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May 24, 2013
11:41 pm

A "Better Place" electric car outside the company's sales center in Tel Aviv (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Electric car trailblazer Better Place to file for bankruptcy within days

Israeli company runs out of steam due to low demand, having burned through more than $800 million but sold barely 2,000 vehicles

May 16, 2013
1:18 am

Tzipi Livni and Naftali Bennett (composite image: Flash90)

Livni, Bennett trade barbs over Women of the Wall

Justice minister rejects notion of new prayer regulations at the Western Wall; religious services minister calls it ‘media spin’

By Yifa Yaakov

May 15, 2013
10:59 pm

An aeriel view of an Israeli offshore gas rig. (photo credit: Albatross Aerial photography/Nobel Energy/FLASH90)

More signs of gas found at offshore drilling site

Geological data shows Karish 1 deposit may contain 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas; energy minister lauds discovery

By Yifa Yaakov and Times of Israel staff

May 15, 2013
9:03 pm

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

UNIFIL base overrun, 3 soldiers briefly kidnapped

Ammunition and equipment stolen from Lebanese facility; international peacekeeping troops released later in the day

By Yifa Yaakov and Gavriel Fiske

May 15, 2013
5:48 pm

Eric Kitson in an interview with the BBC. (photo credit: YouTube)

Local British politician who called Islam a cancer resigns

Eric Kitson of the rightist UKIP party, who also linked Hitler to the Rothschilds, says he’s ‘stupid, not a racist’

By Yifa Yaakov

May 15, 2013
4:39 pm

A man searches the trash in a garbage container in the center of Jerusalem. (illustrative photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel has highest poverty rate in OECD

Country also plagued by wide income inequality gulf between rich and poor, new data shows, underlining imperative ‘to protect the most vulnerable’

By Yifa Yaakov

May 11, 2013
8:27 pm

Israelis hold up signs as they take part in a protest march against Finance Minister Yair Lapid's proposed budget cuts and tax hikes, Tel Aviv, Saturday, May 11, 2013. 'We're here, 2013,' says one sign; another says 'Bibi [Netanyahu] is bad for us all,' while a third simply says 'unlike.' (photo credit: Flash90)

Thousands take to the streets to protest tax hikes

Demonstrators block major Tel Aviv highway, march on Prime Minister’s Residence; apologetic Lapid says better times ahead

By Yifa Yaakov

May 3, 2013
6:09 pm

A formation of IAF Lockheed Martin F-16s (photo credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Lebanon reports 8 IAF overflights in 14 hours

Beirut says Israeli warplanes flew all over the country; some said to be simulating attacks

By Yifa Yaakov

May 2, 2013
8:37 pm

The separation fence running through the hills near Jerusalem. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Court halts work on fence near West Bank village’s historic terraces

Defense Ministry given two months to change construction plans near Battir after locals, environmentalists warn of damage to landscape

By Yifa Yaakov

May 2, 2013
7:40 pm

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (center) flanked on the left by Interior Minister Eli Yishai, and on the right by former party chairman Aryeh Deri and Minister of Housing Ariel Attias, at the rabbi's house in Jerusalem, in October (photo credit: Shas/Flash90)

Shas rabbi gives Deri nod to head party solo

Former political leader to become solitary chief once more as tripartite leadership scheme is abandoned

By Yifa Yaakov

April 26, 2013
7:30 pm

Entrance to the 2,000-year-old Djerba synagogue (photo credit: CC BY upyernoz/Flikr)

Thousands of Jews reach Djerba for pilgrimage

Visitors, among them several Israeli citizens, receive blessing from rabbi at oldest African synagogue as police up security

By Yifa Yaakov and JTA

April 26, 2013
5:59 pm

Pills (illustrative photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Rabbi charged for giving drugs to prisoner

Afula suspect had ‘no idea’ the cigarette boxes he handed over to a convicted murderer contained illicit substances

By Yifa Yaakov

April 15, 2013
8:12 pm

Israelis stand for two minutes of silence next to graves of fallen soldiers at the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Memorial Day, April 15, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MKs remember the fallen, warn of new threats

Ya’alon, Livni, Shalom and others attend memorial ceremonies, link Israel’s bygone wars with today’s security challenges

By Yifa Yaakov

April 13, 2013
1:16 pm

A surface-to-surface missile is launched during the Iranian Revolutionary Guards maneuver in an undisclosed location in Iran, Tuesday, July 3, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/ISNA, Alireza Sot Akbar)

Iran test-fires three new missile types

Tehran’s envoy in Paris says an Israeli strike could trigger third world war

By Yifa Yaakov

April 13, 2013
10:57 am

Boy caught with AK-47 rifle in Nazareth

14-year-old also found to be carrying full magazine

By Yifa Yaakov

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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: Yifa Yaakov

Electric car trailblazer Better Place to file for bankruptcy within days

Israeli company runs out of steam due to low demand, having burned through more than $800 million but sold barely 2,000 vehicles

Livni, Bennett trade barbs over Women of the Wall

Justice minister rejects notion of new prayer regulations at the Western Wall; religious services minister calls it ‘media spin’

More signs of gas found at offshore drilling site

Geological data shows Karish 1 deposit may contain 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas; energy minister lauds discovery

UNIFIL base overrun, 3 soldiers briefly kidnapped

Ammunition and equipment stolen from Lebanese facility; international peacekeeping troops released later in the day

Local British politician who called Islam a cancer resigns

Eric Kitson of the rightist UKIP party, who also linked Hitler to the Rothschilds, says he’s ‘stupid, not a racist’

Israel has highest poverty rate in OECD

Country also plagued by wide income inequality gulf between rich and poor, new data shows, underlining imperative ‘to protect the most vulnerable’

Thousands take to the streets to protest tax hikes

Demonstrators block major Tel Aviv highway, march on Prime Minister’s Residence; apologetic Lapid says better times ahead

Lebanon reports 8 IAF overflights in 14 hours

Beirut says Israeli warplanes flew all over the country; some said to be simulating attacks

Court halts work on fence near West Bank village’s historic terraces

Defense Ministry given two months to change construction plans near Battir after locals, environmentalists warn of damage to landscape

Shas rabbi gives Deri nod to head party solo

Former political leader to become solitary chief once more as tripartite leadership scheme is abandoned

Thousands of Jews reach Djerba for pilgrimage

Visitors, among them several Israeli citizens, receive blessing from rabbi at oldest African synagogue as police up security

Rabbi charged for giving drugs to prisoner

Afula suspect had ‘no idea’ the cigarette boxes he handed over to a convicted murderer contained illicit substances

MKs remember the fallen, warn of new threats

Ya’alon, Livni, Shalom and others attend memorial ceremonies, link Israel’s bygone wars with today’s security challenges

Iran test-fires three new missile types

Tehran’s envoy in Paris says an Israeli strike could trigger third world war

Boy caught with AK-47 rifle in Nazareth

14-year-old also found to be carrying full magazine

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