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The Times of Israel

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Founding editor:
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Writer: Mitch Ginsburg

May 20, 2013
1:30 am

A screen capture of the video showing the Muhammad al-Dura incident.

Father of al-Dura disputes Israeli claim, says open to probe of death

Jamal al-Dura rejects report that his son was not shot by Israeli forces and not killed in 2000 incident

May 19, 2013
6:20 pm

The Al-Dura shooting (photo credit: image capture from YouTube)

Second Intifada icon Muhammad al-Dura didn’t die in 2000 shooting, Israel claims

Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all

By Mitch Ginsburg

May 14, 2013
1:19 pm

A Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system on display in an undisclosed location in Russia (photo credit: AP)

It’s not just the missiles, stupid

The S-300 air defense system that Netanyahu is urging Putin not to sell to Syria is the ‘ultimate’ in protection. But it’s still only a part of the wider problem: Russia’s unwavering support for Bashar Assad

By Mitch Ginsburg

May 9, 2013
6:57 pm

One quarter of the 3000 km.-long Euphrates River runs through Syria but Turkey, situated upriver, has drastically reduced the flow of water (Photo credit: CC BY Verity Cridland, Flickr)

A parched Syria turned to war, scholar says, and Egypt may be next

Prof. Arnon Sofer sets out the link between drought, Assad’s civil war, and the wider strains in the Middle East; Jordan and Gaza are also in deep trouble, he warns

By Mitch Ginsburg

May 5, 2013
10:40 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, before a cabinet meeting in November, 2012 (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/ GPO/ Flash 90)

Israel’s perilous calculus in Syria

The latest Iranian-made Fateh-110 missile is relatively accurate, carries a 600 kg. warhead, and can reach most of Israel from southern Lebanon. The question is whether it was truly vital to stop this shipment reaching Hezbollah

By Mitch Ginsburg

May 5, 2013
1:49 am

A fully armed F-16 during take off (Photo credit: Ofer Zidon/ Flash 90)

Syria strike shows Israel’s security burden increasingly borne by air force

Forget standing armies and reserve troops. Intelligence and long-range air attacks now hold the key to national defense, and they require split-second decisions with drastic potential repercussions

By Mitch Ginsburg

May 1, 2013
5:10 pm

Lt. Arin Shaabi in her folder-filled office (Photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/ Times of Israel)

The Israeli army’s most improbable Arab prosecutor

Lt. Arin Shaabi is a Christian, a Jew, an Arab, an Israeli. And in the military courts of the West Bank, she is fighting a rising tide of Palestinian nationalist crime

By Mitch Ginsburg

April 25, 2013
12:44 am

Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research section, at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee hearing at the Knesset on Tuesday (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Why did the IDF’s top analyst drop his Syria WMD bombshell?

Was Itai Brun’s public declaration that Assad’s forces have used nerve gas an effort to push US intervention? Or was it an extraordinary gaffe?

By Mitch Ginsburg

April 23, 2013
8:36 pm

A victim of an alleged chemical attack is treated by doctors in Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Netanyahu can’t confirm Syrian chemical use, says Kerry

US Secretary of State tells NATO conference that PM cannot verify report by IDF ‘s top analyst that Assad using nerve gas on rebels

By Mitch Ginsburg

April 23, 2013
10:12 am

Assad attacked rebels with nerve gas, top IDF analyst says

Itai Brun: Based on photo evidence, regime deployed sarin on March 19; over 1,000 tons of chemical weapons in Syria

By Mitch Ginsburg

April 20, 2013
8:25 pm

Secretary of Defense Hagel alongside Israel's previous defense minister, Ehud Barak, in early March at the Pentagon (Photo credit: Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo/ Ministry of Defense/ Flash 90)

Why US-Israel mission to thwart Iran could mean a leading role for China on North Korea

Defense Secretary Hagel’s Mideast visit this week will focus on Iran and Syria, but those crises should also be viewed through the lens of Beijing and Pyongyang

By Mitch Ginsburg

April 17, 2013
4:54 pm

Yoram Kaniuk in his Tel Aviv apartment, not far from where he was born. The flag to his right is his artwork and it adorns the Hebrew version of the book (Photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/ Times of Israel)

Clinging to life, a master produces a wrenching memoir of the War of Independence

Yoram Kaniuk, the prize-winning author of ’1948,’ rises from his bed to discuss ‘the fist of the conflict’

By Mitch Ginsburg

April 16, 2013
10:59 am

Several immigrant soon-to-be lone soldiers, pictured during a pre-Independence Day barbecue (Photo credit: Sasson Tiram/ Nefesh B'Nefesh)

Motivation runs high at national birthday bash for immigrant soldiers

80 recent arrivals from 27 countries enjoy an Independence Day barbeque days before their enlistment into the IDF, and explain why they’re joining up

By Mitch Ginsburg

April 10, 2013
6:55 pm

Turkish flags and a photo of the prime minister outside of an east Jerusalem restaurant (Photo credit: Uri Lenz/ Flash 90)

The Middle East’s code of honor: Does Israel understand it?

Netanyahu’s change of course on Turkey reopens the question of whether issuing a forced apology, for an act deemed ‘legitimate,’ is smart self-interest or fundamental, damaging miscalculation

By Mitch Ginsburg

April 4, 2013
10:43 pm

Nahum Shahaf at work in his study (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)

Nahum Shahaf’s relentless Muhammad al-Dura dissent

The man who spurred on much of the investigation into the killing of the Gaza 14-year-old reflects on the controversy and vows to persevere

By Mitch Ginsburg

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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: Mitch Ginsburg

Father of al-Dura disputes Israeli claim, says open to probe of death

Jamal al-Dura rejects report that his son was not shot by Israeli forces and not killed in 2000 incident

Second Intifada icon Muhammad al-Dura didn’t die in 2000 shooting, Israel claims

Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all

It’s not just the missiles, stupid

The S-300 air defense system that Netanyahu is urging Putin not to sell to Syria is the ‘ultimate’ in protection. But it’s still only a part of the wider problem: Russia’s unwavering support for Bashar Assad

A parched Syria turned to war, scholar says, and Egypt may be next

Prof. Arnon Sofer sets out the link between drought, Assad’s civil war, and the wider strains in the Middle East; Jordan and Gaza are also in deep trouble, he warns

Israel’s perilous calculus in Syria

The latest Iranian-made Fateh-110 missile is relatively accurate, carries a 600 kg. warhead, and can reach most of Israel from southern Lebanon. The question is whether it was truly vital to stop this shipment reaching Hezbollah

Syria strike shows Israel’s security burden increasingly borne by air force

Forget standing armies and reserve troops. Intelligence and long-range air attacks now hold the key to national defense, and they require split-second decisions with drastic potential repercussions

The Israeli army’s most improbable Arab prosecutor

Lt. Arin Shaabi is a Christian, a Jew, an Arab, an Israeli. And in the military courts of the West Bank, she is fighting a rising tide of Palestinian nationalist crime

Why did the IDF’s top analyst drop his Syria WMD bombshell?

Was Itai Brun’s public declaration that Assad’s forces have used nerve gas an effort to push US intervention? Or was it an extraordinary gaffe?

Netanyahu can’t confirm Syrian chemical use, says Kerry

US Secretary of State tells NATO conference that PM cannot verify report by IDF ‘s top analyst that Assad using nerve gas on rebels

Assad attacked rebels with nerve gas, top IDF analyst says

Itai Brun: Based on photo evidence, regime deployed sarin on March 19; over 1,000 tons of chemical weapons in Syria

Why US-Israel mission to thwart Iran could mean a leading role for China on North Korea

Defense Secretary Hagel’s Mideast visit this week will focus on Iran and Syria, but those crises should also be viewed through the lens of Beijing and Pyongyang

Clinging to life, a master produces a wrenching memoir of the War of Independence

Yoram Kaniuk, the prize-winning author of ’1948,’ rises from his bed to discuss ‘the fist of the conflict’

Motivation runs high at national birthday bash for immigrant soldiers

80 recent arrivals from 27 countries enjoy an Independence Day barbeque days before their enlistment into the IDF, and explain why they’re joining up

The Middle East’s code of honor: Does Israel understand it?

Netanyahu’s change of course on Turkey reopens the question of whether issuing a forced apology, for an act deemed ‘legitimate,’ is smart self-interest or fundamental, damaging miscalculation

Nahum Shahaf’s relentless Muhammad al-Dura dissent

The man who spurred on much of the investigation into the killing of the Gaza 14-year-old reflects on the controversy and vows to persevere

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