March 19, 2017
9:32 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a memorial ceremony marking 21 years since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Israeli parliament on November 13, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Netanyahu lambasted for incitement in insider’s Rabin biography

Former diplomat Itamar Rabinovich paints a dark ‘j’accuse’ against the Israeli right, leading up to and following the prime minister’s assassination

By JP O’ Malley

June 6, 2016
5:05 am

Education Minister and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett speaks during Jerusalem Day celebrations at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud slams ‘hypocritical’ Bennett over Palestinian statehood kerfuffle

Jewish Home leader has accused PM Netanyahu of opposing a Palestinian state in Hebrew while supporting it in English

By Times of Israel staff

June 5, 2016
10:57 pm

Naftali Bennett (left) and Aryeh Deri (center) with Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (right) ahead of Yosef's daughter's wedding, on June 2, 2016. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)

Bennett charges PM with two-faced stance on Palestinian state

Jewish Home leader doubles down on rejection of two-state solution, claims Netanyahu says one thing in English, another in Hebrew

By Times of Israel staff

September 9, 2014
10:54 pm

A new Israeli immigrant receiving an identification card, Jerusalem, May 3, 2010. (photo credit: Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)

The end of aliya?

The vast majority of the Jewish Diaspora is now prosperous, safe and English-speaking; such people won’t immigrate because Israeli bureaucrats tell them to

By Haviv Rettig Gur

June 10, 2014
4:53 pm

The current invitation to the exhibition

UNESCO’s nixed exhibit on Jewish ties to Israel finally goes on display

Canceled in January due to Arab pressure, the exhibition, now cosponsored by US government, opens Wednesday in Paris

By Raphael Ahren

January 21, 2013
2:41 pm

Atlanta native and Knesset hopeful Jeremy Gimpel (photo credit: courtesy Jeremy Gimpel campaign)

Gimpel has said Dome of the Rock ‘doesn’t belong there,’ but not that it must be blown up

US-born Jewish Home candidate, under fire for apparently relishing golden dome’s replacement by Jewish temple, has a history of hardline pronouncements

By Raphael Ahren

January 16, 2013
10:28 am

The 'virtual forest' (photo credit: Courtesy)

When planting a virtual tree, say a real prayer

A tree planted online ‘counts’ as much as one planted in the ground, says Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger

By David Shamah

April 22, 2012
6:13 pm

Death to America, from Iran (photo credit: screen capture, The Land of Israel Youtube video)

Israel’s ‘right’ to hit Iran goes viral

YouTube clips, viewed by over 2 million people, compare Iranian threat to the Holocaust

By Michal Shmulovich

Topic: The Land of Israel