September 19, 2016
5:20 pm

IDF soldiers carry out overnight raids on West Bank towns and villages on September 19, 2016. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

IDF raids Palestinian publisher, seizes ‘inciting material’

In overnight raids across West Bank, security forces arrest 10 terror suspects, uncover guns, cash and pipe bomb

By Tamar Pileggi

September 19, 2016
3:02 pm

Likud MK Yehudah Glick speaks to police officers outside the entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on September 19, 2016. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Turned away by cops, Likud MK denies trying to break Temple Mount ban

After suggesting he would defy prime minister’s directive keeping lawmakers off holy site, Yehudah Glick is seen being blocked as he approaches entrance

By Tamar Pileggi

September 15, 2016
12:51 am

David Friedman, Donald Trump's adviser on Israel, speaks to Channel 10 News on September 14, 2016. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Trump adviser says GOP nominee won’t push Israel on peace deal if elected

David Friedman claims Trump not ‘for or against per say a two-state solution,’ but will leave it up to the Israelis

By Tamar Pileggi

September 14, 2016
8:52 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama embrace at a ceremony welcoming the US leader at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 20, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu thanks Obama for ‘historic’ military aid deal

PM says $38 billion package ‘will ensure an unprecedented level of defense aid for Israel in the next decade,’ will also help US security

By Tamar Pileggi

September 14, 2016
7:07 pm

US President Barack Obama (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, November 9, 2015. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Opposition MKs: PM’s frosty relations with US reduced military aid

Lawmakers say Netanyahu’s spats with Obama led to weaker defense deal than Israel could have secured

By Tamar Pileggi

September 12, 2016
6:45 pm

Illustrative photo of an Israel Police car in Jerusalem, June 2012 (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Case closed on suspected racially motivated beating of Druze IDF vet

Tommy Hasson, who said a gang of religious Jews attacked him for speaking Arabic last year, claims discrimination a factor in decision

By Tamar Pileggi

September 12, 2016
5:01 pm

Ali Nimr arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on September 8, 2016. (Flash90)

Court raps bid to blame Arab driver for death of cousin shot by cops

Judge partially approves remand extension, but says ‘there are no grounds to charge defendant with manslaughter’

By Tamar Pileggi

September 12, 2016
1:26 pm

The settlement of Nahliel, in the central West Bank (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, Dnd man)

Yeshiva students arrested for hate crimes, assaulting police

Teens in Nahliel settlement attack officers who came to arrest 2 wanted for ‘nationalist’ crimes against Palestinians

By Tamar Pileggi

September 12, 2016
12:18 pm

A mobile home in the outpost of Amona (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Jewish Home will hold budget hostage over outpost evacuation, MK warns

Lawmaker maintains his right-wing faction won’t allow Amona in West Bank to be moved; deputy foreign minister says next person in White House will have to get used to settlements

By Tamar Pileggi and Times of Israel staff

September 11, 2016
2:37 pm

The 15th anniversary memorial ceremony for the victims of the 9/11 attacks in the US, at a memorial monument near Jerusalem on September 11, 2016. (Yossi Zamir / FLASH90)

In Israel, 9/11 marked with shared grief, vow to fight terror together

Netanyahu says Israel stands with US against ‘militant Islamic terrorism’; US ambassador at memorial hails Jewish state as possibly identifying with US pain best

By Tamar Pileggi

September 8, 2016
3:14 am

Illustrative photo of an IAF F-16 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

Israeli jets hit Syrian targets in response to earlier projectile strike

IAF takes out several Syrian army launchers; military says it holds Assad regime responsible for errant shell that landed in Golan Heights

By Judah Ari Gross and Tamar Pileggi

September 7, 2016
10:43 pm

Mahmoud Abbas in Nicosia, Cyprus, March 31, 1975, during a meeting to discuss the opening of a Palestine Liberation Organization office on the island. (AP Photo)

Soviet documents ‘show Abbas was KGB agent’; Fatah decries ‘smear campaign’

Israeli researchers: Notes from USSR archivist who defected indicate PA president was working for Soviets in Damascus in 1980s while Putin’s current Mideast envoy was stationed there

By Tamar Pileggi

September 7, 2016
7:34 pm

Smoke rises in a field on the Golan Heights, after two mortars fired from war-torn Syria struck the northern sector of the mountain plateau, April 28, 2015. (AFP/JALAA MAREY)

Projectile strikes Israeli side of Golan Heights

No injuries or damage reported in second such incident in three days; IDF investigating source of fire

By Judah Ari Gross and Tamar Pileggi

September 6, 2016
11:40 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte give a press conference in The Hague, September 6, 2016. (AFP/ANP)

Dutch PM calls for end to settlements, says BDS ‘protected,’ not backed

With Netanyahu looking on, Mark Rutte defends country’s labeling of West Bank products; urges preservation of 2-state solution

By Tamar Pileggi and AFP

September 6, 2016
6:14 pm

File: Benjamin Netanyahu boards a train from Tel Aviv to Beersheba on November 13, 2012. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

High Court says PM can’t halt train work on Shabbat

Days after commuting chaos caused by nixed weekend repair work, bench issues temporary injunction permitting Israel Railways to continue construction on day of rest

By Tamar Pileggi

Writer: Tamar Pileggi

Tamar Pileggi is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.

IDF raids Palestinian publisher, seizes ‘inciting material’

In overnight raids across West Bank, security forces arrest 10 terror suspects, uncover guns, cash and pipe bomb

Turned away by cops, Likud MK denies trying to break Temple Mount ban

After suggesting he would defy prime minister’s directive keeping lawmakers off holy site, Yehudah Glick is seen being blocked as he approaches entrance

Trump adviser says GOP nominee won’t push Israel on peace deal if elected

David Friedman claims Trump not ‘for or against per say a two-state solution,’ but will leave it up to the Israelis

Netanyahu thanks Obama for ‘historic’ military aid deal

PM says $38 billion package ‘will ensure an unprecedented level of defense aid for Israel in the next decade,’ will also help US security

Opposition MKs: PM’s frosty relations with US reduced military aid

Lawmakers say Netanyahu’s spats with Obama led to weaker defense deal than Israel could have secured

Case closed on suspected racially motivated beating of Druze IDF vet

Tommy Hasson, who said a gang of religious Jews attacked him for speaking Arabic last year, claims discrimination a factor in decision

Court raps bid to blame Arab driver for death of cousin shot by cops

Judge partially approves remand extension, but says ‘there are no grounds to charge defendant with manslaughter’

Yeshiva students arrested for hate crimes, assaulting police

Teens in Nahliel settlement attack officers who came to arrest 2 wanted for ‘nationalist’ crimes against Palestinians

Jewish Home will hold budget hostage over outpost evacuation, MK warns

Lawmaker maintains his right-wing faction won’t allow Amona in West Bank to be moved; deputy foreign minister says next person in White House will have to get used to settlements

In Israel, 9/11 marked with shared grief, vow to fight terror together

Netanyahu says Israel stands with US against ‘militant Islamic terrorism’; US ambassador at memorial hails Jewish state as possibly identifying with US pain best

Israeli jets hit Syrian targets in response to earlier projectile strike

IAF takes out several Syrian army launchers; military says it holds Assad regime responsible for errant shell that landed in Golan Heights

Soviet documents ‘show Abbas was KGB agent’; Fatah decries ‘smear campaign’

Israeli researchers: Notes from USSR archivist who defected indicate PA president was working for Soviets in Damascus in 1980s while Putin’s current Mideast envoy was stationed there

Projectile strikes Israeli side of Golan Heights

No injuries or damage reported in second such incident in three days; IDF investigating source of fire

Dutch PM calls for end to settlements, says BDS ‘protected,’ not backed

With Netanyahu looking on, Mark Rutte defends country’s labeling of West Bank products; urges preservation of 2-state solution

High Court says PM can’t halt train work on Shabbat

Days after commuting chaos caused by nixed weekend repair work, bench issues temporary injunction permitting Israel Railways to continue construction on day of rest

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