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May 10, 2013
12:55 pm

A Palestinian youth prepares to throw a stone at Israeli policemen near Jerusalem's Lion Gate, October 2009 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israeli ex-officials pelted by stones in East Jerusalem

A bus carrying three former ministers and a Nobel Prize laureate was attacked on the Mount of Olives, with no injuries

By Elhanan Miller

May 8, 2013
4:32 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry (back to camera) speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP)

Iran to turn the Golan into ‘Fatah-land’

Who’s afraid of Islamic jihadists in Syria? Russia is, write Arab observers

By Elhanan Miller

May 8, 2013
2:14 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 7, 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Officials deny Israel is set to widen PA’s security control

Fresh US peace initative to include transfer of villages to Palestinian police, large prisoner release, Arabic daily reported

By Elhanan Miller

May 8, 2013
2:25 am

Jibril Rajoub (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Top PA official: Israel ‘is our main enemy, resistance is still our agenda’

Arab states should put their money where their mouth is to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem, says Jibril Rajoub, a signatory to the Geneva Initiative who had pledged he was Israel’s peace ‘partner’

By Elhanan Miller

May 8, 2013
2:04 am

Palestinian workers unload gravel being pulled from a smuggling tunnel between the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on April 3, 2013 (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Egypt busts hundreds of smuggling tunnels, and a spy

Cairo is tougher on smuggling today than it was in Mubarak’s time, says Israeli expert

By Elhanan Miller

May 7, 2013
4:27 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, visits the Umayyad Electrical Station on May Day, May 1, 2013, a day after a powerful bomb hit the capital (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Assad’s crimes ‘miraculously’ forgotten after Israeli strikes

President ‘will never respond to Israeli attack,’ writes one Arab columnist. ‘He still might,’ opines another, hopefully

By Elhanan Miller

May 7, 2013
12:22 pm

Demonstrators gather along Syria's border with Israel before trying to cut through a line of barbed wire and head into the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, as seen from the Druze village of Majdal Shams, on June 5, 2011 (photo credit: Flash90)

Syria vows to retaliate for any future Israeli attack

Assad regime grants Palestinians permission to strike at Israel from Golan, state daily reports

By Elhanan Miller

May 6, 2013
8:30 pm

Watchtower of the Egyptian army at the border with Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 19, 2013 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Ex-Morsi adviser accuses Israeli diplomat of incitement

‘I was just responding to the nonsense he wrote,’ retorts former envoy to Cairo Zvi Mazel

By Elhanan Miller

May 6, 2013
5:56 pm

Anti-Assad protesters hold up a caricature placard representing Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, during a demonstration at Kfar Nebel near Idlib, Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 (photo credit: AP/ENN)

Israel strikes a blow to conventional Arab thinking

‘Israel is still my enemy, but when my enemy does a neat job — I admit it,’ writes one Syrian commentator

By Elhanan Miller

May 5, 2013
5:47 pm

An image from the site in western Syria allegedly targeted by Israel, May 5. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Israel said to hit arms depot, first daylight images reveal

IAF also struck a military-owned chicken coop in a site near Damascus that was ’99% civilian,’ Hezbollah TV reports

By Elhanan Miller

May 5, 2013
5:45 pm

Hezbollah fighters hold party flags during a parade in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla/File)

Pro-Hezbollah TV station: Assad deploys missiles facing Israel

Israeli analyst dismisses report, which also claims Syria will supply Lebanese terror group with advanced weaponry, as ‘psychological warfare’

By Elhanan Miller and Times of Israel staff

May 5, 2013
1:51 pm

This photo released on the official Facebook page of Syrian President Bashar Assad, shows Syrian president Bashar Assad, right, surrounded by bodyguards as young people, wave at him during the inauguration ceremony on Saturday of a statue dedicated to "martyrs" from Syrian universities who died in the country's two-year-old uprising and civil war, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, May. 4, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Syrian violence reaches the coast

Columnists warn of Assad’s plan to ethnically cleanse Sunnis in preparation for an Alawite state

By Elhanan Miller

May 3, 2013
5:53 pm

Matan Asher, right, and Alon Begin at the Qalandiya checkpoint, April 30 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

At a West Bank crossing point, Israeli students put the ‘right’ into human rights

A new volunteer group, emphatically not from the usual left of the political spectrum, is monitoring how the IDF operates the Qalandiya checkpoint en route to Jerusalem

By Elhanan Miller

May 2, 2013
1:19 pm

Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal waves to Palestinian Hamas supporters during a rally to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Hamas terror group, in Gaza city, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas leader dismisses Arab peace initiative

Khaled Mashaal claims Kerry-backed plan will benefit Israel while harming the Palestinian cause

By Elhanan Miller and Michal Shmulovich

May 1, 2013
7:52 pm

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh (right) meets with Islamic Jihad leader Nafez Azzam in Gaza, November 2008 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Islamist Palestinians blast Arab League for peace overture

Acknowledgment of Israeli settlement blocs amounts to ‘a new Arab Balfour declaration,’ Islamic Jihad official writes

By Elhanan Miller

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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: Elhanan Miller

Israeli ex-officials pelted by stones in East Jerusalem

A bus carrying three former ministers and a Nobel Prize laureate was attacked on the Mount of Olives, with no injuries

Iran to turn the Golan into ‘Fatah-land’

Who’s afraid of Islamic jihadists in Syria? Russia is, write Arab observers

Officials deny Israel is set to widen PA’s security control

Fresh US peace initative to include transfer of villages to Palestinian police, large prisoner release, Arabic daily reported

Top PA official: Israel ‘is our main enemy, resistance is still our agenda’

Arab states should put their money where their mouth is to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem, says Jibril Rajoub, a signatory to the Geneva Initiative who had pledged he was Israel’s peace ‘partner’

Egypt busts hundreds of smuggling tunnels, and a spy

Cairo is tougher on smuggling today than it was in Mubarak’s time, says Israeli expert

Assad’s crimes ‘miraculously’ forgotten after Israeli strikes

President ‘will never respond to Israeli attack,’ writes one Arab columnist. ‘He still might,’ opines another, hopefully

Syria vows to retaliate for any future Israeli attack

Assad regime grants Palestinians permission to strike at Israel from Golan, state daily reports

Ex-Morsi adviser accuses Israeli diplomat of incitement

‘I was just responding to the nonsense he wrote,’ retorts former envoy to Cairo Zvi Mazel

Israel strikes a blow to conventional Arab thinking

‘Israel is still my enemy, but when my enemy does a neat job — I admit it,’ writes one Syrian commentator

Israel said to hit arms depot, first daylight images reveal

IAF also struck a military-owned chicken coop in a site near Damascus that was ’99% civilian,’ Hezbollah TV reports

Pro-Hezbollah TV station: Assad deploys missiles facing Israel

Israeli analyst dismisses report, which also claims Syria will supply Lebanese terror group with advanced weaponry, as ‘psychological warfare’

Syrian violence reaches the coast

Columnists warn of Assad’s plan to ethnically cleanse Sunnis in preparation for an Alawite state

At a West Bank crossing point, Israeli students put the ‘right’ into human rights

A new volunteer group, emphatically not from the usual left of the political spectrum, is monitoring how the IDF operates the Qalandiya checkpoint en route to Jerusalem

Hamas leader dismisses Arab peace initiative

Khaled Mashaal claims Kerry-backed plan will benefit Israel while harming the Palestinian cause

Islamist Palestinians blast Arab League for peace overture

Acknowledgment of Israeli settlement blocs amounts to ‘a new Arab Balfour declaration,’ Islamic Jihad official writes

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