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The Times of Israel

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June 18, 2013
2:20 pm

Former US President Bill Clinton sits with Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Peres Academic Center in Rehovot (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

The young and the stateless

Celebrities congregate in Israel for Peres’s birthday while Bennett’s remarks underline discord in the government

By Yossi Nachemi

June 13, 2013
10:59 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw on Wednesday (photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO/FLASH90)

Not so quiet on the Golan front

Warnings from the UN rattle the Israeli press as Netanyahu, in Poland, warns of a second Holocaust

By Yossi Nachemi

June 7, 2013
1:20 pm

Women of the Wall members pray while wearing traditional male prayer shawls and tefillin, May 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Pride, not prejudice

Police declare motive for 2009 shooting at an LGBT youth center; the Syrian civil war moves closer to Israel

By Yossi Nachemi

May 31, 2013
2:37 pm

A roller coaster at the Israeli amusement park, Superland. The park came under fire after it announced it hosts Jewish and Arab schoolchildren on different days. (photo credit: Liron Almog/Flash90)

Masking ambitions

Nearly half of Israelis don’t have gas masks; state will fund non-Orthodox rabbis; and should Superland be dubbed ‘Racist-land’?

By Yossi Nachemi

May 28, 2013
3:03 pm

A schoolgirl waits in a shelter as an air raid siren sounds during an IDF Home Front Command drill simulating a bombing attack (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sounding the alarm

Draft bill threatens to break up the coalition; IDF warns of drastic training cuts; and the police pay a ‘negligence tax’

By Yossi Nachemi

May 21, 2013
12:46 pm

Miriam Cohen, who was held hostage by gunman Itamar Alon in the Bank Hapoalim branch in Beersheba on Monday, is escorted out of the bank after Alon, who killed four people, took his own life (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Profiling an ‘economic terror attack’

The press hashes over the attacker, victims and motive in Monday’s deadly rampage at a Beersheba bank

By Yossi Nachemi

May 13, 2013
12:29 pm

Illustrative photo of crop-dusting against locusts from March 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

A taxing situation

As the Cabinet is set to approve the new budget, the Israeli dailies voice their opinion and the IDF sounds the alarm

By Yossi Nachemi

May 10, 2013
11:53 am

Poster of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah from 2006 (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Winds of warning

Friday’s papers offer a lot of opinions of what’s wrong in Israel — mainly the budget — but few ideas on how to fix it

By Yossi Nachemi

May 9, 2013
1:16 pm

Histadrut Chairman Ofer Eini and Finance Minister Yair Lapid hold a press conference announcing an agreement between the government and the labor union (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister in the middle

With public debate raging about the proposed budget, Yair Lapid does the unthinkable: he holds a press conference

By Yossi Nachemi

May 2, 2013
1:36 pm

Will his testimony convict his former boss? Danny Ayalon is expected to testify in the trial of Avigdor Liberman on Thursday. In this picture, Ayalon is speaking at a 2012 conference about the rights of Jewish refugees from Arab countries (photo credit: Oren Nahshon / FLASH90)

At the Buffett table

Billionaire investor sings Israel’s praises; Lapid revises his budget; and the Liberman trial has a big day

By Yossi Nachemi

April 28, 2013
2:22 pm

An ultra-Orthodox man watches a bonfire celebrating the Lag B'Omer holiday Saturday night. Authorities urged caution during the holiday to prevent bonfires from getting out of control (photo credit: Photo by Flash90)

The burning matter

A heat wave and the bonfires of Lag B’Omer are secondary to the question on everyone’s mind: Will the US intervene in Syria?

By Yossi Nachemi

April 23, 2013
3:25 pm

Yair Lapid (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Reopened skies

The 36-hour airline strike comes to an end while the budget debate just gets started

By Yossi Nachemi

April 19, 2013
2:10 pm

Not flying for a while? Israeli airlines threaten to strike, starting on Sunday, over the EU 'Open Skies' agreement (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

The not-so friendly skies

Israeli airlines threaten to strike on Sunday; IDF reservists win a battle for their wallets

By Yossi Nachemi

April 18, 2013
3:05 pm

An Israeli reservist packs his gear after ending a deployment near Gaza during Operation Defense Shield. Reservist had their yearly grant slashed by a third this year due to the operation (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

The three R’s

Rockets, reservists and some fishy arithmetic all cram their way into the Hebrew press

By Yossi Nachemi

April 7, 2013
3:23 pm

Visitors to Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on Friday. Holocaust Remembrance Day will begin Sunday night in Israel (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Learning from the present

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day the press reflects on the Shoah; meanwhile, Iran is watching North Korea

By Yossi Nachemi

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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: Yossi Nachemi

The young and the stateless

Celebrities congregate in Israel for Peres’s birthday while Bennett’s remarks underline discord in the government

Not so quiet on the Golan front

Warnings from the UN rattle the Israeli press as Netanyahu, in Poland, warns of a second Holocaust

Pride, not prejudice

Police declare motive for 2009 shooting at an LGBT youth center; the Syrian civil war moves closer to Israel

Masking ambitions

Nearly half of Israelis don’t have gas masks; state will fund non-Orthodox rabbis; and should Superland be dubbed ‘Racist-land’?

Sounding the alarm

Draft bill threatens to break up the coalition; IDF warns of drastic training cuts; and the police pay a ‘negligence tax’

Profiling an ‘economic terror attack’

The press hashes over the attacker, victims and motive in Monday’s deadly rampage at a Beersheba bank

A taxing situation

As the Cabinet is set to approve the new budget, the Israeli dailies voice their opinion and the IDF sounds the alarm

Winds of warning

Friday’s papers offer a lot of opinions of what’s wrong in Israel — mainly the budget — but few ideas on how to fix it

Minister in the middle

With public debate raging about the proposed budget, Yair Lapid does the unthinkable: he holds a press conference

At the Buffett table

Billionaire investor sings Israel’s praises; Lapid revises his budget; and the Liberman trial has a big day

The burning matter

A heat wave and the bonfires of Lag B’Omer are secondary to the question on everyone’s mind: Will the US intervene in Syria?

Reopened skies

The 36-hour airline strike comes to an end while the budget debate just gets started

The not-so friendly skies

Israeli airlines threaten to strike on Sunday; IDF reservists win a battle for their wallets

The three R’s

Rockets, reservists and some fishy arithmetic all cram their way into the Hebrew press

Learning from the present

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day the press reflects on the Shoah; meanwhile, Iran is watching North Korea

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