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January 21, 2013
4:37 am

Outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unfold huge signs that read, "Only Netanyahu will protect Jerusalem," on Sunday (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu may ditch the ultra-Orthodox after vote

PM plans to enact a universal service law and take the Housing Ministry from Shas, so will he pivot toward Livni and Lapid?

By AMY TEIBEL

December 15, 2012
10:54 pm

A polling station in the 2009 national elections (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli election downplays Palestinian issue

Does the fact that Netanyahu’s divided challengers tap middle class economic angst instead of talking politics mean Israelis think the gaps with their neighbors are unbridgeable?

By AMY TEIBEL

September 16, 2012
7:33 pm

An Israeli helicopter flies above armored vehicles during an army exercise at the Shizafon Army Base in southern Israel. (photo credit: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP)

Israeli military moves major operations to south

$650 million construction project is the military’s biggest in three decades

By AMY TEIBEL

August 10, 2012
5:55 am

Army trucks carry Egyptian military tanks in El Arish, Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. (photo credit: AP)

Sinai buildup shifts tenet of Egypt-Israel peace

Ad hoc troop increases will not do much — but Muslim Brotherhood is loath to negotiate directly with Israel

By AMY TEIBEL and Hamza Hendawi

July 28, 2012
9:33 pm

Aide Charlie Pearce examines an Israeli flag on the charter plane of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney before he boards at London Stansted Airport, Saturday. (photo credit: AP)

Warm welcome expected as Romney touches down in Tel Aviv

Republican candidate to meet with Netanyahu, Barak, Lieberman and Peres

By AMY TEIBEL

July 10, 2012
2:23 am

Jewish settlers try to rebuild a structure demolished earlier by Israeli troops in the West Bank outpost of Maoz Esther, a hilltop site northeast of Ramallah, in May 2009. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Settler population surges 18% under Netanyahu

Growth is primarily due to high birth rates — and it is shifting from large settlement blocs to smaller, ideological communities

By AMY TEIBEL

June 22, 2012
3:57 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking at the economic forum in St. Petersburg, Russia on June 21, 2012. (photo credit: Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service, AP /RIA-Novosti,)

Putin visit to Israel next week could be vital in bid to thwart Iran via sanctions

Russian president may be signaling to Tehran that it needs to compromise in order to retain his support

By AMY TEIBEL

April 28, 2012
12:38 am

Netanyahu walks a frayed tightrope. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s balancing act

The fast-approaching Ulpana deadline deepens government fractures; if the buildings come down, will the coalition stay up?

By AMY TEIBEL

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

Writer: AMY TEIBEL

Netanyahu may ditch the ultra-Orthodox after vote

PM plans to enact a universal service law and take the Housing Ministry from Shas, so will he pivot toward Livni and Lapid?

Israeli election downplays Palestinian issue

Does the fact that Netanyahu’s divided challengers tap middle class economic angst instead of talking politics mean Israelis think the gaps with their neighbors are unbridgeable?

Israeli military moves major operations to south

$650 million construction project is the military’s biggest in three decades

Sinai buildup shifts tenet of Egypt-Israel peace

Ad hoc troop increases will not do much — but Muslim Brotherhood is loath to negotiate directly with Israel

Warm welcome expected as Romney touches down in Tel Aviv

Republican candidate to meet with Netanyahu, Barak, Lieberman and Peres

Settler population surges 18% under Netanyahu

Growth is primarily due to high birth rates — and it is shifting from large settlement blocs to smaller, ideological communities

Putin visit to Israel next week could be vital in bid to thwart Iran via sanctions

Russian president may be signaling to Tehran that it needs to compromise in order to retain his support

Netanyahu’s balancing act

The fast-approaching Ulpana deadline deepens government fractures; if the buildings come down, will the coalition stay up?

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