January 19, 2015
7:05 pm

IDF Paratroopers on board a C-130 Hercules, equipped with gear pouch and ready to be linked to a static line in the plane on January 17, 2012 (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

59 years after last combat use, why do Israel’s paratroopers need new chutes?

The IDF is introducing the Stork, a US-made parachute that’s safer, can carry more weight and affords a gentler landing. But who jumps out of planes in modern warfare anyway?

By Mitch Ginsburg

December 29, 2014
11:07 am

An Israeli soldier at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip, on July 28, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The tale of 2014, told in 14 Times of Israel stories

In a year of many lows and a few highs, Times of Israel writers brought you reports on everything from diplomatic gambits to doctors treating terrorists to light rail fears to a remote community of Jews in Uganda

By Joshua Davidovich

December 12, 2014
6:41 pm

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid speaks with Hatnua head Tzipi Livni at the Knesset on December 3, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With elections in full swing, centrists feel the squeeze

First week of campaigning ends with dramatic shift — a reinvigorated Israeli left, a self-confident ‘national camp’ on the right, and a struggling center

By Haviv Rettig Gur

December 10, 2014
6:35 pm

Prime minister Ariel Sharon (Photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)

Spanish university dismantles exhibit misquoting Ariel Sharon

Madrid school’s posters had former Israeli PM falsely threatening to ‘burn’ Palestinian children

By JTA

November 13, 2014
9:15 pm

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem (Illustrative photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Employment rate among ultra-Orthodox women hits new high

Rise in haredi women in the workforce — now higher than overall female average — attributed to Sharon-era social security cuts

By Times of Israel staff

November 6, 2014
2:50 pm

Thousands of Palestinians pray outside Al-Aqsa Mosque, atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on the Muslim holiday of Eid Al Adha. last October. (Photo credit: Sliman Khader/FLASH90)

Jerusalem in the unholy grip of religious fervor

Op-ed: Incendiary ideologues and provocateurs are playing with fire over the Temple Mount, and the city is starting to burn

By David Horovitz

October 24, 2014
9:22 pm

Housing and Construction Minister and Jewish Home parliament member Uri Ariel (C) with Yesha (Jewish settler organization) leader Ze'ev Chever (Zambish), head of the Amanah settlement organization, at a press conference promoting new housing units to be built in the Jewish settlement of Tel Tzion, near Jerusalem, on August 13, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Israel’s housing minister may rent home in East Jerusalem

Uri Ariel, who moved to a Gaza settlement in solidarity before 2005 withdrawal, looks into taking an apartment in disputed Silwan

By Spencer Ho

October 3, 2014
6:05 pm

The commander of the IDF Armored Corps flanked by veteran officers who came to pay their respects at a memorial for Maj. Gen. Shmuel Gonen. (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)

The general killed slowly by the Yom Kippur War

A smattering of family members and fellow veterans gather at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv to remember Shmuel Gonen — blamed by a generation for the losses on the southern front

By Mitch Ginsburg

September 25, 2014
3:20 pm

Free shuttle buses from the suburbs helped hundreds of families make it to downtown Boston for the largest Israel rally since the start of Operation Protective Edge (photo credit: Elan Kawesch)

Tragedy, triumph and tears in foremost Jewish events of 5774

…But this year of war and massive funerals also brought us an Israeli Wonder Woman — and a 12-year-old telling penis jokes on national US television

By JTA Staff

September 16, 2014
6:36 pm

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. December 1, 2013. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90/File)

Israel’s power-starved left seeks its political fortunes in the center

Shut out of government for a generation, Labor is shifting its tone, arguing that the right offers no hope of peace and, after this summer’s conflict, that it can’t win wars either

By Haviv Rettig Gur

September 16, 2014
5:52 am

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon (photo credit: GPO)

Belarus museum opens exhibit about native son Ariel Sharon

‘Profile of a Leader’ inauguration attended by diplomats, Jewish leaders, Israeli guests

By JTA

September 12, 2014
9:26 am

Gil Hovav (center), a great-grandson of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, with Israel’s ambassador to Belarus, Yosef Shagal (left), and Limmud FSU’s Chaim Chesler at the ceremony in Glubokoe, Belarus, honoring Ben Yehuda, September 11, 2014. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz)

Belarus town honors Eliezer Ben Yehuda, father of modern Hebrew

Dozens of people, including a number of Israelis, gather in Glubokoe to celebrate life of ancient language reviver

By JTA

August 20, 2014
8:14 pm

Israeli army troops operating in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Going ‘for the head’ of the octopus

44 days on, what is Israel’s policy for Gaza and how much war will suffice to achieve it?

By Mitch Ginsburg

August 7, 2014
6:02 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, in Tel Aviv on August 07, 2014. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90)

After month of conflict, Netanyahu the politician is as relieved as the reservists he’s sent home

The PM who didn’t ‘finish the job’ emerges from the Gaza war more centrist and more politically secure, with his right-wing rivals muffled

By Haviv Rettig Gur

August 2, 2014
7:37 pm

Israeli soldiers seen on top of Merkava tanks near the Israeli border with Gaza on July 24, 2014, as Operation Protective Edge entered it's 17th day. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

In Gaza, the IDF has forsaken the element of surprise

There’s no doubting the army’s devotion to its mission, but other principles have been neglected, and there have been fatal gaffes. Will the abduction of Hadar Goldin change that?

By Mitch Ginsburg

Topic: Ariel Sharon

59 years after last combat use, why do Israel’s paratroopers need new chutes?

The IDF is introducing the Stork, a US-made parachute that’s safer, can carry more weight and affords a gentler landing. But who jumps out of planes in modern warfare anyway?

The tale of 2014, told in 14 Times of Israel stories

In a year of many lows and a few highs, Times of Israel writers brought you reports on everything from diplomatic gambits to doctors treating terrorists to light rail fears to a remote community of Jews in Uganda

With elections in full swing, centrists feel the squeeze

First week of campaigning ends with dramatic shift — a reinvigorated Israeli left, a self-confident ‘national camp’ on the right, and a struggling center

Spanish university dismantles exhibit misquoting Ariel Sharon

Madrid school’s posters had former Israeli PM falsely threatening to ‘burn’ Palestinian children

Employment rate among ultra-Orthodox women hits new high

Rise in haredi women in the workforce — now higher than overall female average — attributed to Sharon-era social security cuts

Jerusalem in the unholy grip of religious fervor

Op-ed: Incendiary ideologues and provocateurs are playing with fire over the Temple Mount, and the city is starting to burn

Israel’s housing minister may rent home in East Jerusalem

Uri Ariel, who moved to a Gaza settlement in solidarity before 2005 withdrawal, looks into taking an apartment in disputed Silwan

The general killed slowly by the Yom Kippur War

A smattering of family members and fellow veterans gather at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv to remember Shmuel Gonen — blamed by a generation for the losses on the southern front

Tragedy, triumph and tears in foremost Jewish events of 5774

…But this year of war and massive funerals also brought us an Israeli Wonder Woman — and a 12-year-old telling penis jokes on national US television

Israel’s power-starved left seeks its political fortunes in the center

Shut out of government for a generation, Labor is shifting its tone, arguing that the right offers no hope of peace and, after this summer’s conflict, that it can’t win wars either

Belarus museum opens exhibit about native son Ariel Sharon

‘Profile of a Leader’ inauguration attended by diplomats, Jewish leaders, Israeli guests

Belarus town honors Eliezer Ben Yehuda, father of modern Hebrew

Dozens of people, including a number of Israelis, gather in Glubokoe to celebrate life of ancient language reviver

Going ‘for the head’ of the octopus

44 days on, what is Israel’s policy for Gaza and how much war will suffice to achieve it?

After month of conflict, Netanyahu the politician is as relieved as the reservists he’s sent home

The PM who didn’t ‘finish the job’ emerges from the Gaza war more centrist and more politically secure, with his right-wing rivals muffled

In Gaza, the IDF has forsaken the element of surprise

There’s no doubting the army’s devotion to its mission, but other principles have been neglected, and there have been fatal gaffes. Will the abduction of Hadar Goldin change that?

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