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Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar attends a Likud faction meeting at the opening of the 22nd Knesset in Jerusalem, on October 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 8, 2019, 10:17 am
Gideon Sa’ar emerges as first Likud challenger to PM in over decade of rule
The former minister’s announcement this week that he was ‘ready’ for leadership primaries has positioned him as the party’s leading candidate to replace the struggling PM
By Aron Heller
Mahatma Gandhi (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
September 24, 2019, 7:44 pm
Gandhi wished Jews ‘era of peace’ on day WWII began, newly released letter shows
National Library of Israel publishes handwritten September 1, 1939 message to local Jewish leader
By Aron Heller
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past an electoral billboard bearing a portrait of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
September 21, 2019, 2:16 pm
Deadlocked election highlights Israel’s secular-religious divide
As secular voters complain of ‘overboard’ religious coercion, it appears Netanyahu’s iron-clad alliance with ultra-Orthodox parties has cost him politically
By Aron Heller
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, greets students as they wave Israeli flags during a ceremony opening the school year in the settlement of Elkana in the West Bank Sunday, Sep. 1, 2019. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)
September 2, 2019, 4:08 am
Netanyahu infuses campaign with anti-media incitement
As PM battles for political and personal survival, he lashes out at local TV station as taking part in a ‘terror attack against democracy’ and slandering Israel
By Aron Heller
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on June 30, 2019. (Oded Balilty/Pool/AFP)
July 17, 2019, 4:40 pm
Netanyahu, paradigm shifter of Israeli politics, set to break another record
Poised to become country’s longest serving PM at week’s end, leader is described by both fans and critics as a master maneuverer who has shattered several conventional wisdoms
By Aron Heller
In this July 7, 2019, photo, Russian Jewish songwriter Psoy Korolenko, left, and Canadian historian Anna Shternshis perform a song from "Yiddish Glory," a Grammy-nominated project that brings to life the lost songs of World War II, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
July 9, 2019, 2:23 pm
Long-lost Holocaust-era Soviet songs in Yiddish brought to life in Israel
Grammy-nominated project reaches Tel Aviv, revives songs describing hardships of Jews being persecuted during World War II
By Aron Heller
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, speaks after receiving Genesis Prize in Jerusalem, Thursday, June 20, 2019. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
June 21, 2019, 3:37 am
Patriots owner Kraft pledges $20 million to battle anti-Semitism, BDS
NFL team owner and philanthropist accepts Genesis Prize in Jerusalem, laments ‘disconcerting times’ for Israel in announcing new initiative
By Aron Heller
Neil Patrick Harris looks on during an interview with the Associated Press in Tel Aviv on June 12, 2019 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
June 13, 2019, 1:49 am
In town for Tel Aviv Pride, Neil Patrick Harris says he’s no gay icon
TV star, who is this year’s official envoy to city’s parade, describes himself as ‘just a guy who is married to another guy and we have kids’
By Aron Heller
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a highway during a protest against the detention of a member of their community who refused to serve in the military service, in Bnei Brak, Israel, March 12, 2018. (AP/Oded Balilty, File)
June 4, 2019, 1:55 pm
Israel’s new election highlights tense ties to ultra-Orthodox
Legislation on religion and state prevented the formation of a coalition, likely making the status quo a key issue in the coming vote
By Aron Heller
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 3, 2019, 9:34 pm
Israel’s ‘do-over’ election brings new threats to Netanyahu
PM faces challenges from right and left; would still be presented with tough task of cobbling together a coalition should Likud gain most seats in September
By Aron Heller
In this photo from April 23, 2019, Israeli Holocaust survivors Rachel Zeiger 91, center, and her brother Moshe Akerman 84, left, speak with Orit Noiman, head of Yad Vashem's collection and registration center, at their home in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Gan. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
May 1, 2019, 5:29 pm
With fewer survivors, focus turns to preserving Holocaust artifacts
On eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem lays cornerstone of new center for storing testimonies, objects from Shoah
By Aron Heller
A library official shows celebrated author Franz Kafka’s Hebrew vocabulary notebook at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem, October 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
April 17, 2019, 11:15 am
Long-hidden Kafka trove within reach after series of trials
Zurich court upholds Israeli ruling that several safe deposit boxes in the Swiss city can be opened and their contents shipped to Israel’s National Library
By Aron Heller
Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin attends a party conference in Tel Aviv on February 28, 2017. (Flash90)
March 19, 2019, 1:42 am
Upstart legal cannabis party seen as out of sync with other liberal values
Ultra-nationalist libertarian Moshe Feiglin has a realistic chance of leading his Zehut into the Knesset, but some warn that beyond the smokescreen lies some fringe ideology
By Aron Heller
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with Joist (Arab) List MK Ahmad Tibi during a Knesset plenum session on June 29, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 9, 2019, 9:46 am
Bibi or Tibi: Facing hard reelection bid, Netanyahu campaign zones in on Arab MK
PM ramps up claims that his political rivals will team up with Arab lawmakers to force him from office; would likely walk back rhetoric after election day, as in 2015
By Aron Heller
A man who identified himself as Michel Lambert but whose real name is Aharon Almog Assoulin and was linked in investigations by Channel 12's Uvda program and AP with an alleged undercover operation targeting critics of the Israeli tech firm NSO Group, seen in a screen capture from AP video footage. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick)
February 28, 2019, 4:46 am
Court filing links exposed spy to Israel’s Black Cube
Canadian attorney says he appears to have been targeted by a recently unmasked undercover operative, drawing line between the man and the private intelligence firm
By Raphael Satter and Aron Heller
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