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Reuven Rivlin
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With BBQs and F-35s, Israelis delight in 70 years of independence
By TOI staff
Some 200,000 people flock to national parks around the country, with many more taking to beaches to watch flyover of fighter jets
Police respond to a suspecter terror attack in Trebes, southern France, on March 23, 2018. (Newsflare/Tarbouriech Roseline via AP)
March 23, 2018, 6:23 pm
Netanyahu, Rivlin condemn ‘brutal’ French terror attack
After 3 people killed by IS gunman in southern France, PM says 'civilized world must unite and work together' to defeat terrorism
By TOI staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in the southern city of Dimona, March 20, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
March 21, 2018, 7:06 pm
Netanyahu: Syrian reactor raid shows Israel won’t let its enemies get nukes
PM hails 2007 strike, doesn't mention Tehran, but intelligence minister sends direct 'message to Iran': We won't let anybody who threatens to destroy Israel get nuclear capability
By AFP and TOI staff
US ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at the 15th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, February 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 19, 2018, 2:01 pm
US ambassador blasts PA for not condemning latest terror attacks
David Friedman protests Ramallah has remained silent in face of 'such brutality'; President Rivlin says those who support terror are 'enemies of Israel and the free world'
By Stuart Winer
Actress Mayim Bialik, left, meets President Reuven Rivlin at his residence in Jerusalem, March 18, 2018. (Mark Neiman/GPO)
March 19, 2018, 12:57 am
President Rivlin welcomes actress Mayim Bialik to Jerusalem
US television star arrives to participate in Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism
By JTA
Former IDF soldier Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead an incapacitated Palestinian assailant in the West Bank city of Hebron, appears before a parole board in the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on March 14, 2018. (Flash90)
March 14, 2018, 12:34 pm
Prosecution willing to let Hebron shooter go free in May
Elor Azaria appears before parole board after serving half his sentence; military says now too soon, but it won't fight a request in 2 months
By Judah Ari Gross
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a conference organized bythe 'Makor Rishon' newspaper, and the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem ,on March 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
March 11, 2018, 9:09 pm
Rivlin: Israeli democracy can withstand attacks on institutions
Amid harsh rhetoric from Netanyahu and his opponents, president says criticism legitimate, as long as it doesn't become 'incitement'
By TOI staff
President Reuven Rivlin (C) attends a conference of the Israel Press Council in the city of Lod, on March 4, 2018. (Avi Dishi/ Flash90)
March 4, 2018, 9:37 pm
Rivlin urges dialogue to defuse coalition crisis over draft law
President says continued infighting over ultra-Orthodox army exemption will deepen tensions between religious and secular
By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at an Israel Press Council gathering in the city of Lod, on March 4, 2018. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)
March 4, 2018, 9:12 pm
Rivlin defends free press amid Netanyahu onslaught
President calls journalism a 'necessary institution' of democracy, urges press to emulate his childhood journalist heroes: Jabotinsky and Superman
By Raoul Wootliff
Israeli security forces at the scene of car-ramming attack near the train station in the northern city of Acre, on March 4, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)
March 4, 2018, 7:32 pm
Hamas praises ‘heroic’ Acre car-ramming attack
President Rivlin wishes injured Israelis a speedy recovery, vows alleged perpetrator, an Arab-Israeli man, will be brought to justice
By TOI staff
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in Jerusalem, on February 18, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 18, 2018, 11:47 pm
Rivlin calls Polish prime minister’s Holocaust comments ‘a new low’
President tells major Jewish Diaspora figures that world leaders 'must be educated,' after Mateusz Morawiecki says Jews also perpetrated the Holocaust
By TOI staff
Parents wait for news after reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida., on February 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Joel Auerbach)
February 15, 2018, 10:19 am
President offers condolences after Florida shooting
'The people of Israel stand with the people of Florida, and all America,' Reuven Rivlin writes
By TOI staff
A woodworking class in the trade school established and funded by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee at a Cyprus detention camp in 1947. (Courtesy JDC Archives via JTA)
February 14, 2018, 9:41 pm
JDC dedicates home for century of historical records
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee archives span from 1914 to present and include over 3 miles of documents, 100,000 photographs and 6,000 books
By JTA
Former Beatle Paul McCartney, during his concert in Tel Aviv on September 25, 2008. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90/File)
February 12, 2018, 10:13 pm
Paul McCartney awarded Wolf Prize, expected to come to Israel
Iconic Beatles member declared one of 9 laureates of 'Pre-Nobel'; set to attend Jerusalem award ceremony in May to receive it from president
By Michael Bachner
In this Tuesday, May 23, 2017 file photo, US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
February 12, 2018, 5:50 pm
PM says he’s in talks with Trump administration over settlement annexation
Netanyahu stresses that in addition to coordinating measure with White House, legislation should be submitted as a government initiative rather than a private one
By Jacob Magid
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the 15th annual Jerusalem Conference of the B'sheva group, on February 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 12, 2018, 3:50 pm
A smiling Rivlin hints he believes Netanyahu should resign if indicted
Longtime benefactor Sheldon Adelson, asked by journalist whether he hopes PM will emerge unscathed, declines to defend Netanyahu
By TOI staff
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