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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press statement in the Knesset on September 15, 2019, a few days before the Israeli elections. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Case of ex-mayor seen as damning for Netanyahu, contrary to his lawyers’ claims
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
In acquitting Itamar Shimoni of bribery in alleged deal involving favorable media coverage, officials say judge has laid the groundwork for PM’s potential conviction in Case 4000
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press statement in the Knesset on September 15, 2019, a few days before the Israeli elections. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 11, 2019, 11:47 pm
Case of ex-mayor seen as damning for Netanyahu, contrary to his lawyers’ claims
In acquitting Itamar Shimoni of bribery in alleged deal involving favorable media coverage, officials say judge has laid the groundwork for PM’s potential conviction in Case 4000
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
Ex-Mayor of Ashkelon Itamar Shimoni arrives a the Tel Aviv District Court on September 26, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
November 11, 2019, 5:28 pm
PM’s lawyer cheers as Ashkelon ex-mayor acquitted over media quid pro quo
Itamar Shimoni convicted of bribery, money laundering; but the charges he was found innocent of are touted as a possibly precedent-setting ruling for Netanyahu
By TOI staff
Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. (Courtesy Soroka Medical Center)
October 23, 2019, 10:51 am
Ashkelon baby dies of injuries allegedly inflicted by mother’s boyfriend
11-month-old girl arrived at hospital in critical condition; police suspect she suffered serious abuse; mother released from custody
By TOI staff
Illustrative: An ambulance outside the Soroka hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, December 23, 2013. ()FLASH90
October 22, 2019, 12:44 pm
Palestinian suspected of injuring Israeli baby in his care
Baby hospitalized in critical condition with head injury; 11-month-old’s mother, said to be the Palestinian’s girlfriend, suspected of abuse, neglect
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Police in Ashkelon, August 27, 2017. (Israel Police)
October 21, 2019, 7:10 pm
3 arrested after Ashkelon baby suffers serious head wound
11-month-old’s parents and Palestinian man who was in the apartment at the time of injury to be questioned; baby hospitalized in critical condition
By TOI staff
The scene inside an Ashkelon apartment where a man was killed by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip which hit the building, November 13, 2018. (The Times of Israel)
September 22, 2019, 10:08 pm
Woman dies a year after she was injured in Gaza rocket attack
Nina Gisdenanova, 74, was hospitalized since strike, which also killed a man and seriously injured another woman
By TOI staff
A burst of light, apparently caused by an Iron Dome interceptor missile detonating itself, illuminates the night sky over the northern Gaza Strip on September 11, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)
September 12, 2019, 12:19 am
False alarms triggered north of Gaza as IDF bombs Hamas sites in reprisal raids
Israeli military strikes terror group’s positions in the Strip in response to rocket attack earlier in the day; anti-aircraft fire sets off sirens in southern Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
Israelis run for cover as air raid sirens sound in the Israeli city of Sderot on March 12, 2014. (AFP/David Buimovitch)
September 11, 2019, 8:14 pm
Rocket sirens sound in false alarm as Gaza tensions rise
Alarms come hours after 3 rockets fired from Gaza, lightly damaging an Israeli home, following Israeli airstrikes
By Judah Ari Gross
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip that struck an open area in the Hof Ashkelon region of southern Israel on September 11, 2019. (Yediot Mehashetach)
September 11, 2019, 1:49 pm
Gaza rockets fired at southern Israel for second day in a row
In response, Israeli tank destroys two Hamas posts in northern Gaza; attack comes less than a day after two projectiles fired at Ashdod and Ashkelon from the Strip
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taken off stage during a campaign event in Ashdod due to incoming rocket sirens, September 10, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)
September 11, 2019, 9:58 am
Netanyahu blasts Blue and White for celebrating after rocket forces him offstage
PM says he doesn’t know who was more gleeful, Gaza terror groups or Blue and White; top Likud officials say he had no choice but to follow bodyguards’ orders at campaign rally
By TOI staff
Explosions seen in the Gaza Strip after a reported IDF Strike in response to rocket fire on Ashdod and Ashkelon on September 11, 2019 (Screencapture/Twitter)
September 11, 2019, 2:43 am
IDF airstrikes hit 15 sites in Gaza after 2 rockets fired at Israeli cities
Rockets appear to target Netanyahu election rally in Ashdod; security guards force him from stage; Iron Dome intercepts both
By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd R) meets, following a rocket attack from Gaza, with his defense chiefs at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on September 10, 2019 (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
September 11, 2019, 12:47 am
Netanyahu meets defense chiefs after being targeted by rocket fire from Gaza
Iron Dome intercepts two rockets fired at southern cities while PM was addressing election rally there; security guards forced him from stage
By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, being moved away from a campaign event stage while surrounded by security as rockets are shot at Ashdod on September 10, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)
September 11, 2019, 12:17 am
Netanyahu derided by right and left as he’s forced to take shelter from rockets
Rival parties condemn PM’s Gaza strategy after he is led off stage during attack; Bennett calls it a ‘national humiliation’; Lapid: ‘Netanyahu is done and can leave the stage’
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taken off stage during a campaign event in Ashdod due to incoming rocket sirens, September 10, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)
September 10, 2019, 9:47 pm
Netanyahu briefly whisked away from campaign rally as rockets fired from Gaza
PM later returns to stage; IDF says 2 projectiles fired at southern Israel, both intercepted by Iron Dome; Blue and White event in Ashkelon also cut short due to attack
By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross
Thousands attend joint funeral of Tahel Maul, 16, and her older sister Yarin, 19, at Ashkelon's Giv'at Zion cemetery, August 29, 2019 (Screen grab from newsenders via Israel Hayom)
August 30, 2019, 10:39 am
Thousands attend funeral of teen sisters killed by suspected drunk driver
Ashkelon mayor eulogizes sisters who were ‘inseparable in life and death’; third sister, 14, fighting for her life
By TOI staff
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