This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page. |
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)
It was really seen as a success!....? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.252.192.106 (talk) 08:53, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Although the sources say so, I removed this as very likely erroneous, for the pure reason that Bulgaria saved all its Jews in WWII from deportation to death camps. For details, see History of the Jews in Bulgaria and Dimitar Peshev. Journalists may assume that if he came from once Nazi-controlled Europe, he must have been a Holocaust survivor, but that's not the case here. Todor→Bozhinov 13:04, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Actually, there are many Bulgarian holocaust survivors. The Jews weren't sent to concentration camps but not because of goodness of Bulgaria's "heart". They would have been sent there in the second stage but the Red Army went in before it happened. The Bulgarian Jews were kicked out of their homes and deported to distant villages. There they wore the Yellow Star and had limited food rations. If this doesn't appear in the article about Bulgarian Jews in the holocaust it should.
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)
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)
What is his height and weight? Great Gall (talk) 13:35, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
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)
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).
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)
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 [4], 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)
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 (Hebrew: חטיבת המבצעים) 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 (Hebrew: עוזר ראש אג"ם). 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)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to one external link on Gabi Ashkenazi. Please take a moment to review my edit. You may add ((cbignore))
after the link to keep me from modifying it, if I keep adding bad data, but formatting bugs should be reported instead. Alternatively, you can add ((nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot))
to keep me off the page altogether, but should be used as a last resort. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ((Sourcecheck))
).
An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.
Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 06:00, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Gabi Ashkenazi. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template ((source check))
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 21:04, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
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)
Template:Infobox member of the Knesset has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox officeholder. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Triggerhippie4 (talk) 17:24, 13 January 2021 (UTC)