August 29, 2016
5:53 pm

Knesset member Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (photo credit: Flash90)

Arab press (mostly) yawns at death of Ben-Eliezer

Most highlight his friendship with Mubarak, corruption scandal; websites affiliated with terror groups recall war-crime allegation

By Times of Israel staff

August 28, 2016
6:19 pm

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer dies at 80

Ex-general and Labor Party veteran passes away at Tel Aviv hospital; decades-long career ended in December 2014 with allegations of corruption

By Times of Israel staff

July 29, 2016
3:20 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Vindictive’ Israel too quick to put its politicians under investigation?

Israel is not corrupt by world standards, says poli-sci Prof. Yossi Shain. And while leaders who cross lines should certainly be punished, he argues, the country has become unduly hasty to incriminate

By Andrew Tobin

June 13, 2016
7:27 pm

Flowers and an American flag are seen on the ground near the Pulse Nightclub where Omar Mateen killed 49 people on June 13, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. ( Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Terrorism: Stop the mud-slinging, fight the war

Op-ed: After Orlando, we can spend the next few weeks venting our fears and frustrations. Or we can get serious about thwarting death cult extremism

By David Horovitz

April 10, 2016
9:43 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 10, 2016. (Amit Shabi/Flash90/Pool)

PM: Today’s counter-terrorism akin to IDF’s major intifada campaign

‘We are acting against terror hotbeds,’ Netanyahu says, drawing parallel to 2002’s Operation Defensive Shield

By Times of Israel staff

February 29, 2016
9:59 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), seen in the Knesset during a special plenum session in memory of late Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, on February 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

At Sharon memorial, Netanyahu laments Gaza pullout

PM says giving Palestinians responsibility for rule in coastal enclave didn’t bring peace, but increased terror; Herzog hails ex-PM’s boldness

By Stuart Winer

February 26, 2016
10:33 pm

President Reuven Rivlin pays his respects at a memorial ceremony marking two years since the death of late prime minister Ariel Sharon on February 26, 2016, at the family's Negev ranch. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin remembers Sharon as man of principle, bold leader

At memorial to mark 2nd anniversary of PM’s death, president hails ‘brave commander ready to sacrifice everything’ for Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

January 6, 2016
7:06 am

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen look over documents in a photo posted on social media by Netanyahu on December 7, 2015, shortly after he named Cohen as the new Mossad chief. (PMO/Facebook)

Our new spymaster and the demise of Israeli politics

There is an irony at the heart of the Netanyahu premiership — a dramatic consolidation of political power driven by a collapse in Israelis’ faith in such power

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 3, 2016
8:55 pm

A shared Facebook post, falsely claimed to be a photo of Arab Israelis celebrating the January 1, 2016, shooting attack at a Tel Aviv bar, which killed two and injured seven. The picture actually shows Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in southern Lebanon celebrating the January 2014 death of Ariel Sharon. (Facebook)

Viral image of Arab Israelis celebrating TA attack is a fake

Photo shared on Facebook is actually of rejoicing in Lebanon over Ariel Sharon’s death in 2014

By Times of Israel staff

December 9, 2015
6:29 pm

Political adviser George Birnbaum during an interview with CNN in 2014. (YouTube/GuariscoGroup)

Carson claims new adviser is ex-Netanyahu chief of staff. Well, kinda

Associates say George Birnbaum ran Netanyahu’s two-man office when he quit the Knesset after 1999 election loss

By Raoul Wootliff and Stuart Winer

November 11, 2015
6:01 am

US President George W. Bush listening to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, left, speaking at a joint news conference following their talks about the Middle East peace process at Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, April 11, 2005. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Images/JTA)

After Baratz, 4 famous Israeli ‘burns’ of US officials

The current spat over Netanyahu’ s would-be media czar is not the first time an Israeli official trash-talked an American counterpart

By Ron Kampeas

November 10, 2015
12:05 pm

French philosopher Andre Glucksmann (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)

French Jewish philosopher Andre Glucksmann dies at 78

Intellectual famously broke with Marxist peers, adopted right-wing ideology; said French Jews should not flee to Israel

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

October 21, 2015
5:00 pm

Palestinian women argue with Israeli policemen during a protest against Jewish groups visiting the Temple Mount, which houses Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, on September 16, 2015. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Palestinians, Jordan reject Israeli offer to limit non-Muslims on Temple Mount

Netanyahu proposes to curb Jewish access in bid to help quell wave of terror and violence; Amman and Ramallah demand full Waqf oversight of all visits

By Avi Issacharoff and Times of Israel staff

October 8, 2015
2:53 pm

Minister Uri Ariel on the Temple Mount on March 16, 2014 (photo credit: Uri Ariel's spokesman's office)

Moving the match away from the powder keg

Op-ed: The prime minister’s decision to ban all parties with vested interests from going to the Temple Mount is one of the wisest made here in recent years

By Avi Issacharoff

October 7, 2015
6:12 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 30, 2015. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

For Netanyahu, the word is mightier than the deed

Rabin and Sharon also addressed the UN, but who remembers that? They were less talented speakers than the current PM, but they knew how to take action

By Raphael Ahren

Topic: Ariel Sharon

Arab press (mostly) yawns at death of Ben-Eliezer

Most highlight his friendship with Mubarak, corruption scandal; websites affiliated with terror groups recall war-crime allegation

Former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer dies at 80

Ex-general and Labor Party veteran passes away at Tel Aviv hospital; decades-long career ended in December 2014 with allegations of corruption

‘Vindictive’ Israel too quick to put its politicians under investigation?

Israel is not corrupt by world standards, says poli-sci Prof. Yossi Shain. And while leaders who cross lines should certainly be punished, he argues, the country has become unduly hasty to incriminate

Terrorism: Stop the mud-slinging, fight the war

Op-ed: After Orlando, we can spend the next few weeks venting our fears and frustrations. Or we can get serious about thwarting death cult extremism

PM: Today’s counter-terrorism akin to IDF’s major intifada campaign

‘We are acting against terror hotbeds,’ Netanyahu says, drawing parallel to 2002’s Operation Defensive Shield

At Sharon memorial, Netanyahu laments Gaza pullout

PM says giving Palestinians responsibility for rule in coastal enclave didn’t bring peace, but increased terror; Herzog hails ex-PM’s boldness

Rivlin remembers Sharon as man of principle, bold leader

At memorial to mark 2nd anniversary of PM’s death, president hails ‘brave commander ready to sacrifice everything’ for Israel

Our new spymaster and the demise of Israeli politics

There is an irony at the heart of the Netanyahu premiership — a dramatic consolidation of political power driven by a collapse in Israelis’ faith in such power

Viral image of Arab Israelis celebrating TA attack is a fake

Photo shared on Facebook is actually of rejoicing in Lebanon over Ariel Sharon’s death in 2014

Carson claims new adviser is ex-Netanyahu chief of staff. Well, kinda

Associates say George Birnbaum ran Netanyahu’s two-man office when he quit the Knesset after 1999 election loss

After Baratz, 4 famous Israeli ‘burns’ of US officials

The current spat over Netanyahu’ s would-be media czar is not the first time an Israeli official trash-talked an American counterpart

French Jewish philosopher Andre Glucksmann dies at 78

Intellectual famously broke with Marxist peers, adopted right-wing ideology; said French Jews should not flee to Israel

Palestinians, Jordan reject Israeli offer to limit non-Muslims on Temple Mount

Netanyahu proposes to curb Jewish access in bid to help quell wave of terror and violence; Amman and Ramallah demand full Waqf oversight of all visits

Moving the match away from the powder keg

Op-ed: The prime minister’s decision to ban all parties with vested interests from going to the Temple Mount is one of the wisest made here in recent years

For Netanyahu, the word is mightier than the deed

Rabin and Sharon also addressed the UN, but who remembers that? They were less talented speakers than the current PM, but they knew how to take action

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