Middle East

By TOI staff After accusing a senior television executive of sexual harassment earlier this week, veteran Haaretz journalist Neri Livneh has now claimed sexual misconduct by a fabled news anchor. Livneh told Kan Bet Radio (formerly Israel Radio) that Haim Yavin propositioned her during a work meeting in the 1980s, promising her an enticing job […]

By TOI staff The ruling Likud party and a key coalition partner are fighting over the government’s decision to shift some NIS 2 billion (some $570 million) from the Jewish National Fund to state coffers. In a cabinet vote Tuesday morning, ministers gave their okay to advancing legislation that would force JNF to transfer 80

Arabs hurled rocks at an Israeli bus passing by an Arab village built along Route 60 in Samaria this morning, 0404 reported. The bus was reportedly passing by the school in the Arab village of Luban Ash-Sharqiya near the Jewish community of Maale Levona when it was hit by rocks. Hatzalah of Judea and Samaria

By Alexander Fulbright Two confidants of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were released from police custody late Sunday night after some 15 hours of questioning in the investigation into suspected corruption in the purchase of naval vessels from a German shipbuilder. While police did not reveal the identities of the two, multiple reports named one of

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu returned to Israel Monday following a trip to the UK marking the 100th anniversary since the Balfour Declaration proclaiming Great Britain”s support for the establishment of a Jewish national home in the historic Land of Israel. Following his return to Israel, Netanyahu addressed the recent revelation that the IDF recovered the

Michael Boyden Israel is holding the bodies of five Palestinians, who were killed in an underground tunnel that they were building in order to infiltrate our villages and kibbutzim for the purpose of murdering and taking hostage innocent, unarmed men, women and children living close to the Gaza Strip. Most of us would not shed

Naomi Chazan The heated discussions over the meaning of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration have dominated the media just as moves to entirely alter the status of Jerusalem and its environs have quietly proceeded apace. Two interrelated bills (The Basic Law: Jerusalem, the Capital of Israel [Amendment