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Assi Dayan, in 2013, still working, staging, directing (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash 90)

Appreciation: Assi Dayan, 1945-2014

The brash matinee idol who treated life as a metaphor

By Jessica Steinberg

Assi Dayan, the son of a revered general, wanted to show that Israel was more than just ‘grapefruit and soldiers’

Assi Dayan with his daughter Amalia and ex-wife Vered Tandler Dayan in 1995 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Iconic, irreverent actor-director Assi Dayan dies at 68

By Adiv Sterman

Illustrative: An IDF soldier in a Nahal Brigade drill in the Golan Heights. (Nir Gal/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Battling to integrate: The IDF’s misunderstood Ethiopian recruits

By Mitch Ginsburg

One in every three soldiers of Ethiopian heritage serves time in the army’s jails. Slowly but not always surely, the IDF is trying to reverse a dire trend that, many argue, is rooted in wider Israeli ignorance and racism

That umbrella is full of holes

The Conference of Presidents’ decision to bar J Street is something between a fiasco and a disaster

For whom the siren sounds

On the culture of memory in Israel and the profound link between the IDF fallen and those killed in the Holocaust

David Breakstone

Confessions of a Hadassah Lady

Government inaction on the hospital crisis jeopardizes the future of American Jewish commitment to Israel

The Octava blood tests, developed for rapid, accurate detection of breast cancer tumors (photo credit: EventusDx)

Israeli lab develops blood test to detect breast cancer

US-based company with R&D branch near Jerusalem invents new technology to identify tumors rapidly, accurately and without radiation

Israelis celebrate Independence Day 2013 on Tel Aviv's beach (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Israel at 66 is home to 8.18 million people

Population grew 175,000 in past year; Jews make up 75% of total, Arabs 21%, says Central Bureau of Statistics

The dreaded IRS envelope (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg)

Israel reaches agreement with US on tax act

Banks here will be required to report account holders with American citizenship to the IRS

A Bank Mizrahi branch in Jerusalem (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

From the webEx-Mizrahi banker said to be indicted in US tax fraud case

IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz in action during a live fire exercise for Israeli army battalion commanders taking place on the Golan Heights, on September 4, 2012. (Shay Wagner/Israel Defense Forces/FLASH90)

IDF chief denounces soldiers’ Facebook campaign

By Adiv Sterman

Benny Gantz declares that troops must not take to social media when complaining about army issues

Aerial photo of Stuttgart Airport, Germany (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, Wo st 01)

Germany to name airport after Nazi general’s son

Manfred Rommel, longtime mayor of Stuttgart, was 15 when his father Erwin Rommel committed suicide during WWII

Prof. Moshe Rosman, of Bar-Ilan University's Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry. (courtesy)

Poland shifts date of key annual ceremony in deference to observant Jew

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israel Prof. Moshe Rosman to give keynote address marking Saturday’s Constitution Day… on Thursday; will speak on how the status of Jews reflects Polish society

Former US president Bill Clinton speaks at Georgetown University on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 (photo credit: Georgetown University)

Bill Clinton: Israel offered Temple Mount to Palestinians in 2000

Deal failed because Arafat also wanted control of area leading to tunnels, where ‘you could do mayhem to the ruins of the temples’

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Minister fires back at US over ‘price tag’ allegations

In response to State Department report, Gilad Erdan says ‘graffiti is not murder’

US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson. (Flash90/File)

Adelson gets go-ahead to buy Makor Rishon

By JTA

Billionaire who set up Israel Hayom confirmed as owner of right-wing paper

Violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman tells his students to switch places in order to play a piece of Mozart (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Young fiddlers learn from the maestro

By Jessica Steinberg

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Right in the kisser‘Rouhani, punch Obama in mouth’

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Luddite-in-chiefNetanyahu rants against smartphones

By Adiv Sterman

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Pyramid schemeBuilding pyramids wasn’t such a drag

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Hebrew media reviewThe writing is on the wall

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