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Israeli solders take positions in the Golan Heights near the border with Syria on February 10, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JALAA MAREY)
February 11, 2018, 11:03 am
After day of fighting, the fog of almost-war creeps in
Papers on Sunday take in Saturday's northern battle, trying to figure out why Iran would suddenly push Israel so openly and whether Russia is really a friend
By Joshua Davidovich
Chief of Police Roni Alsheich seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a welcoming ceremony held in Alsheich's honour, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 9, 2018, 9:40 am
Straight outta Balfour Street
Scandal-hounded Netanyahu is seen by some papers as orchestrating a concerted campaign to counter the police chief's claim of illegal harassment of investigators
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Jim Hollander)
February 8, 2018, 2:55 pm
Netanyahu’s moment of truth
Ahead of possible indictment recommendations in PM corruption cases, Hebrew media plays the blame game while trying to predict what the future holds for the premier
By Tamar Pileggi
The funeral of terror victim Rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal in the West Bank settlement of Har Bracha, February 6, 2018. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 7, 2018, 3:14 pm
After me, the blood
Terror and revenge, border tensions and rash pronouncements in the papers point to another typically violent day, and more to come, in the Middle East
By Joshua Davidovich
The scene of a stabbing attack outside the West Bank settlement of Ariel, February 5, 2018 (Ben Dori/Flash90)
February 6, 2018, 9:17 am
Devil with a blue ID
The Israeli citizenship of the suspect in Monday's deadly West Bank stabbing has dog whistles blowing at full blast; Canadians, Africans and women are also under fire
By Joshua Davidovich
Girls outside a school. (illustrative photo: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
February 5, 2018, 2:49 pm
Thelma and #MeToo
Report says Education Ministry investigating prestigious arts school after 3 more students come forward claiming inappropriate contact with teachers
By Tamar Pileggi
An activist holds a #MeToo sign during a news conference on a Title IX lawsuit outside the Department of Education January 25, 2018 in Washington, DC (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
February 4, 2018, 8:46 am
Exposé leads to suicide, but media won’t play blame game
Pundits have a lot to say about Boaz Arad's death in the wake of a report detailing his sexual misconduct, and it's almost all in defense of the real victims and the fourth estate
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his wife Sara, second left, host Polish President Andrzej Duda, second right, and his wife Agata, at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on January 18, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
February 2, 2018, 2:16 pm
Israel straddles anger and diplomacy in tricky Pole dance
Ire at Warsaw for going ahead with the Holocaust bill is cramped by Israel's desire to keep tensions from getting out of hand
By Joshua Davidovich
Veteran Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Haim Gouri at his home in Jerusalem, July 6, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 1, 2018, 3:54 pm
Remembering a warrior poet who embodied the Israeli experience
Haim Gouri is eulogized as the last of a generation, a fighter and writer who was able to speak to the nation but was also tarnished by his right-wing politics
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Chief of Police Roni Alsheikh at an inauguration ceremony marking the opening of a new police station in the northern Arab town of Jisr az-Zarqa. November 21, 2017. (Basel Awidat/ Flash90)
January 31, 2018, 12:20 pm
Cops and slobberers
Netanyahu may or may not be on the police sonar in the submarine case, but one columnist says the media is drooling to see him indicted
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aboard the new submarine 'Rahav' at the Israeli navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 30, 2018, 4:48 pm
Rough seas ahead for Netanyahu
One major Hebrew daily says state witness's latest testimony in submarine affair could spell trouble for the prime minister
By Tamar Pileggi
Holocaust survivors participate in a beauty pageant contest, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, November 24, 2015. (Illustrative: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 29, 2018, 3:39 pm
Poland pisses off the bubbes
Everyone and their grandmother, literally, has something to say about Warsaw's Holocaust legislation, though a backlash against Israeli hypocrisy brews
By Joshua Davidovich
The SS "tower of death" entrance to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland, under which trains of Jewish deportees passed in 1944, when a spur was added to the existing track. The November 2015 photo was taken from outside the camp entrance. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
January 28, 2018, 9:00 am
Papers skewer law from Polish tone-deaf camp
The press unites against legislation outlawing assigning blame for Holocaust atrocities to Poland, with survivors and experts brought in to prove just what a mistake it is
By Joshua Davidovich
US President Donald Trump meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 25, 2018 (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
January 26, 2018, 2:47 pm
Jerusalem of Trump, Ashdod of Liberman
The US president's comments on the capital are seen as a win for Israel and the defense minister's weekend consumerism may be a win for his party
By Joshua Davidovich
Ariel Sharon, second from right, as commander of an armored division in the Sinai during the Six Day War (Courtesy Israel Defense Force Archive)
January 25, 2018, 12:10 pm
Shooting down planes, shooting down deals — or not
Those who stopped Ariel Sharon from downing a passenger jet are hailed, and papers survey the PM's blitz against the Iran deal and a 'nonexistent' migrant pact with Rwanda
By Joshua Davidovich
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