{"id":369046,"date":"2025-11-10T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369046\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:18:12","slug":"trump-envoy-jared-kushner-meets-netanyahu-in-israel-to-discuss-gaza-cease-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369046\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Envoy Jared Kushner Meets Netanyahu in Israel to Discuss Gaza Cease-fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that he signed off on the appointment of the incoming Military Advocate General Itay Offir, former legal advisor to the Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">Ofir will replace Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi following her resignation over her suspected role in leaking a video allegedly showing soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee from Gaza at Israel&#8217;s Sde Teiman military facility.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">According to the Defense Minister&#8217;s announcement, Offir will take office in two weeks, on November 24.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Katz for clarification on the choice due to criticism from the Likud party. <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">Offir had previously received training through the Wexner Foundation, an organization criticized by Likud officials for its &#8220;left-wing bias.&#8221; Minister of Communications and Likud MK Shlomo Karhi had <a class=\"eGCNgh dLUwcr fqmBkg bDhwrW ldclWd iRietU gAhwfJ iaemGh klOnSG jXnPOM cxrii bsfUtT hVpJBA jAPbjB\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2020-07-15\/ty-article\/.premium\/likud-lawmaker-accuses-wexner-foundationing-of-poisoning-the-minds-of-beneficiarie\/0000017f-ef72-d8a1-a5ff-fffab3980000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously accused the foundation<\/a> of spreading &#8220;anti-democratic poison that will infiltrate the minds of our most senior civil servants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">Before becoming the defense ministry&#8217;s legal adviser, Offir was a partner at the law firm Tadmor &amp; Co., where Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara served as an external adviser before being appointed as attorney general.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\"><strong class=\"iLdtFu\">For more on the legal chief&#8217;s appointment, <\/strong><a class=\"eGCNgh dLUwcr fqmBkg bDhwrW ldclWd iRietU gAhwfJ iaemGh klOnSG jXnPOM cxrii bsfUtT hVpJBA jAPbjB\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2025-11-04\/ty-article\/.premium\/defense-minister-taps-idf-legal-chief-after-predecessor-resigns-over-abuse-video-leak\/0000019a-4f37-db4c-a5fb-cfbfb2b20000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"iLdtFu\">read here<\/strong><\/a><strong class=\"iLdtFu\">.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that he signed off on the appointment of the incoming Military Advocate General&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":369047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[372,109666,69,86232,4784,99,119115,30578,3097,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-369046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-cease-fire-hostage-release-talks","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-hamas-hostages","12":"tag-idf","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israel-u-s","15":"tag-israel-gaza-war","16":"tag-middle-east","17":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115525130961632194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}