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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a Border Police ceremony in Latrun on May 2, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Ben Gvir: EU 'undiplomatically shutting mouths'

EU nixes diplomatic event over Ben Gvir attendance, to avoid ‘offering him platform’

By Lazar Berman

Envoys decide almost unanimously to cancel Europe Day reception in response to ‘provocation’ of far-right minister’s planned speech; Poland, Hungary are lone dissenters

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Israel Police Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem April 20, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

To end coalition rift, Ben Gvir said demanding West Bank op, unfreezing of overhaul

Hundreds of right-wing activists waving flags attempt to attend a march through Jerusalem's Old City on April 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel said to send warning to Hamas over Jerusalem Day Flag March

TV report says messages sent via Egypt to terror group warning of harsh Israeli response to any Jerusalem Day provocations; Netanyahu keen to lower tensions

6:45 pm

Foreign minister set to take off for Delhi for meetings with Modi, top Indian officials
6:30 pm

Diplomats say Hungary, Poland blocked stronger EU response to Ben Gvir incident
6:04 pm

Jewish Council for Public Affairs names Amy Spitalnick as its CEO

President Isaac Herzog speaks at his official residence in Jerusalem, May 8, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Death toll in 2023 more than double the rate of last year

After young mom shot dead, Herzog decries sharp spike in homicides as ‘civil terror’

‘Real national calamity,’ president says after Hanan Abu Hait shot dead in suspected criminal feud; Knesset National Security Committee won’t meet, as part of Otzma Yehudit boycott

Undated photo of Hanan Abu Hait, who was shot dead in Haifa, May 7, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Young Arab woman shot dead outside Haifa home, latest victim in wave of homicides

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Israelis visit the site of the ancient village of Sebastia near the West Bank city of Nablus, on April 22, 2019, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

Government approves $8.8m budget to restore ancient Israel’s capital in West Bank

Funds to go toward development of Sebastia archaeological park near Nablus, with remains from 10 different periods, over which Israelis and Palestinians have fought for years

Krembo Wings provides weekly social activities for hundreds of young people with special needs. (Screenshot/ YouTube)

Nonprofit for special needs kids says gov’t budget cut forcing summer camp closure

The Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on March 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Budget said to include $1.4 billion for Haredim, as part of coalition deals

Most of the funds will go to yeshivas and teachers at Haredi educational institutions

Screen capture from video of ultra-Orthodox men preventing a woman from boarding a bus in Ashdod due to her gender, May 7, 2023. (Channel 12. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Only for men’: Haredi passengers bar woman from Ashdod public bus

An El Al plane is seen parked at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

El Al cancels Saturday night flights from London for fear of desecrating Shabbat

The Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank, February 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rejects petition seeking immediate razing of Khan al-Ahmar

By Jeremy Sharon

Justices accept state’s argument it has discretion on when to demolish illegal West Bank encampment, due to security and diplomatic considerations

View of the illegal Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, just off of Road 1 in the West Bank, February 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 8: High Court rules that everyone loses in Bedouin demolition case

Pile of scrap white goods including fridges and freezers waiting to be recycled. (JohnDWilliams, iStock at Getty Images)

ToI investigates

Fridge recycling heats up, but most old appliances still end up in landfills

Lack of regulations or enforcement allows companies to fudge official reports and avoid paying for disposal, with goods still being smuggled to Palestinians for burning

Lessons learned from a royal vial of oil

The archbishop of Canterbury may not be Israel’s biggest fan, but he did right by his king in securing new coronation oil with a recipe straight out of the Bible

A soldier’s love song, a country’s innocence

Crooning in 1968 from the peak of newly-captured Mt Hermon, a soldier offers his love a kingdom dipped in a sea of gold

US National Security Council Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk and State Department energy envoy Amos Hochstein. (AP/collage)

After talks in Saudi Arabia, senior White House officials to meet PM in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk and energy czar Amos Hochstein fly in from Jeddah; Cohen to talk by phone with Secretary of State Antony Blinken

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, December 12, 2022. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Senior US official in Saudi Arabia to discuss massive rail project with UAE, India

By Lazar Berman

File: Campaign billboard for Benny Gantz's Blue and White party in Tel Aviv, on March 14, 2021. The billboard reads, "It's Benny [Gantz] in the Knesset -- or Bibi [Netanyahu] forever." (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Gantz’s National Unity party remains strong in new polls, as Likud plunges

Centrist party led by former defense minister soars to 29 seats in surveys; Netanyahu’s ruling party would get 24, with governing coalition falling from 64 seats to 52

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left) speaks at a rally in Jerusalem, April 27, 2023; Ra'am chair Mansour Abbas attends a Knesset meeting, March 5, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90; Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Ra’am’s Abbas confirms Levin has reached out to seek overhaul support, denies deal

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman MK Avigdor Liberman during a debate in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Legitimizing the illegitimate’: Liberman urges Gantz, Lapid to end overhaul talks

Sol Nayman hugs a participant of the March of the Living event during Nayman's first visit in 84 years to Stoczek, Poland on April 20, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

'Welcome to my town'

In Poland, Canadian Holocaust survivor returns to native village as sole local Jew

By Canaan Lidor

During emotional visit, which happened on Hitler’s birthday, Sol Nayman brought to Stoczek about 100 members of the March of the Living event

The New York Times building in New York City, May 13, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel, File)

Ahead of Pulitzers, New York Times mum on alleged unethical yeshiva reporting

Critics say coverage misrepresented data, obfuscated sources’ biases to criticize Hasidic school system; advocacy group defends reporting as shining light on ‘critical issue’

Hamas warns Israel ahead of nationalist Flag March through Old City’s Muslim Quarter

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Palestinian terror group Hamas warned on Sunday that it would not let Israel "Judaize" Jerusalem ahead of a controversial nationalist march through the Muslim Quarter of the capital's Old City set for later this week. Hamas spokesperson Abd al-Latif al-Qanou said in a statement that Jerusalem "will remain... Continue Reading

Jews taking part in the Flag March pass through the Damascus Gate to Jerusalem's Old City on May 29, 2022, as Israel marks Jerusalem Day. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

This handout photo from May 8, 2023, shows contraband allegedly belonging to a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror cell, which is accused of an attempted bombing in the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit and planning other attacks. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet announces arrest of terror cell behind attempted bus bombing in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hold posters of the party's leader Ahmad Saadat, who is currently jailed in Israel, as they call for his release of during a protest in the West Bank city of Nablus, March 15, 2010. The Arabic text on the poster reads "Our compass doesn't point anywhere except to Palestine." (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

PFLP threatens escalation after leader put in solitary confinement in Israeli prison

Illustrative: IDF soldiers at a military outpost overlooking Syria in the southern Golan Heights on May 23, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Hezbollah recruiter in south Syria said to resume activities after Israel nabs spy

Lebanese operative known as Abu Ali said to ply poor Syrians with provisions to enlist them to gather intel for terror group, including man arrested by IDF troops in January

Illustrative - Jordanian soldiers patrol along the eastern Jordan-Syria border, in al-Washash, Mafraq governorate, Jordan, February 17, 2022. (Raad Adayleh/AP)

Alleged Jordanian airstrikes kill Syrian drug kingpin, his wife and six children

By Kareem Chehayeb and Bassam Mroue

Report says aid efforts complicate Israeli targeting of arms

Leaked US intel files: Iran smuggling weapons hidden in earthquake relief to Syria

Iran and allied proxy groups have been smuggling weapons into Syria concealed within aid shipments sent in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake earlier this year, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The daily cited a classified US intelligence assessment that was shared on the online messaging platform Discord,... Continue Reading

Iran-linked fighters with a portrait of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Khomeini in Baghdad, Iraq, during a parade marking Quds Day, July 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani holds a press conference in Tehran on July 13, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran says it’s possible to revive nuclear deal if US doesn’t ‘procrastinate’

By AFP

Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran executes 2 men convicted for burning Quran, insulting Mohammad

By AFP

A law enforcement officer walks as people are evacuated from a shopping center where a shooting occurred , May 6, 2023, in Allen, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Texas investigators suspect gunman who killed 8 had neo-Nazi views

By Jake Bleiberg, MICHAEL BALSAMO and Jamie Stengle

Officials say probe is in early stages, but Mauricio Garcia appears to have expressed interest in white supremacist ideology; shooter wore patch popular with right-wing extremists

Emergency personnel respond to a fatal collision in Brownsville, Texas, on Sunday, May 7, 2023. Several migrants were killed after they were struck by a vehicle while waiting at a bus stop near Ozanam Center, a migrant and homeless shelter. (AP Photo/Michael Gonzalez)

SUV driver hits crowd at Texas bus stop near border; 7 dead

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and MICHAEL GONZALEZ

'If you control judiciary, might as well be Stalinist 1930s'

Protests are altering Israel’s trajectory, says Handmaid’s writer Margaret Atwood

By Jessica Steinberg

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian author of the dystopian novel-turned-TV show "The Handmaid's Tale," isn't surprised that hundreds of Israeli women are utilizing the vivid visual themes from the book, dressing in red capes and white caps to appear at the weekly protests against the government. "You're seeing it in Israel right now because... Continue Reading

Author Margaret Atwood speaks at the National Book Critics Circle awards ceremony Thursday, March 16, 2017, in New York. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

Illustrative: Anti-overhaul protesters in Rehovot on May 6, 2023 (Gilad Furst via national protest leadership)

Overhaul supporter says police beat him after arrest; police say he assaulted officer

An El Al plane after takeoff from Ben Gurion Airport. September 7, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

El Al to rebuke pilot who compared Israel to Nazi Germany in in-flight message

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Participants march under heavy security in the annual Pride Parade, in Jerusalem, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Organizer of Jerusalem Pride Parade tells police of threats against marchers

Illustrative: Stena drilling ship. (NewMed Energy)

Israel’s NewMed Energy and partners begin drilling at Aphrodite gas field off Cyprus

By Sharon Wrobel

This photograph taken on May 8, 2023, shows a high-rise residential building damaged by remains of a shot down Russian drone in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Ukraine says it shot down 35 Iranian-made drones over Kyiv as attacks kill 4

Excerpt from an interview Yael Greenberg gave in 2022. (Screenshot: Channel 13. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Yael Greenberg, victim of notorious 1988 gang rape, dies at age 49

By Ilayda Bardavid

A Palestinian loads a cart with food aid provided by the UN's World Food Programme, in the Gaza Strip's al-Shati refugee camp, May 15, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP/ File)

UN food agency says it will have to cut back 60% of its activity in West Bank, Gaza

Israeli startup Autotalks develops chipsets that allow vehicles to communicate or “talk” with one another, and connect to road infrastructure. (Courtesy)

US chip giant Qualcomm to buy Israeli road safety tech startup Autotalks

By Sharon Wrobel

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and his son, Nick Gilbert, at an NBA basketball draft lottery in New York, May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

Nick Gilbert, son of Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, dies at 26

French President Emmanuel Macron stands at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during ceremonies marking the 78th anniversary of the victory against the Nazis and the end of the World War II in Europe, in Paris, May 8, 2023. (Johanna Geron/Pool via AP)

Macron condemns vandalism of explicit painting at Paris museum

By AFP and ToI Staff

Economy Minister Nir Barkat arrives for a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ukraine to invite Economy Minister Barkat to June recovery conference in London

By Lazar Berman

Visitors tour ANU, the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, March 9, 2021. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Free your mindMuseums open doors for free to mark International Museum Day

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban hold a joint press conference at the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary on July 18, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Envoy for Hungary’s Orban will reportedly visit Israel next week, meet Netanyahu

Tourists sit at a restaurant on Jimbaran Beach in Bali, Indonesia on November 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Indonesia said to fear it could lose World Beach Games over calls to bar Israel

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