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Topic: Rishon Lezion

June 5, 2013
12:48 am

A Jerusalem branch of Bank Hapoalim (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Anti-Arab discrimination exposed at Bank Hapoalim

TV report shows country’s largest bank refusing to let Arab customers switch accounts to branches in Jewish areas; Hapoalim apologizes

By Asher Zeiger

May 12, 2013
8:52 pm

Screen grab from a controversial student union video (photo credit: YouTube)

College removes ‘racist’ video

Rishon Lezion student union takes down lecherous Arabs party promo after wave of complaints over its shameful content

By Lazar Berman

April 27, 2013
4:43 pm

An airplane sprays flame retardant on a fire near Motza, on the outskirt of Jerusalem last summer (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Heat wave sparks fires across the country

Two lightly injured in Ben Shemen blaze; public urged to use caution when lighting Lag B’Omer bonfires

By Times of Israel staff

April 10, 2013
3:06 pm

Ministers test drive their new tablet computers at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting April 7 (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

Throw the Facebook at ‘em

Yair Lapid says his staffers went behind his back to threaten a tuition hike, but not everybody is happy with him using Facebook to scold his minions

By Joshua Davidovich

April 10, 2013
12:41 am

200 Israelis at a college and a newspaper to be tested for tuberculosis

Health Ministry works to prevent outbreak after youth hospitalized with infectious disease

By Ilan Ben Zion

March 1, 2013
11:17 am

Police inspect the remnants of a car bomb that killed two people yesterday in Rishon Lezion. A dozen people have been killed over the past two years in a mob war in the cities south of Tel Aviv (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90)

Two weeks’ notice

Time is ticking away for Netanyahu to form a coalition, and the EU wants to label settlement goods

By Yossi Nachemi

February 28, 2013
11:29 am

Two killed in Rishon Lezion explosion

Police suspect bombing is the latest in a series of underworld clashes

By Aaron Kalman

February 14, 2013
5:58 am

Labor MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset speaker rejected belated gag attempts in Prisoner X case

Hours after debate was broadcast on TV, Ben-Eliezer says defense officials asked him to keep parliamentary inquiries into Ben Zieger’s detainment, death under wraps

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 1, 2013
2:15 pm

The Iron Dome missile defense system in action, November 15, 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Threat level midnight

Iran and Syria both bark in response to Israel’s reported strike, but it’s Hezbollah Israel fears most, even if the army is playing it cool

By Joshua Davidovich

December 26, 2012
8:27 am

31 people lightly injured in Rishon Lezion blaze

Seven children among those treated for smoke inhalation

By Times of Israel staff

December 19, 2012
5:05 pm

The weapons ship Altalena off the Tel Aviv coastline in 1948 (photo credit: courtesy, Zaltzmans/Arik Bernstein)

Government seeks to salvage the Altalena

Irgun vessel at the heart of one of the early state’s enduring controversies may be turned into a monument

By Stuart Winer

November 30, 2012
8:48 pm

Man killed in Rishon Lezion hit and run

Police nab truck driver who says he didn’t notice he’d hit anybody

By Ron Friedman

November 28, 2012
6:45 am

The most basic of shelters, the cement pipe (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

The safest room in the house

In the aftermath of Operation Pillar of Defense, engineers and architects consider the parameters of the protected space

By Jessica Steinberg

November 21, 2012
2:06 pm

A Beersheba bus that was damaged by rocket fire from Gaza, Tuesday (photo credit: Channel 2 screen capture)

A week into Pillar of Defense, frustration sets in

Casualties mount as rockets hit their targets, and the Israeli press grows tired of ceasefire rumors

By Ilan Ben Zion

November 20, 2012
7:43 pm

An apartment building in Rishon Lezion that was hit by a Fajr rocket from Gaza on Tuesday evening (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In Rishon and Ashkelon, ‘safe rooms’ save lives in two direct rocket strikes

Rocket with 90 kilos of explosives smashes through three floors of an apartment building in Israel’s fourth-largest town — and nobody is badly hurt

By Times of Israel staff

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Rishon Lezion

Anti-Arab discrimination exposed at Bank Hapoalim

TV report shows country’s largest bank refusing to let Arab customers switch accounts to branches in Jewish areas; Hapoalim apologizes

College removes ‘racist’ video

Rishon Lezion student union takes down lecherous Arabs party promo after wave of complaints over its shameful content

Heat wave sparks fires across the country

Two lightly injured in Ben Shemen blaze; public urged to use caution when lighting Lag B’Omer bonfires

Throw the Facebook at ‘em

Yair Lapid says his staffers went behind his back to threaten a tuition hike, but not everybody is happy with him using Facebook to scold his minions

200 Israelis at a college and a newspaper to be tested for tuberculosis

Health Ministry works to prevent outbreak after youth hospitalized with infectious disease

Two weeks’ notice

Time is ticking away for Netanyahu to form a coalition, and the EU wants to label settlement goods

Two killed in Rishon Lezion explosion

Police suspect bombing is the latest in a series of underworld clashes

Knesset speaker rejected belated gag attempts in Prisoner X case

Hours after debate was broadcast on TV, Ben-Eliezer says defense officials asked him to keep parliamentary inquiries into Ben Zieger’s detainment, death under wraps

Threat level midnight

Iran and Syria both bark in response to Israel’s reported strike, but it’s Hezbollah Israel fears most, even if the army is playing it cool

31 people lightly injured in Rishon Lezion blaze

Seven children among those treated for smoke inhalation

Government seeks to salvage the Altalena

Irgun vessel at the heart of one of the early state’s enduring controversies may be turned into a monument

Man killed in Rishon Lezion hit and run

Police nab truck driver who says he didn’t notice he’d hit anybody

The safest room in the house

In the aftermath of Operation Pillar of Defense, engineers and architects consider the parameters of the protected space

A week into Pillar of Defense, frustration sets in

Casualties mount as rockets hit their targets, and the Israeli press grows tired of ceasefire rumors

In Rishon and Ashkelon, ‘safe rooms’ save lives in two direct rocket strikes

Rocket with 90 kilos of explosives smashes through three floors of an apartment building in Israel’s fourth-largest town — and nobody is badly hurt

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