Operation Guardian of the Walls

Dozens attack the vehicle of Saeed Mousa, an Arab man, in Bat Yam on May 12, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

June 22, 2022, 6:02 pm

Assailant sentenced to 15 months in prison for 2021 mob attack on Arab driver

Yaakov Cohen also given 8-month suspended sentence, ordered to pay NIS 5,000 compensation to Saeed Mousa for assaulting him in Bat Yam during Israel-Hamas war

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (center), Police Commisoner Kobi Shabtai (right), Public Securiry Minister Omer Barlev (left) stand with Border Police officers at an Israel Police station, June 21, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

June 21, 2022, 10:44 pm

Officials unveil ‘Israeli Guard’ riot police unit to handle internal unrest

Gendarmes division will be formed under existing Border Police branch; to include both active, reserve, and volunteer officers

By Emanuel Fabian

File: IDF forces are seen on the border with the Gaza Strip, in May 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

June 16, 2022, 6:31 pm

IDF girds for Hamas surprise attack with Gaza border calmest it has been in a decade

Officials say troops conducting ‘maximum amount’ of operations in barrier area to counter terror groups’ ability to harm Israeli targets, ‘suppress their desire’ to continue trying

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Police are seen in Lod during ethnic rioting in the mixed Jewish-Arab city in central Israel, May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

May 30, 2022, 3:41 pm

Ombudsman report on May 2021 Gaza war and unrest in Israel expected in July

Matanyahu Englman says violent scenes in ethnically mixed communities ‘created a deep and acute rift’ between Jews and Arabs, warns of ‘the next eruption’

By TOI staff

A military convoy carrying APCs near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, on July 19, 2014. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

May 19, 2022, 6:37 pm

IDF practices protecting convoys from riots during war, attack on army HQ

Spooked by events of last May, military trains for securing highways so troops and equipment can reach front; 42 local authorities practice handling damage to infrastructure

By Emanuel Fabian

Kate Winslet arrives at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/AP)

From the WebMay 12, 2022, 11:07 am

Kate Winslet: My narration of Gaza movie with Hamas ties is not a stance on conflict

Jewish News: Actor didn’t know of co-director’s familial links to terror group when voicing ‘Eleven Days In May,’ didn’t intend to be seen commenting on rights or wrongs of subject

Ido Avigal, who was killed in his home in Sderot by a rocket fired from Gaza, on May 12, 2021. (Twitter)

May 5, 2022, 4:57 pm

Boy is born on Independence Day, 1 year after his brother was killed by Gaza rocket

Shani Avigal’s son Ido, 5, was killed when rocket fire hit their Sderot home; she and her daughter were badly injured; newborn’s circumcision set for 1st anniversary of Ido’s death

By TOI staff

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas's Gaza governor, speaks during a meeting in Gaza City, on April 30, 2022. (Mahmud Hamas/AFP)

April 30, 2022, 8:42 pm

Hamas’s Sinwar threatens a ‘regional, religious war’ if Al-Aqsa is again ‘violated’

Terror group’s Gaza chief vows attacks on ‘thousands of synagogues’ worldwide if police raid Al-Aqsa Mosque; urges West Bank Palestinians, Arab Israelis to commit terror attacks

By Aaron Boxerman

Francesca Albanese. (Screen capture/ YouTube)

April 3, 2022, 10:41 am

Israel blasts ‘unfit’ lawyer tapped to head UN probe into treatment of Palestinians

Last year Francesca Albanese said she hesitated to take on a project about Palestinian refugees as her ‘deeply held personal views could compromise [her] objectivity’

By TOI staff

Illustrative: Smoke rises following Israeli missile strikes on Gaza City on May 13, 2021. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

March 29, 2022, 4:33 pm

68 US senators press Blinken to quash open-ended UN probe into Israel

Bipartisan group pens letter slamming human rights council for its ‘ongoing campaign to disparage, discredit and denounce Israel’

By Jacob Magid

Clockwise from top left: The Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the White House lawn, September 15, 2020; Yasser Arafat confers with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa before an Arab Information Ministers meeting in Cairo, August 15, 2001; Palestinian women view destroyed houses at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, April 28, 2002; The aftermath of the Park Hotel bombing on March 27, 2002. (AP/Alex Brandon, AP/Enric Marti, AP/Greg Baker, Flash90)

February 23, 2022, 4:15 am

3 days in March: How the 2nd Intifada’s bloodiest hours seeded today’s Middle East

In ‘Death Tango,’ ex-Mossad man and strategic analyst Yossi Alpher reflects on consecutive events during Second Intifada that he says doomed the peace process, possibly for good

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Labor MK Emilie Moatti in the Knesset, on February 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 19, 2022, 7:26 pm

Labor MK claims progress in prisoner swap talks with Hamas

Brother of slain IDF soldier held in Gaza says family not updated on ‘review’ cited by Emilie Moatti; defense officials deny Israel nearing agreement with terror group

By Emanuel Fabian

Undated photo of Holocaust survivor Naomi Perlman. (Courtesy Perlman family)

February 6, 2022, 2:23 pm

Holocaust survivor injured by Gaza rocket during last year’s fighting dies at 91

Naomi Perlman was seriously wounded when missile slammed into her Ashkelon home, killing her Indian caregiver; in death, family says, she was ‘released’ from 9 months of suffering

By Stuart Winer

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses a press conference after meeting with his counterparts from Germany, France and Britain at the German Foreign Office in Berlin on January 20, 2022. (Kay Nietfeld/Pool/AFP)

January 28, 2022, 10:54 am

42 bipartisan US lawmakers urge Blinken to work to end UN commission on Israel

Members of Congress express concerns the probe has a mandate ‘in perpetuity’ to investigate any allegations against Israel in the past or in the future

By TOI staff and Jacob Magid

A meeting of the United Nations Security Council is held, on Thursday, September 23, 2021, during the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York. (AP/John Minchillo, Pool)

January 27, 2022, 8:27 am

Israel set on discrediting UN probe that may label it ‘apartheid’ – report

Leaked Foreign Ministry cable says ‘top priority’ for diplomats to debunk commission into last May’s Gaza conflict and wider inquiry into Israel’s treatment of Palestinians

By TOI staff