Israel & The Region

Diplomacy, defense, politics, Middle East affairs

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February 2, 2013
1:07 am

Noa Assa, front, along with fellow students from the Mekif Alef High School in Beersheba place flowers on a gate in front of the Space Mirror Memorial during a remembrance ceremony on the 10th anniversary of the loss of space shuttle Columbia crew at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Friday, at Cape Canaveral, Fla. A few hundred people gathered there to remember the Columbia seven, which included the first Israeli spaceman Ilan Ramon. (photo credit: AP Photo/John Raoux)

Israeli teens mark 10 years since loss of country’s first astronaut

Forty-four Israeli students, who go to the same school Ilan Ramon did, attend a NASA commemoration for the Columbia seven in Florida

February 1, 2013
11:14 pm

A Free Syrian Army fighter treads on a photo of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, January 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Andoni Lubaki)

Syrian opposition bashes Assad for inaction against Israel

In worrying hint of post-Assad Syria, rebel leaders complain that regime’s planes and helicopters bomb civilian homes but do nothing when Israeli jets attack

February 1, 2013
10:07 pm

“When you leave the Shin Bet, you become a bit of a leftist,” says Yaakov Peri, who ran the agency for nearly a decade. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

Second Israeli Oscar nominee arrives in US theaters

Opening Friday, ‘The Gatekeepers’ takes a complex look at the men responsible for Israel’s security — and offers a clear contrast with its competition

By Nathan Burstein

February 1, 2013
9:47 pm

Republican Chuck Hagel, US President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

White House confident Senate will confirm Hagel

Obama administration expects former GOP senator to be approved as defense secretary despite Republican opposition

February 1, 2013
8:31 pm

Venezuelan bolivares (photo credit: CC BY-SA ¡Fgz!, Flickr)

Germany busts Iranian with $70m

Customs officials in Dusseldorf stop man arriving from Turkey who didn’t declare enormous sum of money

February 1, 2013
7:46 pm

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House calls US embassy attack ‘an act of terror’

US says motive and culprit behind suicide bombing in Ankara remain unknown; Turkey blames domestic terror group

February 1, 2013
7:40 pm

IDF reportedly injures two Palestinians near Gaza border

Men suffer leg wounds and are taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for treatment

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 1, 2013
6:38 pm

Iranian scientists surround a monkey ahead of a space launch. Iran said it had successfully sent the monkey into space on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, describing the launch as another step toward Tehran's goal of a manned space flight. (photo credit: AP/AP Video)

Is Iran’s space monkey a fake?

From the web The Telegraph: Photographic evidence of primate launched into space by Tehran raises suspicions that it was a hoax

February 1, 2013
6:30 pm

Pakistani police commandos cordon off an area following a blast in Hangu, Pakistan on Friday, Feb 1, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Abdul Basit)

Suicide bombing at Pakistani mosque kills 23

Most of the casualties in attack in northwestern province belong to Shiite minority

February 1, 2013
5:18 pm

An illustrative photo of a Sunni gunman firing his weapon during clashes that erupted between pro and anti-Syrian regime gunmen in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon in December 2012. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Gunmen ambush, kill at least 5 Lebanese soldiers

Violence flares up in border town sympathetic with Syrian opposition

By AP and Times of Israel staff

February 1, 2013
4:17 pm

Egyptian protesters shoot fireworks towards anti-riot policemen as they fire tear gas during clashes in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

One dead, over 50 injured as protesters clash with police in Egypt

Morsi blames last weekend’s violence on ‘forces involved in incitement’ as demonstrators call for his resignation

February 1, 2013
2:15 pm

The Iron Dome missile defense system in action, November 15, 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Threat level midnight

Iran and Syria both bark in response to Israel’s reported strike, but it’s Hezbollah Israel fears most, even if the army is playing it cool

By Joshua Davidovich

February 1, 2013
2:06 pm

Medical workers carry away a woman injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance to the US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, in early February (photo credit: AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

Suicide bomber hits US Embassy in Turkey, killing two

Attacker and security guard killed; authorities suspect outlaw Marxist group responsible; Netanyahu sends condemnation and condolences

By AP and Ilan Ben Zion

February 1, 2013
12:20 pm

Illustrative photo of an Israeli F-15 Eagle fighter jet (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90/File)

Israeli warplanes reportedly conduct ‘mock raids’ over Lebanon

Lebanese news outlet says Israeli jets are flying low over the southern and eastern areas of the country bordering Syria