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Danny Ayalon
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)
February 10, 2013, 6:52 am
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
Former deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon (left) with ex-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset in 2012 (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
February 9, 2013, 8:01 pm
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
Danny Ayalon (left) and Avigdor Liberman, at a Knesset event in February 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
February 9, 2013, 5:02 pm
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
Construction in the neighborhood of Har Homa in East Jerusalem (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 7, 2013, 12:19 pm
‘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
National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash 90)
February 7, 2013, 9:48 am
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
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)
February 7, 2013, 2:00 am
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
Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho. (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)
February 6, 2013, 9:08 pm
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 TOI staff
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)
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 TOI staff
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in the short film 'The Magic of Jerusalem' (screen capture via YouTube)
January 30, 2013, 4:48 pm
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
Families of victims of the 1994 AMIA bombing mark the anniversary of the attack in 2006. (photo credit: AP/Natacha Pisarenko)
January 30, 2013, 7:32 am
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
The Buenos Aires Jewish center after it was attacked, July 1994 (photo credit: Cambalachero/Wikimedia commons)
January 29, 2013, 3:18 pm
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
Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman, January 2013. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
January 29, 2013, 2:01 am
Liberman trial set for next month
Ex-foreign minister to face a three-judge panel for fraud and breach of trust charges
Danny Ayalon (left) with Turkey's ambassador to Israel, Ahmet Oguz Celikkol, during a meeting in 2010. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)
January 17, 2013, 4:26 pm
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
Danny Ayalon (left) and Avigdor Liberman, at a Knesset event in February 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
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 TOI staff
Avigdor Liberman, pictured at the Lebanese border village of Ghajar in 2009 (photo credit: Hamad Almakt / Flash 90)
January 3, 2013, 4:11 pm
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
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