Two shooters opened fire at Sarona Market in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, killing four people and injuring at least three others, reports the Times of Israel. According to authorities, both shooters were captured alive, with one undergoing surgery at a local hospital after being shot by a security guard.
In Tel Aviv and the West Bank on Thursday, five people were killed in two stabbing and shooting attacks carried out by Palestinians, Israeli authorities said. According to the New York Times, three Israelis, an 18-year-old American yeshiva student, and a Palestinian were killed.
Following a report of a rocket attack near the Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Delta, U.S. Air, and United have canceled or redirected flights headed there. At 12:15 p.m., the FAA banned all U.S. airlines from flying to Ben Gurion for 24 hours.
Surveillance footage showing city workers in Tel Aviv painting a handicapped spot around a woman's legally parked car and towing her car away has shocked many around the world after it was uploaded to the victim's Facebook page.
Police in Israel are on the hunt for two suspected terrorists as an apparent bomb explosion aboard a civilian bus in Tel Aviv injured at least 21 people.
Fighting between Israel and the Palestinian people entered its fourth day today, and eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli fighter jets targeting Hamas government compounds, tunnels and transformers. That brought the overall death toll to at least 45, with all but three of those being Palestinians.
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Kabbalah leader Philip Berg had a birthday party in Tel Aviv, and someone put video of it on YouTube. Watch "the Rav" and his followers get jiggy to a Madonna song about blowjobs and other Kabbalah-approved tunes.
As Adrian points out, idiots who walk the wrong way through airport security—like the guy who forced 10,000 people to evacuate a Newark terminal last night—will always happen. But the pandemonium Newark's wrong-wayer caused? Preventable.
This evening, a gunman opened fire on a Tel Aviv recreation center/cafe dedicated to supporting the area's gay community. Reports now list three dead, twelve injured, and most targets minors. And there's no question that this was a hate crime.
Way off our geographical radar, but this has such obvious local application. Tel Aviv "creative co-op" VeeCee has launched a campaign to bring down inflated rents by infesting overpriced neighborhoods with cardboard prostitutes. "More whores in your neighborhood = lower rent prices." Flickr set here, "making of"…
Israeli journalist Lisa Goldman reproduces an interesting story regarding the friendship recently established between the respective editors of Time Out Beirut and Time Out Tel Aviv. Though TOB has ceased publication for obvious reasons, TOTA ran a July 20 cover (shortly after the more overt hostilities commenced)…
