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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara at a welcoming ceremony for the Brazilian president at Ben Gurion Airport on March 31, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
October 31, 2019, 11:53 pm
PM’s wife during police questioning: Media ‘stepping on me like a cockroach’
Leaked transcripts detail Sara Netanyahu’s defense of her meddling in Walla news site; ex-MK said to testify billionaire Adelson offered to make him ‘king of the world’
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, October 27, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)
October 28, 2019, 12:58 am
‘You are hurting me,’ Netanyahu heard telling publisher in leaked recording
PM expresses concern that Yedioth publisher Arnon Mozes is ‘going for my head’ in second batch of transcripts from secret talks between them that are at heart of corruption probe
By TOI staff
Aaed Kayal, the Joint List's campaign manager, on September 17, 2019. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)
September 18, 2019, 9:55 pm
‘Netanyahu’s incitement boomeranged,’ Joint List campaign manager exults
Aaed Kayal says alliance of Arab-majority factions used PM’s anti-Arab statements against him, driving up turnout
By Adam Rasgon
Publisher and owner of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper Arnon 'Noni' Mozes arrives for questioning at the Lahav 433 investigation unit in Lod on January 15, 2017. (Koko/Flash90)
August 18, 2019, 12:59 pm
Pre-indictment hearing begins for publisher accused of conspiring with Netanyahu
Yedioth Ahronoth’s Arnon Mozes faces bribery charge over alleged deal to improve coverage of PM in exchange for curbing rival newspaper
By TOI staff
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference in Jerusalem on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 24, 2019, 6:47 pm
AG pens column in newspaper whose publisher he is set to indict for bribery
Article by Avichai Mandelblit defending rule of law appears in Yedioth Ahronoth, run by Arnon Mozes, who is facing bribery charge in Case 2000
By TOI staff
Benjamin Netanyahu and Arnon Mozes (Composite image: Flash90)
May 15, 2019, 11:05 pm
In new transcripts, PM and newspaper boss discuss his demand for kinder coverage
Investigation material against Netanyahu said to show Arnon Mozes agreed to pursue negative coverage of political rivals ahead of 2015 elections, sought to limit competing paper
By Michael Bachner
Lihi Lapid is a journalist, photographer and author of several best-selling novels and children's books. (Elinor Milchan)
May 11, 2019, 6:59 pm
Yair Lapid’s wife says she was fired from newspaper due to husband’s career
Lihi Lapid says she was told it would be ‘problematic’ for her to resume her popular Yedioth Ahronoth column, after taking hiatus to help with Blue and White election campaign
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett on November 13, 2017, in the Knesset. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 3, 2019, 10:13 am
Bennett backs PM, but won’t support law to give him immunity from graft charges
New Right party leader vows to recommend Netanyahu as next leader despite planned indictment, pending hearing; says he’s ‘very concerned’ by polls showing right-wing majority gone
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers blindfolding and detaining Palestinians. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)
February 13, 2019, 3:28 pm
Bereaved parents plead for leniency for soldiers accused of beating Palestinians
Father and son detainees accuse servicemen of punching and stamping on them, hitting them with rifle butts while they were bound and blindfolded
By Stuart Winer
Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 17, 2018, 5:54 am
Lapid held regular, secret meetings with major newspaper publisher
Yesh Atid acknowledges that party leader and Yedioth Ahronoth owner Noni Mozes held discussions in private, dismisses notion that practice is out of the ordinary
By TOI staff
Editor-in-Chief of Israeli newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, Ron Yaron, speaks at the opening of a conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March 28, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 20, 2018, 5:52 am
Yedioth Ahronoth editor quits amid probe into Netanyahu quid-pro-quo
Ron Yaron, who wrote in 2017 that he would have left if publisher made him skew coverage in favor of prime minister, calls for ‘soul-searching’
By TOI staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 20, 2017. (AP/Seth Wenig)
August 14, 2018, 5:32 pm
A Palestinian attempt to oust Israel from the UN would be quixotic — and fail
Israeli paper claims PA may bid to boot Israel from world body. Ramallah knows it wouldn’t succeed, but that’s never stopped it from trying such gambits, or Jerusalem from fuming
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Noni Mozes (composite image: Flash90)
May 17, 2018, 10:35 am
Case 2000 said reopened over new evidence; PM to be questioned again
Recordings of PM’s wife and son have reportedly been provided by state witness Nir Hefetz on alleged deal to increase Netanyahu’s control over media
By Michael Bachner
Noah Klieger. (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 12, 2018, 3:50 am
World’s ‘oldest living journalist’ tells how he boxed his way through Auschwitz
92-year-old Noah Klieger survived the Holocaust by narrowly avoiding the gas chambers, then faking his way onto the Nazi camp’s boxing squad
By JTA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a persimmon as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 25, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)
February 27, 2018, 6:07 pm
The weakening of Israeli democracy
Colleagues marvel at PM’s ‘luck’ in facing down graft claims. In fact, he and his allies are targeting key hierarchies, some of which are complicit in their own falling credibility
By David Horovitz
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