Partner Links: Learn Hebrew • Travel to Israel • Live Kotel Camera • Israel Pharmacy • Cellphone Rentals in Israel • Israel Relief Campaign

Thursday, May 9, 2013
Iyyar 29, 5773
1:31 pm IDT
Site updated 37 seconds ago

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: Bouazza Ben Bouazza

May 9, 2013
1:26 pm

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki visiting military officers in Jebel Chaambi, western Tunisia, close to the Algerian border, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 (photo credit: Tunisian Presidency/AP)

Jihadi peril makes its way to Tunisia

Army hunts for terrorists along mountainous border with Algeria

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Paul Schemm

February 20, 2013
2:08 am

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, center, arrives for meeting with political parties in an effort to end a crisis exacerbated by a political assassination two weeks ago, outside Tunis, Monday, Feb. 18 (photo credit: AP/Hassene Dridi)

Tunisian prime minister fails to form cabinet, quits

Hamadi Jebali’s resignation prompts international agency to downgrade the government’s credit rating

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza

October 14, 2012
2:59 am

Protesters gather in front of the main entrance of the U.S. embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Amine Landoulsi)

Leaked video raises questions about Tunisian government’s moderateness

Footage shows Ennahda Party leader speaking on how to gradually Islamize society; opposition groups fear radical Islamist agenda

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Paul Schemm

June 21, 2012
7:18 pm

Tunisian Salafists confront police officers during a demonstration in Tunis in February. (photo credit: AP/Amine Landoulsi, File)

Tunisia’s al-Qaeda mujaheddin flock to Syria

A large percentage of foreign fighters against Bashar Assad come from the cradle of the Arab Spring

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Paul Schemm