Israel & The Region

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March 5, 2014
6:28 pm

A bag of cement labeled "MADE IN IRAN" that was found in the ship where the IDF uncovered a weapons cache they say was headed for Gaza. (screen capture: YouTube)

Iran denies sending intercepted weapons to Gaza

Hamas accuses Israel of lying in order to justify blockade on Strip

By Times of Israel staff and AFP

March 5, 2014
6:04 pm

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 5, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ KIMIMASA MAYAMA)

Iran says it won’t shutter heavy water reactor

Zarif says regime hopes talks will succeed; US envoy tells IAEA that Iran must cooperate with probe for sanctions relief

By AFP and AP

March 5, 2014
5:40 pm

The Doha skyline, in Qatar (photo credit: Shutterstock images)

Qatar unhappy with recall of envoys over Egypt tiff

Monarchy does not plan to reciprocate by recalling its own ambassadors from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and UAE

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

March 5, 2014
5:06 pm

Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard celebrate after launching a missile, July 2012 (photo credit: AP/IRNA, Mostafa Qotbi)

Iran claims it has missiles with multiple warheads

New technology greatly boosts destructive power of missiles, which can reach beyond Middle East, Revolutionary Guard says

By AP

March 5, 2014
3:05 pm

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman: We have Hamas representatives in Knesset

Alluding to Arab MKs in a Facebook post, foreign minister says his party will strive to ‘make them illegal’

By JTA

March 5, 2014
2:45 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the AIPAC policy conference in Washington on March 4, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Nicholas KAMM)

No standing O for Obama

The Israeli press applauds Netanyahu’s speech at AIPAC, derides US president; State Department furious at president

By Marissa Newman

March 5, 2014
1:56 pm

British PM likely forced to cancel Israel visit — again

Foreign Ministry staff tell Cameron, due next week, to delay trip until their labor dispute is over; Pope’s visit also under threat

By Raphael Ahren

March 5, 2014
1:45 pm

IDF soldiers inspect a missile found on board the Klos-C in a commando operation on Wednesday, March 5. The military says the ship was carrying an Iranian arms shipment headed for Gaza. (photo credit: IDF)

IDF intercepts major Iranian missile shipment to Gaza

Navy commandos board ship in early morning operation; vessel carried advanced missiles with 200km range; PM: ‘This is the real Iran'; Israel won’t file complaint at UN because of labor dispute

By Itamar Sharon and Times of Israel staff

March 5, 2014
1:19 pm

Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael B. Oren speaks in Tel Aviv on December 16, 2013. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Court upholds conviction of Irvine protesters

10 students who heckled Israeli ambassador at 2010 University of California address face up to a year in prison

By JTA

March 5, 2014
12:21 pm

Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the radical wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, outside Ramla prison near Tel Aviv in 2010. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)

Sheikh Raed Salah gets 8 months for incitement

Hard-line Islamic Movement leader was convicted in November of calling for violence in a fiery 2007 speech

By Times of Israel staff

March 5, 2014
11:01 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the cheering audience as he arrives to speak to the AIPAC meeting at the Washington Convention Center, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, in Washington. (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Netanyahu ‘wasting time,’ PA says of AIPAC speech

Abbas spokesman: Israel avoiding ‘just and comprehensive’ peace deal by demanding recognition as Jewish state

By Yifa Yaakov and Elhanan Miller

March 5, 2014
10:12 am

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) listens to the head of the Russian army's main department of combat preparation, Ivan Buvaltsev (R), while observing military exercises at the Kirillovsky firing ground in the Leningrad region, Monday, March 3, 2014. (photo credit: Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP)

Russia unlikely to pull back in Crimea, say analysts

Obama’s options limited as Western countries search for ways to pressure Putin over his recent Ukraine moves

By Julie Pace

March 5, 2014
9:11 am

US President Barack Obama and German chancellor Angela Merkel wave to spectators before Obama delivers a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate at Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday June 19, 2013 (file photo credit: AP/Michael Kappeler)

Obama, Merkel mull international inspectors in Crimea

As tensions continue to escalate in Ukraine, leaders discuss initiating ‘direct contact’ between Kiev, Moscow

By Yifa Yaakov and AFP

March 5, 2014
8:24 am

An Israeli soldier looks through binoculars at a Syrian village from an army post on the border between Israel and Syrian on the Golan Heights (photo credit: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

IDF shoots 2 terrorists planting bomb on Syrian border

Forces in northern Golan Heights identify hits on militants affiliated with Hezbollah