Benjamin Netanyahu fires his defense minister

ISLANDsee it last year, the two men who lead Israel’s war effort could hardly hide their disdain for each other. So when Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, announced on Nov. 5 that he was finally firing his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, because of the “increasingly widening crisis of trust” between them, it was not surprising. But the timing, with Israeli troops still fighting in Gaza and Lebanon and Iran expected to respond to Israel’s latest attack, was unexpected.