The Israel Defense Forces will award campaign ribbons to soldiers who fought in the Lebanon security zone after 1982 at a special ceremony on June 7. The event was initially scheduled to take place on May 24, the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from the zone but was postponed due to the Israel-Gaza conflict.

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Following years of dispute, the government voted to award the ribbons on March 1. The move was supported by Defense Minister Benny Gantz, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, and former chief of staff Shaul Mofaz, who headed a special committee to have the period of September 1982-May 2000 recognized as an official Israeli military campaign.

Ribbons will be awarded to soldiers and IDF personnel who served in units that operated in Lebanon from Sept. 30, 1982-May 24, 2000. The government has also approved campaign ribbons for members of the South Lebanon Army, which fought alongside IDF soldiers during Israel's presence in southern Lebanon.

Several military officials are scheduled to appear at a special seminar on June 7, among them Kochavi, members of the IDF General Staff and brigadier generals, colonels, and students of the Institute for National Security Studies who served during the campaign. An official military ceremony will be held at the end of the day, in which the defense minister will present the first ribbon.

Fallen soldiers will receive ribbons and medals posthumously. IDF soldiers left disabled as a result of their service in Lebanon will receive their ribbons and medals at ceremonies held in their respective units.

According to IDF data, some 3,100 officers who are currently serving in the IDF are eligible for the ribbon, as well as 2,300 families who lost loved ones in Lebanon. Thousands of more disabled veterans, tens of thousands of active reservists, and hundreds of thousands of exempt reservists who served in the buffer zone are also eligible.

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The late-night Mofaz-Netanyahu deal of 2012

On May 7, 2012, the  18^th Knesset passed the first reading of a bill to dissolve itself and call an early election because of disagreements over haredi conscription. Everything was ready for an election and Sept. 4 was marked as the date.

Yet in a dramatic turn of events, mere hours before the Knesset convened to pass the bill's second and third reading, Netanyahu announced that he had reached an agreement with Shaul Mofaz, whose Kadima Party agreed to join the coalition.

The moment this agreement was signed, any plans to disband the Knesset or prepare for an election were immediately halted. Mofaz was appointed deputy prime minister. In hindsight, this agreement was hidden from the public eye since it was negotiated during a time when Netanyahu was sitting shiva for his father.

Back then there was also total distrust between Mofaz and Netanyahu, not unlike the situation today between Netanyahu and Lieberman. Name-calling and arguments were part and parcel of their relationship, yet at the time an agreement was reached both leaders were able to put it all behind them.

The Dirty Trick that failed

In 1990 a national unity government collapsed and Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir fired Labor leader Shimon Peres from the treasury. The reason for the firing: Peres was allegedly trying to hold secret peace talks. Labor then successfully assembled a majority and toppled the government in a no-confidence vote.

President Chaim Herzog then asked Shimon Peres to form a government, figuring he would have a majority to swear in a new government.

Peres indeed got a majority and was sure he could win a confidence vote in the Knesset, thereby allowing a swearing in. But during Passover of the same year, as the Knesset prepared to meet, it turned out that the 61-MK majority that Peres spoke of, did not exist. Two haredi Mks from a haredi party did not come to the Knesset, and Peres was forced to cancel the vote. As a result, he failed to win a confidence vote and Herzog appointed Shamir to form a new government, which he did successfully.

It's not over until it's over.

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