Stuart Winer

Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.

Illustrative: Joseph Kleinman, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz and Dachau Nazi death camp wearing a face mask as he stands at his porch in Jerusalem, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

April 27, 2022, 8:57 am

Ahead of annual memorial day, 161,400 Holocaust survivors living in Israel

Average age is 85.5, with over 1,000 over age 100; social equality minister notes urgency in providing assistance as some 40 survivors die each day

By Stuart Winer

Apartments under construction in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. (Lior Mizrahi/ Flash90)

April 25, 2022, 4:36 pm

Construction worker, 68, falls to his death from crane in Ashkelon

Medics declare man dead at scene after he plunges 10 meters in new Ir Hayayin neighborhood; police open an investigation; 12th death in industry this year, says lobby group

By Stuart Winer

Oded Goldreich (CC BY-SA 3.0)/Wikipedia)

March 29, 2022, 3:22 pm

High Court rules Israel Prize must be given to professor accused of BDS support

Judges accept appeal against Education Minister Shasha-Biton’s decision to withhold 2021 award from Oded Goldreich over his supposed backing of academic boycott

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Travelers at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on March 2, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

March 28, 2022, 6:04 am

Travel spike causes mass delays at airport; situation likely to worsen over Passover

Passengers now advised to arrive at Ben Gurion four hours before flights as airport struggles to implement COVID protocols, scale-up from cutbacks

By Stuart Winer

Snow falls in the northern Golan Heights on March 23, 2022. (Avimor/Flash90)

March 24, 2022, 8:30 am

Israel’s clocks spring forward amid unseasonably cold and stormy weather

Unusually low temperatures forecast till weekend, with snow in northern mountainous areas, rain drenching rest of country; clocks moved forward from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. Friday

By Stuart Winer

View of the Israeli Employment Service offices in Jerusalem on December 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

March 23, 2022, 5:14 am

Israel’s unemployment rate inching down to near pre-COVID levels

Employment Service says 163,800 Israelis registered as out of work; Central Bureau of Statistics report shows overall unemployment down to 5.4%

By Stuart Winer

Men gather outside the home of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky on March 20, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

March 20, 2022, 9:11 am

Central Israel shuts down as hundreds of thousands gather for Kanievsky funeral

Streets closed in ultra-Orthodox rabbi’s hometown Bnei Brak, along with main highways; fears massive crowding may cause disaster; helicopter rescue on standby; schools shut

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Children dressed in costumes pose for a picture in the northern city of Safed, ahead of the the Jewish holiday of Purim, March 13, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

March 14, 2022, 8:09 am

Children’s Purim parties brought forward by a day as snowy weather forecast

Schools and municipalities across the country move celebrations up to Monday to avoid downpours and light dusting expected on Tuesday

By Stuart Winer

Ukrainians disembark from a special flight to Israel from Romania upon landing at Ben Gurion Airport, March 8, 2022 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

March 13, 2022, 12:20 pm

Israel said to reach cap on non-Jewish Ukraine refugees, days after announcing limit

Immigration authority says over 7,000 Ukrainians have arrived since start of fighting, of whom 5,000 don’t have immigration rights — the maximum the government will allow

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Traffic jams are seen as people leave the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022 (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

February 24, 2022, 10:46 am

‘Head west’: Jerusalem advises thousands of Israelis in Ukraine to exit via Poland

Foreign Ministry officials to huddle on situation; 8,000 citizens believed to be in country under Russian attack; arrangements being made to fly people to Israel from Poland

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

View of the Ofer military court near the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 22, 2022, 9:16 am

Terror funding charge dropped in plea deal with Palestinian aid worker

Khitam Sa’afin convicted of membership in PFLP but not of funneling money to the terror group, and of leading Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees before it was outlawed

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Screen capture from video of a man who entered the crocodile enclosure at the Ramat Gan Safari, Febrauary 17, 2022. (Twitter)

February 20, 2022, 1:04 pm

Selfie-seeker enters crocodile enclosure at Ramat Gan zoo

Safari park says it filed a police complaint about man seen in video posing with the toothy reptiles

By Stuart Winer

Esther Hayut (L) and David Amsalem (R) (Flash90)

February 17, 2022, 12:41 pm

Supreme Court chief slams Likud MK for ‘poison’ remarks suggesting she is racist

Hayut pens open letter to Amsalem rejecting accusation of bias against Sephardic Jews; Amsalem calls her response ‘nonsense’; Netanyahu: Amsalem’s words are ‘unacceptable’

By Stuart Winer

Chahi Ariel and the record-breaking strawberry (Guinness World Records)

February 16, 2022, 12:54 pm

Israeli strawberry wins Guinness record as world’s largest

Organization confirms that 289-gram fruit grown at Ariel family plantation is the heaviest ever recorded

By Stuart Winer

The skyline of the City of Manila, capital of the Philippines, on November 20, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

February 15, 2022, 2:00 pm

Philippine police allege Hamas plan to groom locals for attacks on Israelis

Intel agent says plot foiled based on information from source who met in Malaysia with figure identified as Fares Al Shikli, alleged head of terror group’s foreign liaisons

By Stuart Winer