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Topic: Binyamin Ben-Eliezer

April 29, 2013
8:53 pm

Alleged victim of chemical weapons attack on Homs, December 23, 2012 (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

Former Syrian officer: ‘I was ordered to use sarin’

Defected general says regime used lethal agents in at least 13 locations; confirms Iranian experts are aiding Assad’s troops

By Aaron Kalman

March 16, 2013
7:53 pm

Israel's President Shimon Peres meets with Likud-Beytenu leader and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Peres's office in Jerusalem on March 16, 2013. Netanyahu met with Peres to inform the president he has formed a coalition with Yesh Atid, Jewish Home and the Hatnua party. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO/FLASH90)

Netanyahu to Peres: My new coalition will bring ‘good news’ for Israel

PM informs president he has a 68-strong government; Peres urges him to ‘seize the opportunity’ for peacemaking; Silvan Shalom ‘won’t take cabinet seat’ if not given major role

By Times of Israel staff

February 18, 2013
11:56 pm

Former foreign minister MK Avigdor Liberman and Shas leader MK Eli Yishai at a celebration for MK Aryeh Deri's birthday, held at the Knesset, February 18, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Liberman dons black kippa at Deri’s party

It’s all fun and games as some of last month’s election victors enjoy the birthday spoils

By Greg Tepper

February 17, 2013
10:16 pm

Ben Zygier in IDF uniform (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Knesset committee to launch probe into ‘Prisoner X’ affair

Security official tells Israeli TV that Ben Zygier was offered plea bargain, but took his own life ‘out of shame’

By Adiv Sterman and Times of Israel staff

February 17, 2013
12:25 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 10 (photo by: Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Netanyahu on Zygier affair: Let the security forces do their jobs

MK Uri Ariel calls for independent probe of Mossad case that ended in suicide; Labor’s Cabel says his past inquiry into matter was discouraged by intelligence officials

By Stuart Winer

February 14, 2013
1:31 pm

Interim Knesset Speaker Binyamin Ben-Eliezer looks on as Miri Regev of the Likud party gives a speech on February 13. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

X-man

Spies, not superpowers, dominate the Israeli press as it tries to make sense of the Prisoner X affair

By Yossi Nachemi

February 13, 2013
4:51 pm

Ben Zygier (photo credit: Screenshot ABC TV via YouTube)

Australia probes report of Mossad agent who killed himself in Israeli jail

Melbourne native, Ben Zygier, known as ‘Prisoner X,’ reportedly traveled to Iran, Syria, Lebanon

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

February 13, 2013
9:01 am

Ben Zygier (photo credit: Screenshot ABC TV via YouTube)

Canberra simmers over report Australian Mossad agent killed himself in jail

Foreign minister orders inquiry into diplomats’ handling of ‘Prisoner X’ affair, which Australian TV claims involved a Melbourne native spying for Israel

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

February 6, 2013
2:37 pm

The Knesset plenum (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Senior MKs: Obama should address the Knesset

Outgoing speaker says that if the US president wants ‘to talk to the people of Israel, he can only do so in the parliament’

By Gabe Fisher

February 5, 2013
6:35 am

President Shimon Peres (center) and outgoing Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin (right) at the Knesset swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem, February 5, 2013. (photo credit: screenshot/Channel 2)

Peres arrives to swear in 19th Knesset

As leaders slog through coalition talks, red carpet is rolled out for 120 incoming legislators

By Ron Friedman and Joshua Davidovich

February 3, 2013
8:37 pm

Incoming Knesset member Stav Shaffir of the Labor Party tries out her chair in the plenum, Sunday (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset newbies shown the ropes, their seats

Veteran legislators give parliament’s new faces a crash course on law-making

By Aaron Kalman

December 29, 2012
12:28 am

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks with members of the media in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2012. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Israel shrugs off Abbas threat to dismantle PA

Palestinian leader has no intention of quitting, says Likud minister; Labor warns Israel will find no better partner

By Times of Israel staff and AP

November 30, 2012
11:54 am

National Student Union chairman Itzik Shmuli, right, one of the leaders of the summer 2011 social justice protests, shakes hands with Shelly Yachimovich as he joins the Labor Party on October 17. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Full results of Labor Party primaries

Yachimovich allies win big; journalist Merav Michaeli provides biggest surprise with fifth-place finish

By Times of Israel staff

November 29, 2012
6:31 am

Shelly Yachimovich speaks during the Labor party's Central Committee meeting in Tel Aviv on October 30, 2012. (photo credit: Flash90)

Labor heads to the ballot box with fears of irrelevance and a dovish slide

Shortage of candidates with security credentials harms resurgent socioeconomic-focused party, and Shelly Yachimovich fears her slate will mirror Likud’s tilt rightward

By Raphael Ahren

June 21, 2012
7:04 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak meet in Cairo, July 2010 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/Government Press Office/Flash90)

Egypt’s Brotherhood open to meetings with Israeli ambassador

Egyptian Islamists say the future president will abide by the country’s international commitments, including with Israel

By Elhanan Miller

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