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President Isaac Herzog announces special considerations for clemency in the lead up to Israel 75th year of independence, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

October 2, 2022, 10:54 pm

Clemency policy to be eased for Israel’s upcoming 75th anniversary

New framework for pardons gives special consideration to the elderly, those with special needs who contributed to country’s security, rehabilitated adults convicted as minors

By Michael Horovitz

Security camera footage shows explosives being thrown at a bus passing Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem on 7 September, 2022. (Israel Police)

October 2, 2022, 6:03 pm

2 held for firebombing buses from East J’lem hospital, having entered in wheelchairs

Police accuse the Palestinian suspects of feigning illness to gain access to Makassed Hospital, then throwing Molotov cocktails and explosive cylinders at passing vehicles

By Michael Horovitz

Shas Head Aryeh Deri at a Kikar HaShabbat conference in the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

October 1, 2022, 11:36 pm

Shas chief: If judges bar me from being a minister, we’ll legislate to overrule them

Aryeh Deri, who has a suspended sentence for tax offenses, vows that a new Netanyahu coalition will also pass a law more widely enabling it to override High Court rulings

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: A police vehicle at a crime scene in Netanya, October 14, 2018. (Flash90)

September 27, 2022, 9:21 pm

Woman arrested after partner found dead in Netanya apartment

Man found with injuries to upper body, believed dead for several days before being found by paramedics

By Michael Horovitz

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev chairs a meeting on saving businesses and jobs in foreign companies via video link at Gorki state residence, outside Moscow, Russia, on March 16, 2022. (Yekaterina Shtukina, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)

September 27, 2022, 7:52 pm

Medvedev asserts Russia’s ‘right’ to use nukes to defend its territory

Former Russian president claims Ukraine’s allies would not risk ‘nuclear apocalypse’ by responding in kind; Washington has warned of ‘catastrophic consequences’

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: Empty bullet shells on a sidewalk. (Flash90)

September 25, 2022, 9:34 pm

Stray bullets hit southern town for second time in days

No injuries as gunfire hits home, yard in Carmit; Rahat suspect filmed firing into air to celebrate wedding arrested after bullet hit car in nearby kibbutz on Friday

By Michael Horovitz and TOI staff

Mayor Wisam Nibwani of the northern Druze town of Julis. (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

September 25, 2022, 2:05 pm

Shots fired at home of Druze mayor as land dispute turns ugly

Damage caused to Wisam Nibwani’s house in Julis but no injuries; police break up riots after attack as Druze leader urges calm

By Michael Horovitz

View of the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, on April 8, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

September 24, 2022, 8:39 pm

Stray bullet fired at Bedouin wedding hits car in southern kibbutz

No injuries reported from celebratory gunfire; vehicle’s owner: ‘Just imagine what would have happened if it hurt a child’; head of regional council urges police to take action

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative photo of an Israeli passport. (Flash90)

September 24, 2022, 7:49 pm

Estonia said to block Israelis with Russian citizenship from entering

3 dual nationals turned away even though restrictions on Russians not applicable to Israeli passport holders; a further eight cases reported on Telegram app

By Michael Horovitz

Police and Fire and Rescue services on the scene of a car explosion in the northern city of Acre, September 24, 2022. (Israel Police)

September 24, 2022, 4:39 pm

30-year-old seriously injured by Acre car explosion in apparent mob hit

Victim taken to trauma center at local hospital as police launch investigation, say suspected motive not yet clear

By Michael Horovitz

President Isaac Herzog addresses an event in Tel Aviv marking 50 years since the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes and a West German police officer were killed by Palestinian terrorists, September 21, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

September 21, 2022, 9:50 pm

Speaking at Munich Massacre memorial, Herzog draws parallel to present-day terror

President promises Israel will persist in fight against terrorism; International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach calls 1972 attack one of the ‘darkest days in Olympic history’

By Michael Horovitz and AP

Head of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz speaks at the launch of the National Unity party campaign for the upcoming elections in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

September 21, 2022, 7:39 pm

Gantz’s National Unity presents unlikely alternative coalition in campaign ad

Center-right party envisages partnership between parties that are unwilling to sit with each other, claims defense minister is only person that can form government

By Michael Horovitz

Religious Zionism candidate Almog Cohen caught on hidden camera speaking to supporters. (Channel 13 screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

September 21, 2022, 2:01 am

Ben Gvir party members caught admitting moderated extremism is a pre-election feint

Almog Cohen says Otzma Yehudit chair’s change in tone has aided faction’s recent successes, compares his strategy to ‘a trojan horse’ with which to enter parliament

By Michael Horovitz

Former MK Elyakim Haetzni in his home in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron in the West Bank on September 11, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

September 19, 2022, 12:53 am

Former MK and father of settlement movement Elyakim Haetzni dies aged 96

German-born lawyer arrived in Israel in 1938 after Kristallnacht, settled in Kiryat Arba in 1972, helped found settlement umbrella group and served in Knesset for nationalist party

By Michael Horovitz

This undated photo shows Baquer Namazi, left, and his son Siamak, who are both currently detained in Iran, in an unidentified location. (Babak Namazi via AP)

September 16, 2022, 2:26 pm

Congressional group urges Biden to prioritize release of US citizens jailed in Iran

Meeting joined by prisoners’ families, former detainees of Islamic Republic, who call on US president not to link prisoners’ fate to outcome of stalled nuclear talks

By Michael Horovitz