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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 641

Dov Weisglass

Construction in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, near the West Bank city of Hebron, on April 2, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
April 7, 2017, 9:51 am
Billed as self-restraint, Netanyahu’s ‘settlement curb’ actually allows for massive building
As past talks over West Bank construction have shown, it is difficult to enforce limitations when terms like ‘footprint’ and ‘construction line’ remain undefined
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a Christmas lunch with members of the Christian Orthodox community in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, January 6, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
April 8, 2016, 4:08 am
Abbas’s son said to hold $1m in investment company tied to PA
‘Panama Papers’ reveal extent of Tareq Abbas’s role in firm heavily involved in Palestinian economy
By ToI Staff
A Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 5, 2016, 1:15 pm
Israel launches probe into firms exposed in tax haven leaks
Tax Authority says it will investigate if some 600 Israeli corporations and 850 shareholders evaded levies by using offshore accounts
By Raoul Wootliff
View of a sign outside the building where Panama-based Mossack Fonseca law firm offices are placed in Panama City on April 3, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / RODRIGO ARANGUA)
April 4, 2016, 4:23 pm
Panama to work ‘vigorously’ to investigate offshore accounts
Banks Leumi and Hapoalim, ex-Sharon aide Dov Weisglass among hundreds of Israeli companies and shareholders named in leaked documents
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm in Panama City, April 3, 2016. (AP/Arnulfo Franco)
April 4, 2016, 6:41 am
600 Israeli companies, 850 shareholders listed in Panama data leak
11.5 million documents from Panamanian law firm reveal offshore companies of heads of state, celebrities, businessmen
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Former Sharon adviser and current Rawabi legal fixer Dov Weisglass (left) stands next to Rawabi managing director Bashar Al-Masri (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
February 19, 2014, 2:36 pm
In Rawabi, the brand-new Palestinian city, both sides win
Projects like this bring our peoples closer together, says Bashar Al-Masri, the entrepreneur behind an unprecedented construction project that is changing the West Bank landscape
By Elhanan Miller
Then opposition leader Ariel Sharon seen at the Mugrabi Gate en route to the Temple Mount, on 28 September 2000. Sharon visited with an escort of over 1,000 police officers. (Flash90)
January 12, 2014, 11:06 pm
Sharon was reviled by Arabs, but that’s not the whole story
To his death, he was widely hated as a war criminal, but some who came into direct contact with him conceived a certain grudging appreciation
By Avi Issacharoff
Prime minister Ariel Sharon and President George W Bush at the White House in April 2004 (photo credit: White House / Wikipedia Commons)
January 11, 2014, 10:56 pm
Sharon prized ties with US, didn’t want to lead Iran struggle, says top aide
Late PM’s bureau chief Dov Weissglass highlights trusting, affectionate alliance with president George W. Bush
By ToI Staff
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid leaves his home for a pre-elections workout on Tuesday, Jan. 22 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)
January 26, 2013, 5:15 am
Rising political star better be ready to work up a sweat
If Yair Lapid wants to avoid the pitfalls of his centrist predecessors, he’ll have to produce concrete results at the Knesset
By Daniel Estrin
Suha Arafat, right, and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat attend a conference in the Gaza Strip in April, 1995 (photo credit: AP/Nabil Judah)
August 30, 2012, 12:54 am
French probe deepens confusion over Arafat death
Widow’s apparent reluctance on exhumation adds further intrigue to an already bizarre saga
By Josef Federman
Yasser Arafat in 2002 (photo credit: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
August 29, 2012, 1:53 pm
Former Israeli official denies Israel poisoned Arafat
Ex-prime minister Ariel Sharon’s chief of staff says Israel had no interest in harming Palestinian leader
Israeli youth groupers protest at the US Consulate in Jerusalem against Jonathan Pollard's imprisonment, June 2012. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
June 13, 2012, 9:21 pm
Free Pollard? History says, ‘not today, not tomorrow, not the next day’
Even Israel’s strongest supporters have opposed releasing the Israeli spy, as testimony from Ariel Sharon’s chief of staff and a memo from former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld show
By Mitch Ginsburg
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