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The Times of Israel

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May 11, 2013
8:42 am

Holocaust survivor Rivka Fringeru, 82, left, holds hand with Cynthia Wroclawski, director of the Yad Vashem names collection project, Sunday, May 5, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Holocaust memorial races to collect victims’ names

Yad Vashem’s record-the-memories project hopes to clear the 5 million mark in the next few years; few believe it can go much higher

By Aron Heller

April 26, 2013
11:28 pm

An Israeli soldier looks through binoculars at a Syrian village from an army post on the border between Israel and Syrian on the Golan Heights (photo credit: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel wary quiet on Syrian front may soon end

As villages along the Golan border change hands between military and rebel strongholds in daily battles, IDF chiefs fear the worst

By Aron Heller

April 15, 2013
2:30 am

Israeli soldiers salute at graves of fallen soldiers at a military cemetery on the Mount of Olives, overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 14, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel at 65: Success still plagued by uncertainty

On the eve of the anniversary of country’s creation, the Jewish renaissance in the Holy Land remains a work in progress

By Aron Heller

April 7, 2013
2:28 pm

In this April 4, 2013 photo, Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust survivor Aliza Vitis-Shomron, nee Mendel, holds a photograph of herself when she was about 17 years old as she sits in her living room in Kibbutz Givat Oz, Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Warsaw ghetto survivor carries out 70-year-old mission

Aliza Mendel was only 14 when she was ordered to escape and tell the world how her fellow Jews died fighting the Nazis

By Aron Heller

March 16, 2013
1:09 am

US Pesident Barack Obama pauses during a speech on Dec. 16, 2012. (photo credit: Evan Vucci/AP)

Obama needs to muster all his charm to win over skeptical Israelis

To overcome somewhat negative perception, US president will need to give an uncompromising pledge to stand behind Israel

By Aron Heller

March 13, 2013
1:08 am

Ultra Orthodox men singing and dancing at the Western Wall, June, 2011. (photo credit: Sophie Gordon / Flash 90)

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox are suddenly political outsiders

Deprived a place in the government and facing an uncertain future, the former power-brokers prepare to join the opposition

By Aron Heller

February 28, 2013
11:32 pm

Mayor Nir Birkat, gearing up with his new, Jerusalem Marathon 2013 shirt (Courtesy Flash 90)

Jerusalem marathon spurs political saber-rattling

Friday’s race’s route through East Jerusalem sparks Palestinian call for iboycott

By Aron Heller

January 31, 2013
9:17 am

Rona Ramon (left) visits a school in Modiin named after her husband, Ilan Ramon, along with two NASA astronauts in February 2008 (photo credit: Flash90)

Decade after shuttle disaster, Rona Ramon still trying to cope

Ilan Ramon’s widow says she is trying to find new meaning in life, but struggling to deal with the loss of her son six years after her husband disintegrated on reentry to earth

By Aron Heller

January 23, 2013
11:30 pm

A worker removes an election banner of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv, on Wednesday, Jan. 23 (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Lapid’s rise lifts hopes for new peace talks

Palestinian leaders pleasantly surprised by moderate’s strong showing, but doubt he can soften Netanyahu’s policies

By Aron Heller and Josef Federman

January 18, 2013
7:25 pm

Israelis stand in front of a sign for the hi-tech company Intel. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Hi-tech offers Israel’s religious Jews a job path

Though they may lack basic math skills, yeshiva studies provide haredim with tools surprisingly applicable to computer programming

By Aron Heller

January 15, 2013
11:58 pm

Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich speaks with locals in Bat Hefer as her aide holds her umbrella. (photo credit: Shelly Yachimovich/Facebook)

Yachimovich hopes to lead country, or opposition

Labor head’s focus on Israeli society and the economy has drawn criticism that she is ignoring the Palestinian issue

By Aron Heller

January 4, 2013
2:54 am

An ancient manuscript discovered inside caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan (photo credit: AP/The National Library of Israel)

National Library unveils trove of medieval manuscripts uncovered in Taliban caves

Documents from the 11th century provide first physical evidence of Jewish life in ancient Persia

By Aron Heller

December 28, 2012
12:44 am

Naftali Bennett speaks at a Yeshiva in Ashdod, Tuesday (photo credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)

Is Jewish Home led by a modern, liberal extremist?

Naftali Bennett — a well-spoken high-tech millionaire who opposes a Palestinian state ‘in our country’ — is gaining power at the expense of his old boss, Benjamin Netanyahu

By Aron Heller

November 20, 2012
12:44 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz (center) and Defense Minister Ehud Barak (left) ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, November 18, 2012. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

After seven years in office, Netanyahu gets a taste of war

Despite his history of tough talk, the prime minister has been very cautious about using military force

By Aron Heller

November 18, 2012
9:52 am

Palestinians sort through the rubble of their destroyed home after an Israeli airstrike hit a Hamas official's house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on November 17 (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

New technology, tactics create different battleground realities in Gaza

Four years after Cast Lead, the IDF finds itself once again heavily targeting terrorists in the Strip, so far with little collateral damage

By Aron Heller

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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: Aron Heller

Holocaust memorial races to collect victims’ names

Yad Vashem’s record-the-memories project hopes to clear the 5 million mark in the next few years; few believe it can go much higher

Israel wary quiet on Syrian front may soon end

As villages along the Golan border change hands between military and rebel strongholds in daily battles, IDF chiefs fear the worst

Israel at 65: Success still plagued by uncertainty

On the eve of the anniversary of country’s creation, the Jewish renaissance in the Holy Land remains a work in progress

Warsaw ghetto survivor carries out 70-year-old mission

Aliza Mendel was only 14 when she was ordered to escape and tell the world how her fellow Jews died fighting the Nazis

Obama needs to muster all his charm to win over skeptical Israelis

To overcome somewhat negative perception, US president will need to give an uncompromising pledge to stand behind Israel

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox are suddenly political outsiders

Deprived a place in the government and facing an uncertain future, the former power-brokers prepare to join the opposition

Jerusalem marathon spurs political saber-rattling

Friday’s race’s route through East Jerusalem sparks Palestinian call for iboycott

Decade after shuttle disaster, Rona Ramon still trying to cope

Ilan Ramon’s widow says she is trying to find new meaning in life, but struggling to deal with the loss of her son six years after her husband disintegrated on reentry to earth

Lapid’s rise lifts hopes for new peace talks

Palestinian leaders pleasantly surprised by moderate’s strong showing, but doubt he can soften Netanyahu’s policies

Hi-tech offers Israel’s religious Jews a job path

Though they may lack basic math skills, yeshiva studies provide haredim with tools surprisingly applicable to computer programming

Yachimovich hopes to lead country, or opposition

Labor head’s focus on Israeli society and the economy has drawn criticism that she is ignoring the Palestinian issue

National Library unveils trove of medieval manuscripts uncovered in Taliban caves

Documents from the 11th century provide first physical evidence of Jewish life in ancient Persia

Is Jewish Home led by a modern, liberal extremist?

Naftali Bennett — a well-spoken high-tech millionaire who opposes a Palestinian state ‘in our country’ — is gaining power at the expense of his old boss, Benjamin Netanyahu

After seven years in office, Netanyahu gets a taste of war

Despite his history of tough talk, the prime minister has been very cautious about using military force

New technology, tactics create different battleground realities in Gaza

Four years after Cast Lead, the IDF finds itself once again heavily targeting terrorists in the Strip, so far with little collateral damage

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