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Yoav Gallant

Yoav Gallant is a veteran Israeli politician, currently part of the Likud Party, and is Israel's current defense minister. 

He has an extensive background in the IDF and was at one point a top candidate to become chief of staff.

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 Defense Minister Yoav Gallant held a meeting with CENTCOM Commander, General Michael "Erik" Kurilla

Senior American general to visit Israel in light of looming Iranian attack

By Barak Ravid
 Israeli  minister of Defense Yoav Galant holds a joint press conference with minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich (not seen) in Jerusalem, on December 26, 2023.

Gallant: We’ll flood Gaza with far more than 500 trucks of aid per day

 Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at Israel's Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel December 18, 2023.

Be wary political rhetoric of war with Iran - comment

 Security forces conduct a joint exercise to prepare against aggression against Israel's northern border

Israel-Hamas war day 186: Three of Haniyeh's sons killed

 Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits IDF soldiers on March 31, 2024

Gallant: IDF withdrawal in preparation for Rafah operation

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Minister Benny Gantz hold a joint press conference at the Defense Ministry, in Tel Aviv, November 11, 2023.

Netanyahu, Gallant, IDF chief Halevi cannot be trusted, must all be ousted

By ITZHAK BRIK
 DEFENSE MINISTER Yoav Gallant arrives for a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department in Washington, on Monday. ‘Calling off the Hanegbi-Dermer delegation is political window dressing by the prime minister,’ a White House aide argued.

Defense Minister Gallant: Israel ready for any scenario regarding Iran

By REUTERS
 An ambulance is parked outside the Iranian embassy after a suspected Israeli strike on Monday on Iran's consulate, which Iran said had killed seven military personnel Damascus, Syria April 2, 2024.

Israel heading into 'unprecedented war,' former IDF official says

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 Brig.-Gen. Amit Sa'ar speaks at a conference of the Gazit Institute in Tel Aviv, November 5, 2022

IDF intel. analysis chief from Oct. 7 resigning due to cancer diagnosis

 Defense Minister Yoav Gallant addresses soldiers near the Lebanese border, December 17, 2023

Gallant: War in the North will be a catastrophe for Lebanon, Hezbollah

 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 27, 2024.

Did Israel want to form a military government in Gaza? This former MK says so

 Letters

Letters to the Editor April 3, 2024: Final stronghold

 An Israeli soldier operates in the Gaza Strip, December 21, 2023

Hamas is disintegrating from within, Gazan terrorists tell Israel - Gallant

 Israeli soldiers operate near Shifa Hospital, in Gaza, March 29, 2024

Gaza international force could include soldiers from three Arab countries

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin

Gallant calls on the USA to establish a military force of Arab countries in the Gaza Strip