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May 7, 2013
4:26 pm

Ben Zygier. (Screenshot ABC TV via Youtube)

Aussie TV: Zygier ‘unwittingly sabotaged’ Mossad plan in Lebanon

Mossad sources dismiss report that 30-year scheme to retrieve 3 soldiers’ remains went awry when agent exposed informant’s identity to Hezbollah

May 6, 2013
2:45 pm

IDF Northern Commander Yair Golan (photo credit: IDF/FLASH90)

IDF scales down drill in north, as top general dispels ‘winds of war’

Airspace around Syrian and Lebanese borders reopened to civilian flights; Lebanon places soldiers on alert

By Stuart Winer

May 6, 2013
9:31 am

Damaged buildings wrecked by an Israeli airstrike are seen in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, May 5 (photo credit: AP/SANA)

‘Damascus airstrike killed dozens of elite troops’

Syrian military official says soldiers died guarding critical facilities, some of which were close to presidential palace

By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren

May 5, 2013
6:54 pm

A soldier guarding an Iron Dome battery in the north of the country on Sunday. (photo credit: Flash90)

Despite threats, Syria deemed unlikely to retaliate for airstrikes

Netanyahu flies to China as planned; residents of northern Israel told to ‘be alert’ amid fears of rocket fire from Lebanon; Damascus calls Israeli attacks — on Iranian missile shipments headed for Hezbollah — a ‘declaration of war’

By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren

May 5, 2013
5:06 pm

An Iron Dome battery stationed in the north near the city of Haifa, January 2013. (photo credit Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash 90)

Haifa mayor orders preparations for possible Syrian retaliation

Following Israel’s reported strike at targets near Damascus, Yona Yahav holds urgent meetings with authority representatives

By Adiv Sterman and Stuart Winer

May 5, 2013
3:27 pm

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad. (screen capture: Youtube/Channel4News)

Despite hostile Syrian rhetoric, Israel hoping to avoid further escalation in hostilities

Assad’s deputy FM calls Israeli airstrikes ‘declaration of war’; Damascus tells UN of fatalities in Israeli attacks, says Israel is fighting regime together with Islamic terrorists; Netanyahu convenes top ministers, deploys Iron Dome, but intends to go ahead with China trip

By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff

May 5, 2013
12:44 pm

African immigrants seen at a detention facility located in the south of Israel. August, 2012. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Migrants strike against detention policy

Hundreds of inmates from Sudan and Eritrea refuse to return to their cells, claiming they are being held illegally

By Stuart Winer

May 5, 2013
12:09 pm

Zebra in the Ramat Gan Safari, December 11, 2004. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Flying ark to give new life to Turkey

Shipment of assorted animals from Ramat Gan safari set to bolster exhibits in Izmir

By Stuart Winer

May 5, 2013
9:23 am

Masked Jewish settlers, background, and Palestinians, foreground, hurl stones during clashes in the West Bank, Friday, May 3, 2013. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)

10 injured in clash between settlers and Palestinians

Security forces intervene after violent melee follows stone-throwing attacks

By Stuart Winer

May 3, 2013
10:16 am

The site of a terror attack, at a bus stop at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank, April 30, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Dozens of settlers protest dismantling of outpost

Site was built in memory of Evyatar Borowsky, 31, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian nearby on Tuesday

By Yoel Goldman and Stuart Winer

May 2, 2013
7:08 pm

Mila Kunis declared sexiest of them all

Survey puts the sultry American actress at the top of the list of the world’s most desirable women

By Stuart Winer

May 2, 2013
5:12 pm

US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson, in Jerusalem, 12 August 2007. photo credit: Flash90)

Lapid said to secretly meet with Netanyahu’s big dollar backer

Finance minister held clandestine sit-down with billionaire political string-puller Sheldon Adelson, and the PM wasn’t there

By Stuart Winer

May 2, 2013
11:54 am

Settlers plan outpost in memory of terror victim

Head of regional council sets up office on hilltop overlooking junction where Evyatar Borowsky was stabbed to death

By Stuart Winer

May 2, 2013
9:35 am

Former deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon (L) at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court in Jerusalem next to his former boss, Avigdor Liberman, Thursday, May 2, 2013 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/POOL/Flash90)

‘Avigdor Liberman leaned on me to promote ambassador’

Danny Ayalon testifies that as foreign minister, his former boss pulled strings for a diplomat who had done him a favor

By Stuart Winer

May 1, 2013
6:16 pm

Former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi during an interview with CNN, April 2013. (screen capture: CNN)

Former IDF chief says it’s time to act on Syria

‘We should have helped them a year ago,’ laments Gabi Ashkenazi

By Stuart Winer

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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: Stuart Winer

Aussie TV: Zygier ‘unwittingly sabotaged’ Mossad plan in Lebanon

Mossad sources dismiss report that 30-year scheme to retrieve 3 soldiers’ remains went awry when agent exposed informant’s identity to Hezbollah

IDF scales down drill in north, as top general dispels ‘winds of war’

Airspace around Syrian and Lebanese borders reopened to civilian flights; Lebanon places soldiers on alert

‘Damascus airstrike killed dozens of elite troops’

Syrian military official says soldiers died guarding critical facilities, some of which were close to presidential palace

Despite threats, Syria deemed unlikely to retaliate for airstrikes

Netanyahu flies to China as planned; residents of northern Israel told to ‘be alert’ amid fears of rocket fire from Lebanon; Damascus calls Israeli attacks — on Iranian missile shipments headed for Hezbollah — a ‘declaration of war’

Haifa mayor orders preparations for possible Syrian retaliation

Following Israel’s reported strike at targets near Damascus, Yona Yahav holds urgent meetings with authority representatives

Despite hostile Syrian rhetoric, Israel hoping to avoid further escalation in hostilities

Assad’s deputy FM calls Israeli airstrikes ‘declaration of war’; Damascus tells UN of fatalities in Israeli attacks, says Israel is fighting regime together with Islamic terrorists; Netanyahu convenes top ministers, deploys Iron Dome, but intends to go ahead with China trip

Migrants strike against detention policy

Hundreds of inmates from Sudan and Eritrea refuse to return to their cells, claiming they are being held illegally

Flying ark to give new life to Turkey

Shipment of assorted animals from Ramat Gan safari set to bolster exhibits in Izmir

10 injured in clash between settlers and Palestinians

Security forces intervene after violent melee follows stone-throwing attacks

Dozens of settlers protest dismantling of outpost

Site was built in memory of Evyatar Borowsky, 31, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian nearby on Tuesday

Mila Kunis declared sexiest of them all

Survey puts the sultry American actress at the top of the list of the world’s most desirable women

Lapid said to secretly meet with Netanyahu’s big dollar backer

Finance minister held clandestine sit-down with billionaire political string-puller Sheldon Adelson, and the PM wasn’t there

Settlers plan outpost in memory of terror victim

Head of regional council sets up office on hilltop overlooking junction where Evyatar Borowsky was stabbed to death

‘Avigdor Liberman leaned on me to promote ambassador’

Danny Ayalon testifies that as foreign minister, his former boss pulled strings for a diplomat who had done him a favor

Former IDF chief says it’s time to act on Syria

‘We should have helped them a year ago,’ laments Gabi Ashkenazi

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