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American pro-Israel fundraiser and philanthropist Isaac 'Ike' Fisher with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (courtesy)

Interview

Angry US donor wants to issue ‘a wake-up call,’ isn’t planning to pull his Israel funding

Real-estate mogul ‘Ike’ Fisher, a member of AIPAC’s board, made headlines Sunday with threat to ‘suspend’ support over Western Wall, conversion crisis

Israeli protesters gather outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on July 1, 2017, to demonstrate against a government decision to abandon a deal for a permanent pluralistic prayer facility at the Western Wall jointly overseen by all streams of Judaism. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Israelis don’t care that you’re insulted

By Daniel Gordis

American Jews should step back from Israeli security concerns, but lean way in when it comes to the matter of peoplehood

In video tweeted by the US president on July 2, 2017, Donald Trump appears to attack the CNN news network. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Anti-Semitic, racist Reddit user behind Trump anti-CNN tweet

By Sue Surkes and AP

Originator of video clip showing president wrestling news network belongs to Trump adulation group that regularly posts vulgar, hateful content

Fake bruiseTrump tweets video of himself beating up ‘CNN’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Anti-Semitic incidents jolt New Jersey town buffeted by welfare scam

By ToI Staff and AP

Thousands protest against Trump in LA, call for impeachment

By AP and ToI Staff

Fi-Jewciary responsibility

Is Jay Z’s ‘positive’ Jewish stereotype anti-Semitic?

By Yaakov Schwartz

Rapper’s new album, which includes a line about Jews owning ‘all the property’ in the US, draws mixed reactions from Jewish community

American singer Britney Spears( c) visits at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, ahead of her concert tomorrow night in Tel Aviv. July 2, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Bibi, no more time

Britney Spears said to skip dinner with Netanyahu

By ToI Staff

After pop icon mobbed by fans at the Western Wall, PM’s meal with sick children goes ahead without her

Frankie Valli (center) and his son (right) at the Haas Promenade overlooking Jerusalem's Old City (Courtesy Nidar Oz Communications)

Oh, what a siteFrankie Valli just misses Britney at Western Wall

By Jessica Steinberg

Former US ambassador Dan Shapiro speaks at a Times of Israel event in Jerusalem, July 2, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Times of Israel Presents

I could have lived without UN’s anti-settlement resolution, Dan Shapiro says

By Raphael Ahren

But six months after Israel claimed to have evidence Obama hatched the Security Council motion, ex-ambassador asks: Where’s the proof?

US ambassador invites settler heads to Independence shindig for first time

By Sue Surkes

UNESCO World Heritage meet opens amid tensions over Hebron motion

By ToI Staff and AP

Jewish Home, Likud to collaborate on ‘Unified Jerusalem’ bill

By Raoul Wootliff

US President Donald Trump, left and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud gesture during a signing ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court in Riyadh on May 20, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Trump: ‘Interesting things are happening’ on Middle East peace

By Alexander Fulbright and Agencies

US president tweets he held discussion with Saudi king, but does not say whether Israeli-Palestinian conflict was focus

An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport. February 26, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ben Gurion airspace restricted over ‘security operation’

By Tamar Pileggi

Ministry opens criminal probe over Negev acid waste spill; Netanyahu tells US sailors deployed in Mideast ‘you are serving good’; More than 360 treated as temperatures soar

Indian Ambassador to Israel Pavan Kapoor in his Tel Aviv office (Courtesy Indian Embassy Tel Aviv)

Interview

India has ‘matured,’ so ties with Israel are flowering, envoy says

By Raphael Ahren

Ahead of first-ever visit by an Indian PM, Ambassador Kapoor says New Delhi no longer ‘hyphenates’ its relationships with Jerusalem and Ramallah

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives a speech during an event marking the 100th anniversary of Sabarmati Ashram and the 150th birth anniversary of poet and philosopher Shrimad Rajchandraji, in Ahmedabad on June 29, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAM PANTHAKY)

Modi set for historic visit to ‘beacon’ Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of a luxury mikvah. (Flash90/ Gershon Elinson)

'Mikvah immersion shouldn’t be fraught with tension'

Forced to sign waiver to use ritual bath alone, some Jerusalem women fear coercion

By Yaakov Schwartz

The Supreme Court has ruled that making women immerse under supervision is an invasion of privacy, so why must they fill out ‘permission slips’ to dip?

A picture taken on July 3, 2017 shows a cartoon of US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on display at an exhibition of Iran's 2017 International Trumpism cartoon and caricature contest, in the capital Tehran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)

Iranians hold Nazi-tinged ‘Trumpism’ cartoon contest

By AP

Group that organized last year’s Holocaust competition uses logo based on Nazi emblem; one picture shows US president painting Hitler mustache on Statue of Liberty

Top Ops

Francis Nataf

Let’s give the Kotel to Chabad

The Lubavitchers would get it right because they truly seek to help, and hence accommodate, all Jews

Zeev Maghen

Stop giving to Israeli hospitals? Seriously?

A response to Daniel Gordis’s suggestion US Jews halt donations to counter ultra-Orthodox influence

Naomi Chazan

Ultra-nationalism is no Zionist ideal

True patriots fight for religious pluralism in an Israel that treats all citizens equally, and decry ongoing occupation

Eviatar Matania, head of Israel's National Cyber Bureau and National Cyber Directorate (Courtesy)

Interview

Staying humble is key to staying safe, says Israel’s cyber chief

By Shoshanna Solomon

Last week’s hospital cyber-attack was no big deal and the electoral system is secure, according to Cyber Bureau head Eviatar Matania, who’s both worried and confident

One convicted, another acquitted for arson at Galilee ‘Loaves’ church

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Yinon Reuveni, 22, found guilty of setting fire to Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes; suspected accomplice found not guilty

File: In this May 22, 2010 file photo, a Hezbollah fighter stands behind an empty rocket launcher while explaining various tactics and weapons used against Israeli soldiers on the battlefield (AP/Hussein Malla)

Liberman: Israel ‘won’t ignore’ new Hezbollah weapon factories

By ToI Staff

Defense minister promises to ‘respond with strength’ to further spillover from battles in Syria hitting Israeli territory

French President Emmanuel Macron walks past Helmut Kohl's coffin during a eulogy ceremony for former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, July 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French nationalist charged with threatening to kill Macron, Jews

By AFP

Suspect told police of possible plan to attack president on Bastille Day, also wanted to target ‘Muslims, Jews, blacks, homosexuals’

A general view taken on January 13, 2017 shows the Dome of the Rock at the Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

travels

Best hotels in Jerusalem for 2020

By ToI Staff

M16 rifles seized by police following the theft of rifles from an army base on May 27, 2017. (Israel Police)

6 arrested for swiping dozens of rifles from army base

By ToI Staff

Cops ask to extend remand of men accused of stealing and purchasing weapons; also confiscate arms, drugs, cash, vehicles

Qatar's Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani speaks during a luncheon hosted by the Arab Center of Washington, DC on June 29, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Qatar responds to Saudi demands after deadline extended

By Omar Hasan

No details of answer made public, but on Saturday foreign minister said ultimatum was ‘made to be rejected’

Vered Saadon toasting with an Israeli tour group at her Tura Winery in the West Bank settlement of Rahelim, June 21, 2017. (Andrew Tobin/JTA)

West Bank’s wines have some Israelis toasting the settlements

By Andrew Tobin

More Headlines

Cricket player Naomi Eytan (c) in action (courtesy)

Court rules teen girl can’t play cricket at the Maccabiah

By ToI Staff

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a man displays a new bank note of 2,000 Syrian Lira, ($3.9) featuring the face of President Bashar Assad, during a press conference for Central Bank Governor Duraid Durgham in Damascus, Syria, July 2, 2017. (SANA via AP)

Banking on AssadIn a first, image of Syrian leader to grace new banknotes

By Sarah El Deeb

The enormous radio on Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall, with five stations, including broadcasts from the time of the Six Day War (Courtesy Satrier&Sharvit)

Dial-upNostalgia plays on giant Jerusalem radio

By Jessica Steinberg

Prof. Michael Weintraub, former head of Hadassah Hospital's pediatric hemato-oncology department, speaks with a young patient at the protest tent in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, June 4, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hadassah mediator asks for more time as sides fail to reach agreement

By ToI Staff

Israeli police near the Arab neighborhood of A-Tur in East Jerusalem, on May 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Cop, protesters wounded in East Jerusalem funeral violence

By ToI Staff

Jewish Home MK Nissan Slomiansky during a vote on the so-called Regulation Bill to legitimize illegal West Bank outposts, December 7, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police said set to close sexual harassment probe of senior MK

By ToI Staff

Liberal Jews at the Western Wall carrying Torah scrolls on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 (courtesy)

Hebrew media reviewCrossroads

By Tamar Pileggi

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