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Topic: Mavi Marmara

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February 11, 2013
8:17 pm

The Kerem Shalom crossing, between Israel and the Gaza Strip,in 2011 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel allowing Turkey to build hospital in Gaza

While relations between Jerusalem and Ankara remain strained, approval of supply trucks may lead to improved cooperation

February 6, 2013
12:56 pm

The Mavi Marmara protest ship is escorted to Ashdod port on May 31, 2010 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli legal reforms vital to grapple with war crimes charges, panel says

Commission of inquiry formed after the Mavi Marmara bloodshed in 2010 recommends more independence for army’s top legal official, more efficient investigations of alleged breaches

By Matti Friedman

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 16, 2013
2:21 pm

Hanna Swaid, in foreground, of the Jewish-Arab socialist party Hadash (Courtesy of Hanna Swaid)

Coexistence, despite everything

In the jungle of the Knesset, Hanna Swaid is an endangered species. The final installment in a six-part series of profiles ahead of the elections

By Matti Friedman

December 27, 2012
12:32 pm

Hanin Zoabi (center) and Jamal Zahalka (left) at the High Court of Justice on Thursday. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fracas erupts in Supreme Court after judges hear appeal against disqualification of Arab MK

Hanin Zoabi scourges ‘racist and fascist’ right, contends that ‘there is no legal basis’ for banning her from running in elections; ruling due by Sunday

By Aaron Kalman

December 23, 2012
7:38 pm

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking in Ankara, in October (photo credit: AP)

Turkey retracts veto on NATO cooperation with Israel

Ankara stresses it will still reserve the right to ban joint military maneuvers

By Adiv Sterman

December 19, 2012
5:30 pm

Arab parliament member Hanin Zoabi holds a press conference in the Knesset on Wednesday (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASh90 )

Central Elections Committee bans Arab MK Hanin Zoabi from running in elections

Supreme Court likely to overturn decision; Zoabi charges that the panel violated the rights of an entire population

By Stuart Winer and Adiv Sterman

December 19, 2012
10:51 am

Hanin Zoabi (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Controversial Arab MK faces disqualification as Central Elections Committee convenes

Hanin Zoabi and her Balad party support armed struggle against Israel, petitioners argue; ultra-Orthodox parties challenged for fielding female-less slates; any ban could be overturned by Supreme Court

By Stuart Winer

December 18, 2012
6:34 am

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, in July (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Farewell, for now, to the foreign minister who ‘burned many more bridges than he built’

Avigdor Liberman’s supporters hail the overseas visits he made and consulates he opened; his detractors say the ‘no more Mr. Nice Guy’ top diplomat was a disaster, and hope he won’t be back

By Raphael Ahren

December 17, 2012
9:56 am

The Mavi Marmara being tugged out of Haifa harbor long after the raid (photo credit: Herzl Shapira/Flash 90)

Turkey investigating at least five local Jews it claims aided IDF in Mavi Marmara affair

Representative of Turkish immigrants accuses Ankara of using Jewish community as leverage against Israel

By Asher Zeiger

December 10, 2012
8:35 am

Report: Deputy FM Ayalon sacked to clear way for renewed Israel-Turkey ties

Avigdor Liberman, interested in normalization, booted Danny Ayalon as nod to Ankara, Russian outlet says

By Times of Israel staff

November 14, 2012
6:04 pm

Prison bars (photo credit: CC BY libertygrace0, Flickr)

Erdogan delays extradition request for Israeli prisoner

Guy Hassid, arrested in 2010 for human trafficking, is suffering abuse in Turkish prison, says lawyer