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US President Donald Trump reads a note handed to him by Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a roundtable meeting on antifa in the State Dining Room at the White House, October 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
October 9, 2025, 2:42 pm
Israel readies for brief Trump visit in coming days after signing of Gaza deal
Following announcement of ceasefire-hostage agreement, US president set to make quick trip, likely on Sunday; PM invites him to address Knesset, families ask him to speak at Hostages Square
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Actor Rob Lowe in his latest show, the Netflix series 'Unstable" (Courtesy Netflix)
March 16, 2023, 1:08 pm
Brat Packer Rob Lowe spotted on ‘guys’ trip to Israel
Actor returns 30 years after first visit, when he filmed a Menachem Golan action flick
By Jessica Steinberg
A rendering of a glamping tent as part of the new Dan Hotel development Eilat. (Courtesy/ Dan Group)
October 27, 2022, 4:07 pm
Dan Hotels invests in Eilat luxury tents to gear up for next tourist generation
One of Israel’s oldest hotel chains is on a transformation path for post-COVID tourists, offering travelers fresh hospitality experiences in new locations
By Danielle Nagler
An undated photo of the Notre Dame guest house, convent, and church, located just outside Jerusalem's Old City. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
October 8, 2022, 9:57 am
The night time is the right time for enchanting Jerusalem Lights Tour
The Holy City’s famed golden stones glow as dozens of the city’s historical sites are lit up at night. Through December, an illuminating guided bus tour tells their stories
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Pouring tea at Jerusalem's Waldorf Astoria, where tea is served every afternoon (Courtesy: Waldorf Astoria)
January 29, 2022, 1:24 pm
Israel keeps British teatime tradition alive, with a spoonful of local flavor
The perfect antidote to winter weather? A cuppa with a side of scones and cream cakes
By Jessica Steinberg
A pool in a pool gives new legs to the term "pool shark" at the recently renovated Dan Caesarea hotel in Caesarea on May 21, 2019. (TOI Staff/Times of Israel)
May 21, 2019, 7:59 pm
Dan dives into swankier market with revamped Caesarea hotel
Dan Caesarea reopens after 8 months of renovations, as part of luxury hotel chain’s new strategy to attract younger generation with sleeker options
By ToI Staff
(L-R) Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Britain's Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Britain's Sophie, Countess of Wessex attend the Most Noble Order of the Garter Ceremony at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London on June 18, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Chris Jackson)
June 24, 2018, 5:36 am
The British are coming: Israel excitedly awaits first ever royal visit
Prince William kicks off regional tour in Jordan Sunday before heading to Jerusalem, where is expected to visit Yad Vashem, meet with political leaders amid pomp, circumstance
By AP
Crime scene tape surrounds the Mandalay Hotel (background) after a gunman killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 500 others when he opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 2, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON)
October 6, 2017, 11:46 am
US hotels mull bolstering security after Las Vegas shooting
They can look to hotels like Israel’s King David that reportedly uses infrared cameras, bomb-searching robots in sewers and aircon that can thwart a poison gas attack
By Kelvin Chan and DAVID KOENIG
Workers roll out the red carpet at the President‘s residence in Jerusalem, prior to US President Donald Trump‘s upcoming visit, May 18, 2017 (Mark Neiman / GPO)
May 18, 2017, 9:00 pm
PM meets with Trump envoys to fine-tune presidential visit
Official confirms no trilateral meeting planned between Trump, Netanyahu and Abbas; Jerusalem police, others in frantic preparations for two-day trip
By Sue Surkes and Raphael Ahren
Israelis looking from their balcony as US President Barack Obama's cars arrives at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 10, 2017, 4:28 pm
Security swells as Jerusalem prepares for Trump visit
King David Hotel braces to receive US president, whose entourage will fill all six floors of the building
By Stuart Winer
US President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania step off a plane upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on January 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)
May 9, 2017, 10:16 pm
Frenetic preparations underway for Trump’s Israel visit
Delegation to take over entire King David hotel; speculation mounts the president will buck tradition and not visit Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
By Alexander Fulbright
US Vice President Mike Pence (L) administers the swearing-in ceremony for David Friedman (C) as the US ambassador to Israel, as his wife Tammy Sand looks on, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, on March 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
May 9, 2017, 4:58 pm
Foreign Ministry retweets faux David Friedman account
Journalists, Jewish organizations also hoodwinked by post in ambassador’s name, which says he hopes to ‘work out of Jerusalem very soon’
By Raphael Ahren
A couple stands next to a large light installation in the Old City of Jerusalem, June 6, 2013. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)
April 23, 2017, 8:49 am
Jerusalem hotels: Unlikely hotbeds of furtive, meticulous romance
In lobbies throughout the capital, young ultra-Orthodox men and women sit down every evening to participate in a carefully rehearsed dating ritual
By Tracy Frydberg
A view of Tel Aviv's pop-up lifeguard tower hotel (under construction) that will be open for 10 days only this March (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
March 6, 2017, 11:59 pm
Tel Aviv looks to lure tourists with posh lifeguard digs
Winners of online selfie competition to stay in pop-up luxury hotel built in converted beach station
By Jessica Steinberg
Clare Hollingworth, center, a British former longtime journalist who famously reported on Germany's invasion of Poland, is surrounded by friends and admirers at her birthday party at Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club,October 10, 2016. (AP/Kin Cheung)
January 11, 2017, 9:29 am
Journalist Clare Hollingworth, who broke news of WWII, dies
In 1939, reporter sneaked into Poland to cover impending Nazi invasion, launching a decades-long career that included British-mandated Palestine
By Kelvin Chan
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