February 10, 2013
6:52 am

From left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Barack Obama and PA President Mahmoud Abbas during a trilateral meeting in New York, September 22, 2009 (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

US may up Iran pressure in return for progress with Palestinians

White House said open to deal being worked out by Netanyahu aides ahead of Obama visit next month, Sunday Times reports

By Joshua Davidovich

February 9, 2013
8:01 pm

Former deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon (left) with ex-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset in 2012 (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Liberman hits back at ex-deputy’s ‘undiplomatic leper’ critique

Ayalon is only attacking me now because I, rightly, left him off our party’s Knesset list, says Yisrael Beytenu chief

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 9, 2013
5:02 pm

Danny Ayalon (left) and Avigdor Liberman, at a Knesset event in February 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Ayalon: World treated ‘undiplomatic’ Liberman ‘like a leper’

Effective diplomats ‘speak softly and carry a big stick. We speak loudly, and carry a baby carrot,’ says outgoing deputy FM, also urging recognition for Palestinians

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 7, 2013
12:19 pm

Construction in the neighborhood of Har Homa in East Jerusalem (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘No change in settlement policy,’ say Jerusalem sources

Following reports that national security adviser called West Bank building a ‘diplomatic problem,’ suggestion of construction freeze put to rest

By Asher Zeiger

February 7, 2013
9:48 am

National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash 90)

PM’s security adviser: Settlement policy is ‘diplomatic problem’

Before heading to Washington, Haaretz reports, Amidror says Israel’s building in the West Bank is ‘impossible to explain’ to the West; PMO: No comment

By Asher Zeiger

February 7, 2013
2:00 am

Barack Obama, left, speaking on the phone on Air Force One, while adviser Tom Donilon looks on, in November. (photo credit: Pete Souza/Official White House photo)

Obama won’t bring new peace plan with him, sides say

White House and ambassadors on both sides of the ocean insist president’s imminent visit doesn’t signal a breakthrough in the peace process

By Haviv Rettig Gur

February 6, 2013
9:08 pm

Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho. (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Netanyahu sending top peace negotiator to US ahead of Obama visit

Yitzhak Molcho, who has held countless meetings with Palestinian officials, flies to Washington next week

By Adiv Sterman and Times of Israel staff

February 6, 2013
12:36 pm

Obama ‘wants to host Netanyahu-Abbas meeting during visit’

Israel’s deputy foreign minister says efforts to set up summit already under way

By Adiv Sterman and Times of Israel staff

January 30, 2013
4:48 pm

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in the short film 'The Magic of Jerusalem' (screen capture via YouTube)

Golden dome goes poof in ministry vid

Short film starring deputy FM Danny Ayalon shows animated sanctuary collapsing into itself on Temple Mount

By Adiv Sterman

January 30, 2013
7:32 am

Families of victims of the 1994 AMIA bombing mark the anniversary of the attack in 2006. (photo credit: AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina rebuffs Israeli demand for explanation over AMIA probe

‘It is a sign of ignorance and bad faith of those who say that we are ceding sovereignty,’ says foreign minister following harsh criticism of Iran involvement

By Raphael Ahren and Ron Friedman

January 29, 2013
3:18 pm

The Buenos Aires Jewish center after it was attacked, July 1994 (photo credit: Cambalachero/Wikimedia commons)

Israel steps up protest over Iran-Argentina bombing probe

Argentine ambassador reprimanded in Jerusalem; deputy FM says agreement akin to letting a murderer investigate his own killings

By Raphael Ahren

January 29, 2013
2:01 am

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman, January 2013. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Liberman trial set for next month

Ex-foreign minister to face a three-judge panel for fraud and breach of trust charges

January 17, 2013
4:26 pm

Danny Ayalon (left) with Turkey's ambassador to Israel, Ahmet Oguz Celikkol, during a meeting in 2010. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Israel could apologize to Turkey, deputy FM says

Danny Ayalon cites Pakistani-American precedent, states that it’s time for Jerusalem to make amends with Ankara

By Aaron Kalman

January 14, 2013
9:54 am

Liberman says he’ll leave politics if convicted

Embattled Yisrael Beytenu head, charged with fraud, agrees with statement of party’s No. 2 that convicted MKs should resign

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

January 3, 2013
4:11 pm

Avigdor Liberman, pictured at the Lebanese border village of Ghajar in 2009 (photo credit: Hamad Almakt / Flash 90)

Defense minister Liberman? The plot thickens

Though he said he intended to return to the foreign ministry after the elections, the Yisrael Beytenu head may have had his sights set on the defense job — where a strong performance would cement his prime ministerial credentials. A sharpened indictment has put a halt to those ambitions… for now

By David Horovitz

Topic: Danny Ayalon