... top military brass including the Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gaby Ashkenazy and OC Navy Adm. EliezerMarom. Uzi Arad, the national security adviser and Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai were also on hand. The prime minister’s visit to the fleet in Haifa comes after the capture last month of the Franco, an Antiguan-flagged freighter captured 150 kilometers from Israel which...
Yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu held a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Tuesday's capture of the ship Francop that was smuggling a massive Iranian weapons cache to Syria for Iran's terrorist buddies. This was Netanyahu's statement: First of all, I would like to commend Defense Minister Ehud Barak, IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi, GOC Navy Adm. Eliezer...
... bound for them. Defense Minister Ehud Barak, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and Navy Commander EliezerMarom lauded the commandos who carried out the operation which culminated in the seizure of some 300 tons of weapons. Military Intelligence Director Amos Yadlin said that the arms ship serves as evidence of what he termed the activity of the Iranian octopus. "This isn't just about...
