The Making — and Eventual Unmaking — of Yoav Gallant

A one-time lumberjack in Alaska, now Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant emerges as the face of the military campaign in Gaza, but there will almost certainly be a political reckong after the war.

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Israel's defense minister, Yoav Gallant, on October 19, 2023 at Sderot, Israel. Amir Levy/Getty Images

Child of Holocaust survivors; Israeli naval commando; Alaskan lumberjack; member of the Knesset and now minister of defense of Israel — there is nothing conventional about the life of Yoav Gallant.

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