Times Of Israel
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 20:00:50 +0000Rediscovered: Leonard Cohen lyrics of fighting with ‘brothers’ in Yom Kippur War
One verse of Cohen's song 'Lover, Lover, Lover,' written while he played for troops battling Egypt, deeply moved the soldiers who heard it, then mysteriously disappeared. Until now
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:15:08 +0000Bennett-Sissi meeting shows Egypt wants to expand Israel ties, but up to a point
Open nature of meeting sends encouraging message that cold peace could see a thaw, but Cairo remains very wary of provoking the public where anti-Israel sentiment dominates
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:13:41 +0000Bennett makes the ‘TIME 100 most influential’ list; Mansour Abbas pens his entry
'Someone courageous needed to make that change,' writes Arab party leader and coalition ally, praising rightist PM for partnering with his Islamists to try to 'unite' Israel
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:30:11 +0000Mother of slain border cop backtracks after calling PM a ‘dog’ and ‘murderer’
Nitza Shmueli says she was 'filled with pain and frustration' and acknowledges her social media posts against Naftali Bennett should have been 'worded differently'
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:25:01 +0000Man stabbed, seriously wounded in Jaffa
Police say suspect, a Palestinian who illegally entered country, has been arrested; victim hospitalized in serious condition; conflicting reports on circumstances of attack
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:17:59 +0000Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur, but forces on high alert
Public transport halts, airwaves go quiet and roads empty out for 25- hour Day of Atonement; 2,000 police deployed in Jerusalem, search for fugitives to go on
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:06:00 +0000Israel, EU reach deal to mutually recognize vaccine certificates
Deal will give vaccinated travelers access to Green Pass programs to enter public venues, but will not allow entry to countries like Portugal that currently ban Israelis
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:33:13 +0000Worse than the worst-case scenario: The dreadful hours before the Yom Kippur War
A leading chronicler of the 1973 war traces the harrowing final hours as Israeli leaders realized, far too late, that they'd refused to read the signs of imminent conflict
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:04:20 +0000Israeli holiday travel to Europe largely ‘stopped dead’ due to entry ban fears
Large-scale trips were expected over the High Holidays, but after Portugal and Sweden bar Israelis many fear further restrictions being implemented and rethink plans
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:04:40 +0000When freed after Yom Kippur War, Israeli PoWs railed at army, transcripts show
A week after their release from capture in 1973 fighting, troops who had been on the Egyptian front met top general, demanded answers for the IDF's failures
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:48:44 +0000Netanyahu assails government after Gantz says open to new Iran deal
Opposition leader says Bennett's coalition 'rushing into' a nuclear pact that will allow Tehran to develop atomic weapons
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:37:25 +0000UAE seeks staggering $1 trillion in economic ties with Israel over next decade
A year into the Abraham Accords, trade between countries hits over $600m in 1st half of 2021; investors say big opportunities still ahead
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:59:01 +0000Saving Iraq’s Tomb of Nahum, a secret mission resurrects Kurdistan’s Jewish past
With IS just miles away, a US army vet, 2 Israeli engineers and the head of a preservation group carried out an audacious plan to restore an ancient shrine of the biblical prophet
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:58:12 +0000Daily Briefing Sept. 15 – How are the Abraham Accords holding up a year on?
Jacob Magid assesses the future of normalization agreements between Israel and Arab countries, and Jessica Steinberg fills us in on the hottest cultural events coming up in Israel
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:41:38 +0000Afghanistan girls’ soccer players flee to Pakistan following Taliban takeover
Girls, who played for the under-14, under-16, and under-18 teams, cross the land border dressed in burqas