Middle East

Netanyahu convenes political allies as corruption allegations pile up

PM said to be planning media blitz after damning comptroller report and as submarine affair deepens, with other probes ongoing By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, July 10, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday summoned some […]

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Middle East

You’d think playwrights could think for themselves

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Tragic drama of nearly 70 years has coincided with make-believe drama via a fictitious Israeli mother worried about her son’s military service. The play To the End of the Land, adapted from the novel by David Grossman, has triggered the ire of a long list of American theater professionals

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Rivlin meets with Irish FM who was rebuked by Netanyahu

Simon Coveney tells president that Ireland’s interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is due to a similarly violent past By Times of Israel staff President Reuven Rivlin (R) and Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney during a working meeting at the president’s residence in Jerusalem on July 12, 2017. (Mark Neiman/GPO) A day after being rebuked by

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International, Middle East

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish president, asks German court to ban poem critical of him: Report

The president of Turkey is asking a German appeals court to ban a controversial obscene poem about him that he says violates the country’s laws about offending foreign heads of state, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Attorneys for Recep Tayyip Erdogan are asking the court to revisit the ruling of a lower court from February

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International, Middle East

Netanyahu meets with Trump envoy amid reported US peace push

American ambassador David Friedman also takes part in meeting with PM, following sit-down with Palestinian officials Tuesday By Raphael Ahren and Dov Lieber L-R: US President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on July

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Middle East, USA

Under Trump, settlements are no longer the obsessive center of attention

Obama bet everything on Israel ceasing settlement expansion, but the current White House has made it just one of many issues, leaving Ramallah no choice but to acquiesce By Raphael Ahren On March 9, 2010, then-US vice president Joe Biden started a visit to Israel by asserting the administration’s “absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel’s

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Middle East, USA

Taxpayers revolt against supporting P.A. terror

By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — The issue of government subsidies for Palestinian terrorist salaries is again in the international spotlight. What began in November 2013, as a barely believable revelation — that taxpayers in Great Britain, the US, and other Western nations were bankrolling terrorist salaries — has now become a universally-acknowledged, impossible-to-deny, and impossible-to-defend embarrassment for governments.

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International, Middle East, USA

SodaStream’s Mayim Bialik ad targets plastic bottles

AIRPORT CITY, Israel – SodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ:SODA), has launched its new environmental global campaign, “The Homoschlepiens.” The video released Wednesday features Mayim Bialik, AKA Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler from the hit TV series The Big Bang Theory, and Kristian Nairn, AKA Hodor of the legendary Game of Thrones. Set in the future, “The Homoschlepiens”

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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA