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David HorovitzThe Times of Israel |
Jonathan Glazer got it wrong * Israel and its essential ally, openly and untenably at odds * 10 thoughts on the war
And there’s rarely been a time when Israel’s existence, imperiled from without, and hobbled from within, has been so manifestly necessary
Deadly incident will likely complicate both war aims — dismantling Hamas and returning the hostages — exacerbate friction on other fronts,...
In an Israel grappling with the trauma of Oct. 7 and the war, it is understandable that local elections were not a priority. But it’s a shame,...
Ben Gvir’s pyromaniacal Temple Mount demands * Why the ultra-Orthodox must share the burden * The IDF’s Rafah preparations * Public...
Right now, the IDF has more forces poised for action against Hezbollah in Lebanon than it has fighting in Gaza
PM’s talk of ‘absolute victory’ is meaningless without him taking the political steps and providing the army with the...
Hamas demands appear to present near-impossible dilemma, especially for riven government. But IDF believes there is a path forward * Water and iron in...
The ICJ accepted the South African jurists’ misrepresentation of the cause and nature of the war in Gaza, seeking to constrain Israel and thus...
The death of 21 reservists just a few hundred yards away from a kibbutz murderously invaded by Hamas on October 7 brings a fresh test of...
Dismantling Hamas in southern Gaza was always going to be tougher than in the north. But the challenge is being exacerbated by insistent ambivalence...
In seeking The Hague’s intervention, Israel argued persuasively, South Africa is abusing the court and potentially subverting the Genocide...
Just when the stakes are highest, amid a grueling, immensely costly war, Blinken makes plain the most fundamental differences between the two...
Wanted for years by Israel, terror orchestrator Saleh al-Arouri would have figured he was untouchable in Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold. But no...
Monday’s Supreme Court decision would have plunged Israel into a constitutional crisis, were it not for the fact that we’re deep into a...
There are ‘no magic solutions and no shortcuts’ to dismantling Hamas, the IDF chief of staff stressed. And as the army shifts focus to...
Army chiefs warned from the start the war would be long and hard. And so it is proving, amid ministerial critiques, public strain, global hostility,...
We are fighting an enemy that wants to kill us all. Surely, after October 7, that challenge is sufficiently tangible and dangerous as to at least...
In their ongoing nightmare, relatives of hostages now carry the added fear that even escape might lead to the deaths of their loved ones, in hitherto...
Tamir Hayman on the cataclysmic failure of ‘assessment’ that allowed Hamas in on October 7, the progress of the fightback, and the possible road...
Gaza’s terrorist rulers predictably leverage the hostages to try to deepen division inside Israel * IDF makes vital progress at mounting cost *...
Israel left Gaza in 2005. Central to the catastrophic failure to preempt or prepare to tackle the terrorist-army that invaded on Oct. 7 was our...
Battling in Gaza, the IDF is beginning the long process of restoring public faith in its ability to protect us from savage, amoral enemies; not so our...
Looming ahead is an ‘all for all’ offer – to free remaining hostages in exchange for every jailed terrorist and ending the war;...
The amoral, barbaric terror-government plays cynical games with the families, with Israel, and even forces Biden to get involved. Of course it does....
Gaza workers used to pass through Erez. So did medical patients, diplomats, UN personnel. Then terrorists struck. Reservists, including a Google...
The cabinet’s 35-3 vote shows ministers believed there was no better arrangement, and were persuaded the war will resume afterward; Yahya Sinwar...
With unusual candor, Netanyahu says Israel is doing its utmost to free as many hostages as it can, ‘including in stages’; the IDF faces...
I was last at Kibbutz Alumim 40 years ago, months after moving to Israel. I never gave a thought to Gaza’s proximity
The foreign minister predicts a ‘diplomatic window’ of 2-3 weeks before pressure to halt the war against Hamas becomes significant; the...
People abroad who care about us keep asking me two things: How is the war going, and will Israel recover? It amounts to the same question
French president will speak with PM Netanyahu after Thursday event, Elysee Palace says; French official notes Israel has ‘an interest’ in...
Call for weekend event sparks bitter political squabbling amid surge in antisemitic incidents since October 7
A month after October 7, this is a changed nation — with a citizenry that, largely, does not rely on its political leaders but wants to regain faith...
Hamas’s October 7 slaughter of 1,400 people inside Israel did not happen in a vacuum, say Israel’s critics from UN Secretary-General Guterres on...
This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these...
More than three weeks after that blackest Shabbat in our Israeli history, we remain, unsurprisingly, a nation deep in shock. Shocked at the...
This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these...
Day 17 of the war against Hamas finds Israel in a strange, disquieting, and potentially vital holding pattern. Utterly surprised and near-overwhelmed...
Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda vegetable market, always among the most vibrant places in Israel’s capital, was pitifully underpopulated on Thursday,...
As the fog of war begins to lift, or rather the heavy layer of Hamas disinformation, it appears increasingly clear that it was not a hospital that was...
BERLIN, Germany — Jordanian King Abdullah II warned Tuesday of a dire situation in the Middle East if the conflict between Israel and the Hamas...
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Nobody I know has slept remotely properly for days. Not since last Shabbat morning. Everybody I know is horrified beyond words at the unthinkable mass...
This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these...
With every passing hour since hundreds of Hamas gunmen burst across the Gaza border on Saturday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warning...
Throughout one of the blackest days in Israeli history on Saturday, military veterans and commentators drew comparisons between the intelligence and...
Much of Israel was awakened on Saturday morning to scarcely conceivable scenes and sounds of rocket attacks, and parts of southern Israel to gunfire,...
This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these...
This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these...