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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

Michael Horovitz

Michael Horovitz

Michael Horovitz is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel
Tel Aviv's cityscape. February 11, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
July 7, 2025, 11:32 pm
Tel Aviv ranked 8th most expensive place to buy home in report on world’s key cities
Deutsche Bank says prices in city center jumped 110% since 2012; Tel Aviv ranked 28th for quality of life, 3rd most expensive city to buy car
By Michael Horovitz
Demonstrators protest against the Israeli government and for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 6, 2025, 2:33 am
Israel sends team to Qatar for hostage talks, but deems Hamas demands ‘unacceptable’
Hostage families demand comprehensive deal, likening partial deals that leave some behind to ‘selection’ at Nazi death camps; PM set to discuss Gaza at Monday meeting with Trump
By Lazar Berman, Noam Lehmann, Michael Horovitz and Jacob Magid
Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, stands with protesters demanding a hostage deal, Tel Aviv, July 5, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 5, 2025, 2:49 am
July 5: Hostage families say no more ‘Schindler’s lists’ amid reports of emerging partial hostage deal
Weekly protests call for comprehensive deal to release all hostages, end war * Israel decries ‘terrorism’ after synagogue, Israeli restaurant attacked in Australia
By Michael Horovitz and Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a destroyed home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, July 3, 2025. (Benjamin Netanyahu/X)
July 3, 2025, 11:41 pm
Anger, protests, tears and courtesy as Netanyahu finally visits Nir Oz, worst-hit Oct. 7 kibbutz
636 days after Hamas massacre, freed hostage refuses to shake PM’s hand, urges him to show ‘responsibility,’ get the hostages home, launch state inquiry; Einav Zangauker embraces him and wife Sara
By Michael Horovitz, ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg
Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, of the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 30, 2025, 8:49 pm
‘We have to be united’: Father’s plea at funeral for IDF soldier killed in Gaza
Thousands join funeral for Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, who moved to Israel along with family from London 11 years ago; father urges end to arguments in Knesset and on streets
By Michael Horovitz
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 25, 2025, 12:39 pm
AG says Netanyahu cannot pick next Shin Bet chief due to ongoing probes of aides
Baharav-Miara tells High Court PM has conflict of interest, should give authority to another minister, indicates indictment looming for his adviser Urich in Qatargate scandal
By Michael Horovitz
Anastasia Buryk (Courtesy)
June 18, 2025, 5:00 pm
One of the victims in Bat Yam strike: A Ukrainian girl who came to Israel for cancer care
Grandmother and two young cousins also killed in Sunday’s Iranian missile impact, mother missing; father said fighting in Ukraine’s war against Russia
By Michael Horovitz
Benny Gantz and other National Union MKs visit the city of Tamra on June 16, 2025, after it was hit in a Iranian missile strike. (Courtesy National Unity)
June 17, 2025, 6:19 pm
Opposition MKs visit Arab town where four residents were killed by Iranian missile
Benny Gantz says attacks don’t distinguish between Jewish and Arab towns; Yair Golan expresses solidarity with residents; Gilad Kariv pledges to build better reality for all Israelis
By Sam Sokol and Michael Horovitz
An explosion is seen during an Iranian missile attack in Tel Aviv, late on June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Tomer Neuberg)
June 13, 2025, 4:59 am
June 13: PM meets underground with security chiefs, ministers to discuss response to Iran missile fire
Over 60 hurt in Iranian attacks * Air defenses said continuously firing in Tehran neighborhood where supreme leader, president live * Houthi missile lands in West Bank Palestinian town
By Michael Horovitz, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Manchester City's manager Pep Guardiola looks on ahead of the English Premier League soccer match between Fulham and Manchester City at Craven Cottage, London, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dave Shopland)
June 10, 2025, 4:25 pm
Manchester City boss decries ‘painful’ scenes in Gaza: ‘The next kids will be ours’
Accepting honorary doctorate, Pep Guardiola encourages people to speak out against war even when told they are ‘too small’ to make a difference
By Michael Horovitz and AP
From left to right: Labor MK Gilad Kariv at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) and Likud MK Galit Distel Atbaryan at the Knesset on July 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 9, 2025, 9:08 pm
‘The Jews here want to continue’: Likud MK kicks Reform rabbi out of Knesset hearing
Labor MK Gilad Kariv states women can wrap tefillin, prompting outrage from Distel Atbaryan, who appears to compare act to giving dog a bar mitzvah
By Michael Horovitz, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
A photo of NIS 100 bills, December 31, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
June 9, 2025, 6:47 pm
First-of-its-kind government report finds Israeli men earned 54% more than women in 2024
Among 27 municipalities, data shows Ra’anana residents had highest wages in 2023-24 period, while Arab- and ultra-Orthodox-majority cities had lowest average salaries
By Michael Horovitz
A supporter of Israel holds a picture of kidnapped Israeli hostages Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein on October 26, 2023, in New York. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)
June 5, 2025, 2:54 am
June 5: Witkoff, Rubio praise recovery of slain hostages, urge release of remaining captives
Hamas chief says terror group didn’t reject US proposal but demanded changes * Haredi Hasidic faction’s rabbis back dissolution of Knesset * Thousands rally against High Court in Jerusalem
By Joshua Davidovich, Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff
A closed light rail station on Jaffa Street in central Jerusalem, on May 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 21, 2025, 7:57 pm
9 Jerusalem light rail stops closed for months, causing significant disruptions
Light rail to offer limited service for three months amid work to link existing line with new route; commuters say substitute buses insufficient, businesses fear losses
By Michael Horovitz
Journalists film while standing before destroyed buildings in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on October 9, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
May 16, 2025, 6:50 am
Watchdog: Gazan reporters ‘intimidated, threatened, assaulted by Hamas’
Committee to Protect Journalists says phenomenon ‘vastly underreported’ due to reporters’ fears of coming forward; journalists self-censoring rather than reporting on dissent
By Michael Horovitz
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