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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

Stephen WEIZMAN

Leader of the Labor Party Merav Michaeli speaks during a photo session at the party's headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2021 (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)
March 8, 2021, 9:18 am
Labor’s Michaeli: ‘We need to replace Netanyahu and Netanyahuism’
Leader says Rabin’s 1995 assassination shook the party and its voters, instilling a sense of fear and the loss of self-confidence seen in all victims of violence
By Stephen WEIZMAN
Likud MK Gideon Saar arrives with his wife Geula Even-Sa'ar, a former TV news anchor, at a voting station to cast his vote in the Likud leadership race, in Tel Aviv, on December 26, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 26, 2019, 9:43 am
Right-wing, restrained: Gideon Sa’ar, the man battling Netanyahu for Likud helm
Seen as more hard-line but calmer in style than current PM, the longtime MK was brought into politics by Netanyahu but has since fallen out with him
By Stephen WEIZMAN
Conductor Zubin Mehta appears with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra during the traditional New Year's concert at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria,January 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)
October 20, 2019, 1:29 pm
Conductor Zubin Mehta takes final bow with Israel Philharmonic
After 50 years, Indian-born superstar says ‘goodbye to my family’ in ’emotional’ final concert as musical director
By Stephen WEIZMAN
This picture taken on September 10, 2019 shows an electoral banner for the Blue and White alliance showing the face of retired general Benny Gantz and a caption in Hebrew reading "only a big Blue and White will create a secular unity government" hanging from a building in Tel Aviv. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
September 15, 2019, 12:16 pm
Benny Gantz: Military man on a mission to beat Netanyahu
Head of centrist Blue and White party is trying to convince Israelis he represents a ‘higher moral value’ than the PM, holds similarly hawkish security views
By Stephen WEIZMAN
Ayelet Shaked (C), chairwoman of Israel's Yamina party, poses for a photo while on an election campaign tour at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on August 31, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
September 11, 2019, 8:11 am
On campaign trail, right’s rising star Ayelet Shaked takes shot at breakthrough
Young fans of former justice minister are enamored with her politics, but some express concern about rabbis’ hold over her party
By Michael Blum and Stephen WEIZMAN
A decorative cross from a Byzantine-period church at the El-Araj excavation, one of the sites that could be ancient Bethsaida. (Zachary Wong)
July 19, 2019, 4:21 pm
Ancient Galilee church unearthed, said to be home to apostles Peter and Andrew
Israeli archaeologist says dig at El-Araj, near Sea of Galilee, confirms it as the site of fishing village Bethsaida
By Stephen WEIZMAN
The deck overlooking views of Tel Aviv at new headquarters of Start-Up Nation Central (Amir Geron for Start-Up Nation Central)
April 5, 2019, 6:35 pm
‘Start-up nation’ expects no change of course after elections
Whether Likud or Blue and White come out on top, businesses expect a continued focus on bolstering Israel’s high-tech sector
By Stephen WEIZMAN
A crane is used at the construction site in the West Bank settlement of Amichai on September 7, 2018. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
September 10, 2018, 7:39 pm
25 years on, some Israeli right-wingers ready to declare Oslo accords dead
With settlers strengthening their hold on the West Bank and no prospects of peace on the horizon, one resident says the 1993 accord ‘is buried deep in its grave’
By Stephen WEIZMAN
A Boeing 787 flight number AI139 of Indian national carrier Air India, from New Delhi, performs maneuvers on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2018 after using Saudi airspace for the first time. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)
March 22, 2018, 7:55 pm
In world first, Air India crosses Saudi airspace to Israel
First flight lands at Ben Gurion Thursday night, in sign of warming relations with Arab nations that were once avowed enemies
By Stephen WEIZMAN
A picture taken on November 16, 2017, shows an Israeli soldier walking next to a tank at an army position overlooking southern Lebanon in the northern Israeli town of Metula, along Israel's border with Lebanon. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
November 17, 2017, 6:57 pm
Saudi-Iran dispute unlikely to take Israel to war: analysts
Riyadh has twice before wished for Israeli military action — against Iran and in Syria — and twice it has been disappointed
By Stephen WEIZMAN
African migrants take part at a protest in Tel Aviv on June 10, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 16, 2017, 6:25 am
Unwelcome in Israel, African refugees dream of home
Labeled ‘infiltrators’ and denied long-term solutions, thousands of largely Eritrean and Sudanese migrants live in limbo
By Stephen WEIZMAN
Israel Boycott activists protest at the site where the city of Paris set up a Tel Aviv-style beach on the banks of the Seine River on August 13, 2015. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
March 7, 2017, 5:02 pm
Israel law banning entry to boycott supporters draws fire
Opponents of new anti-BDS measure describe it as ‘neither Jewish nor democratic,’ say it will further isolate Israel
By Stephen WEIZMAN
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