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ILLUSTRATIVE: Las Vegas Police parked on the strip, January 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)
August 16, 2025, 5:29 pm
Senior Israeli cyber official detained in Las Vegas as part of child solicitation probe
Cops say Tom Alexandrovich, a Cyber Directorate division head, faces charges of luring a child with a computer for a sex act; reports say he returned to Israel, was put on leave
By ToI Staff
Michael Mizrachi gives an interview while standing over his prize after winning the main event at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 16, 2025. (Youtube screenshot/POKERGO channel)
July 18, 2025, 6:20 pm
Israeli-American wins main event at World Series of Poker
Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi wins $10 million and eighth victory bracelet while wearing dog tag necklace to honor hostages held by Hamas and showing off tattoo of Israeli flag
By Grace Gilson
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill speaks during a press conference regarding developments of a New Year's Eve truck explosion Friday, January 3, 2025 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Rio Yamat)
January 4, 2025, 8:51 am
US soldier who blew up Tesla at Trump hotel left note saying blast was ‘wake up call’
Decorated Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger, 37, wrote letters saying he needed to ‘cleanse’ his mind of military experiences; authorities characterize event as ‘tragic case of suicide’
By Rio Yamat, TARA COPP, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and Colleen Long
Investigators photograph a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the lobby of President-elect Donald Trump's hotel on January 1, 2025, in Las Vegas. (WADE VANDERVORT / AFP)
January 2, 2025, 2:01 am
Tesla Cybertruck stuffed with fireworks explodes outside Trump Las Vegas hotel
One person killed, seven injured in blast, authorities say, as officials probe whether incident was terror attack, check if any connection to deadly New Orleans ramming
By AP
Dallas Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban walks to his seat during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets in Dallas, November 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
November 29, 2023, 9:53 am
Mark Cuban ironing out $3.5b deal to sell NBA’s Mavericks to Adelson
Agreement between Jewish moguls would see ‘Shark Tank’ star retain control of basketball operations, wife of Las Vegas Sands founder take controlling interest
By Tim Reynolds and Schuyler Dixon
Cardi B attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" exhibition on Monday, May 1, 2023, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
August 4, 2023, 7:58 pm
Rapper Cardi B tweets, deletes picture appearing to fete Jewish lawyers
After posting Wikipedia photo of Haredi men, artist flogged for using Jewish lawyer trope to celebrate Las Vegas police deciding not to file charges over incident at concert
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A swastika etched into the back of a US Jewish boy with special needs at a Las Vegas school, March 9, 2023. (Courtesy; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 24, 2023, 8:34 am
Swastika carved into US Jewish teen’s back at school; culprits not found in 6 weeks
Boy, 17, with nonverbal autism is only kippah-wearing student at Las Vegas school; mom pulls him from institution, doesn’t trust version of events by staffer tasked with aiding him
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative: The Lightyear 0, a fully solar-powered vehicle, is displayed at the Lightyear booth doing CES 2023 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 6, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (David Becker/Getty Images/AFP)
January 7, 2023, 5:40 pm
Green tech vies for limelight at major gadget convention in Las Vegas
At CES, head of Israeli firm that uses AI and sensors to manage air conditioning systems says new technologies should have ‘path to profitability’ in order to thrive
By Glenn Chapman
Jack Abraham with his family Torah, which has been used by his family and the Jewish community around the world for almost two decades. (Courtesy via JTA)
July 7, 2022, 9:55 am
New York man says precious family Torah stolen from Las Vegas hotel
Jack Abraham brought the scroll for Shabbat services at trade show, was told the room where he left it was secured; says police told him suspect tried to sell the artifact
By Jacob Henry
A formally sunken boat sits on cracked earth hundreds of feet from what is now the shoreline on Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, May 9, 2022, near Boulder City, Nevada (AP Photo/John Locher)
May 10, 2022, 9:53 am
Vegas mob history resurfaces: Plunging lake exposes human remains
Two bodies emerge within a week in drought-stricken reservoir, with ex-mayor saying former mafia clients now keen on ‘climate control’: ‘It’s not a bad place to dump a body’
By Ken Ritter
The new Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Las Vegas, April 2022 (Video screenshot)
May 1, 2022, 6:27 pm
Powerful symbolism at new Holocaust memorial in Las Vegas
Crumbled brick wall at Holocaust Memorial Plaza meant to evoke ‘deterioration of the Jewish community due to the Nazi regime’
By Ray Brewer
Israeli champion natural bodybuilder and silver world medalist Lavie Kafra (Orel Sabran)
November 30, 2021, 4:57 am
Israeli natural bodybuilder pumped to receive silver medal at world championships
Years of tough workouts and strict nutritional intake pay off for 25-year-old Lavie Kafra, who aims to show that hard work and discipline — not drugs — are the key to success
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Donald Trump in a pre-recorded video appearance screened at the RJC convention in Las Vegas on November 6, 2021. (Screen capture: YouTube)
November 7, 2021, 9:40 pm
Trump tells Jewish Republicans he was best ever for Israel, Biden weak on Iran
In surprise video address to RJC confab in Las Vegas, former US president claims successor’s return to Iran talks directly led to missile fire on Israel
By Jacob Magid
Members of the Ahavas Torah Center in Henderson parade through the city during a Torah dedication ceremony in the mid-2010s. The Las Vegas suburb is home to a growing Orthodox Jewish population. (Courtesy of Ahavas Torah Center/ via JTA)
May 9, 2021, 5:05 am
What Nevada’s growing Jewish community loves about living Jewishly in the desert
A stone’s throw from Sin City, nearly 40% of the area’s 70,000 Jews have built a complete religious infrastructure – and their numbers are still growing exponentially
By Howard Riell
A 1928 mugshot of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a Jewish American mobster, with significant influence within the Mafia and National Crime Syndicate. (Courtesy Yale University Press)
April 21, 2021, 4:33 am
How Jewish mobster Bugsy Siegel’s gamble on Vegas paid off after his murder
The movie star-handsome member of the infamous Murder, Inc. envisioned a gambling oasis in the desert, says a new book in Yale’s Jewish Lives series
By Rich Tenorio
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