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March 12, 2013
2:50 pm

In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, a Syrian boy shouts slogans against the regime in front of a flag of the armed Islamic opposition group, the Nusra front, during a demonstration in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria (photo credit: Manu Brabo/AP)

Let the battle of fatwas begin

Religious edicts supporting and opposing Syrian President Bashar Assad proliferate as part of battle for Muslim hearts

By Elhanan Miller

March 11, 2013
9:23 pm

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz speaks at a ceremony in memory of the Israeli soldiers who were killed in the First Lebanon War (Operation Peace for Galilee) at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on June 05, 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Gantz says Lebanon will pay if Hezbollah attacks

Israel will face elevated terror threat when rebels have ousted Syria’s Assad, says IDF Chief of Staff

By Elhanan Miller

March 11, 2013
8:50 pm

Yossi Beilin meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, August 2008. (photo creditt: Omar Rashidi FLASH90)

Talks with PA snagged on Ariel, not refugees, former official says

Refusal to concede settlement and Olmert’s ‘lame duck’ status were main stumbling blocks blocking peace breakthrough with Abbas in 2008, claims Yossi Beilin

By Elhanan Miller

March 11, 2013
1:47 pm

Muslim women pray near Al-Aqsa mosque, August 8 (photo credit: Mahfouz Abu Turk/FLASH90)

Hamas attacks Islamic tourism to Jerusalem

Gaza government slams Israeli, PA initiatives; calls on Arab League and clerics to bar religious pilgrimages to the city

By Elhanan Miller

March 10, 2013
6:31 pm

Tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi, assassinated by the PFLP in 2001 (photo credit: Flash90)

Israeli minister’s assassin honored by Paris suburb

Majdi Rimawi, in jail for killing of tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi, is the first honorary citizen of the town of Bezons

By Elhanan Miller

March 10, 2013
3:09 pm

An Egyptian man walks on the grounds of a police officer's club as a fire set by protesters burns in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Gomaa)

Port Said court ruling sets Egypt aflame

Criticism of the Iraqi government mounts from both the Sunnis and the Kurds

By Elhanan Miller

March 7, 2013
9:14 pm

Free Syrian Army fighters pray inside a cave at Jabal al-Zaweya in Idlib, Syria, Sunday Feb. 24, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese Palestinians entering Syria to fight Assad

Fatah leader in Lebanon denies that Al-Qaeda affiliate has infiltrated Lebanon’s refugee camps along with Syrian refugees

By Elhanan Miller

March 7, 2013
1:38 pm

Syrian business tycoon Firas Tlass (photo credit: Youtube image)

Assad’s Syria sold Israel oil, businessman claims

Firas Tlass, son of a former defense minister, says Damascus’s outward hostility toward Israel was a front for political and economic deals

By Elhanan Miller

March 6, 2013
5:55 pm

Burka-clad Palestinian women in Gaza (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Fatah assails Hamas misogyny in aborted marathon

Gaza rulers’ refusal to allow women to participate in UN-organized race is unjust and un-Palestinian, PM Fayyad charges

By Elhanan Miller

March 6, 2013
2:34 pm

An Egyptian protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask runs during clashes with security at the entrance of Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian revolution, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, March 5, 20 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Egypt slips into a security void

John Kerry, visiting Qatar, discusses arming Syrian rebels

By Elhanan Miller

March 5, 2013
5:47 pm

British ambassador to Israel Mathew Gould (L) and Consul-General Sir Vincent Fean (R) lay a wreath at the scene of a terror attack in Jerusalem where a British citizen was killed, March 2011 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Palestinians chase British envoy out of West Bank village

Sir Vincent Fean intended to deliver a speech at Birzeit University, but was booed out under physical threat by angry students

By Elhanan Miller

March 5, 2013
3:58 pm

Egyptian army soldiers and military police secure a funeral procession for civilians killed overnight during street battles with police forces, in Port Said, Egypt, Monday, March 4, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Ramadan)

Saudi FM: Negotiations with Iran are a waste of time

Arab observers turn to the Muslim Brotherhood for answers on ongoing violence along the Suez Canal

By Elhanan Miller

March 5, 2013
11:34 am

Members of Eretz Shalom movement giving candy to Arab shoppers as they mark the last Friday prayers of Ramadan, at the Rami Levy supermarket in Gush Etzion on August 17, 2012. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘Tomorrow, God will ask us why we didn’t make peace’

Through an organization called Land of Peace, partly inspired by the late Rabbi Menachem Froman, Nachum Pachenik and his near-neighbor Ziad Sabatin try to bridge the settler-Palestinian gulf

By Elhanan Miller

March 4, 2013
5:05 pm

Trucks at the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel-Gaza crossing shut after reported Hamas takeover

Until now, Kerem Shalom entry point has been operated by a concessionaire on behalf of the Palestinian Authority

By Asher Zeiger and Elhanan Miller

March 4, 2013
12:58 pm

Israeli soldiers unpack rockets seized by Israeli authorities on a ship near Cyprus, and presented in the port of the Israeli city of Ashdod, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

‘Hamas rejects rockets tagged with tracking devices’

Israel accessed and tagged the weapons somewhere between Libya and Gaza, Egyptian daily reports

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

Let the battle of fatwas begin

Religious edicts supporting and opposing Syrian President Bashar Assad proliferate as part of battle for Muslim hearts

Gantz says Lebanon will pay if Hezbollah attacks

Israel will face elevated terror threat when rebels have ousted Syria’s Assad, says IDF Chief of Staff

Talks with PA snagged on Ariel, not refugees, former official says

Refusal to concede settlement and Olmert’s ‘lame duck’ status were main stumbling blocks blocking peace breakthrough with Abbas in 2008, claims Yossi Beilin

Hamas attacks Islamic tourism to Jerusalem

Gaza government slams Israeli, PA initiatives; calls on Arab League and clerics to bar religious pilgrimages to the city

Israeli minister’s assassin honored by Paris suburb

Majdi Rimawi, in jail for killing of tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi, is the first honorary citizen of the town of Bezons

Port Said court ruling sets Egypt aflame

Criticism of the Iraqi government mounts from both the Sunnis and the Kurds

Lebanese Palestinians entering Syria to fight Assad

Fatah leader in Lebanon denies that Al-Qaeda affiliate has infiltrated Lebanon’s refugee camps along with Syrian refugees

Assad’s Syria sold Israel oil, businessman claims

Firas Tlass, son of a former defense minister, says Damascus’s outward hostility toward Israel was a front for political and economic deals

Fatah assails Hamas misogyny in aborted marathon

Gaza rulers’ refusal to allow women to participate in UN-organized race is unjust and un-Palestinian, PM Fayyad charges

Egypt slips into a security void

John Kerry, visiting Qatar, discusses arming Syrian rebels

Palestinians chase British envoy out of West Bank village

Sir Vincent Fean intended to deliver a speech at Birzeit University, but was booed out under physical threat by angry students

Saudi FM: Negotiations with Iran are a waste of time

Arab observers turn to the Muslim Brotherhood for answers on ongoing violence along the Suez Canal

‘Tomorrow, God will ask us why we didn’t make peace’

Through an organization called Land of Peace, partly inspired by the late Rabbi Menachem Froman, Nachum Pachenik and his near-neighbor Ziad Sabatin try to bridge the settler-Palestinian gulf

Israel-Gaza crossing shut after reported Hamas takeover

Until now, Kerem Shalom entry point has been operated by a concessionaire on behalf of the Palestinian Authority

‘Hamas rejects rockets tagged with tracking devices’

Israel accessed and tagged the weapons somewhere between Libya and Gaza, Egyptian daily reports

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