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The Times of Israel

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May 1, 2013
6:11 pm

Louise Harrison's Beatles cover band, The Liverpool Legends (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

Here comes the sister

Beatles guitarist George Harrison’s elder sister is in Holon, spreading the love, for a Beatles festival

By Michal Shmulovich

May 1, 2013
5:32 pm

A UNIFIL patrol near the Israeli-Lebanese border (photo credit: Hamad Almakt/Flash90)

Israeli arrested after crossing into Lebanon

34-year-old Simon Sa’adati, who jumped the fence at Rosh Hanikra, to be returned in coming days

By Michal Shmulovich

April 27, 2013
6:56 am

US President Barack Obama points to a member of the media as he prepares to answer a question regarding the ongoing situation in Syria during his meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II Friday in the Oval Office of the White House. (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jordan, US have ‘enormous stake’ in Mideast peace, Obama says

US president praises visiting King Abdullah for pro-democratic reforms, says countries see eye to eye on Syrian crisis and Israeli-Palestinian peace

By Michal Shmulovich

April 27, 2013
4:58 am

A Bedouin camp located in the E1 area, between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim, in December 2012. (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

EU criticizes Israel’s demolition of Palestinian structures

Since 2008, some 2,400 Palestinian homes and buildings were knocked down in Area C, displacing over 4,400 people, according to European body

By Michal Shmulovich

April 23, 2013
3:55 am

A bird's eye view of Silwan in East Jerusalem (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

NGOs slam J’lem city plan for harming Palestinians

Human rights groups petition court over use of unapproved development policy

By Michal Shmulovich

April 22, 2013
10:46 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, point toward the Bosporus in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 21, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Hakan Goktepe, Pool)

Israeli-Turkish reconciliation talks off to positive start

Compensation for Mavi Marmara victims, use of Turkish territory for possible Israeli strike on Iran, and Erdogan’s Gaza visit said to be discussed

By Michal Shmulovich

April 22, 2013
7:11 pm

Yair Lapid, center, at a meeting of his Yesh Atid Knesset faction. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid and ultra-Orthodox trade barbs over budget proposal

Finance minister’s plan calls for NIS 18 billion in government cuts and NIS 5 billion in tax hikes raises hackles in Knesset

By Michal Shmulovich

April 20, 2013
3:36 pm

Navy vessels escort the Mavi Marmara to the Ashdod port on May 31, 2010. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Turkish families reject Israel compensation talks

Relatives of those killed in raid on Mavi Marmara in May 2010 say they will not drop lawsuits, demand end to Gaza blockade

By Michal Shmulovich and AP

April 19, 2013
8:40 pm

Nochi Dankner (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Bank Leumi cancels bailout deal for billionaire after outcry

Debt-forgiveness plan for about $40.5 million owed by Nochi Dankner elicited an outpouring of anger from politicians, public

By Michal Shmulovich and Times of Israel staff

April 16, 2013
9:28 pm

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz (photo credit: Flash90)

Defense cuts will harm IDF’s capacity to protect Israel, Gantz warns

Chief of staff says threats are shifting and growing; also says process of separate burial for non-Jewish soldiers should be reexamined

By Michal Shmulovich

April 15, 2013
4:20 pm

Yael Kfir was killed in a terror attack in 2003. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Remembering both sides on Yom Hazikaron

‘Killing Palestinians would not bring my Yaeli back; nothing would,’ a grieving father tells a joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial service, recalling his daughter who was murdered in a terror attack

By Michal Shmulovich

April 10, 2013
6:29 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, walks with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in London in February. The two leaders are taking part in a G8 foreign ministers meeting Wednesday and Thursday, also in London. (photo credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

North Korea, Syria to dominate G8 foreign ministers summit

Syrian opposition to meet ministers on sidelines of London talks; US Senators look to China to engage Pyongyang over its recent behavior

By Michal Shmulovich and AP

April 10, 2013
3:51 am

South Tel Aviv residents protest the influx of migrants in their neighborhoods in May 2012. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel will keep sending home African migrants, Sa’ar says

During interior minister’s first tour of south Tel Aviv, residents complain of government inaction, and one calls the neighborhood a ‘ghetto’

By Michal Shmulovich

April 9, 2013
12:50 am

The Free Gaza flotilla ship Rachel Corrie approaching Ashdod in 2010. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)

Turkish flotilla activists won’t drop charges, despite Israeli apology

Meeting between two countries’ teams over compensation to victims postponed, because Erdogan will be away

By Michal Shmulovich

April 8, 2013
7:33 pm

IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz lights a torch at the March of the Living, Monday (photo credit: screen capture)

In Auschwitz, Israeli army chief vows to prevent a ‘second Holocaust’

‘Never again shall a calamity such as this transpire,’ Gantz promises March of the Living before lighting a torch in memory of the victims

By Stuart Winer and Michal Shmulovich

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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: Michal Shmulovich

Here comes the sister

Beatles guitarist George Harrison’s elder sister is in Holon, spreading the love, for a Beatles festival

Israeli arrested after crossing into Lebanon

34-year-old Simon Sa’adati, who jumped the fence at Rosh Hanikra, to be returned in coming days

Jordan, US have ‘enormous stake’ in Mideast peace, Obama says

US president praises visiting King Abdullah for pro-democratic reforms, says countries see eye to eye on Syrian crisis and Israeli-Palestinian peace

EU criticizes Israel’s demolition of Palestinian structures

Since 2008, some 2,400 Palestinian homes and buildings were knocked down in Area C, displacing over 4,400 people, according to European body

NGOs slam J’lem city plan for harming Palestinians

Human rights groups petition court over use of unapproved development policy

Israeli-Turkish reconciliation talks off to positive start

Compensation for Mavi Marmara victims, use of Turkish territory for possible Israeli strike on Iran, and Erdogan’s Gaza visit said to be discussed

Lapid and ultra-Orthodox trade barbs over budget proposal

Finance minister’s plan calls for NIS 18 billion in government cuts and NIS 5 billion in tax hikes raises hackles in Knesset

Turkish families reject Israel compensation talks

Relatives of those killed in raid on Mavi Marmara in May 2010 say they will not drop lawsuits, demand end to Gaza blockade

Bank Leumi cancels bailout deal for billionaire after outcry

Debt-forgiveness plan for about $40.5 million owed by Nochi Dankner elicited an outpouring of anger from politicians, public

Defense cuts will harm IDF’s capacity to protect Israel, Gantz warns

Chief of staff says threats are shifting and growing; also says process of separate burial for non-Jewish soldiers should be reexamined

Remembering both sides on Yom Hazikaron

‘Killing Palestinians would not bring my Yaeli back; nothing would,’ a grieving father tells a joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial service, recalling his daughter who was murdered in a terror attack

North Korea, Syria to dominate G8 foreign ministers summit

Syrian opposition to meet ministers on sidelines of London talks; US Senators look to China to engage Pyongyang over its recent behavior

Israel will keep sending home African migrants, Sa’ar says

During interior minister’s first tour of south Tel Aviv, residents complain of government inaction, and one calls the neighborhood a ‘ghetto’

Turkish flotilla activists won’t drop charges, despite Israeli apology

Meeting between two countries’ teams over compensation to victims postponed, because Erdogan will be away

In Auschwitz, Israeli army chief vows to prevent a ‘second Holocaust’

‘Never again shall a calamity such as this transpire,’ Gantz promises March of the Living before lighting a torch in memory of the victims

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