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Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz. (Yonatan Sindel, David Cohen/Flash90)
September 19, 2023, 4:02 pm
‘Leadership failure’: Gantz rebukes Netanyahu for planning to skip Rabin memorial
Opposition MK says PM must ‘do the right thing’ and honor assassinated leader’s memory at Mount Herzl even if protests are likely; Labor head: ‘Ceremony more dignified without him’
By Michael Bachner
File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a memorial service marking 23 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on October 21, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
September 19, 2023, 12:24 am
In first for sitting PM, Netanyahu expected to skip Rabin memorial at Mount Herzl
Unnamed sources close to premier call ceremony increasingly ‘political’; event has become battlefield between Netanyahu and Rabin family
By Michael Bachner
Photojournalist Debbie Hill (top) and artist Yael Robin, partners in life (Courtesy Debbie Hill)
March 18, 2023, 1:55 pm
Artist-teacher reflects on life and work from seat of wheelchair
Known for collages and installations that juxtapose her subjects with unexpected backgrounds, Yael Robin, who has Parkinson’s disease, is exhibiting works at the Israel Museum
By Jessica Steinberg
Labor party leader Merav Michaeli speaks at a memorial rally for former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at Zion Square in Jerusalem, October 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 30, 2022, 4:35 am
At Rabin rally in Jerusalem, Labor chief rips Netanyahu, Ben Gvir over 1995 protest
In pre-election event at capital’s Zion Square, Merav Michaeli blames rivals for ‘organized and planned’ incitement that led to former PM’s murder 27 years ago
By ToI Staff
Israeli teens light candles at a vigil at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on April 28, 2018, in memory of the 10 victims killed in a flash flood while hiking in the Judean Desert. (Screen capture/YouTube)
April 28, 2018, 10:57 pm
Thousands gather at Tel Aviv candlelight vigil for victims of flash flood
Similar memorials held at Jerusalem’s Zion Square and in central town of Mazkeret Batya, where one of the casualties, Tzur Alfi, lived
By ToI Staff
A view of a 2015 Sacred Music Festival event at the Tower of David Museum (Courtesy Noam Shognovsky)
August 25, 2016, 5:54 pm
At fall festival, Jerusalem is keeping the faith
Capital’s Season of Culture kicks off on September 4 with a series of ‘sacred’ events — from joint prayer sessions to singing circles and concerts
By Jessica Steinberg
Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold standing on Zion Square in Jerusalem, where he witnessed a deadly terror attack in 1975 (screen grab YouTube)
July 20, 2016, 4:31 pm
Dore Gold: The way it is now, peace talks won’t go very far
Foreign Ministry chief recalls witnessing 1975 terror attack in Jerusalem, whose perpetrator was recently honored by the PA
By Raphael Ahren
Israelis take part at a vigil in remembrance of Shira Banki at Zion Square in Jerusalem on August 2, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 15, 2016, 7:12 pm
Zion Square to be memorial for teen slain in gay pride attack
Jerusalem’s historic city center to host place of tolerance in memory of Shira Banki, killed by Yishai Shlissel at 2015 parade
By Jessica Steinberg
Thousands of Israelis attend an anti-violence and anti-homophobia rally in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 2, 2015, 11:34 am
Orthodox protesters said barred from Jerusalem anti-violence rally
Religious onlookers claim discrimination after cops block them from site; police deny allegations
By Marissa Newman
Naftali Bennett, July 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 2, 2015, 5:15 am
Bennett: Don’t use Jewish terrorists to tarnish settlers
Minister warns that while all Israelis must reject violence, those who try to blacken his camp ‘will find me in their path’
By Itamar Sharon and ToI Staff
Demonstrators hold up hands painted in red to signify blood while protesting an address by Likud minister Yuval Steinitz at an anti-violence and anti-homophobia rally in Tel Aviv, on August 01, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 2, 2015, 12:07 am
Likud minister heckled at anti-violence rally in Tel Aviv
Yuval Steinitz loudly booed as he addresses crowd, while some protesters hold up ‘blood-soaked’ hands
By ToI Staff
President Reuven RIvlin speaks at an anti-violence and anti-homophobia ralliy attended by thousands in Jerusalem on August 1, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 1, 2015, 10:25 pm
Rivlin: Flames of hatred are spreading, consuming Israel
President urges society to face extremists head on; thousands attend rallies against violence in wake of West Bank firebombing, Pride Parade stabbing
By ToI Staff
Thousands of Israelis attend an anti-violence and anti-homophobia ralliy in Jerusalem, on August 01, 2015 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/FLASh90)
August 1, 2015, 6:52 pm
Thousands attend anti-violence protests across Israel
Speaking in Tel Aviv, uncle of slain toddler asks: ‘What did Ali do?’; Herzog calls Duma terror attack a ‘Jewish pogrom’; rallies too in Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba
By ToI Staff
Israeli police at the scene of where the body of an Arab youth was found in the Jerusalem Forest early Wednesday, July 2, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
July 2, 2014, 6:55 am
Arab teen killed in capital; revenge attack suspected
Police call for restraint as they examine possibility of link between burnt body in Jerusalem Forest and youth snatched overnight
By Ilan Ben Zion and Lazar Berman
Far right protesters blocking a major Jerusalem intersection July 1. (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
July 1, 2014, 9:15 pm
Dozens arrested in far-right demonstration in Jerusalem
Protesters chant racist slogans and clash with police; at least two try to attack nearby Arabs
By Lazar Berman
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