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Avner Hofstein

Avner Hofstein

Chief investigative reporter for Zman Israel, The Times of Israel's sister Hebrew website
Activists clash with police during a protest against the war in Gaza, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, May 30, 2024. (Flash90)
June 22, 2026, 4:54 pm
State exploited October 7 to silence Arab citizens systematically, report says
Left-wing Zulat Institute argues police used the war to suppress free expression unlawfully via false arrests, protest bans, and the persecution of academics
By Avner Hofstein
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir tours the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during Jerusalem Day celebrations on May 14, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 31, 2026, 5:31 pm
Report submitted to AG warns Ben Gvir may use police to meddle in upcoming election
Zulat Institute urges Baharav-Miara to issue guidelines limiting national security minister’s ability to intervene in police operations, warning of potential harm to integrity, freedom and fairness of campaign
By Avner Hofstein
Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy films a TikTok clip, November 2023. (Avner Hofstein / Zman Yisrael)
December 20, 2023, 8:29 am
Israel’s newest, British-born international spokesperson is raising some eyebrows
Between his mic drop moments and fiery rebuttals of skeptical interviewers, Eylon Levy is learning to master TikTok and confronting Hamas supporters on social media
By Avner Hofstein
Illustrative: The Nahariya cemetery in 2019 (iStock)
January 25, 2023, 9:58 pm
Burial worker circumcises body in northern Israel without family’s consent
Colleague claims manager told religious volunteer to perform ritual ‘without thinking twice’; head of burial society denies incident occurred
By Avner Hofstein
Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, 1897. (CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons)
August 29, 2022, 11:14 am
WZO marks 125th anniversary of 1st Zionist Congress with lavish, costly Swiss affair
Organization says its confab in Basel is meant to send a message to ‘millions of Jews’ about Zionism, but they can’t even watch most of the invite-only event online
By Avner Hofstein and Judah Ari Gross
Liat Ben-Ari, prosecutor in the corruption trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in the trial, April 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
April 11, 2021, 1:52 pm
Man probed over death threats to lead prosecutor in Netanyahu trial
Suspect identified using DNA samples from August 2020 letter to Liat Ben-Ari saying her life will be made so miserable she’ll die by suicide; he denies charge
By Avner Hofstein
Illustrative: KKL-JNF workers and volunteers in the Masrik Forest in northern Israel, October 25, 2018. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)
March 16, 2021, 8:23 pm
Citing discrimination, court orders KKL-JNF to rehire fired Palestinian workers
10 employees will be reinstated and compensated after ruling, which says organization signed agreements that effectively discriminated against workers from Palestinian areas
By ToI Staff and Avner Hofstein
Jacob Bardugo sticks his tongue out in jest toward photographers while awaiting a court hearing in his libel case brought by former Netanyahu spokesman Nir Hefetz, on May 25, 2020 (Reuven Kastro, courtesy of Walla)
February 28, 2021, 9:34 am
Vitriolic Bardugo turns Army Radio into Netanyahu weapon against the rule of law
The prime minister’s mouthpiece unloads scorn and conspiracy theories on the nation daily, but for the past year has been dangerously obsessing over the attorney general
By Avner Hofstein
Illustrative: Religious Jewish activists protest same-sex parenting and LGBTQ families, across from LGBTQ advocates in Tel Aviv, December 16, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 24, 2020, 4:00 am
Gay conversion therapy to fix ‘reverse inclinations’ is alive and well in Israel
The controversial ‘treatment’ hasn’t gone away — it’s just changed its name and branding
By Avner Hofstein and Omer Sharvit
Disasters apparently don't propel people to act against climate warming. Flooding in Nahariya, northern Israel, January 8, 2020. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)
January 12, 2020, 5:28 pm
Deadly Nahariya flooding caused by river diverted to build a mall – official
Chief engineer of northern city says a concrete canal built by former mayor to replace a section of Ga’aton River was the reason for the extreme inundation
By Tani Goldstein and Avner Hofstein
Workers from Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital protesting outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem over its funding crisis, February 9, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 17, 2019, 4:57 pm
Deficit soaring, Hadassah will require years’ more bailout payments to survive
Facing collapse in 2014, famed Jerusalem medical center was rescued and thrown a NIS 1.5b lifeline. Having strayed from recovery framework, its financial plight is again dire
By Avner Hofstein
Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaking at a parlor event in Ramat Gan, July 9, 2019. (Shachar Azran)
July 9, 2019, 4:55 pm
Liberman: Future peace deal with Palestinians must include Arab Israelis
Former defense minister calls Jewish state’s ‘conflict’ with minority more difficult to resolve than reconciliation with Palestinians, Arab world
By Avner Hofstein and Biranit Goren
Illustrative: A Hamas tunnel from Gaza to Israel, 2014. (AP Photo/Jack Guez, Pool)
May 22, 2019, 6:40 am
How the IDF let a rabbinical mystic search for border tunnels, then spurned him
Officers who went with him claim Galilee-based Rabbi Yehuda found 6 tunnels on Lebanon border, and 31 on Gaza border, years before IDF exposed them. Today, the army is dismissive
By Avner Hofstein and Anabel Zamir
Yisrael Goldstein, head of the KKL-JNF national workers' union. (Facebook)
March 19, 2019, 1:41 am
Head of union calls on KKL-JNF to roll back plans to fire minority employees
The layoff of some 60 laborers, many of them Arab-Israeli or Palestinian forest workers, has been postponed, perhaps indefinitely, after a recent report by The Times of Israel
By Avner Hofstein
A bomb shelter in the southern Israeli town of Netivot, on January 21, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 18, 2019, 6:06 am
Where are the mobile bomb shelters KKL-JNF promised Golan residents last spring?
During what it termed an emergency in May 2018, the organization raised NIS 2.4 million, circumvented the tender vetting process… and delivered one unit out of a promised 70
By Avner Hofstein and Anabel Zamir
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