Join our Community
Support ToI and remove all ads
Learn more

ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Marissa Newman

Marissa Newman

Marissa Newman is The Times of Israel political correspondent.
An Israel Dog Unit volunteer searching Mount Meron for missing persons. (Courtesy IDU)
May 19, 2022, 10:52 pm
Thousands go to Meron to find themselves spiritually. Three have never come back
The cradle of Jewish mysticism is also where Moishy Klinerman, Moshe Ilowitz and Haviv Ben-Abu were last seen. As Lag B’Omer’s throngs leave, searchers remain to scour the mountain
By Marissa Newman
People run from the collapse of World Trade Center towers in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
September 10, 2021, 2:28 pm
When ash fell like snow: 20 years on, a fire warden’s 9/11 memories still haunt
Volunteer fire warden Alan Fromm rushed into 5 World Trade Center to evacuate his office building; after the South Tower collapsed, he was found unconscious under an ambulance
By Marissa Newman
Ronen Vital (Courtesy/Israel rabbinical courts)
September 1, 2021, 6:58 pm
After six years on the run, Israeli man arrested over divorce refusal
Ronen Vital found sitting in his car in south Tel Aviv; is still refusing to give a religious bill of divorce after 13 years, but advocates are optimistic
By Marissa Newman
Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, gives a press statement after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's House in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 5, 2021, 11:07 pm
Potential kingmaker Ra’am declines to endorse candidate for PM
Islamist faction says it will work with whomever is charged with forming government; in last-minute decision, Joint List declines to endorse Lapid
By Aaron Boxerman and Marissa Newman
Activists in Tel Aviv watch the exit polls on elections night, on March 23, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 23, 2021, 11:22 pm
Exit polls put Netanyahu in reach of thin majority, but only with Yamina’s help
Too-close-to-call surveys crown Bennett kingmaker, give 59 seats to anti-Netanyahu camp; Sa’ar collapses at 5-6 seats, Blue and White expected to get 7, Ra’am left out
By Marissa Newman
An Israeli military outpost in the Golan Heights is pictured from the Syrian town of Quneitra on March 26, 2019. (Louai Beshara/AFP)
February 17, 2021, 3:46 pm
Israel negotiating release of Israeli woman held in Syria
Report: Woman is 25 from Modi’in Illit; Syrian media says she entered country accidentally; Israel frees Syrian from house arrest, Damascus said to want release of another
By Aaron Boxerman and Marissa Newman
Rabbi Eliezer Berland arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on February 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 10, 2020, 11:16 am
Victims of sex offender rabbi’s alleged fraud decry emerging plea deal
Lawyers for victims condemn ‘absurd’ agreement, which would purportedly see Eliezer Berland jailed for 14 months over massive ‘miracles-for-cash’ con
By Marissa Newman
US President Donald Trump speaks alongside White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany prior to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020, as he travels to Philadelphia, (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
September 15, 2020, 3:53 pm
After UAE, Bahrain deals signed, Trump says 7-9 countries seek peace with Israel
Soon after historic Abraham Accords ceremony at the White House, US president includes Saudi Arabia among those nations also now ready to normalize ties with Jewish state
By Marissa Newman
Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, head of the military council, waves to his supporters upon arriving to attend a military-backed rally, in Omdurman district, west of Khartoum, Sudan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
August 18, 2020, 7:26 pm
Sudan and Israel say talks underway for deal to normalize ties
‘No reason for enmity to continue,’ says Khartoum official, predicting pact could be clinched by end of year; Netanyahu says Israel will do everything to make agreement happen
By Aaron Boxerman and Marissa Newman
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) in his Jerusalem office (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
August 7, 2020, 11:12 am
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who made the Talmud accessible, dies at 83
Israel Prize laureate and scholar credited with revolutionary translation and commentary of seminal Jewish texts in ‘once-in-a-millennium’ achievement
By Marissa Newman
Jewish worshipers pray at the burial site of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Mount Meron, in northern Israel, on June 21, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
June 23, 2020, 6:37 am
To find meaning in a pandemic, top religious leaders offer ‘Coronaspection’
A project by a Jerusalem-based interfaith organization brings online reflections of prominent faith leaders, including the pope and European chief rabbis, on the virus
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative: A blind man walks in Tel Aviv on July 23, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 22, 2020, 6:47 am
As virus wanes, Israel’s blind and deaf step out into a more hostile world
A visually impaired actor and hard-of-hearing activist describe new pandemic challenges, with touching verboten and lip-reading impossible in a sea of masks
By Marissa Newman
Ohad Navon, 26, in the Bolivian Amazon (courtesy)
April 8, 2020, 10:29 am
Lost in the Amazon amid pandemic, a starving Israeli ‘nomad’ finds his way home
As Israel airlifts its stranded backpackers, here’s the story of one traveler who spent 3 years abroad — and then got stuck behind Bolivia’s closed borders as the virus spread
By Marissa Newman
Rachel Gemara, a nurse at Shaare Zedek's isolated ward for coronavirus patients in full protective gear (Courtesy)
March 24, 2020, 6:58 pm
Nurse in virus isolation ward describes patients’ touching farewell to dying man
Rachel Gemara details final moments of Israel’s 1st virus fatality Aryeh Even, a Holocaust survivor, who, separated from his family, was comforted to the end in Jerusalem hospital
By Marissa Newman
A man stands near the body of Holocaust survivor Aryeh Even, 88, the first man to die in Israel from the coronavirus epidemic, at the Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem, early on March 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 22, 2020, 9:51 pm
Burial society gears up for COVID-19 funerals, as health officials lay out rules
Ministry initially bans religious funeral rite for coronavirus victims, then backtracks; chevra kadisha volunteers, in protective gear, being trained to deal with virus casualties
By Marissa Newman
Load More
Sign in or Register
Please use the following structure: example@domain.com
Or Continue with
By registering you agree to the terms and conditions
Register to continue
Or Continue with
Log in to continue
Sign in or Register
I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link
Or Continue with
check your email
Check your email
We sent an email to you at .
It has a link that will sign you in.
Never miss breaking news on Israel
Get notifications to stay updated
You're subscribed
image
Register for free
and continue reading
Registering also lets you comment on articles and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.
Please use the following structure: example@domain.com
Or Continue with
By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.
Register to continue
Or Continue with
Log in to continue
Sign in or Register
I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link
Or Continue with
check your email
Check your email
We sent an email to you at .
It has a link that will sign you in.