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Gavin Rabinowitz

Gavin Rabinowitz is a news editor at The Times of Israel
Moses Elisaf, the first Jewish person elected mayor in Greece. (Screencapture/YouTube)
June 3, 2019, 2:32 am
Ioannina, home to unique Jewish community, elects Greece’s first Jewish mayor
Moses Elisaf elected with 51% of vote in city that was once heartland of country’s Romaniote Jewish tradition
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan (2nd right) speaks with a soldier at the scene where an Israeli woman was run over and killed by a Palestinian driver, near the northern West Bank settlement outpost of Havat Gilad on August 16, 2018. (Roi Hadi/Samaria Regional Council)
August 16, 2018, 2:14 pm
PA official says driver in West Bank car death will stay in Palestinian custody
Man surrenders to Palestinian police after hitting, killing Israeli woman near Nablus, claims incident was an accident
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Stella Handler (L), CEO of the Bezeq telecom company, appears in the Tel Aviv District Court on February 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
February 25, 2018, 2:15 pm
Report indicates collusion between judge, investigator in Bezeq corruption probe
Channel 10 reveals chats between investigator from Israel Security Authority and judge, telling her ‘to act surprised’ by their requests to hold people in remand
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Swastikas drawn on the gate of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, found on February 18, 2018. (Israel Police)
February 18, 2018, 1:58 pm
Rivlin calls Polish PM’s Holocaust comments ‘a new low’
President slams Mateusz Morawiecki’s comments that there were Jewish perpetrators; tells US Jewish leaders of the need for more Holocaust education, even for world leaders
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh delivering a speech in Gaza City, on January 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
January 31, 2018, 2:01 pm
Israel hails ‘righteous’ US decision to put Hamas leader on terror list
Hamas says it won’t be deterred; move allows the US to freeze all Ismail Haniyeh’s assets and prohibits Americans from dealing with him
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with Indiana Governor Michael Pence in Jerusalem on December 29, 2014. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
January 21, 2018, 1:44 pm
Ahead of Pence visit, PM says no progress on peace without American involvement
Netanyahu says calls by Arab MKs to boycott the US vice president’s address to the Knesset are a ‘disgrace’
By Gavin Rabinowitz
US President Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exchange greetings at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 12, 2017. (Haim Tzach/GPO)
January 16, 2018, 2:05 pm
US withholds $65 million from UN agency for Palestinians
State Department official confirms Washington gave $60 million to UNRWA, is freezing rest of funding to ‘undertake a fundamental re-examination’
By Gavin Rabinowitz
New US ambassador to Israel David Friedman prays at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
December 26, 2017, 2:31 pm
US envoy said to ask State Department to stop using the word ‘occupied’
Ambassador David Friedman wants a change in phrasing in official documents on Israel and the West Bank, but meets resistance from Washington
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Gal Gadot attends the "Justice League" photocall at The College on November 4, 2017, in London, England. (David M. Benett/ Dave Benett/WireImage via JTA)
November 15, 2017, 2:18 pm
Gal Gadot says entire cast did not want Ratner involved in ‘Wonder Woman II’
Israeli actress reportedly refused to sign onto sequel unless Warner Bros. cuts its financing deal with the producer who has been accused of sexual harassment
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Illustrative: Participants at the Limmud FSU conference in Odessa, Ukraine lean against a poster hailing singer Bob Dylan as a pride of the city on Saturday October 21, 2017 (Gavin Rabinowitz/ Times of Israel)
November 13, 2017, 1:46 pm
Poetry and revolution: Searching for Bob Dylan in Ukraine
The city of Odessa and its Jewish community are bringing it all back home to honor the legendary folk singer as one of their own — with mixed results
By Gavin Rabinowitz
People play beach tennis (matkot), on the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot summer day, August 1, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 27, 2017, 8:31 am
Tel Aviv beach craze makes the jump from paddle ball to fine art
An exhibition inspired by and lovingly devoted to beach bats makes its way across Ukraine, bringing the Mediterranean spirit to the Black Sea
By Gavin Rabinowitz
A new statue of the Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petliura, which was unveiled on October 14, 2017 in the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa. (Courtesy)
October 20, 2017, 2:58 pm
Israeli envoy warns of growing trend as Ukraine unveils statue of anti-Semite
Memorial erected in Vinnitsa to Symon Petliura, who was blamed for commanding pogroms that killed tens of thousands of Jews
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in 2010. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)
July 24, 2017, 2:34 pm
Netanyahu speaks with King Abdullah in bid to resolve crisis
Israel sends envoy to Amman for talks after deadly shooting in embassy compound; cabinet meeting and expected to approve removal of Temple Mount metal detectors
By Gavin Rabinowitz
The design of the planned Thessaloniki Holocaust Memorial Museum (Courtesy/Jewish Community of Thessaloniki)
June 17, 2017, 7:53 am
Thessaloniki’s new Holocaust museum a sign of a city finally embracing its Jewish past
Once called the Flower of the Balkans, Greek city to begin construction of a fitting memorial 74 years after Nazis destroyed the great Sephardic community
By Gavin Rabinowitz
President Reuven Rivlin opening Jerusalem Day celebrations at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on May 23, 2017. (Mark Neiman/GPO)
June 11, 2017, 2:05 pm
Rivlin slams proposed ethics code for university lecturers
Woman detained for streaking at Western Wall; plan approved to deduct stipends to terrorists from PA money; IDF conducting massive earthquake preparedness drill
By Gavin Rabinowitz
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