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Elie Leshem

Elie Leshem

Elie Leshem is deputy editor of The Times of Israel.
Young US Jews who immigrated to Israel to join the IDF pose with executives from Nefesh B'Nefesh (center) after their flight lands in Israel on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 (Shahar Azran)
August 15, 2017, 7:01 pm
New immigrants to Israel feted as miracles, and a threat to Iran
233 US olim make their way to their ancestral homeland on a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight, among them 68 future IDF soldiers — and an ambassador’s daughter
By Elie Leshem
Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, or Rav Shagar, as he is better known (Hugh Gordon)
July 10, 2017, 2:05 pm
Israel’s paradoxical man of faith, deconstructed
Rav Shagar, an audacious rabbi and mystic who sought to remake Orthodoxy with the aid of postmodern theory, makes a posthumous bid for the minds of US Jews
By Elie Leshem
BDS supporters protesting in New York, October 2015. (BDS Facebook page)
March 6, 2017, 2:08 pm
Knesset approves law banning BDS activists from Israel
Controversial measure passes final readings; Iran said to test fire ballistic missiles; Trump asks Congress to investigate leaks of classified info
By Elie Leshem
US President Donald Trump leaves after speaking following a tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, February 21, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)
February 21, 2017, 11:44 am
White House: Trump’s comments on anti-Semitism ‘never good enough’ for some
Anne Frank Center: Trump administration ‘infected’ with ‘anti-Semitism’; lawyer enlisted to defend outpost law was grilled by police
By Elie Leshem, Ilan Ben Zion and Judah Ari Gross
President Reuven Rivlin and Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations CEO Malcolm Hoenlein, February 19, 2017 (Mark Neiman / GPO)
February 19, 2017, 2:03 pm
Rivlin says ‘polarization’ in the US is concerning
Contradicting boss, US defense secretary says media isn’t the enemy; Shin Bet arrests Palestinian teens for shooting attacks
By Elie Leshem
A Sa'ar 5-class corvette of the Israeli navy. (YouTube screen capture)
December 21, 2016, 2:01 pm
‘Shipyard contracted to build Israeli warships owned by Lebanese defense minister’
Former president Moshe Katsav released from prison; Knesset committee votes to strip phone-smuggling MK’s immunity
By Elie Leshem
US Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Saban Forum in Washington on Sunday, December 4, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)
December 4, 2016, 2:00 pm
John Kerry lambasts Israel’s settlement policy
Austrian far-right concedes defeat in presidential race; disgraced ex-president Katsav said to close in on early release
By Elie Leshem
Firefighters battle a blaze near Rishpon in central Israel, on Sunday, November 27, 2016 (Israel Police)
November 27, 2016, 1:59 pm
Police say 30 suspected arsonists arrested so far
Israel to buy 17 additional F-35 jets, bringing total to 50; Rivlin calls Erdogan to thank Turkey for firefighting aid
By Elie Leshem
Donald Trump shakes hands with son-in-law Jared Kushner during an election night party at a hotel in New York on November 9, 2016. (AFP / MANDEL NGAN)
November 22, 2016, 1:44 pm
Trump ‘disavows’ alt-right, insists adviser Bannon no racist
Jared Kushner defends president-elect from racism charge; Israelis suspected of selling arms used in terror attacks
By Elie Leshem
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to Israel's Channel 2 in an interview aired Sunday, November 20, 2016 (screen capture)
November 20, 2016, 1:47 pm
Erdogan: ‘Impossible’ Israeli soldiers acted in self-defense on Marmara
Trump team confirms Romney vetted for secretary of state; France vows to proceed with peace summit; invoking Trump, officials say thousands of housings planned for E. Jerusalem
By Elie Leshem
Likud MK's Yehuda Glick, left, and Oren Hazan during a protest outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on July 14, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 25, 2016, 2:05 pm
Police said willing to lift ban on MK Temple Mount visits
Father of teen slain on Egypt border blames authorities; 15-year old Defense Ministry subcontractor killed in incident
By Elie Leshem and Gavin Rabinowitz
Finance Minister Yair Lapid speaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, May 1, 2013. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
September 26, 2016, 2:01 pm
Yesh Atid would overtake Likud by four seats in vote — poll
Trump campaign: Fact-checking debate would help Clinton; Jordan signs multi-billion-dollar deal to buy Israeli gas
By Elie Leshem
Israeli medics carry an injured man following a Palestinian stabbing attack outside the Old City of Jerusalem, on September 19, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
September 19, 2016, 1:50 pm
Abbas’s Fatah party blasts Israeli ‘executions’ of stabbers
Suspect in NY, NJ bombings arrested after shootout; stabbed policewoman in ‘very serious’ condition after surgery
By Elie Leshem
Israeli medics and emergency units work at a construction site where an underground car park collapsed on September 5, 2016 in the Ramat Hahayal neighborhood of Tel Aviv (AFP Photo/Gil Cohen-Magen)
September 5, 2016, 1:55 pm
Rescuers lose touch with worker trapped in garage collapse
Israel to grant Palestinians 100,000 entry permits over holiday; French Jewry’s president appears to back burkini ban
By Elie Leshem
Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich speaks in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 30, 2016, 2:03 pm
Top cop: It’s ‘natural’ for officers to be more suspicious of Ethiopians
Turkish, Kurdish forces in Syria said to agree to truce; soccer association declares strike in all Israeli leagues
By Elie Leshem
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