Israel & the Region

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley gestures prior to address a session of United Nations Human Rights Council on June 6, 2017 in Geneva. (AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI)

US set to announce exit from UN Human Rights Council

Haley and Pompeo expected to announce move Tuesday night after Trump administration criticism of the body's obsessive focus on Israel

A masked Palestinian man launches a balloon loaded with flammable materials toward Israel from the southern Gaza town of Rafah on June 17, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Attorney general says Gazan fire kites a ‘legitimate military target’

By TOI staff

Soldiers from the IDF's Sky Riders Unit launch a Skylark drone during an exercise in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reconnaissance drone crashes in southern Syria

By TOI staff

Former energy minister Gonen Segev, seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for the appeal on his prison sentence on August 18, 2006. (Flash90)

Iran says it knows nothing of Israeli ex-minister charged as spy

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

In this undated photo provided on July 19, 2017, an IDF soldier feeds a Syrian baby in Israel as part of the army's humanitarian aid program to assist Syrians impacted by the civil war in their country. (Israel Defense Forces)

July 19, 2017, 9:23 pm

Operation Good Neighbor: Israel reveals its massive humanitarian aid to Syria

Detailing its outreach for the first time, officers say the IDF is building clinics inside its war-torn neighbor and treating sick children in Israel; hundreds of tons of food, medicine and fuel sent to ravaged border towns

By Judah Ari Gross

Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda sits in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, September 27, 2016. (AFP/ANP/Bas Czerwinski)

July 19, 2017, 9:17 pm

Palestinian civilians urge International Court to speed up ‘war crimes’ probe

Lawyers for alleged victims hand over dossier to ICC, claim lack of political will by leaders to push case against Israel

By AFP

An Iranian man rides his bicycle on top of a reproduction of an Israeli flag painted on the street during a rally marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on June 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Stringer)

July 19, 2017, 9:12 pm

US: Iran still top state terror sponsor; global attacks down

Report pans Tehran for its backing of anti-Israel groups and for its efforts to destabilize conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen

By Matthew Lee

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Mark Schiefelbein)

July 19, 2017, 8:47 pm

Abbas cutting China visit short due to Temple Mount tensions

PA president will return to Ramallah to convene urgent meetings with Palestinian leaders to discuss protests at holy site

By TOI staff

Muslim worshipers shout slogans at the Lions Gate, outside the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 19, 2017, 7:57 pm

Netanyahu says Israel won’t remove Temple Mt. metal detectors for now

PM holds telephone consultations with security chiefs while on a visit to Hungary, says situation will be reevaluated

By Raphael Ahren and Dov Lieber

Benjamin Netanyahu touring the INS Tanin submarine, built by the German firm ThyssenKrupp, as it arrived in Israel on September 23, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

July 19, 2017, 7:12 pm

Netanyahu: German sub deal likely to go ahead after probe

PM confirms deal is now frozen, says he knows nothing about ongoing corruption investigation, had no idea Shimron, his lawyer, was involved in affair

By Raphael Ahren

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya posing during an interview in Moscow, November 8, 2016. (AFP/Kommersant Photo/Yury Martyanov)

July 19, 2017, 6:37 pm

Russian lawyer ‘ready’ to testify to Congress over Trump Jr. meeting

Natalia Veselnitskaya says she will make the trip to speak with lawmakers if her security can be assured

By AFP

In this May 11, 2014 photo, a Saudi woman is seen through a heart-shaped statue walks along an inlet of the Red Sea in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

July 19, 2017, 6:18 pm

Saudis free woman in viral miniskirt video without charge

In rare victory for women's rights in kingdom, case closed after woman says clip posted online without her knowledge

By Aya Batrawy

The scene of car crash on Route 6235, near the settlement of Shaked in the northern West Bank on July 19, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

July 19, 2017, 6:02 pm

5 Palestinians killed in West Bank car accident

A van carrying 9 Palestinian workers collides with an Israeli truck outside the Shaked settlement

By Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup in Paris on July 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Kamil Zihnioglu)

July 19, 2017, 5:25 pm

Amid protests, Israel weighs taking down Temple Mt. metal detectors

Prime minister and security chiefs hold a telephone briefing as clashes between Muslim protesters and police continue

By Raphael Ahren and Dov Lieber

PM Netanyahu and the heads of state from Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland, in Budapest, July 19, 2017 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

July 19, 2017, 4:49 pm

Hungarian PM tells EU to improve its ties with Israel

Himself not a darling in Brussels, Viktor Orban urges European Union to restore 'common sense' in its policy toward Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon aboard the INS Tanin submarine as it docks for the first time at the Haifa Port, September 23, 2014. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/ FLASH90)

July 19, 2017, 4:13 pm

The tip of the bribeberg?

Like a submarine with a screen door, the press is inundated with news that the defense purchasing scandal could expand to other deals, though whether it will drown Netanyahu remains to be seen

By Joshua Davidovich

A Muslim protester is arrested outside Jerusalem's Old City on July 19, 2017 (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

July 19, 2017, 3:29 pm

Temple Mount tensions spark fourth day of clashes

Police arrest a demonstrator during scuffles at Lions Gate; holy site reopened to non-Muslims after closure over Jewish prayer

By Dov Lieber and Alexander Fulbright

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, briefs the media as Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan listens after unveiling the surface-to-surface Fateh-313, or Conqueror, missile in a ceremony marking Defense Industry Day, Iran, August 22, 2015. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

July 19, 2017, 2:54 pm

Iranian president threatens response to US sanctions

Parliament in Tehran votes to streamline bill that will boost funding for missile program, Revolutionary Guards

By AFP

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on July 19, 2017, following a demonstration against new Israeli security measures at the Temple Mount. (AFP/Musa Al Shaer)

July 19, 2017, 2:32 pm

Unrest, clashes over Temple Mount continue in Jerusalem

IDF discloses extent of Israeli aid to Syrian war victims; 5 killed in West Bank crash between Israeli, Palestinian vehicles; Netanyahu says Temple Mount metal detectors to stay up for now

By Tamar Pileggi