Israel & The Region

Diplomacy, defense, politics, Middle East affairs

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August 15, 2013
1:44 am

Members of the Palestinian security forces take pictures as they stand around coffins containing the remains of bodies of Palestinian terrorists transferred from Israel to the Palestinian Authority in 2012 (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Ballas)

PA claims Israel will hand over terrorists’ bodies

Prime Minister’s Office denies report as peace talks get underway in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

August 15, 2013
1:26 am

An Orthodox family from Yemen arriving in Israel Wednesday. (photo credit: Moshik Brin/The Jewish Agency/Flash90)

17 Yemeni Jews secretly airlifted to Israel

Fewer than 90 Jews remain in Yemen; operation prompted by growing concern for their safety

By JTA

August 15, 2013
1:00 am

Bahraini anti-government protesters pray for the safety of those involved in civil disobedience during a march in the western village of Malkiya, Bahrain, on Wednesday (photo credit: AP/Hasan Jamali)

Bahrain protests fizzle under security clampdown

Inspired by rallies in Egypt that ushered in a military coup, activists in the Gulf island nation seek more freedoms

By Dalton Bennett and Reem Khalifa

August 14, 2013
11:37 pm

Freed Palestinian prisoner Ateya Abu Moussa, who was held by Israel for 20 years, is greeted by his relatives upon arrival at his family's house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, early on August 14, 2013. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Freed Palestinian prisoners return to transformed lives

From the web Reuters: Released after decades in Israeli jails, former detainees return to a changed reality in the West Bank and Gaza

August 14, 2013
11:22 pm

A wounded protester lies on the ground as Egyptian security forces clear the smaller of the two sit-ins by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, near the Cairo University campus in Giza, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Imad Abdul Rahman)

US warns Egypt to step back as death toll nears 300

Kerry calls violence ‘a serious blow’ to reconciliation efforts; official sources report 43 policemen killed, on top of 235 protesters

By AP and Times of Israel staff

August 14, 2013
11:05 pm

Israeli Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni speaks during a swearing ceremony at the Presidential Residence in Jerusalem, on August 14, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The escapist

How Livni spent a morning talking about religion but thinking about negotiations, and the rest of the day succesfully avoiding reporters

By Raphael Ahren

August 14, 2013
10:34 pm

A picture published by Shi'ite terror group Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV station shows Lebanese soldiers at the scene of an explosion which left four Israeli soldiers injured, Wednesday, August 7, 2013 (photo credit: Al-Manar News)

Hezbollah admits it carried out Lebanon border blast

Terror leader Nasrallah says bomb detonated by remote control during August 7 attack, in which four IDF soldiers were wounded

By AP and Times of Israel staff

August 14, 2013
8:59 pm

Isaac Molcho, left, Tzipi Livni and Saeb Erekat meeting on Wednesday, August 14. (Screenshot/ Channel 2)

Sides stay mum as ‘serious’ talks get underway

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meet in the capital for nearly five hours, one day after prisoner release

By Stuart Winer and Lazar Berman

August 14, 2013
8:24 pm

Protesters outside Egypt's embassy in Tel Aviv in 2011. (photo credit: :Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Dozens protest Egypt violence at Tel Aviv embassy

Rally attended by members of the Islamic Movement in Israel and Arab MK Ibrahim Sarsur

By Times of Israel staff

August 14, 2013
8:08 pm

Palestinians celebrate and wave green Hamas and yellow Fatah flags as they wait for the released prisoners at a checkpoint at the entrance of Beit Hanoun between the northern Gaza Strip and Israel on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP photo/Hatem Moussa)

Night moves

By releasing prisoners under cover of darkness and keeping mum during talks, Netanyahu and Abbas are trying to avoid domestic headaches, but both are still hostages

By Avi Issacharoff

August 14, 2013
6:07 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry, center left, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, July 19, 2013 in the West Bank city of Ramallah (photo credit: AP/Mandel Ngan, Pool)

Hamas claims Abbas agreed to security fence border, forfeited right of return

Report cites insider knowledge of meeting with Kerry in Amman, but PLO official says revelations are likely a fabrication

By Elhanan Miller

August 14, 2013
5:16 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay (photo credit: CC-BY Antônio Cruz, Wikimedia Commons)

UN: Hamas must halt prisoner executions in Gaza

Human rights commissioner says a fair trial in the coastal enclave is ‘neither legally nor practically’ possible

By AP and Times of Israel staff

August 14, 2013
5:08 pm

Sky News cameraman Micke Deane, 61, killed in Cairo. (photo credit: Youtube/ screenshot)

Jerusalem-based cameraman killed in Cairo

Mick Deane, 61, shot as he covered violence in Egypt for Sky News

By Lazar Berman

August 14, 2013
4:49 pm

Relatives of Israelis killed in terror attacks demonstrate ahead of the cabinet vote to free 104 Palestinian prisoners, outside the Prime Minister's Office, in Jerusalem in August. The poster reads 'Prisoner release form.' (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prisoners aplenty

26 former Palestinian prisoners go free amid peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians

By Ilan Ben Zion

August 14, 2013
2:14 pm

Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Ahmed Gomaa)

Cairo under curfew as nearly 150 killed in Egypt clashes

Muslim Brotherhood says death toll over 2,200 in fighting between between Morsi supporters and security forces; Jerusalem-based cameraman among casualties; month-long state of emergency declared

By Times of Israel staff and AP

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