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NATO is no peace panacea

Martin Peretz American soldiers manning checkpoints in the West Bank won’t make a Palestinian state any more plausible — and they’ll spell disaster for Israel and the US

A house in Hebron belonging to slain Hamas militants in the process of demolition by the IDF in 2010 (photo credit: Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Destroy homes of Itamar terrorists’ families, security service says

According to report released on Sunday, the families hid the perpetrators, concealed weapons and destroyed evidence

By Gabe Fisher

Father of two stabbed to death in Beersheba

Gadi Vichman, 36, killed when he asked local teens to stop making noise late at night

By Asher Zeiger

A meeting of the Turkel Committee, established to investigate IDF conduct during the 2010 Gaza flotilla, in April 2011 (photo credit: by Kobi Gideon / Flash90)

Turkel Committee likely to call for stronger civilian review of IDF probes

From the web Second part of inquiry into Mavi Marmara incident to include extensive reforms, Haaretz reports

Five ultra-Orthodox school heads arrested for fraud

One of the men held is also accused of involvement in Internet extortion scandal

By Shira Rubin

Hebrew Media Review

Sun, May 6, 1:05 PM

Left-wing protesters demonstrate against the release of Hagai Amir, accomplice to the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, outside the Amir family home in Ramat Gan on Friday (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef /Flash90)

Senseless death and elections drama

The Hebrew dailies begin the new week by dwelling on a needless weekend killing and looking ahead to a summer of electioneering

By Ron Friedman

S.Y. Agnon, the only Israeli author who has ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature, published his first novella a century ago. (photo credit: Courtesy Agnon House/JTA)

For centennial of S.Y. Agnon’s first novella, a search for books and roots

Fifty copies of ‘And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight’ were printed, of which only two have been found. This year English-speakers will be able to enjoy it in a new translation

By Ben Sales

One of two brothers convicted in Maryland Shomrim trial

Eliyahu Werdesheim found guilty of false imprisonment and second-degree assault

Eliyahu Werdesheim was given three years probation for his role in the November 2010 beating of Corey Ausby. (photo credit: AP Photo/Baltimore Police Department)

Second south Tel Aviv apartment firebombed in two weeks

Attack on African asylum-seekers comes days after arrests for a similar incident last month

By Gabe Fisher and Times of Israel staff

African migrants in south Tel Aviv (illustrative photo: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Vandals burn flags, destroy property at popular heritage site

Area youths suspected of damaging Ottoman-era flour mill and monastery

By Shira Rubin

Nachal Tzipori. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Pianist Omri Mor, seen here in Jerusalem in 2011, is one of the Israeli artists scheduled to perform in New York at the Jazzrael festival (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Eclectic sabra jazz in the Big Apple

The New York Times reports on the white-hot Israeli-NYC jazz scene

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