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Col. Avi Bluth, chief of the elite commando brigade. (IDF spokesman's office)

June 17, 2018, 11:54 am

Investigation into papers stolen from car of officer in line for PM attache job

Security forces said checking classification level of documents stolen while Col. Avi Bluth toured West Bank

By TOI staff

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid leads his weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, June 4, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

June 6, 2018, 5:53 pm

With cries of ‘fake news,’ Lapid takes panicky page from Netanyahu’s playbook

Something – perhaps his party's sliding poll numbers – is bothering the Yesh Atid chairman, and he's decided to go on the offensive

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend the opening ceremony of the inauguration of the new emergency ward at the Barzilay hospital, in Ashkelon, Israel on February 20, 2018. (Flash90)

June 1, 2018, 10:20 pm

Sara Netanyahu was ‘forcibly’ removed from angry meeting with PMO director

TV news claims to corroborates report PM's wife became violently angry, lunged at Eli Groner during row over renovations at Caesarea home

By TOI staff and Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with outgoing Mossad chief Tamir Pardo during a farewell ceremony in Tel Aviv on January 5, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

June 1, 2018, 10:45 am

Restraining orders: 7 things to know for June 1

In 2011 and last week, Israel came closer to war than many realize, halted only by a Mossad chief, a hard-line but realist minister and some dumb luck

By Joshua Davidovich

A soldier in the Nativ conversion program visiting a kindergarten in the settlement of Efrat to learn about the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah on November 7, 2013. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

June 1, 2018, 12:56 am

Last-ditch deal saves army conversion program from closing

After Nativ track was set to close and leave 2,500 soldiers converting to Judaism in limbo, PM and education minister agree on NIS 20 million funding through end of year

By TOI staff

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on January 22, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 31, 2018, 10:15 pm

Sara Netanyahu slams ‘media lies’ after claims she tried to attack PMO director

Haaretz reports prime minister's wife lunged at Eli Groner during argument over renovations at Caesarea home; Groner denies incident occurred

By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), along with the IDF's then-chief education officer Brig. Gen. Eli Schermeister (right), and several participants in the army's Nativ conversion course on December 15, 2010. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO, File/Courtesy)

May 31, 2018, 2:45 pm

Army conversion track to close Friday over budget shortfall

Some 2,500 students converting to Judaism, many of them IDF soldiers, will be left in limbo as Nativ track set to end activities

By Marissa Newman

Eli Groner, director-general of the Prime Minister's Office, arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the PMO in Jerusalem on September 3, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/ Pool/ Flash90)

May 28, 2018, 11:35 pm

Top Netanyahu aide Eli Groner stepping down

Netanyahu thanks PMO head for his 'dedicated work in advancing issues of great importance in the fields of economics and society'

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara during a ceremony of awards for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 70th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, April 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 24, 2018, 11:50 pm

Netanyahu denies seeking armored car for his wife

PM slams media reports as 'fake news,' and 'total lie,' says the couple do not deal with security or bulletproofing matters

By AFP

May 3, 2018, 11:11 pm

Sara Netanyahu said to prefer jail over admitting guilt, paying fine

PM's wife reportedly angered by lawyer's suggestion she pay NIS 200,000 and confess to misappropriating public funds

By TOI staff

May 3, 2018, 9:36 am

Sara Netanyahu’s lawyers said seeking last-ditch deal to avoid indictment

Attorney general was reportedly told the prime minister's wife would reimburse state if fraud investigation on misuse of public funds was closed without charges

By TOI staff

Illustrative image of a prisoner behind bars. (sakhorn38/iStock via Getty images)

April 23, 2018, 12:53 pm

Ex-official in PM’s office said jailed under false name for sex offenses

Convict reportedly served in a 'sensitive' position; case said to be 'extreme and unusual, and revealing details could endanger his life

By TOI staff

The ruins of the Kibbutz Ein Gedi beach on January 3, 2017. Sinkholes forced the closure of the beach in 2015. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

April 15, 2018, 6:50 pm

Israel to pump nearly $120m into Dead Sea communities facing sinkholes

Grant, to be paid over four years, will be earmarked for tourism, transport, agriculture and research. 'No short- or medium-term engineering solutions,' says PMO

By Sue Surkes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waiting for government ministers to join him before a special cabinet meeting for Jerusalem day in Jerusalem, June 2, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

March 28, 2018, 1:18 am

Brief hospitalization shows risk Netanyahu takes by not designating a deputy

With no clear replacement 'just a heartbeat away,' bitter political battle might ensue among would-be Likud successors were disaster to strike

By Raoul Wootliff

Protestors demonstrate outside the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on February 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 27, 2018, 10:13 pm

Church of Holy Sepulchre to reopen after city suspends church tax collections

Christian leaders hail ‘constructive intervention’ by prime minister; reports say Israel faced heavy pressure from the Vatican, Russia, Greece, and Evangelical Christian groups

By TOI staff