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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Pence visit to Israel

Female reporters covering Mike Pence’s visit to the Western Wall on January 23, 2018. Tal Schneider is at left. (Michael Lipin/Twitter, via JTA)
January 29, 2018, 8:28 pm
Western Wall rabbi apologizes for gender segregation during Pence visit
Shmuel Rabinovitch invites editor of Globes newspaper to visit Jerusalem holy site, after reporter said she’d sue over separate area for female journalists
By JTA
US Vice President Mike Pence, 2nd left, and his wife Karen, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 2nd right, and his wife Sara during a ceremony at the remembrance hall at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Yad Vashem)
January 29, 2018, 5:04 pm
Pence tweet for Holocaust remembrance day raises hackles with ‘Christ imagery’
US VP accused of dishonoring victims after he called them ‘martyrs’ who ‘rose up from the ashes to resurrect themselves’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Lesley Sachs
January 25, 2018, 12:21 pm
Lesley Sachs
Perpetual #PenceFence
For Women of the Wall, the discrimination against female journalists at the Kotel plaza was just more of the same
US Vice President Mike Pence, 2nd left, and his wife Karen, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 2nd right, and his wife Sara during a ceremony at the remembrance hall at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Yad Vashem)
January 25, 2018, 8:10 am
Foreign ministry official chided for comments on ‘First Lady’ Sara Netanyahu
Chief of Protocol Meron Reuben tells a reporter that Prime Minister’s Office apparently invented the term, which doesn’t officially exist in Israel
By Stuart Winer
Yoseif Bloch
January 24, 2018, 3:15 pm
Yoseif Bloch
How VP Mike Pence reinvents leadership
Those who represent unshakable morality have recast Donald Trump, and everyone should be shocked by that
Sherwin Pomerantz
January 24, 2018, 2:59 pm
Sherwin Pomerantz
Democracy in action at the Knesset
I was there for US Vice President Pence’s speech, and I am proud of how he was received
Female reporters covering Mike Pence’s visit to the Western Wall on January 23, 2018. Tal Schneider is at left. (Michael Lipin/Twitter, via JTA)
January 24, 2018, 1:49 pm
Reporter to sue over gender segregation during Pence’s Western Wall visit
Tal Schneider says female journalists being ‘sent to the back’ during US VP’s tour of holy site resembled ‘scenes from way back in history’
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
US Vice President Mike Pence (left) is welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 22, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90
January 24, 2018, 5:18 am
Mike Pence’s faith drives his support for Israel. Does it drive Mideast policy?
Vice president has spooked some liberals by rooting his pro-Israel bona fides in his evangelical Christian faith as much as realpolitik considerations of US national security
By Ron Kampeas
Female reporters covering Mike Pence’s visit to the Western Wall on January 23, 2018. Tal Schneider is at left. (Michael Lipin/Twitter, via JTA)
January 23, 2018, 9:25 pm
Female journalists protest being ‘penned in’ during Pence Western Wall visit
Podium erected for media outlets covering visit included barrier between sexes, with female reporters forced to stand behind it
By AFP and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump (L) is welcomed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
January 23, 2018, 4:56 pm
White House says no contact with Palestinians since Jerusalem recognition
Trump administration official says US aiming to present its peace plan this year, but both sides must be open to talks
By ToI Staff
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh delivering a speech in Gaza City, on January 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
January 23, 2018, 4:13 pm
Hamas chief accuses US of preferring ‘Zionist entity’ over Arabs
Ismail Haniyeh calls Pence’s Israel trip ‘unwelcome,’ says Jerusalem move and UNRWA cuts target ‘the principles of the Palestinian cause’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US Vice President Mike Pence addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 22, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Ariel Schalit)
January 23, 2018, 3:55 pm
Second to Trump, but president of the pro-Israel fan club
Pundits marvel that Mike Pence’s speech made him more pro-Israel than pretty much any Israeli
By Joshua Davidovich
US Vice President Mike Pence visits Jerusalem's Western Wall on January 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)
January 23, 2018, 3:21 pm
Pence visits Western Wall, says it’s a ‘great honor’
US VP says Psalm at holy site, writes ‘God bless the State of Israel’ in guestbook; female journalists kept in separate area
By ToI Staff
Lawmakers from the Joint (Arab) List hold signs reading "Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine," at the start of US Vice President Mike Pence's speech before the Knesset, on January 22, 2018. (Courtesy: Joint List)
January 23, 2018, 9:27 am
Minister calls Arab MKs ‘traitors’ for interrupting Pence’s speech
Meretz lawmaker Issawi Frej asks AG to check whether Ze’ev Elkin’s statement against Joint List members constitutes incitement
By Michael Bachner
Lawmakers from the Joint (Arab) List hold signs reading "Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine," at the start of US Vice President Mike Pence's speech before the Knesset, on January 22, 2018. (Courtesy: Joint List)
January 22, 2018, 11:46 pm
Hamas praises Arab Israeli MKs for ‘Jerusalem is Palestine’ anti-Pence protest
Jewish lawmakers brand Joint List MKs disloyal to Israel, and one calls to suspend paying the salaries of ‘unruly’ legislators
By ToI Staff
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