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September 24, 2012
6:41 pm

President Shimon Peres pays his respects to the family of Netanel Yahalomi, the soldier killed Friday afternoon in a shootout with terrorists on the Israeli-Egyptian border. (photo credit: Mark Nayman/GPO/Flash90)

‘Your pain is ours,’ Peres consoles family of soldier slain in border attack

President tells Yahalomi family the entire nation is proud of their son Netanel

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 24, 2012
6:13 pm

Dan Meridor (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Dan Meridor: What’s needed is a Palestinian state, not statements on Palestine

‘There is no way we’ll take our army out of Judea and Samaria without an agreement,’ says deputy PM

By Raphael Ahren

September 24, 2012
6:10 pm

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani casts his ballot in front of a portrait of late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. (AP Photo/ISNA, Ruhollah Vahdati)

Iran arrests former president’s son, days after arrest of daughter

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has come under pressure since opposing Ahmadinejad in 2009 elections

September 24, 2012
5:13 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 20, 2010. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu apologizes to Ban Ki-moon for leaking their phone conversation

Prime minister says sorry for the lapse of etiquette, but not for what he said about Tehran being off-limits

By Stuart Winer

September 24, 2012
5:08 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday September 24. (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

Ahmadinejad says Israel has ‘no roots’ in Middle East history

From the web Speaking in New York, Iranian president says Jewish state represents a disturbance until ‘they are then eliminated,’ Reuters reports

September 24, 2012
3:51 pm

The new jeep prototype (photo credit: Facebook)

IDF calls in race-car designer to build new speedy jeep for Egypt border

A prototype of the new vehicle, which can reach 140 kph, is being tested

By Alon Diamant-Cohen

September 24, 2012
3:44 pm

Khaled Mashaal in 2009 (photo credit: AP/Nader Daoud)

Abu Marzouk said set to replace Mashaal as Hamas leader-in-exile

Long-time political bureau chief is not standing for reelection

By Alon Diamant-Cohen

September 24, 2012
3:24 pm

The gefilte fish didn't go down well. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Paper greets Iran head with gefilte fish

Basket of goodies delivered to Ahmadinejad’s hotel includes tickets to see ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’

By Stuart Winer

September 24, 2012
2:29 pm

A destroyed home near the outpost of Migron last year. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Defense minister proposes West Bank pullout, excluding major settlement blocs

Ehud Barak says ‘practical steps’ must be taken to ‘start a separation’; idea rejected by Palestinians

By Josef Federman

September 24, 2012
2:17 pm

A female IDF combat soldier (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Heroes past and present

Israel’s G.I. Jane recalls her battle, Ehud Barak mulls a second disengagement, and what we can learn from 1973 about today’s standoff with Iran

By Ron Friedman

September 24, 2012
2:15 pm

The Sinai Peninsula (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Egypt sentences 14 to death for 2011 Sinai attacks

The convicted men, to be hung, are members of an al-Qaida affiliated group

By Gabe Fisher

September 24, 2012
1:23 pm

Southern Command chief Tal Russo, far right, arrives at the scene of the terror attack on Har Harif on Friday. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Egypt threatens to cut off IDF’s hand if it enters Sinai

Member of supreme military council says there is no need for Israel to enter peninsula to calm terror activity

By Ilan Ben Zion and Gabe Fisher

September 24, 2012
12:45 pm

The Caracal battalion, which is made up of male and female combat soldiers fighting side by side, during a training session in November 2007. (photo credit: Yoni Markovitzki/IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Female soldier hid behind bush during Sinai attack, sparking kidnapping fears

IDF searched for missing unit member for over an hour after fierce engagement at border

By Stuart Winer

September 24, 2012
12:23 pm

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Ayalon calls on donor states to cut off Palestinian Authority funding

Deputy foreign minister says international subsidies to the Palestinians are supporting terrorism

By Gabe Fisher

September 24, 2012
12:04 pm

Syrian opposition members shake hands in a rare meeting in Damascus, September 23 (photo credit: AP/Bassem Tellawi)

Khaled Mashaal to step down, daily reports

Obama pressures Iraqi president to give way to a Shiite ally, and a unique opposition meeting takes place inside Damascus

By Elhanan Miller

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