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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

Tamar Pileggi

Tamar Pileggi

Tamar Pileggi is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
Likud MK Nir Barkat attends a faction meeting ahead of the swearing-in of the new Knesset on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
November 28, 2019, 5:17 pm
Likud MK proposes bill to outlaw UN agency for Palestinian refugees
Ex-Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat says UNRWA perpetuating conflict, destroying chances for peace, with internal ‘corruption and mismanagement’
By Tamar Pileggi
Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, October 22, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 26, 2019, 4:29 pm
Jewish extremist hit with terror charges after years of anti-Arab rhetoric
Lehava head Bentzi Gopstein says indictment amounts to state-sanctioned persecution, vows to continue controversial campaign against Jewish-Arab coexistence
By Tamar Pileggi
MK Ahmad Tibi speaks during a special Knesset plenum session on the nation-state bill, August 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 26, 2019, 3:18 pm
Bereaved army families group moves planned appearance by Arab MK
Yad Lebanim cites potential ‘provocations’ in letter to Ramat Hasharon mayor, informing him that event featuring Joint List lawmaker no longer welcome
By Tamar Pileggi
November 25, 2019, 10:23 am
Over a dozen Palestinians said injured by Israelis in Hebron over weekend
Family says baby hospitalized after rocks came crashing though window of their home during annual pilgrimage that draws tens of thousands of Jewish worshipers to West Bank city
By Tamar Pileggi
People watch a statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as it falls at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
November 22, 2019, 4:28 pm
The people vs. Benjamin Netanyahu: 9 things to know for November 22
Amid scathing criticism and comparisons to Emperor Nero, newspapers say announcement of charges against PM aggravates political deadlock, and agree he won’t go without a fight
By Tamar Pileggi
A tree in the Palestinian village of Burin, in the northern West Bank, that was badly damaged in an alleged settler hate crime. (courtesy Yesh Din)
November 11, 2019, 3:40 pm
Palestinian olive groves vandalized amid spate of settler hate crimes
Rights group says nearly 100 trees on privately owned farms in northern West Bank chopped into pieces, causing severe damage during annual harvest
By Tamar Pileggi
Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the Yamina party headquarters on election night in Ramat Gan, on September 17, 2019. (Flash90)
November 11, 2019, 2:15 pm
Smotrich: Having Arabs in government defies Israel’s Jewish, democratic nature
Hardline transportation minister says vast majority of Israelis don’t want ‘those people’ in charge of country, laments that ‘hatred of Netanyahu leading to such an extreme’
By Tamar Pileggi
In this February 3, 2007, file photo, an Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
November 8, 2019, 4:56 pm
The sum of all fears: 6 things to know for November 8
Tehran resuming uranium enrichment ramps up concern in Israel, overshadowing scandal involving Netanyahu’s justice minister who appears to have knowingly broke the law
By Joshua Davidovich and Tamar Pileggi
US President Donald Trump, left, welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
November 1, 2019, 3:57 pm
Bye bye bromance: 6 things to know for November 1
Netanyahu warning about Iran’s increasing brazenness widely seen as a reference to Trump administration’s hands-off approach to the Islamic Republic
By Joshua Davidovich and Tamar Pileggi
Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz at party headquarters on elections night in Tel Aviv, early on September 18, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 24, 2019, 4:48 pm
Give Gantz a chance: 7 things to know for October 24
Though Israeli media is largely skeptical the ex-IDF chief can form government after Netanyahu failed, his efforts are seen by some as a breath of fresh air
By Tamar Pileggi
Naama Issachar and her mom Yaffa in a post to Issachar's Instagram page in July 2018.
October 15, 2019, 4:29 pm
Not without my daughter: 8 things to know for October 15
Yaffa Issachar’s mother tells media outlets Moscow is using Naama as ‘bargaining chip’ to secure release of Russian hacker jailed in Israel
By Tamar Pileggi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara casts their votes at a voting station in Jerusalem on September 17, 2019. (Heidi Levine/AFP)
September 17, 2019, 3:20 pm
Netanyahu’s day of reckoning: 9 things to know for September 17
Israelis vote in election do-over widely seen as a referendum on longtime PM, who critics accuse of aiming to use a 5th term to avoid likely criminal indictment
By Tamar Pileggi
Likud party campaign material and posters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strewn on the floor following election night at the party's Tel Aviv headquarters, April 10, 2017. (Jack Guez/AFP)
September 12, 2019, 3:42 pm
Fighting for his life: 7 things to know for September 12
With five days to go till elections, Netanyahu’s feverish attempts to shore up right-wing support don’t go unnoticed by Israeli media
By Tamar Pileggi
In this photo from August 12, 2019, plumes of smoke rise after an explosion at a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)
August 21, 2019, 4:53 pm
Bombs over Baghdad: 7 things to know for August 21
Iraq mum on latest mystery explosion at military base housing Iran-backed militia, but media reports and lawmakers point the finger at Israel
By Tamar Pileggi
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Romania's President Klaus Iohannis (off frame)in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on August 20, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
August 20, 2019, 11:56 pm
Trump says Jews who vote Democrat show ‘great disloyalty’
US president slams rival party for defending Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, saying Jews who support them show ‘a total lack of knowledge;’ rejects call to cut aid to Israel
By Tamar Pileggi
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