{"id":594960,"date":"2026-08-25T00:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/594960\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:14:24","slug":"focus-on-israel-2026-netanyahu-found-the-perfect-time-to-find-the-altalena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/594960\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Israel 2026: Netanyahu Found the Perfect Time to Find the Altalena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve found the Altalena. We&#8217;re making history,&#8221; screamed the press statement released by Itamar Ben-Gvir. What does the national security minister have to do with a ship sunk in 1949? With elections approaching, all means are justified to get a headline, and all the more so if it involves a hot potato like the Altalena, a ship carrying weapons to the Irgun militia that has served as a vehicle for right-wing incitement against the left for almost 80 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;ve found the Altalena. We&#8217;re making history,&#8221; screamed the press statement released by Itamar Ben-Gvir. What does the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,1154,1031,85,46,2649,954,837,43,70645],"class_list":["post-594960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-history","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israeli-elections","tag-israeli-politics","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-news","tag-yitzhak-rabin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}