In hot mic comments, PM lashes ‘crazy’ EU; Israeli student’s Auschwitz theft; Radiohead-Israel lovefest; Moms to pay child support; Oldest smile found

2017. július 19 16:18

In hot mic comments, PM lashes ‘crazy’ EU; Israeli student’s Auschwitz theft; Radiohead-Israel lovefest; Moms to pay child support; Oldest smile found

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‘There is no logic here. Europe is undermining its security by undermining Israel’
In hot mic comments, Netanyahu lashes EU’s ‘crazy’ policy on Israel
Unaware that audio from his closed-door meeting with Central European leaders is being piped to reporters, PM says Europe will ‘shrivel and disappear’ if it doesn’t change course
By RAPHAEL AHREN
PM Netanyahu and the heads of state from Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland, in Budapest, July 19, 2017 (Haim Tzach/GPO)
PM Netanyahu and the heads of state from Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland, in Budapest, July 19, 2017 (Haim Tzach/GPO)
Hungarian PM tells EU to improve its ties with Israel
By RAPHAEL AHREN
BDS activist Omar Barghouti at a pro-boycott rally in Ramallah, February 2016. (YouTube screen capture)
Irish president meets leader of anti-Israel boycott movement
By RAPHAEL AHREN
British filmmaker Ken Loach seen during an interview with the UK's Channel 4 News in October 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)
Ken Loach says income from Israel screenings will fund BDS
By ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT
Temple Mount tensions spark fourth day of clashes
Police arrest a demonstrator during scuffles at Lions Gate; holy site reopened to non-Muslims after closure over Jewish prayer
By DOV LIEBER and ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT
A Muslim protester is arrested outside Jerusalem's Old City on July 19, 2017 (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)
A picture taken on July 17, 2017, shows the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)
Bill to hinder East Jerusalem withdrawal clears first hurdle
By MARISSA NEWMAN
Tourists walk around the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City on July 17, 2017. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
Police close Temple Mount to non-Muslims over Jewish prayer
By ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT
Former Mexican ambassador to UNESCO Andres Roemer. (Screen capture: YouTube)
PM meets Mexican diplomat fired for challenging UNESCO Jerusalem vote
By RAPHAEL AHREN
LIVE UPDATES Latest: Anti-prostitution bills to jail ‘johns’ leap first Knesset hurdle
Police: Temple Mount metal detectors may not be permanent
Hungarian PM calls on EU to restore ‘common sense’ in Israel policy; Saudi airline says US laptop ban lifted; Israel sending firefighting plane to help with Montenegro wildfires
By TAMAR PILEGGI
A Muslim worshiper enters the Temple Mount compound on July 18, 2017. (Israel Police)
Thom Yorke of Radiohead performs on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in Somerset, South West England, on June 23, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Oli SCARFF / AFP PHOTO / Oli SCARFF)
Before Radiohead conquered the world, it was already Israel’s darling
While the band struggled through grungy near-obscurity in the UK in the mid ’90s, it was huge in Israel; on Wednesday, it returns to a place that’s been in sync with its futurist vibe from the very start
By JUDAH ARI GROSS
Related article: Noted Israeli violinist posts string ode to Radiohead
In landmark ruling, court says women should pay child support
Expanded panel of seven Supreme Court justices rules that existing law discriminates against men
By SUE SURKES
Divorced men protesting for men's rights in divorce during a lecture series called "Judges on the Bar" at the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, June 5, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Related article: Court gives government 2 months to reassess gay adoption policy
Israeli student steals artifacts from Auschwitz for art project
Detail of a Yedioth Ahronoth magazine cover showing student Rotem Bides, 27, and some of the artifacts she stole from Auschwitz (Times of Israel)
Memorial seeks to sue Rotem Bides, who admits to newspaper she took the objects… including a sign forbidding artifact theft
By ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT
Related article: Dutch railway sends Holocaust survivor seeking restitution to customer service
Ramat Eshkol — ultra-Orthodox; French Hill — more secular
Jerusalem mayor and ultra-Orthodox carve up capital
Barkat denies deal, which specifies the religious character of individual neighborhoods, is aimed at ensiring Haredi support when he runs for reelection; deputy mayor calls it ‘unethical, illegal’
By SUE SURKES
Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat, visits the the Bukharan neighborhood during elections for the community administration, December 10, 2011. Photo by (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
William Attal, the brother of Sarah Halimi who was killed in April in an apparent anti-Semitic attack, outside the central synagogue in the Creteil suburb of Paris, June 17, 2017. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)
Seeking justice, brother of Sarah Halimi sees ‘warning’ for French Jews in grisly slaying
In family’s first major interview, William Attal says he can ‘no longer stay silent’ over his sister’s brutal killing by a Muslim neighbor in April, fumes at police refusal to acknowledge it was an anti-Semitic crime
By RAOUL WOOTLIFF
Related article: Jean-Marie Le Pen faces trial for ‘oven’ swipe at Jewish singer
The 'smiley pot' was discovered by a team led by Nicolo Marchetti, an archeology professor at the University of Bologna, during excavations in Turkey's Gaziantep province alongside the Syria border. (courtesy)
History’s ‘oldest smile’ found on 4,000-year-old pot in Turkey
Cheerful artifact from 1,700 BCE discovered near border with war-torn Syria, at the site of a famous biblical battle where Lawrence of Arabia once dug
By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN
Related article: Biblical account of Gezer’s destruction gains ground with torched skeleton finds
Amanda B. Dan
Every death is a cascade of loss
AMANDA B. DAN How do you explain to your 13-year-old son why his friend is dead?
Sara Weissman
Forget BDS. Worry about this instead.
SARA WEISSMAN ‘Anti-normalization’ puts Zionism in a basket with unconscionable ideas that must be protested
David Harris
Jewish unity: Call me naive
DAVID HARRIS Is Israel truly the state of all Jews? There are too many indications to the contrary
Leah Solomon
Gaza is burning
LEAH SOLOMON No A/C, no refrigeration, raw sewage in the streets — with the ability to help Gazans, how can Israel not do so?
Members of a Russian delegation including former Russian prime minister Sergey Vadimovich Stepahin (2R) cut a ribbon during the re-opening of the Sergei Compound in Jerusalemafter six years of renovation work, July 18, 2017, (AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON)
Renovated Tsarist hostel reopens in Jerusalem
Sergei’s Courtyard, part of a 19th-century complex built with stone imported from Russia, has been renovated for Russian Orthodox pilgrims
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Mark Schiefelbein)
China says it will host Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace symposium’
During meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, Xi Jinping says Chinese will work ‘ceaselessly’ to end decades old conflict
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert leaves Ramle's Ma’asiyahu prison on July 2, 2017, following his release. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Olmert briefly held at airport over old no-fly order
Authorities blame bureaucratic mixup for neglecting to cancel directive that had been part of Holyland conviction
Illustrative: A police cruiser in the Israeli coastal town of Bat Yam on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)
Bat Yam resident arrested for suspected pedophilia
39-year-old allegedly had sexually explicit conversations with minors on the internet, sent photos
Wrigley Field on June 24, 2014. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
Kosher hot dogs available at Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field
The home of the 2016 World Series champion becomes 13th major league ballpark to sell kosher food
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Then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon aboard the INS Tanin submarine as it docks for the first time at the Haifa Port, September 23, 2014. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/ FLASH90)
The tip of the bribeberg?
Like a submarine with a screen door, the press is inundated with news that the defense purchasing scandal could expand to other deals, though whether it will drown Netanyahu remains to be seen
Prince William, Kate visit former Nazi concentration camp in Poland
Royal couple meets with two British survivors of Stutthof in Gdansk, where 28,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust
By STUART WINER
Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (2nd L), and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge (L), visit the former Stutthof Nazi concentration camp near Gdansk, Poland, on July 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Simon Krawczyk)
Trump was talked out of declaring Iran in breach of nuke deal
As midnight deadline approached, aides rushed to dissuade US president from reinstating nuclear sanctions lifted as part of 2015 accord
By JOSH LEDERMAN
US President Donald Trump during a lunch with members of the US military in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)
Related article: Iranian president threatens response to US sanctions
Christian Zionists still uncertain about Trump — but sure glad Obama is out
Mike Pence steals the show at Evangelical pro-Israel conference, as some cast shade on US president’s mixed messages toward Jewish state
By RON KAMPEAS
Pastor John Hagee (L) founder of Christians United for Israel, shaking hands with Vice President Mike Pence at CUFI’s annual conference, July 17, 2017. (Kasim Hafeez/CUFI)
Related article: ADL releases ‘Who’s Who’ guide of alt-right and alt-lite extremists
Watchdog says ministry head illegally helped Haifa ammonia plant
State Comptroller accuses Israel Danziger of breaking conflict of interest rules during search for new location for Haifa Chemicals storage tank
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
A view of the ammonia tank in Haifa on June 30, 2017. (Flash90)
Related article: Bezeq probe examines a web of bad connections
Netanyahu kept defense minister in dark about German-Egyptian submarine deal — report
When President Rivlin conveyed concern about the agreement to Merkel, she told him Israel had already approved it
By SUE SURKES
President Reuven Rivlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, May 12, 2015. (YouTube screenshot)
Related article: France indicts two ex-bosses in Malaysia submarine graft case
IDF says videos prove Hezbollah hiding behind NGO at border
Army releases new footage showing operatives from the Iran-backed terrorist group watching Israeli activities
By JUDAH ARI GROSS
A Hezbollah observation post on the Israeli-Lebanese border, according to the IDF. Photo released on June 22, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
Israel, Hamas make prisoner swap counteroffers – report
Jerusalem said seeking video of Israelis held in Gaza, while terror group reportedly demands release of Shalit deal recidivists
By ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT
Fighters from the Izz-a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas terror group, attend a memorial service for a commander killed in an apparently accidental explosion in the southern Gaza Strip on June 10, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)
Sarah Tuttle Singer and Yossi Klein Halevy are among those featured at the 'Becoming Israeli' book launch.
Becoming Israeli: 40 immigrants reflect on the ups and downs of aliyah
Book launch in Jerusalem on July 23 features Sarah Tuttle-Singer, Yossi Klein Halevi, Benji Lovitt and editor Akiva Gersh
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF