Talk:Gabi Ashkenazi

message: There seems to be a conflict between sources regarding the period in Ashkenazi's resume between 1990 and 1992. Haaretz says: "In 1990 Ashkenazi was appointed commander of a reserves division..." while Ynet says "In the early nineties he was appointed as commander of the northern command armored brigade." I don't think he would have been promoted from brigade commander to northern command intelligence chief and then moved back to brigade commander, so I suspect that his command was either the 36th Division (IDF) or the 91st Division (assuming that the 91st is armored. Could someone with better Hebrew please do some research to help clarify this? GabrielF 23:55, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree, though unfortunately I can't read a word of Hebrew.  There are likely to be more articles on him in the near future, so that should help clarify the situation. Joshdboz 16:14, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I just found an article from the Jerusalem Post .  Although they mistakenly say that he commanded the Golani Brigade in the 1982 lebanon war, it does say that he commanded an armored division before acting as IDF liasion in Lebanon.Joshdboz 15:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Check the official CV at the IDF English site  They should know what they are talking about. Cymruisrael 08:26, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1990-1992 

message: It was really seen as a success!....?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.252.192.106 (talk) 08:53, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation Cast lead 

message: This has been rated as 'Start'. It needs split into sections, good references and valuable information to reach B-class. however, it is a good article start. GDon4t0 20:55, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rating

message: I've divided the article into sections as required by the manual of style. I've tried to put the section breaks in the most logical places, early life, soldier and brigade commander in Golani, commander and northern command staff officer, general staff officer, etc. These are abstractions (he wasn't always in northern command during that section) so I'm not 100% sure if this is the best way to do it so I'm curious if anyone objects or has a better idea. GabrielF 19:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dividing into sections 

message: What is his height and weight? Great Gall (talk) 13:35, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Height 

message: SQGibbon has removed the link to Sephardic Jews, stating that "Nothing in the article indicates that he's Sephardic". While this is true, it is more than likely that Ashkenazi is indeed Sephardic. Firstly, Ashkenazi is a well known Sephardic surname, usually indicating families who moved from Europe to North Africa during the pogroms in the Middle Ages. Secondly, on his mother's side (she is Syrian) he is certainly Sephardic. Thirdly, many of the Jewish communities of the Balkans (Bulgaria, Greece, etc) were also Sephardic. Finally, when his parents married (presumably prior to 1954), the vast majority of marriages in Israel still stayed within the Sephardic and Ashkenazic communities; there were very few cross-community marriages. Agreed, all this is circumstantial evidence, but it should be possible to confirm it. Cymruisrael (talk) 08:43, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sephardi 

message: Note that according to sources his brother's name is Avi. Before changing it please provide a good reason for the change. Rich Farmbrough, 13:03, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of brother

message: Itai Ashkenazi did not play for the Judean Rebels of the Israeli Football League, rather against them. Furthermore, he does not play anymore. Betzalelf (talk) 11:09, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education and Family Life 

message: People keep editing the fact that Askenazi mother came from Syria to the Land of Israel, as if she came from Turkey. One should take a look at the source attached to the sentance , she is beeing interviewd ther saying on TV that she came from Syria.  watch for these mistake will not occur again. Thank you. --89.139.41.48 (talk) 16:37, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mother 

message: The article lists that he was "Head of IDF Operations Directorate" and ", and in 1994 was promoted to chief of the General Staff's Operations Directorate.". This simply isn't true. I think the mistake stem from mistranslations of Hebrew to English. From  1994 to 1996 he served as head of the Operations Division () which is a unit under the Operations Directorate. Ashkenazi was never the Head of the Directorate; later on from 96 to 98 he was the Aide to Head of Operations Directorate (). That's as highest he reached on that branch. Matan Vilnai was the head of the Operations Directorate from 94 until 97. (He also served as the Deputy Chief of Staff during these years (That was prior to the Operation Directorate splitting off in 99)).
Everything I've stated can be confirmed from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs' page about Gaby Ashkenazi here.  --CyberXRef☎ 17:39, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operations Directorate errors 

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message: Is the photo of Ashkenazi in uniform still appropriate for the infobox, given his current role, which should probably be highlighted more prominently? We should use it further down, of course, but way on top it seems potentially confusing/misleading. I’ll add at least a more prominent disclaimer to the photo caption, I think. —ThorstenNY (talk) 12:37, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo in uniform still appropriate for infobox? 

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thread_title:  Nomination for merging of Template:"Infobox member of the Knesset"