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Outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unfold huge signs that read, "Only Netanyahu will protect Jerusalem," on Sunday (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 21, 2013, 4:37 am
Netanyahu may ditch the ultra-Orthodox after vote
PM plans to enact a universal service law and take the Housing Ministry from Shas, so will he pivot toward Livni and Lapid?
By AMY TEIBEL
A polling station in the 2009 national elections (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 15, 2012, 10:54 pm
Israeli election downplays Palestinian issue
Does the fact that Netanyahu’s divided challengers tap middle class economic angst instead of talking politics mean Israelis think the gaps with their neighbors are unbridgeable?
By AMY TEIBEL
An Israeli helicopter flies above armored vehicles during an army exercise at the Shizafon Army Base in southern Israel. (photo credit: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP)
September 16, 2012, 7:33 pm
Israeli military moves major operations to south
$650 million construction project is the military’s biggest in three decades
By AMY TEIBEL
Illustrative. Army trucks carry Egyptian military tanks in el-Arish, in the northern Sinai Peninsula, August 2012 (AP)
August 10, 2012, 5:55 am
Sinai buildup shifts tenet of Egypt-Israel peace
Ad hoc troop increases will not do much — but Muslim Brotherhood is loath to negotiate directly with Israel
By AMY TEIBEL and Hamza Hendawi
Aide Charlie Pearce examines an Israeli flag on the charter plane of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney before he boards at London Stansted Airport, Saturday. (photo credit: AP)
July 28, 2012, 9:33 pm
Warm welcome expected as Romney touches down in Tel Aviv
Republican candidate to meet with Netanyahu, Barak, Lieberman and Peres
By AMY TEIBEL
Illustrative Members of the Hilltop Youth try to rebuild a structure demolished earlier by Israeli troops in the West Bank outpost of Maoz Esther, a hilltop site northeast of Ramallah, in May 2009. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)
July 10, 2012, 2:23 am
Settler population surges 18% under Netanyahu
Growth is primarily due to high birth rates — and it is shifting from large settlement blocs to smaller, ideological communities
By AMY TEIBEL
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking at the economic forum in St. Petersburg, Russia on June 21, 2012. (photo credit: Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service, AP /RIA-Novosti,)
June 22, 2012, 3:57 am
Putin visit to Israel next week could be vital in bid to thwart Iran via sanctions
Russian president may be signaling to Tehran that it needs to compromise in order to retain his support
By AMY TEIBEL
Netanyahu walks a frayed tightrope. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 28, 2012, 12:38 am
Netanyahu’s balancing act
The fast-approaching Ulpana deadline deepens government fractures; if the buildings come down, will the coalition stay up?
By AMY TEIBEL
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