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Stuart Winer
Stuart Winer
Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
Screen capture from an Israel Resilience party campaign video, published February 14, 2019 and showing Eitan Ginzburg, who became the first openly gay mayor in Israel when he led the Ra'anana city council. (YouTube)
February 14, 2019, 10:26 pm
Gay former mayor, female ultra-Orthodox activist join Israel Resilience slate
Activist for disabled army veterans, former deputy mayor of Tel Aviv among 7 new candidates added to Gantz’s party; Histadrut chief Avi Nissenkorn said in talks to join
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
A participant in a European election meeting of the Alternative for Germany party, AfD, wears a cap with the party's logo in the Saxony-Arena in Riesa, Germany, January 13, 2019. (Monika Skolimowska/dpa via AP, file)
February 14, 2019, 10:16 pm
German spy agency said examining far-right’s ties to Russia
Report says intelligence officials are concerned that Moscow sees extreme nationalist groups as potential allies in destabilizing West
By Stuart Winer
First responders at the scene of a shooting in Holon, February 14, 2019. (MDA)
February 14, 2019, 4:53 pm
Man shot dead in Holon after argument, apparently over parking spot
Several suspects arrested; victim was in his late 40s
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers blindfolding and detaining Palestinians. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)
February 13, 2019, 3:28 pm
Bereaved parents plead for leniency for soldiers accused of beating Palestinians
Father and son detainees accuse servicemen of punching and stamping on them, hitting them with rifle butts while they were bound and blindfolded
By Stuart Winer
Head of the National Union party MK Bezalel Smotrich, speaks during an event of the Movement for the Quality of Government, in Modi'in, February 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 12, 2019, 6:02 pm
Far-right parties heading for merger, National Union leader says
Bezalel Smotrich says Jewish Home, Otzma Yehudit, Yachad and his own party can’t afford to be divided; accuses Bennett of leaving religious Zionist camp
By Stuart Winer
Education Minister Naftali Bennett at a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 7, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 12, 2019, 1:55 pm
Netanyahu will dump settlers after elections, Bennett warns
New Right leader claims PM has a history of pandering to religious Zionists during campaigns, then turning his back on them afterward
By Stuart Winer
Screen capture from video of Likud Party political video attacking Israeli Resilience Party leader Benny Gantz. (Facebook)
February 12, 2019, 11:56 am
Family of slain Druze border guard slams Netanyahu for politicizing his death
Madhat Yousef’s brother asks PM to stop using his killing in 2000 as a ‘cheap propaganda’ tool for attacking Benny Gantz’s security credentials
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
A knife carried by one of two Palestinian suspects who apparently tried to slip past security checks and enter the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 11, 2019. (Israel Police)
February 11, 2019, 3:14 pm
Palestinian brothers arrested in Hebron with concealed knife
Border police nab two suspects, say they were trying to bypass security checks at entrance to Tomb of the Patriarchs
By Stuart Winer
Security forces loyal to Hamas organize a line outside the central post office in Gaza City on January 26, 2019, as Palestinians gather to receive financial aid from Qatar. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
February 11, 2019, 11:07 am
Qatar gave over $1.1 billion to Gaza Strip from 2012-18, ministers told
Transfers said to be so high, attorney general calls meeting to ensure they aren’t in violation of sanctions against Hamas
By Stuart Winer
Likud members cast their votes for the party list in primaries at the Tel Aviv Likud polling station on February 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 10, 2019, 10:29 pm
Voting irregularities surface in Likud primaries results
Report notes that some candidates received more votes in select districts than the total number of eligible voters in those areas
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Screen capture from video of a rubber dinghy used by Iranian migrants to cross the English Channel from France, December 31, 2018. (YouTube)
February 10, 2019, 8:38 pm
Mossad pulled its agent out of Iran, MI6 smuggled him to UK on dinghy – report
Sunday Express says nuclear scientist with knowledge of program in wake of 2015 deal was eventually transferred to US
By Stuart Winer
A soap bubble gun and syringe allegedly used by a Jordanian citizen to hold up an Israeli postal bank in January 2019. (Israel Police)
February 7, 2019, 3:34 pm
Jordanian living illegally in Israel held for bubble gun bank heist
Suspect fitted toy with a syringe he claimed contained blood contaminated with AIDS, threatened clerks he would infect them if they didn’t hand over the money
By Stuart Winer
Screen capture from video of rainwater flooding into the Ramon Crater in the southern Negev region, February 7, 2019. (Twitter)
February 7, 2019, 11:28 am
Desert highways flood as rains lash Israel
Sections of Route 90 and Route 40 blocked near Dead Sea and the Arava in the south
By Stuart Winer
Yochanan Danino, incoming chairman of the board of directors for Together Pharma. (Together Pharma/PR)
February 6, 2019, 1:02 pm
Ex-police chief takes post pushing medical cannabis worldwide
Yohanan Danino appointed chairman of Together Pharma, says marijuana can help patients suffering from a variety of ailments
By Stuart Winer
View of the building at the Expo Tel Aviv fairgrounds where the 2019 Eurovision song contest will be held, seen on September 13, 2018. (Flash90)
February 6, 2019, 11:07 am
European Broadcast Union fumes at Netanyahu over Eurovision security costs
Song contest supervisor sends letter to PM demanding he keep his word and provide state funding to secure event
By Stuart Winer
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