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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
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Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
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Writer: Haviv Rettig Gur

May 21, 2013
8:25 am

Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman of California (photo credit: CC BY cliff1066™, Flickr)

US lawmakers blast critics of visa waivers for Israelis

Pro-Palestinian groups campaign against granting Israelis unfettered access to the US, citing ‘discriminatory’ security procedures at Ben Gurion Airport

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 19, 2013
2:16 am

US Congress (Photo credit: CC BY-SA Dougtone, Flickr)

Congress set to tighten economic noose on Iran

Two widely supported bills would expand sanctions beyond financial and energy sectors, and urge support for Israel in any confrontation with Tehran

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 17, 2013
4:19 am

The Bushehr nuclear facility in Iran (photo credit: AP/Mehr News Agency/Majid Asgaripour/File)

On Iran, the world’s efforts sadly ‘have not been successful’

As Tehran gets set to chair the very disarmament forum it flouts, and former Obama officials suggest a bomb may not be preventable, signs are that diplomacy has run out of steam

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 15, 2013
1:50 am

Jobbik party supporters burning an EU flag at a rally in Budapest in 2012. (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube video uploaded by Euronews)

Jewish leaders to Kerry: Confront Hungary’s rising anti-Semitism

Acute concerns over growth of extremist Jobbik party, violence against Jews, cemetery desecration, widespread anti-Jewish sentiment

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 13, 2013
5:16 pm

The Newseum journalists memorial (photo credit: CC BY-SA jsmjr, Flickr)

Museum to ‘reevaluate’ honors to Hamas cameramen

‘Questions have been raised’ over whether Gaza duo ‘were truly journalists or were engaged in terrorist activities,’ says Newseum spokesman

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 13, 2013
6:02 am

ADL raps journalism museum for honoring Hamas cameramen

Group charges move by Newseum in Washington is ‘an insult to other journalists’; museum defends choice

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 12, 2013
1:50 pm

This composite photograph shows Tsarnaev Tamerlan, 26 (left), and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing (photo credit: AP/The Lowell Sun & Robin Young)

‘Mounting evidence’ Boston bombers were behind gruesome 2011 murders

Forensic evidence at crime scene said to link both Tsarnaev brothers to killings of three young men, two of whom were Jewish

By Times of Israel staff and Haviv Rettig Gur

May 10, 2013
4:35 pm

Pamela Geller as self-appointed spokesperson for moderate Muslims

The Times of Israel asks the controversial activist whether she is, as the ADL claims, a bigot, or merely an impolitic and impolite campaigner against extremist Islam

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 10, 2013
6:00 am

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the Washington Institute for Near East policy on Thursday. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube video)

Hagel: Despite shrinking Mideast footprint, US can stop Iran

US Defense Secretary insists region remains ‘top defense priority’ for Obama administration, and that ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 9, 2013
11:08 pm

Tzachi Hanegbi, left, with former Shin Bet chief Yaakov Peri in January. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud MK: Israeli decision on striking Iran by early 2014

Hanegbi: Israel should not seek, much less rely on, a presidential commitment to hit Tehran; PM in China warns nuclear Iran would ‘blackmail’ the world

By Adiv Sterman and Haviv Rettig Gur

May 8, 2013
5:36 am

Former deputy prime minister Dan Meridor (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Meridor: Israel must take steps for peace talks

Amid talk of settlement freeze, former Likud minister urges return to negotiations and more Palestinian self-rule

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 6, 2013
12:04 pm

Illustrative photo of IAF F-15I fighter jets being refueled by a Boeing 707, during an air show at the graduation ceremony of Israeli pilots at the Hatzerim air force base in the Negev desert, on Thursday, June 28, 2012 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Confident strikes on Syria send a message to the nervous US

Washington is wary of striking at Tehran’s nuclear program because it fears the Iranian response; Israel wants to show the consequences can be minimal

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 3, 2013
9:30 pm

woman carries a girl from their home as a SWAT team searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings enters the building in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013. Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and another still at large Friday, authorities said as the manhunt intensified for a young man described as a dangerous terrorist. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Israeli team to bring hard-earned post-trauma expertise to Boston

Israel Trauma Coalition partners with local Jewish federation to help develop ‘recovery process’ for Watertown schools

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 1, 2013
10:39 pm

Reporters and photographers await a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem (photo credit: Mark Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Israel downgraded in press freedom report

Citing economic pressure on print media and the ‘anomalous’ indictment of a Haaretz journalist, Freedom House ranks country’s media as only ‘partly free’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 1, 2013
6:40 am

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar (left) and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in April 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Who says Israel’s chief rabbis are so powerful?

Foreign Policy for one, but few Israelis would agree on the inclusion of Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger among the magazine’s 500 most powerful people

By Haviv Rettig Gur

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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: Haviv Rettig Gur

US lawmakers blast critics of visa waivers for Israelis

Pro-Palestinian groups campaign against granting Israelis unfettered access to the US, citing ‘discriminatory’ security procedures at Ben Gurion Airport

Congress set to tighten economic noose on Iran

Two widely supported bills would expand sanctions beyond financial and energy sectors, and urge support for Israel in any confrontation with Tehran

On Iran, the world’s efforts sadly ‘have not been successful’

As Tehran gets set to chair the very disarmament forum it flouts, and former Obama officials suggest a bomb may not be preventable, signs are that diplomacy has run out of steam

Jewish leaders to Kerry: Confront Hungary’s rising anti-Semitism

Acute concerns over growth of extremist Jobbik party, violence against Jews, cemetery desecration, widespread anti-Jewish sentiment

Museum to ‘reevaluate’ honors to Hamas cameramen

‘Questions have been raised’ over whether Gaza duo ‘were truly journalists or were engaged in terrorist activities,’ says Newseum spokesman

ADL raps journalism museum for honoring Hamas cameramen

Group charges move by Newseum in Washington is ‘an insult to other journalists’; museum defends choice

‘Mounting evidence’ Boston bombers were behind gruesome 2011 murders

Forensic evidence at crime scene said to link both Tsarnaev brothers to killings of three young men, two of whom were Jewish

Pamela Geller as self-appointed spokesperson for moderate Muslims

The Times of Israel asks the controversial activist whether she is, as the ADL claims, a bigot, or merely an impolitic and impolite campaigner against extremist Islam

Hagel: Despite shrinking Mideast footprint, US can stop Iran

US Defense Secretary insists region remains ‘top defense priority’ for Obama administration, and that ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’

Likud MK: Israeli decision on striking Iran by early 2014

Hanegbi: Israel should not seek, much less rely on, a presidential commitment to hit Tehran; PM in China warns nuclear Iran would ‘blackmail’ the world

Meridor: Israel must take steps for peace talks

Amid talk of settlement freeze, former Likud minister urges return to negotiations and more Palestinian self-rule

Confident strikes on Syria send a message to the nervous US

Washington is wary of striking at Tehran’s nuclear program because it fears the Iranian response; Israel wants to show the consequences can be minimal

Israeli team to bring hard-earned post-trauma expertise to Boston

Israel Trauma Coalition partners with local Jewish federation to help develop ‘recovery process’ for Watertown schools

Israel downgraded in press freedom report

Citing economic pressure on print media and the ‘anomalous’ indictment of a Haaretz journalist, Freedom House ranks country’s media as only ‘partly free’

Who says Israel’s chief rabbis are so powerful?

Foreign Policy for one, but few Israelis would agree on the inclusion of Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger among the magazine’s 500 most powerful people

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