Netanyahu

November 10, 2023, 6:33 am

White House denies discussing Bibi leaving office

"There's going to have to be a reckoning within Israeli society about what happened," the official said. "Ultimately, the buck stops on the Prime Minister's desk."

IDF ground forces in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: Israel Defence Forces

November 9, 2023, 12:39 pm

IDF ‘tightening noose’ around Hamas in Gaza City

"We will fight together, and with God's help, we will win together,"

By Emanuel Fabian, Michael Bachner and LAZAR BERMAN

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a primetime address, October 25, 2023. (GPO/Screenshot)

October 26, 2023, 10:16 am

Netanyahu: After the war, everyone will have to answer for failures, ‘including me’

In primetime speech, PM stops short of taking responsibility for debacle that enabled Hamas onslaught, vows ground invasion of Gaza coming, says Israel in ‘fight for our existence’.

By LAZAR BERMAN and AFP and TOI Staff

Secular and Orthodox activists clash after the religious Rosh Yehudi group set up a gender divider made of Israeli flags in defiance of a municipality decision at a public prayer service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur. Photo: Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90

October 3, 2023, 6:31 am

Secular, Orthodox Jews clash on Yom Kippur

We must learn the lessons and truly understand that the internal threat within Israel is the most acute and dangerous threat of all."

By AJN STAFF

September 4, 2023, 6:34 am

Lapid going to US

Netanyahu has reportedly instructed all cabinet ministers to avoid travelling to the United States, and to avoid meeting US government officials if they do, until he is invited to the White House.

By LAZAR BERMAN

August 28, 2023, 4:09 pm

Our world is smaller and lonelier without Chen

On a bench near the site of the attack, wreaths of flowers were laid along with the following, "From the residents of the neighbourhood in Tel Aviv whose lives were saved because of Chen Amir's heroism."

By Dvir Abramovich

A test drive of the light rail on August 16. Photo: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90

August 28, 2023, 6:58 am

Tel Aviv light rail begins operating

The government mass transit agency NTA oversaw the work on the line, which has been under construction since 2015 and cost NIS 19 billion ($A7.8 billion).

By AJN STAFF

An image of Israel and the US' test launch of the Arrow 3 missile defence system in 2019. Photo Israel Defence Ministry

August 28, 2023, 6:46 am

Israel gets okay to sell Arrow 3 to Germany

Gallant hailed the advancement of the sale, saying the US approval was "an expression of confidence in the excellent capabilities of Israel's defence industries".

By Emanuel Fabian

Police at the scene of a shooting in the central Arab city of Tira.
Photo: Israel Police

August 25, 2023, 7:14 am

Four killed in shooting

The Magen David Adom ambulance service said paramedics declared the four dead at the scene after finding them in a field.

By AJN STAFF

Israelis and Ethiopian Jews board flights from Gondar and Bahir Dar to Addis Ababa on August 10. Photo: Israel Embassy in Addis Ababa

August 21, 2023, 7:04 am

Israel rescues 200 from Ethiopia conflict

The operation came several days after a number of Israelis were reportedly rescued from the area. The Foreign Ministry had earlier urged Israelis in Amhara to remain at secure locations and try to maintain contact with the embassy in Addis Ababa, while calling on others to reconsider travel plans to the country.

By LAZAR BERMAN

Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with United Torah Judaism party leader Yitzhak Goldknopf in the Knesset last November. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90

August 21, 2023, 6:56 am

Ultra-Orthodox parties refuse draft compromise

At present, tens of thousands of Charedi men either avoid working or work off the books, due to fear of being drafted and losing special government stipends paid out to exempted yeshivah students younger than 26.

By AJN STAFF

Demonstrators rally against the government's judicial overhaul plans in Tel Aviv on August 12. Photo: Gitai Palti

August 20, 2023, 7:27 am

Netanyahu, Levin said to seek pause to overhaul

The report said the Charedi parties believe the overhaul has divided Israelis too much and are even willing to see its architect, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, quit his post, as he's threatened to do if the bills aren't advanced at a quick enough pace.

By CANAAN LIDOR and TOI STAFF

Israelis protest against the visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara in the Golan Heights.
Photo: Ayal Margolin/Flash90

August 11, 2023, 6:35 am

Thousands refuse to report for volunteer duty

Protest organisers quoted by Kan claimed that up to Tuesday morning, the authorities were also preventing further activists from joining their encampment and supplying them with food, water and shade.

By AJN STAFF

President Isaac Herzog addresses the Joint Session of Congress on July 19.
Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP

August 1, 2023, 7:18 am

A diplomatic mission of mixed outcomes

Israeli President Isaac Herzog flew to the US to heal the Biden–Netanyahu rift. Instead he exposed its depth.

By LAZAR BERMAN

From left: Then-US vice president Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Jerusalem in 2010. Photo: AP/Ariel Schalit

July 18, 2023, 7:35 am

Biden talks Israeli cabinet, Saudi deal

Despite the lack of invitation, Biden stressed that he has been an "unyielding supporter of Israel for ... as long as I have been around".

By Jacob Magid