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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 647

Ron Huldai

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Tel Aviv, June 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 22, 2025, 2:16 pm
86 wounded by Iranian missile attacks on Israel after US strikes 3 Iran nuclear sites
Broad devastation at impact sites in Tel Aviv and nearby Ness Ziona; failed interceptor crashes in Haifa; IDF destroys primed Iranian launchers, foiling larger attack
By Emanuel Fabian, Diana Bletter and Naomi Lanzkron
Illustrative: A US ninth grader places her cellphone in to a phone holder as she enters class at Delta High School, February 23, 2024, in Delta, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
March 7, 2025, 1:22 am
Tel Aviv schools to ban smartphones starting in September
‘We won’t let technology control us,’ vows longtime Mayor Ron Huldai, saying schools must ‘allow children to have simple moments with each other’
By AFP
Participants in the 2025 Tel Aviv Marathon (Tel Aviv Marathon, Sport photography)
February 28, 2025, 11:43 pm
45,000 compete in Tel Aviv Marathon with symbolic yellow balloons
Felix Kimutai wins race as Kenya dominates podium; mayors says this year’s event held ‘with heavy hearts’ but also ‘looking ahead — to the triumph of the Israeli spirit’
By ToI Staff
Orthodox Jews pray on the Tisha B'Av day of mourning, in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 12, 2024, 6:23 pm
Sidelined by war, fight over gender-segregated prayer in Tel Aviv resumes in court
Residents file petition alleging discrimination in city’s refusal to permit Yom Kippur service, citing Muslim public events where municipal barriers separated male, female worshipers
By Canaan Lidor
Heavy traffic in Tel Aviv, January 23, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 3, 2024, 10:54 am
Tel Aviv to fine hurry-up honking
With mayor hoping to stamp out ‘bad habit’ at traffic lights, city seeks to penalize drivers NIS 475 if they toot for any reason other than to avoid danger
By Stuart Winer
People participate in the 25th annual Tel Aviv Pride Parade on June 8, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 8, 2024, 7:04 pm
Tel Aviv cancels annual Pride Parade out of respect for hostage situation
Mayor says city and LGBTQ groups will instead rally for ‘pride, hope and liberty’; Jerusalem Open House announces May 30 march still on as part of struggle for captives’ return
By ToI Staff
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion speaks to the media after winning a second term in office, Jerusalem, early on February 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 28, 2024, 10:58 am
Jerusalem’s Moshe Lion, Tel Aviv’s Ron Huldai cruise to victory in mayoral races
As election results roll in, Holon’s veteran mayor loses seat after 30 years while Beit Shemesh and Haifa will go to run-off races after no winners emerge
By ToI Staff
Transportation Minister Miri Regev speaks to the media after a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv, January 31, 2024 (Flash90)
January 31, 2024, 3:23 pm
Judge asks Tel Aviv’s mayor to drop ‘time wasting’ libel lawsuit over public prayer
Ron Huldai is suing Transportation Minister Regev for saying he prevented people from putting on tefillin in the street
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: Students take their mathematics matriculation examination in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 29, 2023, 1:10 pm
Limited in-person classes held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, as ministry tightens rules
Education Ministry revisits earlier decision that schools in much of the country would continue as normal, instead saying only those with adequate staff, shelters can open doors
By Gavriel Fiske
Israel Zeira, head of Rosh Yehudi, an Orthodox group, speaks with police officers during protests after the group set up a gender divider for a Yom Kippur public prayer event at Dizengoff Square, in Tel Aviv, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
September 29, 2023, 4:56 pm
Judge rejects Orthodox group’s petition over canceled permits for its Sukkot events
Tel Aviv District Court judge urges Rosh Yehudi, municipality to come to agreement on planned gatherings in city, after Yom Kippur altercations; jurist cites ‘reasonableness law’
By ToI Staff
Activists from the Rosh Yehudi organization set up a divider made of Israeli flags ahead of a public prayer event in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur eve, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)
September 28, 2023, 9:38 pm
Tel Aviv yanks religious group’s permits for Sukkot events after Yom Kippur fracas
Municipality casts Rosh Yehudi’s use of physical gender barriers as ‘severe’ violation of permit conditions, says now-nixed plans could have caused another public disturbance
By Michael Horovitz
Secular activists take down a gender divider made of Israeli flags that was set up by the Rosh Yehudi group at a public prayer service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 25, 2023, 11:18 pm
PM slams ‘left-wingers rioting against Jews’; Lapid: Messianists brought religious war
Netanyahu condemns extremist hatred at Tel Aviv prayers; Lapid raps him for backing ultra-nationalists who defied public gender-separation ban; Ben Gvir: I’ll pray there Thursday
By ToI Staff
A statue depicting Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion that was set on fire on the beach in Tel Aviv, September 16, 2023 (Flash90)
September 21, 2023, 9:33 pm
Court orders release of suspect in torching of Ben Gurion statue to house arrest
Tel Aviv judge gives police 24 hours to appeal, criticizes their handling of probe into incident, says they were influenced by media attention
By ToI Staff
A bird's-eye view of about 2,000 worshipers as they attend the Yom Kippur Ne'ilah prayer in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on October 5, 2022. (Courtesy of Rosh Yehudi)
September 21, 2023, 3:17 pm
Annual Yom Kippur mass prayer tests the limits of Tel Aviv’s vaunted liberalism
City has prohibited the placing of a divider between men and women at popular street event that draws 2,000 Orthodox and secular participants; as things stand, it won’t go ahead
By Canaan Lidor
A statue depicting Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion that was set on fire on the beach in Tel Aviv, September 16, 2023 (Flash90)
September 16, 2023, 11:57 am
Iconic Ben-Gurion headstand statue on Tel Aviv beach badly burned in attack
Homeless man arrested; security increased at first PM’s home, which laments ‘increasing vitriol’ toward Israel’s founders days after gov’t lawyer rapped Declaration of Independence
By ToI Staff
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