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News editor Ben Sales appears on the Daily Briefing with host Jessica Steinberg on August 13, 2026 (Flash 90)
August 13, 2026, 12:27 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 13: As election nears, can voters see extremism in their own camps?
News editor Ben Sales reviews Israelis’ concerns about political violence; he also marks 25 years since the Sbarro bombing and reports on the latest in the US political primaries
By Jessica Steinberg and Ben Sales
Police and medics surround the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, Thursday, August 9, 2001. Fifteen people were killed, and 130 injured. A sixteenth victim died in 2023. (AP/Peter Dejong)
August 9, 2026, 11:17 am
25 years ago, the Sbarro bombing opened a wound in Israel that still hasn’t healed
Suicide attack at Jerusalem pizzeria killed 16, including 8 children; a quarter of a century later, a family reckons with its ongoing fight for justice — and a new wave of grief after October 7
By Ben Sales
650 5th Avenue is reflected on November 13, 2009, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
March 25, 2026, 6:49 am
After decades, terror victims to receive proceeds from sale of Iran-linked NYC skyscraper
Office tower in Manhattan to be sold as part of $318M settlement, with families of those killed in 2001 Sbarro bombing in Jerusalem among those to be compensated
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee meets with Frimet and Arnold Roth at the US Embassy in Jerusalem on May 13, 2025. (Courtesy)
June 4, 2025, 3:27 pm
Parents of Sbarro bombing victim urge US to demand Hamas terrorist’s extradition
Ahlam Tamimi, who played central role in 2001 Jerusalem attack that killed 16 and injured 130, has lived freely in Jordan since her 2011 release
By Nava Freiberg
Ahlam al-Tamimi, during an interview in her home in Amman, Jordan, on March 21, 2017. (AP Photo/ Omar Akour)
February 3, 2025, 2:05 am
Jordan reportedly warns it could extradite Sbarro bombing mastermind to US for trial
In reversal, Amman said to give Hamas one day to find Ahlam Tamimi another home or it will send her stateside, where she is wanted over 2001 Jerusalem attack that killed 16, including 2 Americans
By ToI Staff
Police and medics surround the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, August 9, 2001. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File; Channel 12 screenshot -- used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
June 1, 2023, 2:24 am
Mother critically injured in 2001 Sbarro Palestinian terror attack dies of her wounds
New York-born Chana Nachenberg, 52, had been in vegetative state since suicide bombing at pizzeria in Jerusalem 22 years ago; becomes 16th fatality of attack
By ToI Staff
Ahlam Tamimi recalls her pleasure at early reports of the death toll in the Sbarro bombing (MEMRI screenshot)
March 12, 2021, 6:42 pm
Interpol said to drop warrant for Sbarro pizzeria bomber Ahlam Tamimi
Husband of Tamimi, who was convicted of orchestrating 2001 suicide bombing that left 15 dead but later released in prisoner swap, says her name has been removed from wanted list
By ToI Staff
Arnold Roth attending a meeting of the House Oversight Committee of the US Congress in Washington in 2016. (Courtesy)
From the WebOctober 22, 2020, 3:14 pm
Malki Roth’s father slams BBC for giving Sbarro terrorist a platform
Arnold Roth tells UK Jewish News that the ‘BBC lost its moral compass’ in allowing Ahlam Tamimi onto its Arabic TV service, calls broadcaster’s apology ’empty, cruel and pointless’
Ahlam and Nizar Tamimi at their wedding in Amman (Screenshot)
October 13, 2020, 10:05 pm
Jordan deports Sbarro bomber’s husband, also a convicted terrorist, to Qatar
Nizar Tamimi expelled without explanation by authorities; terror victims’ advocates have long sought his wife’s extradition to US over deadly 2001 attack at Jerusalem pizzeria
By Aaron Boxerman
Ahlam Tamimi recalls her pleasure at early reports of the death toll in the Sbarro bombing (MEMRI screenshot)
July 14, 2020, 8:22 pm
18 Jewish groups urge US to push Jordan to extradite gloating Sbarro terrorist
Ahlam Tamimi, who orchestrated 2001 Jerusalem bombing in which 15 people were killed, has been charged in US with conspiring to use weapon of mass destruction against US nationals
By David Horovitz and AP
Brian McEnroe, the father of fallen US Green Beret Kevin McEnroe, displays a memorial dog tag depicting his fallen son, in Amman, Jordan, June 17, 2017. (Sam McNeil/AP)
July 1, 2020, 10:21 pm
Joining Israeli terror victims, families of slain US troops seek Jordan aid cuts
Relatives of 3 special forces urge Congress to penalize kingdom unless Jordanian gunman, and woman who organized bombing of Jerusalem pizzeria in 2001, are extradited to US
By Matthew Lee
Ahlam Tamimi reacts when told that eight children were killed in the 2001 Sbarro bombing she orchestrated (Screenshot)
June 16, 2020, 9:44 am
US mulls withholding aid to Jordan to force extradition of Palestinian terrorist
Family of Malki Roth, Israeli-US girl killed in 2001 Sbarro bombing, hails ‘encouraging’ news as Trump administration vows to ‘explore all options’ to bring Ahlam Tamimi to justice
By AP and David Horovitz
Malki Roth (Courtesy of the Roth family)
May 5, 2020, 1:39 pm
Failed by Israel, Malki Roth’s parents hope US can extradite her gloating killer
Ahlam Tamimi, who oversaw the 2001 Sbarro bombing that killed Malki and 14 others, was freed in Shalit deal and became a celebrity in Jordan. Now the US just might be on her case
By David Horovitz
Israeli soldiers checking for explosives at Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem after a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed 15 people, August 9, 2001. (Courtney Kealy/Getty Images/JTA)
December 31, 2019, 11:10 am
Israeli terror victims sue Arab Bank for NIS 20 billion for financing attacks
In first case filed in Israel, 1,132 plaintiffs claim Jordan-based bank played an active role in funding and encouraging terrorism that killed hundreds in 1995-2005
By Stuart Winer
Our daughter, Malki Roth, with her friends, in a photograph found in a disposable camera, after Malki was killed by the bomb set by Ahlam Tamimi at the Sbarro's pizzeria in Jerusalem, on August 9, 2001. (courtesy)
November 21, 2019, 7:13 am
A tribute unfit for a king who harbors our child’s killer
OP-ED: Jordan’s monarch won’t extradite the woman behind the horrific Sbarro massacre. Why is he getting the royal treatment at a New York gala?
By Frimet Roth and Arnold Roth
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