TOI staff

Defense Minister Benny Gantz arrives to a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 18, 2022, 3:32 am

Gantz leaves to US for security talks centered on Iran, Ukraine

Defense Minister urges regional coordination against Iran ahead of meetings with top Biden adviser Sullivan and Pentagon chief Austin; itinerary does not mention Abu Akleh killing

By TOI staff

May 17, 2022, 11:59 pm

Israeli diagnoses her own rare condition while watching Grey’s Anatomy

Emily Levi suffered from joint dislocations for years until finding answer in medical drama; today, she is the CEO of a clinic in Petah Tikva that aims to assist others like her

By TOI staff

Ambassador Ben Bourgel presents his credentials to Chad President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno on May 17, 2022. (Foreign Ministry/Twitter)

May 17, 2022, 11:54 pm

Israeli envoy presents credentials in Chad after 50-year hiatus

Renewal of ties comes after agreements in 2019 between former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the late Chadian president Idriss Deby Itno

By TOI staff

Chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, right, visits the site of a production line for a new military drone dubbed Ababil-2 in Tajikistan. (Screenshot/Twitter)

May 17, 2022, 11:53 pm

Iran announces production of new military drone in Tajikistan

Dubbed Ababil-2, Iran says aircraft can carry out attacks from a range of 200 kilometers; move seen as effort to balance power in the region

By AP and TOI staff

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (left) and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wife, Sara, and son, Yair, in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, January 10, 2022, during a preliminary hearing in a defamation lawsuit. (Avshalom Sassoni/Pool Photo via AP)

May 17, 2022, 11:53 pm

Netanyahus ordered to testify in their libel case against Olmert — report

June 12 hearing will continue case in which former PM is suing predecessor for calling him and his family ‘mentally ill’

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) meets French President Emmanuel Macron at the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 1, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

May 17, 2022, 11:53 pm

Bennett, Macron discuss new settlement construction, Al Jazeera journalist’s death

While PM thanks France for its support during terror attacks, Elysee stresses its disapproval of planned settlement expansion

By TOI staff

Illustrative: Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jets and a refueling plane fly in formation over Nevada during the United States Air Force's Red Flag exercise in August 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

May 17, 2022, 10:41 pm

Report: In 1st, US refuelers to take part in major Israeli drill for strike on Iran

Collaboration involving Israeli fighter jets and American refuelers seen as message to Iran regarding potential for US assistance in an actual Israeli attack

By TOI staff and Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime, on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

May 17, 2022, 8:30 pm

Suspected robber shot in Jerusalem after he’s mistaken for terrorist

Knife-wielding man shot by armed citizen and moderately wounded near lottery booth in Gilo neighborhood

By TOI staff

A car that was burned during recent clashes between Jewish and Arab residents of Lod, in the central Israeli city of Lod, May 23, 2021. (Flash90)

May 17, 2022, 7:58 pm

Prosecutors say more than 600 indictments filed over last May’s Jewish-Arab violence

According to report, 89% of defendants were Arab, with one-fourth of them minors; 239 were charged with terror or acting out of a racist motive

By TOI staff

Chief of police Kobi Shabtai attends a ceremony honoring Israeli security forces, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 17, 2022, 6:54 pm

Police chief slams MKs who clashed with police: ‘We’re not part of a political game’

Shabtai mentions recent cases of Joint List MKs hitting a police officer and helping a suspect escape police custody, says he ‘won’t abide’ the harming of officers

By TOI staff

Russian-born former Israeli diplomat Yaakov Kedmi in Moscow in 2017. (Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-4.0)

May 17, 2022, 6:15 pm

Ex-Israeli diplomat on Russian state TV: Moscow could bomb UK ‘back to Stone Age’

Yaakov Kedmi suggests Russia could deploy its hypersonic Zircon missile against Britain, and, if so, ‘about 50 or 60’ of its power stations would ‘be gone in 10 minutes’

By TOI staff and Agencies

May 17, 2022, 5:19 pm

First appeal hearing held for Israeli sentenced to death in UAE for drug trafficking

Sentence will be postponed until Fidaa Kiwan’s appeal process is exhausted; attorney says he is working on a ‘new strategy’ for her release

By TOI staff

Demonstrators carry placards and Ukrainian flags during a protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, May 8, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

May 17, 2022, 4:38 pm

Court rules Israel must grant work permits to Ukrainian refugees

Judge accuses Interior Ministry of violating rights of those given refuge in country amid Russian invasion by preventing them from working

By TOI staff

Real estate promoter and Tel Aviv nightlife figure Alon Kastiel arrives at the Hermon Prison in the northern part of Israel to begin serving his sentence for sex offenses, August 26, 2018. Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

May 17, 2022, 3:15 pm

Victims outraged as Tel Aviv serial sex offender gets early release from jail

As parole board decides to free Alon Kastiel months before end of a term already seen by many as insufficient for his crimes, women he assaulted fear he’s still a danger

By TOI staff

Mourners carry the coffin of Palestinian, Waleed Shareef, 21, during his funeral at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, May 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

May 17, 2022, 2:00 pm

Daily Briefing May 17: Violence at Temple Mount as bereaved brother hopes for peace

Palestinian affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman breaks down 3 recent Palestinian deaths and their aftershocks; environment reporter Sue Surkes updates us on a Jerusalem cable car

By TOI staff