February 6, 2014
1:33 pm

Sochi's Jewish center awaits the thousands of visiting Jews it plans on serving. (photo credit: courtesy)

Kosher meals, Torah classes await at 2014 Winter games

Sochi’s rabbi is ready to meet visitors’ spiritual and religious needs and expects to welcome 20,000 Jews for the Olympics

By Aaron Kalman

October 3, 2013
1:22 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets off an IAF helicopter (File Photo Credit: Ariel Jerozolimski / POOL / FLASH90)

Top minister: Makes sense for Israel, Arabs to cooperate on Iran

Israeli TV report says PM overseeing talks with key Gulf figures on new anti-Iran alliance, amid concern that Tehran will dupe Washington

By Aaron Kalman

October 3, 2013
1:14 pm

President of the Supreme Court, Asher Grunis (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

Supreme Court rules against ‘Israeli’ ethnicity on ID

Three-judge panel rejects appeal to force the state to register individuals as ‘Israeli’ instead of ‘Jewish’

By Aaron Kalman

October 3, 2013
10:52 am

President Shimon Peres visits the Kobi family, whose son Gal was killed in Hebron, September 27 (photo credit: Yosef Avi Yair Engel/Flash90)

Soldier’s killer still at large 10 days later

Security forces suspect lone gunman shot Gal Kobi in Hebron; Peres tells family their son was ‘a true hero’

By Aaron Kalman

October 2, 2013
8:42 pm

A formation of IAF Lockheed Martin F-16s (photo credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Israel, Gulf states said discussing new alliance to stop Iran

Israeli TV: Intensive talks with leading figures taking place over recent weeks, amid concern that Tehran will dupe Washington

By Aaron Kalman

October 2, 2013
7:22 pm

A home phone (Illustrative photo credit: CC BY/tawalker via Flickr.com)

Man busted after 5,170th call to 9-1-1

Police detain serial caller who caused emergency response hotline to collapse

By Aaron Kalman

October 2, 2013
4:24 pm

The UN's Disarmament and International Security Committee, 2012 (photo credit: UN News Center)

Iran elected to UN disarmament committee post

Panel deals with all matters regarding disarmament — including nuclear weapons; Iran official will report to General Assembly on ‘challenges and threats’ to global peace

By Aaron Kalman

October 2, 2013
4:23 pm

La Petite and her newborn calf at the Ramat Gan Safari, Wednesday (photo credit: courtesy)

For the not-so-small La Petite, a daughter

Ramat Gan safari’s 25-year-old elephant, already a grandmother, has another girl of her own

By Aaron Kalman

October 1, 2013
12:07 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama following a meeting in the White House's Oval Office, Monday, September 30, 2013 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

When Bibi met Obama

The president’s statement that the military option remains open gains wide coverage; back in Israel, a possible coalition crisis

By Aaron Kalman

September 30, 2013
6:07 pm

From left: Eli Yishai, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Aryeh Deri, the leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party attend a circumcision in January. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Politicians, rabbis fight to succeed Rabbi Ovadia

While Shas’s spiritual leader battles for his life, the race for one of Israel’s most influential positions gets underway

By Aaron Kalman

September 30, 2013
2:33 pm

Former judge Dan Cohen in court before receiving his sentence, September 30 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Former judge sentenced to six years in jail

Dan Cohen slapped with heavy fine, imprisonment after being found guilty of bribery and other charges

By Aaron Kalman

September 30, 2013
1:11 pm

Siham, wife of Mohammed Darrar Jammo, a Syrian political analyst and one of Syrian President Bashar Assad's strongest defenders who was gunned down inside his home, mourns her husband, in the southern coastal town of Sarafand, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

Poll finds Syrians unhappy, Israelis somewhat less so

Latin American countries dominate the top 10 in happiness survey; Israel places in the middle, edging out the PA

By Aaron Kalman

September 30, 2013
10:47 am

An Israeli Arrow missile being tested in June 2012 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Advanced Arrow 3 missile defense system facing budget cuts

Official slams slowed development of interceptor designed to stop Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles as ‘a careless decision’

By Aaron Kalman and Mitch Ginsburg

September 30, 2013
8:40 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) greets US Ambassador Dan Shapiro, April 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

American envoy says Israel and US in sync on Iran nuke issue

Dan Shapiro says countries working together to prevent Tehran from obtaining bomb, adds there is little Netanyahu could show Obama to stop rapprochement push

By Aaron Kalman

September 29, 2013
12:56 pm

US President Barack Obama speaks to his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, on September 27, 2013, marking the first time the two countries' leaders had engaged each other since 1979. (photo credit: Pete Souza via White House Twitter page)

One ringing phone call

Obama speaks to Rouhani; Israel and Palestinians at apparent dead end in talks; two Hebrew U professors hope for Nobel Prize

By Aaron Kalman

Writer: Aaron Kalman

Aaron Kalman is a writer and breaking news editor for the Times of Israel

Kosher meals, Torah classes await at 2014 Winter games

Sochi’s rabbi is ready to meet visitors’ spiritual and religious needs and expects to welcome 20,000 Jews for the Olympics

Top minister: Makes sense for Israel, Arabs to cooperate on Iran

Israeli TV report says PM overseeing talks with key Gulf figures on new anti-Iran alliance, amid concern that Tehran will dupe Washington

Supreme Court rules against ‘Israeli’ ethnicity on ID

Three-judge panel rejects appeal to force the state to register individuals as ‘Israeli’ instead of ‘Jewish’

Soldier’s killer still at large 10 days later

Security forces suspect lone gunman shot Gal Kobi in Hebron; Peres tells family their son was ‘a true hero’

Israel, Gulf states said discussing new alliance to stop Iran

Israeli TV: Intensive talks with leading figures taking place over recent weeks, amid concern that Tehran will dupe Washington

Man busted after 5,170th call to 9-1-1

Police detain serial caller who caused emergency response hotline to collapse

Iran elected to UN disarmament committee post

Panel deals with all matters regarding disarmament — including nuclear weapons; Iran official will report to General Assembly on ‘challenges and threats’ to global peace

For the not-so-small La Petite, a daughter

Ramat Gan safari’s 25-year-old elephant, already a grandmother, has another girl of her own

When Bibi met Obama

The president’s statement that the military option remains open gains wide coverage; back in Israel, a possible coalition crisis

Politicians, rabbis fight to succeed Rabbi Ovadia

While Shas’s spiritual leader battles for his life, the race for one of Israel’s most influential positions gets underway

Former judge sentenced to six years in jail

Dan Cohen slapped with heavy fine, imprisonment after being found guilty of bribery and other charges

Poll finds Syrians unhappy, Israelis somewhat less so

Latin American countries dominate the top 10 in happiness survey; Israel places in the middle, edging out the PA

Advanced Arrow 3 missile defense system facing budget cuts

Official slams slowed development of interceptor designed to stop Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles as ‘a careless decision’

American envoy says Israel and US in sync on Iran nuke issue

Dan Shapiro says countries working together to prevent Tehran from obtaining bomb, adds there is little Netanyahu could show Obama to stop rapprochement push

One ringing phone call

Obama speaks to Rouhani; Israel and Palestinians at apparent dead end in talks; two Hebrew U professors hope for Nobel Prize

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