Partner Links: Learn Hebrew • Travel to Israel • Live Kotel Camera • Israel Pharmacy • Cellphone Rentals in Israel • Shalem College Open House

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Sivan 27, 5773
5:10 pm IDT
Site updated 1 minute ago

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: Robert Barr

May 12, 2013
1:19 pm

Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known surviving biblical manuscripts dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE, on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Geza Vermes, renowned Jesus scholar, dies at 88

Born in Hungary to a Jewish family that converted to Catholicism to combat anti-Semitism, the Dead Sea Scrolls translator entered the priesthood to pursue his studies, later reconverting to Judaism

By Robert Barr

April 8, 2013
3:33 pm

Margaret Thatcher with Yitzhak Shamir in Jerusalem in 1986. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Ex-British PM Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

Netanyahu calls Britain’s first female premier a ‘woman of greatness’ and a ‘staunch friend of Israel and the Jewish people’

By Gregory Katz and Robert Barr

October 20, 2012
2:31 am

15-year old Pakistani shooting victim Malala Yousufzai, who is recovering in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, after being attacked and shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan for advocating education for girls. Malala was shot and critically wounded on Oct. 9 as she headed home from school in the northwest Swat Valley, Pakistan. (photo credit: AP Photo / University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust)

Heroic Pakistani girl, 15, shot in head by Taliban for demanding education, is making a recovery

Malala Yousufzai, a symbol of bravery who had been blogging about life in the Swat Valley since she was 11, able to stand in her British hospital

By Robert Barr