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Stuart Winer
Stuart Winer
Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
Illustrative: A housing construction site in Jerusalem, October 27, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 16, 2018, 12:51 am
Jerusalem municipality inks deal to build 20,000 apartments
NIS 1.4 billion project envisions construction across the city, including new industrial and trade zones, hotel space
By Stuart Winer
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, leading the Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in the capital Tehran on June 15, 2018. (Iranian Supreme Leader's Website/AFP)
August 15, 2018, 10:17 pm
Iran supreme leader admits ‘mistake’ allowing nuke deal negotiations
Ayatollah Khamenei says talks with US which led to 2015 agreement brought 'harm'; Rouhani accuses Washington of 'destroying conditions' for fresh deliberations
By Stuart Winer
Beno Reinhorn, in an undated photo. (Screen capture: Channel 2/Facebook)
August 15, 2018, 7:06 pm
Youth coach suspected of molesting dozens of girls online
Beno Reinhorn, accused of contacting at least 140 children, arrested on suspicion of systematically preying on minors he persuaded to send him sexual content via the internet
By Stuart Winer
Likud MK Oren Hazan speaks at the Likud founders conference at Jabotinsky house in Tel Aviv, March 25, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
August 14, 2018, 6:28 pm
Maverick Likud lawmaker thinks he can become mayor of Tel Aviv
MK Oren Hazan, until recently suspended by the Knesset Ethics Committee, claims internal polling and a new TV survey prove he's strongest challenger to incumbent Ron Huldai
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Elor Azaria, center, visits in the West Bank city of Hebron following his release from prison where he served a sentence for the 2016 manslaughter of a Palestinian attacker he shot in the city during his military service, July 3, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
August 14, 2018, 4:31 pm
Hebron shooter reportedly denied gun license, police say he may be public danger
Elor Azaria asked to carry a firearm, claiming he was being threatened over killing of Palestinian assailant; cops say they've found no threats to his safety
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Transport and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz speaks at the Israel Aviation Conference at Airport City, on May 2, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 14, 2018, 11:30 am
Ministers said to reject plan to return PA control to Gaza
After reported Netanyahu-Sissi meeting, Israel Katz says West Bank-Gaza 'safe passage' would be security threat
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Hikers swim at the Zavitan spring on the Glan Heights in northern Israel, April 18, 2014. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
August 13, 2018, 11:27 am
Golan Heights river trails closed after bacterial disease infects bathers
As dozens fall ill with suspected leptospirosis, which is transmitted through animal urine, parks authority prohibits bathing in Zavitan and Zaki waters
By Stuart Winer
Runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter is consoled after she miscounted the laps and stopped running too early in the women's 5000m final race during the European Athletics Championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, on August 12, 2018. (John MacDougall/AFP)
August 12, 2018, 11:21 pm
Israeli athlete stops running too soon, misses a second medal at European games
Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, who won gold in the 10,000-meter run, makes disastrous miscalculation in 5,000-meters contest, comes in fourth but still breaks Israeli record
By Stuart Winer
Labor Party MK Eitan Broshi, of the Zionist Union faction, is seen during a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 12, 2018, 8:55 pm
Labor lawmaker faces fresh accusations of sexual harassment
Fellow MK Shelly Yachimovich posts Facebook account she received from woman who served in army under command of Eitan Broshi, who denies accusations
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
View of the classified documents related to the Yemenite Children Affair, at the Israel State Archives offices in Jerusalem, December 22, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 12, 2018, 4:46 pm
State told to release 300,000 unpublished files on missing Yemenite children
Justice Minister Shaked orders police documents be produced; calls on two health and welfare organizations to publish any material they have
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
A secular demonstration in favor of a 'Free Jerusalem' and against ultra-Orthodox coercion, outside City Hall, June 27, 2009 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
August 8, 2018, 12:32 pm
Jerusalem to reinstate fines on city center stores open on Shabbat
Municipality says it will renew policy of fining business open on the Jewish day of rest, after freezing the action for 60 days following a legal petition against the enforcement
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a meeting to address Druze concerns in the wake of the nation-state law, on August 6, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom, GPO)
August 6, 2018, 9:47 pm
Netanyahu fumes as most ministers skip meeting on nation-state law
PM tells five who do show up to meeting on addressing Druze concerns that it is 'important to make the right decisions and not reckless ones'
By Stuart Winer
A campaign poster published by the Jerusalem branch of the Jewish Home party, August 6, 2018. (Twitter)
August 6, 2018, 5:33 pm
Anger at Jewish Home campaign warning of ultra-Orthodox takeover in Jerusalem
Posters showing leading mayoral candidates decked out in black hats and sidelocks draws condemnation from part's national HQ, others
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative image of an Israel Electricity Corporation worker raised by crane to a utility pole to perform maintenance works on June 10, 2013. (Flash 90)
August 6, 2018, 12:01 pm
Ministers seek to breathe life into vital, troubled fiber-optic internet project
Reducing commitment on infrastructure layout to just 40% of the country paves path for vital investment from cellphone service provider
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Bedouin IDF soldiers seen in a tent they set up in a field near the Gaza border in southern Israel, on July 6, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 5, 2018, 10:49 pm
Bedouin petition High Court claiming Jewish nation-state law is illegal
Joining the Druze and other minorities, petitioners demand the controversial legislation be annulled or changed to apply equally to all Israeli citizens
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
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