Anshel Pfeffer

Israelis ‘at risk from Hizbollah assassins’

The Israeli defence establishment is readying itself for another round of warfare with Hizbollah.

At work in an identity laboratory

In the first of series of articles leading up to Jewish Book Week on the relationship between factual and fictional writing, we speak to Israelis from contrasting generations and genres

Avoid capture at all costs, IDF were told

Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza had unofficial orders to foil Hamas attempts to capture their comrades, even if it cost a captured soldier’s life.

Doubt cast on Hamas fatality numbers

Two weeks after the fighting in the Gaza Strip has ended, the battle over the exact number and identity of the Palestinians killed during Operation Cast Lead is still raging.

Avigdor Lieberman looks an election winner

The Received wisdom was that there would be two main political beneficiaries from Operation Cast Lead.

Egypt turns a blind eye to arms tunnels

The Egyptian regime is still enabling Bedouin smugglers to use the tunnels under their border with the Gaza Strip to transfer arms to Hamas.

Settlers return as soldiers

Soldiers from the evacuated Gush Katif returned this week to some of the ruined settlements abandoned after Israel left the Gaza Strip in 2005.

Media clampdown in Gaza result of Lebanon lessons

Alongside the brigades of Merkava tanks and battalions of armoured personnel carriers sent to the Gaza Strip over the past two weeks, the IDF also sent a detachment of military police cars.

We learned lessons from the Blitz, says Home Front

The IDF Home Front Command studied the wartime Blitz while overhauling its operational plans before Operation Cast Lead.

Egypt holds key to ending the conflict

Egypt appears to hold the key to the solution of the Gaza crisis as the Israeli government waits for an improved ceasefire deal before ending Operation Cast Lead.

We need to be scared, says IDF colonel

Analysis: Cairo bears a major part of the responsibility for the conflict