search
Ariel Sharon
Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (right), slipping the general's rank on Pundak's left shoulder. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's blog)
August 27, 2017, 4:31 pm
Yitzhak Pundak, made a general at 100, dies at 104
The deceased officer requested burial at Kibbutz Nitzanim, whose sullied name he sought to redeem
By Judah Ari Gross
Benjamin Netanyahu walks out of a helicopter in Jerusalem on July 20, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
August 8, 2017, 4:28 pm
A crack in time
A deadly helicopter crash has papers looking at the craft's past woes, while pundits peek backward for reasons to defend or abandon Netanyahu that have little to do with the law
By Joshua Davidovich
Palestinians run away from tear gas thrown by police officers outside Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, July 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
July 22, 2017, 2:25 pm
Israeli leaders can still contain Temple Mount crisis, but require political courage
The escalating violence brings to mind the events of September 2000, after opposition leader Sharon visited the Mount, but with a few significant differences
By Avi Issacharoff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, July 5, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Fash90)
July 5, 2017, 4:42 pm
Netanyahu accepts Modi invite to India as leaders ink cooperation deals
Hailing ties during second day of trip, leaders vow to deepen cooperation on technology, counterterror efforts and agriculture
By Raphael Ahren and AFP
Benny Elon, an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Israeli parliament for Moledet and the National Union between 1996 and 2009, on October 2, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 5, 2017, 1:33 pm
Former tourism minister Benny Elon dies at 62
Rabbi was MK from 1996-2009 for the right-wing Moledet and National Union parties
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, right, with Sagiv Lugasi, winner of the annual International Bible Quiz at the Jerusalem Theater, May 2, 2017. (Shlomi Amsalem)
May 4, 2017, 3:31 am
Why it’s a big deal that a secular student won Israel’s Bible contest
Many educators lament that too many non religious Israelis know too little about the Book, in part because they identify its study with a political culture they eschew
By Ben Sales
The unfinished museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans, in Latrun, Israel, April 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
April 24, 2017, 2:10 pm
Jewish veterans bemoan stalling of Israel’s WWII museum
$10 million needed to complete building, exhibits in Latrun for story of 1.5 million Jewish soldiers who fought the Nazis
By Aron Heller
File: A general view of a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit, taken March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
February 9, 2017, 9:24 am
As Trump era begins, what does Israel actually want in the West Bank?
The settlements grow apace, peace remains stalled and Israel's intentions seem a genuine mystery in Western capitals. Yet the question has a surprisingly simple answer, one which hasn't changed since 1948
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 22, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)
February 7, 2017, 8:50 pm
The true significance of Israel’s settlement legalization law
The flurry of hand-wringing over the Regulation Law has largely missed what may be its most dramatic consequence -- that it makes it harder for Israel to stick to its longstanding policy of permanent indecision in the West Bank
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman in Tel Aviv, November 3, 2016. (Flash90)
November 16, 2016, 5:06 pm
Liberman open to building freeze outside settlement blocs
If US recognizes construction in settlements with large Jewish populations, Israel won't build in isolated areas, defense minister says
By Raphael Ahren
Leonard Cohen, center, performing with Israeli singer Matti Caspi, on guitar, for Ariel Sharon, with arms crossed, and other Israeli troops in the Sinai in 1973. (Courtesy of Maariv via JTA)
November 11, 2016, 10:02 pm
Leonard Cohen, my father and me
The musician's visit to Israeli troops -- including my dad -- in the Sinai Desert during the Yom Kippur War was the beginning of my family’s bigenerational love affair with his irreverent yet spiritual writing
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
November 3, 2016, 5:28 pm
A worried Israeli’s perspective on America’s indecent presidential battle
Op-ed: I used to think we were the ones with the threatened democracy, extremist fringe and untrustworthy media. Then along came Donald Trump
By David Horovitz
Ariel Sharon, left, with Shimon Peres in the Knesset in 2005. (photo credit: Sharon Perry/Flash90)
September 28, 2016, 6:43 pm
While eulogizing Peres, key leaders eschew chance to push two states
When Ariel Sharon -- the hawk turned dove -- died in 2014, many dignitaries explicitly urged Netanyahu to follow in his policy path. Fewer are doing so this time
By Raphael Ahren
President Shimon Peres in 2009 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 28, 2016, 5:19 am
Beloved abroad, polarizing at home, Peres was the peace-making face of Israel
Ultimately respected as Israel's elder statesman, Peres -- who was prime minister and president but never won a popular vote -- enjoyed a uniquely lengthy and turbulent political career
By Raphael Ahren
Knesset member Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (photo credit: Flash90)
August 29, 2016, 5:53 pm
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 TOI staff
Load More