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October 26, 2023, 1:46 pm

Heartbreaking and necessary speech at the UN

Rachel Goldberg begged world leaders to keep fighting for the release of her son Hersh and the others held in Hamas captivity.

By Lior Zaltzman

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
Photo: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit via TOI

October 26, 2023, 11:42 am

Complexity of war crimes definition

Israel's response is very different to the very clear crimes committed by Hamas and doesn't meet the legal definition of genocide.

By Bruce Hill

October 26, 2023, 11:27 am

Flag will not fly

The majority of Randwick's 15 councillors supported the motion to not fly the Palestinian flag given the current conflict.

By Carly Adno

Burnt cars near the entrance to Kibbutz Alumim on October 9.
Photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash90

October 26, 2023, 9:08 am

Orders: ‘Kill, behead, rape’

'The plan was to go from home to home, from room to room, to throw grenades and kill everyone, including women and children'

Israeli forces cross a main road in an armored personnel carrier (APC) as additional IDF troops are deployed near the southern city of Sderot following an assault by Hamas terrorists, October 8, 2023. (Menahem KAHANA/AFP)

October 12, 2023, 12:23 pm

Terror

Israel must not, and cannot, relent in its Gaza operation until every last threat is neutralised.

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant meets troops on the Gaza border on October 10.
Photo: Ariel Hermoni/Defence Ministry

October 12, 2023, 9:01 am

Gallant: Israel moving to full offence

'Whoever comes to decapitate, murder women, Holocaust survivors, we will eliminate him with all our might, and without compromise'

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and JEREMY SHARON

Soldiers prepare bodies in Kfar Aza. Photo: Oren Rosenfeld

October 12, 2023, 8:57 am

Foreign reporters taken to massacre site in Kfar Aza

'It's not a battlefield. You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms, and how the terrorists kill them. It's not a war ... it's a massacre'

By LAZAR BERMAN and Emanuel Fabian

Volodymyr Zelensky and Justin Trudeau join the standing ovation.
Photo: Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press via AP

September 28, 2023, 9:49 am

Canada’s ovation for Nazi

Just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered an address, Canadian lawmakers gave 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II, a standing ovation.

By ROB GILLIES

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Elon Musk (not pictured) during a live discussion on the social media platform X, at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, September 18, 2023. Photo: X video screenshot

September 19, 2023, 3:49 pm

PM says original overhaul proposal ‘was bad,’ but must fix how Israel chooses judges

In a conversation with Elon Musk, Netanyahu calls the legislation his coalition has been advancing through the Knesset a ‘mistake’ that would ‘reject one imbalance by creating another’.

The passengers arrive at Ben Gurion Airport. Photo: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90

August 31, 2023, 12:07 pm

Israelis spend night in Jeddah

Following an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, passengers said that their initial fears were quickly allayed by the "uber-nice" Saudi welcome.

Vered Assayag Amir and other mourners attend the funeral of her husband Chen Amir, a municipal patrolman who was shot dead in a terror attack in Tel Aviv a day earlier, at Kibbutz Reim, August 6, 2023. Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90

August 7, 2023, 12:05 pm

Funeral held for patrolman killed in Tel Aviv terror attack

‘I want you to give me strength to raise our daughters,’ cried Vered Assayag Amir, the widow of slain security officer Chen Amir as he was laid to rest in Kibbutz Reim.

Demonstrators wave large Israeli flags during a protest against the Netanyahu government's overhaul of the judicial system, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on Monday, July 24, 2023, as parliament passed the 'reasonableness' law. Photo: AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg

July 31, 2023, 10:50 am

The wounded Jewish psyche and the divided Israeli soul

Understanding Israel’s moment of truth – from the war on Start-up Nation, to the moral crisis in Orthodox Jewry, to the author’s personal failure of empathy for political opponents

By Yossi Klein Halevi

Police fire water cannons at anti-overhaul protesters on Jerusalem's Begin Highway.
Photo: Times of Israel

July 27, 2023, 9:12 am

Chaos and condemnation follow vote

Reasonableness legislation passes knesset as nation erupts.

Supreme Court President Justice Esther Hayut presides over a court hearing on the Central Election Committee’s decision to disqualify the Balad party from running in the upcoming Knesset election, October 6, 2022. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

July 25, 2023, 11:33 am

Reasonable guardians? How repealing ‘reasonableness’ may affect top custodians of law

Opponents of the bill to ban the High Court’s use of the reasonableness standard argue it will open the door to politicisation of posts entrusted with safeguarding democracy.

By JEREMY SHARON

Coalition lawmakers crowd around Justice Minister Yariv Levin to take a celebratory selfie in the Knesset plenum, as they pass the first of the coalition's judicial overhaul laws, July 24, 2023. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

July 25, 2023, 9:06 am

Coalition passes 1st judicial overhaul law, limiting review of government decisions

Despite 29 weeks of unprecedented protests, all 64 coalition members back ‘reasonableness’ bill in final vote after 30 hours of plenum discussion; entire opposition walks out.

By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN