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.

Israel's PM gifted US President Trump a golden pager, symbolising its successful operation against Hezbollah using exploding pagers in 2024.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted President Donald Trump a golden pager mounted on a piece of wood in an homage to the horrific attack on Lebanon in which dozens of people were killed, including children, and thousands injured as a result of spontaneous explosions of pagers that had been rigged by Israeli authorities.