Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant are publicly sparring on the timing of the infamous pager operation that decimated Hezbollah. The spat began on Thursday when Gallant said in an interview with Israeli Channel 12 that the government did not green-light the operation in the days after Hamas’s Oct.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted President Trump a golden pager during his visit to Washington this week, an Israeli official confirmed to NewsNation. The symbolic device is a reference to Israel’s sophisticated September military operation in which small amounts of explosive material detonated in pagers used by hundreds of members of the U.