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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
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the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
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Fair, fresh and fast

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Writer: Ari Ben Goldberg

August 23, 2012
3:12 am

Then president George W. Bush walks with his father, former president George H.W. Bush, right, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., in December 2008. (photo credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National security pick raises question for Romney: Which George Bush?

Republican candidate’s selection of James Baker protégé Zoellick to key foreign policy slot is pitting the ‘realists’ of George H.W. Bush against the pro-Israel ‘neo-Cons’ of his son

By Ari Ben Goldberg

August 16, 2012
12:55 am

Spies Against Armageddon, by Raviv and Melman

‘If you don’t take care of this problem, we’re going to have to’

That was the Mossad’s message to Europe after the Munich Olympics massacre, say authors Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman in their new book on Israel’s spy operations. Is there a lesson here for Iran?

By Ari Ben Goldberg

August 15, 2012
6:11 am

Chase Tower in Chicago is the corporate headquarters of the bank (photo credit: Courtesy Monika Thorpe/Wiki Commons)

Does your US bank card work in Israel?

Chase Bank says point-of-sale purchases can’t be made because Israel is on an American government watch list. Nonsense, says the US Treasury Department. What’s going on?

By Ari Ben Goldberg

August 10, 2012
4:10 am

Israel's coastal city of Ashkelon lies 8 miles north of the Gaza Strip (photo credit: Courtesy Wiki commons)

Anti-Israel activists bid to torpedo Sacramento-Ashkelon sister city plan

California’s capital city, already twinned with Bethlehem, is new battleground in global campaign to ‘delegitimize the Jewish State’

By Ari Ben Goldberg

August 6, 2012
11:48 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with US President Barack Obama in Washington, DC, last March (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Democrats accuse Romney camp of turning Israel into a partisan issue

Reagan didn’t do it. Neither did George H.W. Bush. So why, they ask, is Obama taking heat for not visiting Israel since taking office?

By Ari Ben Goldberg

August 4, 2012
9:21 am

Leo Zisman and Matt Mindell (photo credit: Courtesy Rubinstein PR)

Defiant Holocaust survivor leads three dozen young adults to Auschwitz in new film

The ‘Lion of Judah’ tells the story of a New York City developer who returns to the site of his childhood horrors with a message to the next generation

By Ari Ben Goldberg

July 31, 2012
9:03 pm

An oil technician in an oil field southwest of Tehran. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

US House, Senate craft compromise bill for new round of Iran sanctions

New measure has broad bipartisan support, and AIPAC’s blessing, but some say it doesn’t go far enough

By Ari Ben Goldberg

July 31, 2012
7:32 pm

Mitt Romney on Sunday in Jerusalem (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Romney camp says ‘manufactured story’ over candidate’s ‘Israeli culture’ gaffe won’t damage campaign

Although some Republicans are questioning the wisdom of Romney’s overseas adventures, the candidate’s staff sees the trip as a net positive

By Ari Ben Goldberg

July 27, 2012
9:20 pm

Capitol Police officer Angel Morales, stands on guard on the West side of the Capitol in Washington on Friday (photo credit: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US lawmakers getting blowback for claims of Muslim government infiltration

Michele Bachman and four other Republicans are being condemned by some of their own party leaders for ‘unwarranted and unfounded attack’

By Ari Ben Goldberg

July 26, 2012
7:13 pm

Dr. Zvi Bentwich, a global pioneer in AIDS research, has been to Africa 22 times. (photo credit: Courtesy NALA Foundation)

Israeli warriors on frontline in global fight against AIDS

Conference in America highlights Israeli expertise in high volume, high quality voluntary male circumcisions, effective in drastically reducing HIV transmission to heterosexual men

By Ari Ben Goldberg

July 20, 2012
12:55 am

A member of the terrorist group Black September, which seized members of the Israeli Olympic team at their quarters during the 1972 Munich Olympics (photo credit: AP/Kurt Strumpf)

Obama ‘absolutely’ supports Olympic moment of silence for Israeli victims of 1972 massacre

Jewish Democrats praise the announcement, Jewish Republicans say it’s too late.

By Ari Ben Goldberg

July 18, 2012
4:15 pm

The progressive Jewish group Bend the Arc is launching a lobby and PAC (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

American Jewish social justice group goes to Washington

Bend the Arc, a liberal Jewish group focused solely on domestic issues, targets the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans in its first lobbying campaign

By Ari Ben Goldberg

July 13, 2012
5:44 am

The separation fence running through the hills near Jerusalem. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Is Israel in danger of becoming a failed state?

An American think tank says yes — for reasons that are drawing both suspicion and agreement

By Ari Ben Goldberg

July 11, 2012
3:31 am

Negotiators from the Claims Conference (left) meet with German government officials regarding compensation for Nazi victims who live in the former Soviet Union. Jul 2012, New York City (photo courtesy: The Claims Conference)

After six decades, 80,000 former USSR Nazi victims to get compensation

A community long denied justice will get $300 million. Deal comes as Israel, Germany commemorate the 60-year anniversary of the first reparations agreement

By Ari Ben Goldberg

July 6, 2012
5:01 am

Israeli intern Or Amir and Palestinian intern Waleed Issa in Washington, DC (photo credit: Courtesy Ari Ben Goldberg)

Jewish, Palestinian American groups ‘swap’ summer interns

A former IDF medical officer and a Palestinian from a refugee camp are seeing the conflict in a whole new way this summer

By Ari Ben Goldberg

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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

Writer: Ari Ben Goldberg

National security pick raises question for Romney: Which George Bush?

Republican candidate’s selection of James Baker protégé Zoellick to key foreign policy slot is pitting the ‘realists’ of George H.W. Bush against the pro-Israel ‘neo-Cons’ of his son

‘If you don’t take care of this problem, we’re going to have to’

That was the Mossad’s message to Europe after the Munich Olympics massacre, say authors Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman in their new book on Israel’s spy operations. Is there a lesson here for Iran?

Does your US bank card work in Israel?

Chase Bank says point-of-sale purchases can’t be made because Israel is on an American government watch list. Nonsense, says the US Treasury Department. What’s going on?

Anti-Israel activists bid to torpedo Sacramento-Ashkelon sister city plan

California’s capital city, already twinned with Bethlehem, is new battleground in global campaign to ‘delegitimize the Jewish State’

Democrats accuse Romney camp of turning Israel into a partisan issue

Reagan didn’t do it. Neither did George H.W. Bush. So why, they ask, is Obama taking heat for not visiting Israel since taking office?

Defiant Holocaust survivor leads three dozen young adults to Auschwitz in new film

The ‘Lion of Judah’ tells the story of a New York City developer who returns to the site of his childhood horrors with a message to the next generation

US House, Senate craft compromise bill for new round of Iran sanctions

New measure has broad bipartisan support, and AIPAC’s blessing, but some say it doesn’t go far enough

Romney camp says ‘manufactured story’ over candidate’s ‘Israeli culture’ gaffe won’t damage campaign

Although some Republicans are questioning the wisdom of Romney’s overseas adventures, the candidate’s staff sees the trip as a net positive

US lawmakers getting blowback for claims of Muslim government infiltration

Michele Bachman and four other Republicans are being condemned by some of their own party leaders for ‘unwarranted and unfounded attack’

Israeli warriors on frontline in global fight against AIDS

Conference in America highlights Israeli expertise in high volume, high quality voluntary male circumcisions, effective in drastically reducing HIV transmission to heterosexual men

Obama ‘absolutely’ supports Olympic moment of silence for Israeli victims of 1972 massacre

Jewish Democrats praise the announcement, Jewish Republicans say it’s too late.

American Jewish social justice group goes to Washington

Bend the Arc, a liberal Jewish group focused solely on domestic issues, targets the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans in its first lobbying campaign

Is Israel in danger of becoming a failed state?

An American think tank says yes — for reasons that are drawing both suspicion and agreement

After six decades, 80,000 former USSR Nazi victims to get compensation

A community long denied justice will get $300 million. Deal comes as Israel, Germany commemorate the 60-year anniversary of the first reparations agreement

Jewish, Palestinian American groups ‘swap’ summer interns

A former IDF medical officer and a Palestinian from a refugee camp are seeing the conflict in a whole new way this summer

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