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The Times of Israel

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Founding editor:
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Writer: David Horovitz

May 19, 2013
12:54 pm

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem two years ago (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Russia knows exactly what the fuss is about

By insistently arming Assad, and with increasingly sophisticated air defenses, a disingenuous Moscow risks heating the northern border to boiling point

By David Horovitz

May 8, 2013
6:54 am

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visits Arab students in a newly opened elementary school in the Arab neighborhood of Umm Tuba, in East Jerusalem, December 13, 2011 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/FLASH90)

One Jerusalem. Undivided. Open to all. Controlled by Israel

Mayor Nir Barkat says he’s repositioning the city to retake the role it fulfilled ‘amazingly well’ for a thousand years — where all peoples were equally accepted, but Jewish sovereignty was unquestioned

By David Horovitz

May 7, 2013
2:34 pm

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat during an interview in his office. (Photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/FLASH90)

Barkat: Let the Palestinians rename Ramallah as ‘Jerusalem’

Jerusalem’s mayor rules out any notion of Palestinian rule in the capital, slams Olmert’s peace offer as a ‘terrible mistake,’ and says it’s ‘ridiculous’ that Jews can’t pray on the Temple Mount

By David Horovitz

May 4, 2013
7:00 pm

Ed Royce, US Congressman (R-California, 1993-present). (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons)

Congressman warns against US redefining its red line on Syria

Sending a conflicting message to Assad ‘could create a misunderstanding as to the steadfast nature of our intentions on Iran,’ says visiting Foreign Affairs Committee head Ed Royce

By David Horovitz

April 27, 2013
8:04 pm

Police stand guard outside Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Friday, April 19, 2013 after an ambulance carrying Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a19-year-old Massachusetts college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings, arrived (photo credit: AP/Elise Amendola)

Beth Israel ‘relieved’ bomb suspect Tsarnaev has gone, says CEO

US-born, Israel-trained Dr. Kevin (Ilan) Tabb tells The Times of Israel how the hospital grappled with terrorism in Boston, and how victims and staffers are now trying to recover

By David Horovitz

April 25, 2013
1:48 pm

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert leaves Jerusalem District Court last July after he was cleared of charges of double-billing on trips abroad in the "Rishon Tours" case, and cleared of charges of illegally taking money from American businessman Morris Talansky. Olmert was found guilty on a third charge of breach of trust in a real estate investment case (Photo credit: Flash90)

State’s lawyers outgunned by Olmert, Liberman? Not at all, says ex-top prosecutor

If anything, argues Yehoshua Reznik, former deputy AG who secured the conviction of Aryeh Deri, cards are stacked against public figures in high-profile corruption cases

By David Horovitz

April 21, 2013
2:40 pm

Pope Francis at the Vatican last month (photo credit: AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis visited Israel in 1973, just as Yom Kippur War broke out

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, then in his mid-30s, spent six days confined to his Jerusalem hotel, studying the Letters of Saint Paul to the Corinthians

By David Horovitz and Gavriel Fiske

April 15, 2013
12:24 pm

President Shimon Peres greets President Barack Obama at a reception held in Obama's honor at Peres's residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

From Shimon Peres on Israel’s birthday, a very healthy dose of dissatisfaction

Our near-nonagenarian president is in optimistic mood. We could make peace relatively rapidly, he says, and we can heal divisions with the Diaspora by focusing on common denominators. So why the talk of dissatisfaction? Read on

By David Horovitz

April 15, 2013
6:53 am

President Barack Obama hugs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as President Shimon Peres watches at left, before Obama's departure at Ben Gurion International Airport, Friday, March 22, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Peres: Netanyahu now has more faith in Obama

US will use force if all else fails to stop Iran, president tells The Times of Israel in a Yom Ha’atzmaut interview

By David Horovitz

April 11, 2013
7:05 pm

Canon Andrew White, in Jerusalem, April 10 (photo credit: Times of Israel)

The ‘Vicar of Baghdad’ comes to Jerusalem

Canon Andrew White has lived for eight years in a fortified compound in the Iraqi capital, defying the bombs to provide food, medical aid and spiritual leadership to a growing congregation — and explaining Israel and Judaism to them, too

By David Horovitz

April 7, 2013
4:40 pm

The story of Shockheaded Hitler

The unfortunately limited impact of a children’s poetry book adapted to ridicule the Nazis

By David Horovitz

March 28, 2013
2:19 pm

Rodriguez performs at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, in September, 2012 (Photo credit: Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP)

In the second coming of Rodriguez, a Passover parable

Stephen Segerman, the Cape Town record store owner who led the hunt for a lost singer-songwriter, tells The Times of Israel the story behind the Oscar-winning documentary ‘Searching for Sugar Man’

By David Horovitz

March 23, 2013
2:16 pm

President Barack Obama lays a wreath at the grave of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at Mount Herzl on March 22, 2013 in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Obama in Israel: The defining words and pictures

Key images and events from a whirlwind presidential exercise in rehabilitation and inspiration

By David Horovitz and Times of Israel staff

March 21, 2013
6:57 pm

US President Barack Obama delivers his speech at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on March 21, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Obama stirs young Israelis with the passionate speech of a left-wing Zionist

The core premise of the president’s address was that if Israel only pushes harder for reconciliation, regional hostility will gradually melt. Israelis are thoroughly divided on that, and he was at rhetorical best in trying to move them

By David Horovitz

March 21, 2013
2:18 pm

US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their joint news conference, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

A new Bibi-Barack era? No

Jokes, warm rhetoric and good body language shouldn’t obscure that the differences between Obama and Netanyahu are as stark as ever on Iran and the Palestinians

By David Horovitz

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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: David Horovitz

Russia knows exactly what the fuss is about

By insistently arming Assad, and with increasingly sophisticated air defenses, a disingenuous Moscow risks heating the northern border to boiling point

One Jerusalem. Undivided. Open to all. Controlled by Israel

Mayor Nir Barkat says he’s repositioning the city to retake the role it fulfilled ‘amazingly well’ for a thousand years — where all peoples were equally accepted, but Jewish sovereignty was unquestioned

Barkat: Let the Palestinians rename Ramallah as ‘Jerusalem’

Jerusalem’s mayor rules out any notion of Palestinian rule in the capital, slams Olmert’s peace offer as a ‘terrible mistake,’ and says it’s ‘ridiculous’ that Jews can’t pray on the Temple Mount

Congressman warns against US redefining its red line on Syria

Sending a conflicting message to Assad ‘could create a misunderstanding as to the steadfast nature of our intentions on Iran,’ says visiting Foreign Affairs Committee head Ed Royce

Beth Israel ‘relieved’ bomb suspect Tsarnaev has gone, says CEO

US-born, Israel-trained Dr. Kevin (Ilan) Tabb tells The Times of Israel how the hospital grappled with terrorism in Boston, and how victims and staffers are now trying to recover

State’s lawyers outgunned by Olmert, Liberman? Not at all, says ex-top prosecutor

If anything, argues Yehoshua Reznik, former deputy AG who secured the conviction of Aryeh Deri, cards are stacked against public figures in high-profile corruption cases

Pope Francis visited Israel in 1973, just as Yom Kippur War broke out

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, then in his mid-30s, spent six days confined to his Jerusalem hotel, studying the Letters of Saint Paul to the Corinthians

From Shimon Peres on Israel’s birthday, a very healthy dose of dissatisfaction

Our near-nonagenarian president is in optimistic mood. We could make peace relatively rapidly, he says, and we can heal divisions with the Diaspora by focusing on common denominators. So why the talk of dissatisfaction? Read on

Peres: Netanyahu now has more faith in Obama

US will use force if all else fails to stop Iran, president tells The Times of Israel in a Yom Ha’atzmaut interview

The ‘Vicar of Baghdad’ comes to Jerusalem

Canon Andrew White has lived for eight years in a fortified compound in the Iraqi capital, defying the bombs to provide food, medical aid and spiritual leadership to a growing congregation — and explaining Israel and Judaism to them, too

The story of Shockheaded Hitler

The unfortunately limited impact of a children’s poetry book adapted to ridicule the Nazis

In the second coming of Rodriguez, a Passover parable

Stephen Segerman, the Cape Town record store owner who led the hunt for a lost singer-songwriter, tells The Times of Israel the story behind the Oscar-winning documentary ‘Searching for Sugar Man’

Obama in Israel: The defining words and pictures

Key images and events from a whirlwind presidential exercise in rehabilitation and inspiration

Obama stirs young Israelis with the passionate speech of a left-wing Zionist

The core premise of the president’s address was that if Israel only pushes harder for reconciliation, regional hostility will gradually melt. Israelis are thoroughly divided on that, and he was at rhetorical best in trying to move them

A new Bibi-Barack era? No

Jokes, warm rhetoric and good body language shouldn’t obscure that the differences between Obama and Netanyahu are as stark as ever on Iran and the Palestinians

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