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Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas is seen on a TV screen while speaking during a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 27, 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)

US boycotts UN discussion on Israeli human rights abuses

State Department slams Human Rights Council for 'longstanding bias' against Jewish state that 'threatens its credibility'

Palestinians honor UN official who quit over ‘apartheid Israel’ report

By AP and TOI staff

Palestinian who killed US teen Ezra Schwartz gets 4 life sentences

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu chief of staff heads to US to sort out settlements

By Marissa Newman and TOI staff

An Israeli F-15I fighter jet (photo credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash 90)

Israel said to strike Syria for second time in 24 hours, amid threats from Damascus

Unconfirmed reports indicate jets hit Hezbollah weapons convoy, military targets, hours after drone strike in Syrian Golan; Syria UN envoy says retaliatory missile launches during Friday raid a 'game-changer'

Israel will continue to defend its citizens, says UN envoy in response to Syria threats

Israeli airstrike in Syrian Golan said to kill pro-Assad fighter

By Dov Lieber and TOI staff

IDF chief says Lebanon responsible for next conflict with Hezbollah

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, February 19, 2017. (Olivier Fitoussi/Pool)

Frantic talks underway to avert early elections

By Jacob Magid and TOI staff

Emerging compromise would reportedly join new broadcaster with Israel Broadcasting Authority, oust its current leaders

What’s behind Netanyahu’s threat to dissolve his coalition over media reforms?

By Andrew Tobin

Yesh Atid not seeking elections now, despite gains in polls

By Marissa Newman

Rebuffing PM, Kahlon says laid off IBA staff won’t be left high and dry

By Marissa Newman and TOI staff

Israeli soldiers take part in a military training in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, near the Israel-Syria border on March 20, 2017. (AFP/JALAA MAREY)

Live updates (closed)

Assad: Russia will play role in preventing war with Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

Syrian leader says he has right to protect country's borders; official says IDF foiled Syrian ballistic missile threat; source denies PM agreed to compromise with Kahlon over broadcaster

Screenshot from a video showing ultra-Orthodox Jewish passengers on board a flight from London Stansted to Rzeszow in Poland, March 19, 2017. The plane made an emergency landing in Amsterdam. Hiemishe LIVE NEWS/Twitter)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray, sing as plane sends out mayday call, makes emergency landing

Passengers en route from London to Poland for pilgrimage put on oxygen masks, sing 'Ani Ma'amin'; flight lands safely in Amsterdam

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (third from left) meets with Intel Corp. CEO Brian Krzanich (to his left) and Mobileye founders Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram , respectively first left and first right; (Courtesy: Haim Zach, GPO)

Why Mobileye’s $15 billion payday won’t add up to a jackpot for Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon

About $1 billion worth of tax shekels will be pumped into state coffers, while most of the money from Intel's purchase will go to funds and institutions that held its publicly traded US shares

A hoard of Byzantine coins found near Ein Nakuba by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists in 2016 and shown to the press on March 19, 2017. (Ilan Ben Zion/Time of Israel staff)

Hoard of coins from 1,400-year-old Byzantine site tells story of Persian invasion

By Ilan Ben Zion

As Jewish and Sassanid troops marched on Jerusalem in 614 CE, Christian residents of village on main pilgrimage route hid their valuables; now, nine copper coins hidden in a niche have been recovered

An ossuary with an inscription of Hebrew letters forming the word "Yeshua", or Jesus, is stored in Israel's antiquities authority storeroom, in Beit Shemesh, March 19, 2017. Israel's antiquities authority opened up its vast storeroom to reporters Sunday for a peek at select artifacts from the time of Jesus. Experts say they have yet to find direct archaeological evidence of the Jewish preacher who died on the cross and changed the course of history. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

In an Israeli warehouse, clues about Jesus’ life and death

By Daniel Estrin

Ahead of Easter, archaeologists discuss wealth of material that helps fill out understanding of his times, exhibit ancient burial box with Hebrew letters forming name 'Yeshua'

China's Premier Li Keqiang (2nd R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd L) attend a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 20, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / Lintao Zhang)

Netanyahu: Israel is ‘perfect junior partner’ for China’s economy

By Raphael Ahren

Among a series of signed deals, PM's delegation to Beijing agrees to grant visas to 20,000 Chinese construction workers

Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen speaks during the 14th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel aims to become world’s 15th largest economy by 2025 — minister

By Raphael Ahren

Whose mitzvah is it anyway?

He's learned that a professional mohel may get paid, but he never performs a circumcision for the money

This Passover I’ll have the beans

She's one Ashkenazi vegan who will be eating the 'kitniyot' traditionally permitted only to Sephardic Jews

David Friedman is a man of peace

Donald Trump's Israel ambassador pick has genuine concern for the best interests of the Palestinian people

So, if it’s art it’s NOT anti-Semitic?

A London street sign with the silhouette of an Orthodox Jew was not the work of a Neo-Nazi but it's still not OK

US President Donald J. Trump reacts after delivering his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA, 28 February 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Jim Lo Scalzo)

Trump’s approval rating among US Jews is 31%, poll finds

By JTA

President overall's approval rating is 42%, according to Gallup survey; Jewish responses appear to be along party lines

An anti-Semitic flier distributed on the campus of the University of Illinois in Chicago in March 2017. (Facebook)

Anti-Semitic fliers found at Chicago campus for second time

By JTA and TOI staff

New wave of anti-Jewish literature includes Holocaust denial, says 'ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege'

The aftermath of a suicide bombing at a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in August 9, 2001, that killed 15 and wounded over 100 more. (Flash90)

Top Jordan court denies US bid to extradite Jerusalem bombing accomplice

By Tamar Pileggi and AFP

Judges uphold ruling that Ahlam Al-Tamimi, an accomplice in the deadly 2001 Sbarro suicide attack, won't be handed over, citing unratified extradition treaty

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) in Cairo, Egypt, on July 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/HO/Egyptian Presidency)

Abbas, Sissi hold ‘reconciliation’ meeting in Egypt

PA foreign ministry touts sit-down as a 'response to those putting into question' ties between Cairo and Ramallah

Police and medical professionals arrive at the scene of a stabbing attack, in which two Border Police officers were moderately wounded, in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 13, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

Lions’ Gate stabber was part of radical WhatsApp group — police

18 members of social media group, 'The path to heaven,' arrested after attack in which 2 were wounded near Jerusalem's Old City

Head of Shin Bet security service Nadav Argaman attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee meeting in the IKnesset, July 12, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Shin Bet chief: For Hamas, Passover is prime time for terror

By Judah Ari Gross

Nadav Argaman warns lull in security incidents during 2016 is 'deceptive,' as terror groups still seek to carry out attacks

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visits the Tel Hashomer IDF base, where he spoke to new army recruits, on March 19, 2017. (Flash90)

Liberman summons rabbi he demanded resign over sexist comments

By Tamar Pileggi

Defense minister has threatened to cancel recognition of pre-army religious program over Yigal Levinstein's disparaging of female IDF soldiers

Posters reading "We are changing the rulers", referring to a change in government in the upcoming Israeli elections, seen at the campaign offices of the grassroots group V15 in Jerusalem on February 9, 2015. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Bill limiting get-out-the-vote groups set for final ballot

By Raoul Wootliff

So-called 'V15 law' seeks to restrict political activities of non-government groups during national election campaigns

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a memorial ceremony marking 21 years since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Israeli parliament on November 13, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Interview

Netanyahu lambasted for incitement in insider’s Rabin biography

By JP O’ Malley

A memorial to the victims of 1992's Israeli embassy bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Wikipedia)

Argentina, Israelis mark 25 years since attack on Buenos Aires embassy

By Raphael Ahren and JTA

Argentine President Macri meets for first time with Israeli survivors and relatives of 29 victims of the car-bombing

Interview

Belgian-Israeli singer Hagar Levy finds her voice, and audience

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Nidhe Israel Synagogue, Bridgetown, Barbados (CC BY-SA Roger W, Flickr)

Historic Barbados synagogue hit with anti-Semitic messages

By JTA

Linda Sarsour speaking onstage during the Women’s March on Washington in Washington, D.C, Jan. 21, 2017. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Top Arab MK hails ‘inspiring’ boycott activist Linda Sarsour

By Marissa Newman and JTA

The terminal at Tashkent International Airport. (Uzbekistan Airways)

Israeli detained 12 days in Uzbekistan after bullets found in bag

An Arizona family's menorah before and after it was vandalized and turned into a swastika, December 2016 (Facebook photo)

Four arrested for turning menorah into swastika

By JTA

More than 25,000 march in the annual Gay Pride parade in central Jerusalem, under heavy security on July 21, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerusalem to host Israel’s main gay pride parade — report

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivering a speech, June 4, 2007. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

ZiosexismIran leader says objectification of women Zionist plot

Author Melanie Phillips (photo credit: courtesy)

Times of Israel PresentsMelanie Phillips to discuss Islam, Trump, Israel and UK anti-Semitism at ToI event

By Matthew Kalman

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, right, and Israeli Minister of Education Minister Naftali Bennett attend a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 19, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewElections? We don’t need no stinking elections

By Joshua Davidovich

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