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Haaretz
March 18, 2018
In late March of 2012, Shaul Mofaz defeated Tzipi Livni by a margin of 24 percentage points to become the chairman of the Kadima party. One month later, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led an effort to move up the Knesset election, catching Mofaz unprepared. All of the options at Mofaz's disposalÃâà...
Haaretz
February 20, 2018
Kamir also reportedly has close ties with a number of senior politicians and businessmen, among them former defense ministers Shaul Mofaz and Moshe Ya'alon, as well as the current defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman and with Netanyahu as well. He served as campaign strategy adviser for a numberÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 7, 2018
The Israeli army chief of staff at the time was Shaul Mofaz who urged officers to speed the operation up, instructing them to fire five anti-tank missiles at every house before entering. Mofaz, a former leader of the centrist Kadima party, is today regarded as a liberal on the spectrum of Israeli politics, andÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 2, 2018
As early as December 2000, IDF Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz summoned the chief of the Military Advocate General's Corps, Menachem Finkelstein, and asked him: “In the current legal situation, is it permitted for Israel to openly kill defined individuals who are involved in terrorism? Is it legal or illegal?
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
June 23, 2015
The former head of the Israeli military Shaul Mofaz was allowed to speak in the UK parliament on Monday despite calls from Palestinians and their allies for his immediate arrest due to alleged responsibility for war crimes. Mofaz was in charge of the Israeli armed forces between 1998 and 2002, a periodÃâà...
New York Times
April 6, 2012
WHEN Shaul Mofaz took over as head of the opposition in Israel this week — having defeated Tzipi Livni to lead the Kadima Party — it was seen as further evidence of the country's rightward shift. A former military chief of staff and defense minister, Mr. Mofaz was dismissed by many as a pale shadow ofÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
In May 2012 we went to sleep with a bill to dissolve the Knesset on the table and awoke to find that opposition head Shaul Mofaz had signed an agreement to form a national unity government, ostensibly in an effort to pass a bill to draft the ultra-Orthodox. This time that won't happen. The scales are stillÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
When Amir Peretz was elected to lead the Labor Party, many of its Ashkenazi voters thronged to Kadima. Then, when Shaul Mofaz replaced Tzipi Livni as Kadima leader, they jumped ship and climbed aboard other vessels, some in Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid. Meretz's MKs throughout the years have almostÃâà...
