Moshe Jaalon

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Moshe Jaalon (2006)

Mosque "Bogie" Jaalon ( Hebrew משה יעלון, [ mɔʃɛ jaˈaːloːn ]; * June 24, 1950 in Kirjat Chaim in northern Israel as Moshe Smilansky ) is an Israeli politician and former general of the Israel Defense Forces .

From July 2002 to June 2005 he held the post of Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces . From March 2009 to March 2013, Moshe Jaalon was Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Affairs . From March 2013 to May 2016 he was Israeli Defense Minister .

Military career

In 1968 he began his service in the post al brigade in a parachute regiment. He took part in the Yom Kippur War and then became an officer . After holding a number of command posts in the Israeli Paratrooper Brigade , he was in 1978, in Operation Litani, commander of the Paratrooper Brigade's Reconnaissance Department . He was also the commander of the elite Sayeret Matkal unit . From 1979 to 1982 he fought in the Lebanon War , most recently as deputy commander of the parachute brigade. Shortly before the end of his service, he was wounded in Lebanon.

In 1986 he went to Camberley in Great Britain and attended Staff College there . After completing his political studies at Haifa University , he finally became commander of the paratrooper brigade in February 1990.

Jaalon was involved in the killing of Chalil al-Wazir alias Abu Jihad, the PLO's deputy chief and thus Arafat's representative , on April 16, 1988.

In June 1995 Jaalon finally took over the helm of the Aman military intelligence service and was named Aluf . He became Deputy Chief of Staff on September 15, 2000 and, two years later, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army.

In an unexpected move, Defense Minister Schaul Mofaz declared on February 15, 2005 that he would not extend Jaalon's term for another year, which would have been the normal practice. In this way, Jaalon, who is seen politically as right-wing , made room for a successor even before the announced withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in summer 2005, which he judged critically. Against the background of the separation plan, senior officers of the General Staff and both sides of the political spectrum commented extremely negatively on the decision and presented it as a weakening of national security, especially since the director of the domestic secret service Schin Bet Avi Dichter was also replaced in May 2005.

On June 1, 2005 Jaalon was replaced by General Dan Chalutz .

Some of the statements that Jaalon made in public during the Al-Aqsa Intifada were widely and controversially received. For example, on August 29, 2002, in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz , he spoke of a “Palestinian threat” whose “characteristics are invisible, like cancer”. When asked about his approach to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, he replied:

"There are all kinds of solutions to cancerous manifestations. Some will say it is necessary to amputate organs. But at the moment, I am applying chemotherapy. "

“There are a wide variety of therapy options against cancer. Some say it is necessary to amputate organs, but at the moment I am using chemotherapy. "

- Moshe Jaalon : Ha'aretz, August 29, 2002

Political career

Mosche Jaalon during the Munich Security Conference 2016

On November 17, 2008, it was announced that Jaalon was a member of the Likud party and wanted to run in the 2009 elections. He won eighth place on the Likud Party's list and became a member of the Knesset . The party won a total of 27 seats. In the second Netanyahu government , he was Deputy Prime Minister (alongside Silvan Shalom ) and Minister for Strategic Affairs from March 31, 2009 to March 18, 2013 . The ruling coalition comprised the Jisra'el Beitenu party led by Avigdor Lieberman , the HaAwoda party with Ehud Barak, and the ultra-Orthodox Shas party .

In early October 2009, Moshe Jaalon canceled a trip to Great Britain. He feared arrest for war crimes . In 2002, as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, he was instrumental in the killing of a Hamas leader.

In March 2013, he became Israel's Defense Minister. He resigned from this position in May 2016 because of a dispute with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . He announced that he would give up his parliamentary mandate in the Knesset and withdraw from politics.

On January 2, 2019, Jaalon founded a new party called "Telem". At the end of January 2019, he announced that his party would run in the Knesset elections on April 9, 2019 together with Benny Gantz 's party Chosen LeJisra'el (translated: Resistance for Israel). Both parties later went into the electoral alliance Kachol Lavan . Since then, Jaalon has been a member of the Knesset again.

literature

Web links

Commons : Mosche Jaalon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Attack 25 years ago: Israel admits killing of Arafat Vice-President Abu Jihad , Spiegel Online from November 1, 2012
  2. ↑ James Bovard : Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, p. 279
  3. ^ Tikva Honig-Parnass, Toufic Hadda: Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the US War on Terror. Chicago: Haymarket, 2007, p. 128ff
  4. ↑ Baruch Kimmerling : Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians. London: Verso, 2003, p. 165
  5. ^ Virginia Tilley: The One-State Solution. A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005, p. 138
  6. ^ Ari Shavit : The enemy within , Ha'aretz, August 29, 2002
  7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Jaalon says travel from , süddeutsche.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sueddeutsche.de
  8. ↑ Israel's defense minister resigns from office . Spiegel Online, May 20, 2016.
  9. ↑ Raoul Wootliff: Former defense chief Ya'alon launches new political party, Telem. Retrieved February 5, 2019 (American English).
  10. ^ TOI staff: Launching bid to replace Netanyahu, Gantz vows to unify Israel, end incitement. Retrieved February 5, 2019 (American English).
predecessor Office successor
Schaul Mofaz Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
2002–2005 		Dan Chalutz
personal data
SURNAME Jaalon, mosque
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaalon, Bogie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli general
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirjat Chaim