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Czech President Miloš Zeman (L) meets with Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely at an event in honor of Israel’s 70th Independence Day at Prague Castle on April 25, 2018. (Courtesy)
Czech president announces 3-stage plan to move embassy to Jerusalem – eventually
By Raphael Ahren
Announcement comes despite opposition from country's prime minister; Israeli politicians hail Milos Zeman's pledge
Members of the Israel Cycling Academy, which received one of the Giro d'Italia wild cards to participate in the May 4, 2018, race in Israel (Courtesy Noa Arnon)
Israel gears up to host prestigious Giro D’Italia cycling race opener in May
By Melanie Lidman
Czech President Miloš Zeman (L) meets with Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely at an event in honor of Israel’s 70th Independence Day at Prague Castle on April 25, 2018. (Courtesy)
April 25, 2018, 10:17 pm
Czech president announces 3-stage plan to move embassy to Jerusalem – eventually
Announcement comes despite opposition from country's prime minister; Israeli politicians hail Milos Zeman's pledge
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli businessman Dan Propper attends a session of the Knesset's Finance Committee on December 25, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 25, 2018, 7:24 pm
Czechs appoint new honorary consul in Jerusalem instead of moving embassy
Dan Propper, chairman of one of Israel's largest food manufacturers, says he has been offered the position
By TOI staff
US Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 12, 2018. (JIM WATSON/AFP)
April 25, 2018, 1:45 pm
Pompeo could lead US delegation to Jerusalem embassy opening
White House said ready to send secretary of state-designate, pending his Senate approval as chief diplomat
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Members of the Israel Cycling Academy, which received one of the Giro d'Italia wild cards to participate in the May 4, 2018, race in Israel (Courtesy Noa Arnon)
April 25, 2018, 6:18 am
Israel gears up to host prestigious Giro D’Italia cycling race opener in May
First three stages of iconic competition to be held at cost of NIS 120 million, one of the country's most expensive and logistically complex sporting events
By Melanie Lidman
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism conference, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on March 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 23, 2018, 11:42 pm
US envoy says Jerusalem under Israel is ‘model for coexistence in the world’
David Friedman says Trump's recognition of holy city as Israel's capital was meant to 'extend an olive branch to all major religions'
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sits in front of a picture of the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem's Old City during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 19, 2018. (FLASH90)
April 21, 2018, 10:37 pm
Abbas: We will continue to fight Trump’s Jerusalem decision
'East Jerusalem will be ours and West Jerusalem theirs,' says PA President; Palestinian officials again slam Trump's representatives as working for Israel
By Khaled Abu Toameh
In this file photo from April 12, 2018, Czech Republic's acting Prime Minister Andrej Babis speaks during a news conference at the government's headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
April 21, 2018, 6:24 pm
Czech PM says country will open honorary consulate, not embassy in Jerusalem
Israel had hoped the Czech Republic would follow the US and move its mission from Tel Aviv; acting PM Babis does not want to break with EU policy
By TOI staff
A glimpse at what Emek Refaim Street in the German Colony neighborhood of Jerusalem might look like with the light rail running through it. (Courtesy Refaim BaMoshavot)
April 21, 2018, 12:24 pm
Local struggle over light rail intensifies in Jerusalem’s German Colony
Two citizen groups go head-to-head on whether or not to a place section of track down Emek Refaim Street, the heart of the upscale neighborhood
By Jessica Steinberg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin (C) meet foreign diplomats at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Israel's 70th Independence Day on April 19, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
April 19, 2018, 8:14 pm
Netanyahu: At least six states in ‘serious’ talks to move embassies to Jerusalem
In Independence Day meeting with foreign diplomats, PM says first ten countries to make the relocation will get 'preferential treatment'
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
A 1951 image of the Hebrew University's Prof. Eleazar Sukenik with one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Department of Archaeology, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem - National Library of Israel, Schwadron collection)
April 19, 2018, 7:50 am
ToI asks the experts: What are the most important finds of Israeli archaeology?
From Dead Sea Scrolls to space-age tech, the dramatic history of the ever-developing field is indelibly entwined with that of the nation itself
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Coalition whip MK David Amsalem (left) and Minister Ze'ev Elkin (Flash90)
April 17, 2018, 10:36 am
Two Likud heavyweights set sights on Jerusalem mayorship
Ze'ev Elkin and David Amsalem both may run after Barkat moves to national stage; Nachman Shai and Rachel Azaria also said to mull candidacy
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz attends the 29th Summit of the Arab League at the Ithra center in Dhahran, Eastern Saudi Arabia, on April 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / STR)
April 17, 2018, 9:22 am
Arab ire at US Jerusalem move looks unlikely to spark action
Saudi Arabia and Gulf states seem unwilling to jeopardize ties with Trump as they seek to counter Iranian threat to region
By Mohamad Ali Harissi
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz at the 29th Summit of the Arab League at the Ithra center in Dhahran, Eastern Saudi Arabia, on April 15, 2018. (AFP/STR)
April 15, 2018, 4:47 pm
Saudi king slams Trump for transferring US embassy to Jerusalem
At opening of Arab League summit, Salman says East Jerusalem is an 'integral part' of the Palestinian territories, denounces Iran for 'blatant interference' in other countries
By AFP and TOI staff
In this April 12, 2018 picture shows Palestinian alternate ambassador to UNESCO Mounir Anastas, right, UNESCO Director General France's Audrey Azoulay, left, and Israeli UNESCO ambassador Carmel Shama Hacohen speak after a meeting in Paris, France. Diplomats at UNESCO are hailing a possible breakthrough on longstanding Israeli-Arab tensions at the UN cultural agency. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
April 13, 2018, 1:56 pm
Israel ‘more than happy’ after compromise on UNESCO resolution
Document still deeply critical of Israeli actions in Jerusalem and Gaza, but most controversial language moved to non-binding annex
By Angela Charlton and CHRIS DEN HOND
Israeli Ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Hacohen Shama, right, argues with a Palestinian diplomat during the agency's General Conference in Paris, November 2017 (courtesy)
April 12, 2018, 10:29 pm
UNESCO shelves ‘anti-Israel’ resolutions for six months after quiet diplomacy
Director-general welcomes the 'spirit of dialogue and responsibility' after unanimous decision to delay votes on Jerusalem and Gaza
By Raphael Ahren and TOI staff
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