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Avi Lewis attends the "This Changes Everything" photo call during the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival at Ryerson Theatre on September 13, 2015 in Toronto, Canada. (Mike Windle / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
March 30, 2026, 6:12 pm
Canada’s main progressive party taps anti-Zionist Jewish ex-journalist as new leader
Avi Lewis, a former Al Jazeera reporter, accuses Israel of genocide as he takes helm of New Democratic Party; has said he seeks to ‘unlearn’ the ‘Zionist myths’ he was raised with
By Shira Li Bartov
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, December 16, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
December 23, 2025, 4:34 pm
Knesset extends authorities’ power to ban broadcasts deemed harmful to security
Law, now in effect until 2027, enables shuttering of outlets, seizure of equipment, and blocking of satellite transmissions in Israel and the West Bank
By AFP and ToI Staff
MK Ariel Kallner at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, November 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 11, 2025, 1:46 am
Bill to make ‘Al Jazeera Law’ permanent passes first Knesset reading
Likud MK’s proposal would enshrine temporary measure that gave government the power to shut down foreign media outlets, while allowing it to do so without judicial oversight
By Ariela Karmel
Illustrative: An employee of Al Jazeera walks past the channel's logo at its headquarters in Doha, Qatar, in 2016. (AP/ Kamran Jebreili, File)
August 31, 2025, 5:36 pm
New York Jewish man files $1 million libel suit against Al Jazeera
Abraham Hamra says Qatar-based media network falsely reported that he had been paid by the Israeli government to visit aid sites in Gaza
By Luke Tress
Palestinian children and a journalist examine the destroyed Al Jazeera tent at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on August 11, 2025, following an overnight strike by the IDF. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
August 22, 2025, 10:42 am
28 countries, including UK and Canada, call on Israel to let journalists into Gaza
Israel has blocked foreign and Israeli reporters from entering Strip since start of 22-month-old war except on brief, military-escorted tours, saying it can’t ensure their safety
By ToI Staff
Palestinian children and a journalist examine the destroyed Al Jazeera tent at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on August 11, 2025, following an overnight strike by the IDF. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
August 13, 2025, 6:09 pm
IDF source: Some of the journalists killed with Al Jazeera’s Sharif were also terror operatives
In response to ToI query, army defends strike, says ‘many’ steps taken to mitigate civilian harm; source doesn’t specify which of other 5 fatalities were ‘incriminated terrorists’
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in an image released by the military on August 11, 2025. (IDF)
August 12, 2025, 3:27 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 12: Day 676 – IDF lays out projected timeline for capture of Gaza City
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian reports on IDF claims that a prominent Al Jazeera journalist was on the Hamas payroll and scathing rebuttal of starvation deaths, plus a West Bank update
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif (center left), who was killed by the IDF in Gaza on August 10, 2025, shown together with the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in an undated photographed posted by the IDF's Arabic language spokesman on August 11, 2025.
August 12, 2025, 9:01 am
Amid global outcry, IDF says Al Jazeera reporter it killed was receiving Hamas salary
IDF mum on affiliation of five other journalists killed with Anas al-Sharif; top EU diplomat calls on Israel to provide clear evidence of Sharif’s ties to Hamas
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Mourners march with the bodies of the Al Jazeera journalists who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City, from Al-Shifa hospital to their burial at the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City on August 11, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
August 11, 2025, 4:54 pm
International outcry after Israel kills Al Jazeera reporter it says was Hamas terrorist
UK says Israel must allow reporters to safely work; press groups express outrage over killing of Anas al-Sharif, dismiss IDF’s claim, say Israel deliberately targeting journalists
By AFP, ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg
Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif reports in a broadcast segment posted to X on August 8, 2025. (Screenshot: X)
August 11, 2025, 6:00 am
IDF strike on Gaza City kills Al Jazeera reporter accused of being a Hamas cell leader
4 more journalists and 2 others said killed in strike targeting Anas al-Sharif, who posted on X minutes before his death; groups pan Israel; pro-Israel activists note Sharif backed Oct. 7
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Demonstrators and journalists gather to protest against hunger in the Rimal district of Gaza City on July 19, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
July 24, 2025, 4:08 pm
Top news agencies urge Israel to let foreign press into Gaza, say reporters starving
Media groups call for ‘adequate food supplies’ to reach their employees as international organizations warn of growing hunger in Strip
By AFP and ToI Staff
File: An employee of the Qatar based news network and TV channel Al-Jazeera is seen at the channel's Jerusalem office on July 31, 2017. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)
July 14, 2025, 12:29 am
High Court judges query state over efficacy of law banning Al Jazeera
Civil rights group and Qatari outlet argue law is unconstitutional; justices suggest its provisions are too vague, one touts ‘factual’ lower court finding that Al Jazeera is involved in terror
By Jeremy Sharon
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (R) and US President Donald Trump sit side by side at the Royal Palace in Doha on May 14, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
May 15, 2025, 5:07 pm
More than just a plane: Gift to Trump highlights Qatar’s multi-billion US influence campaign
Tiny Gulf state is largest foreign funder of American universities, contributed over $6b in last 15 years, employs dozens of DC lobbying firms, has cultivated ties with Trump’s inner circle for years
By Leon Kraiem and Agencies
Pictures of slain al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh hang on the facade of the building housing the television station's office in Ramallah in the West Bank, after Israel issued a 45-day closure order on September 22, 2024. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
May 13, 2025, 2:44 am
Al Jazeera says Palestinian Authority has allowed it to resume work in West Bank
Qatari network was banned by PA from broadcasting in the territory following ‘misinformation’ and ‘incitement’ in its coverage of Ramallah’s crackdown on terror groups
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Shireen Abu Akleh stands next to a TV camera above the Old City of Jerusalem, in an undated photo. (Al Jazeera Media Network via AP)
May 8, 2025, 9:15 pm
Documentary claims to ID soldier behind 2022 killing of Al Jazeera journalist Abu Akleh
In ‘Who Killed Shireen,’ two unnamed soldiers from Duvdevan unit say Cpt. Alon Scagio shot Abu Akleh during riots in Jenin; Scagio was killed by roadside bomb last year
By ToI Staff
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