Amy Teibel

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Ultra-Orthodox clout may ebb after Israel election

Ultra-Orthodox clout may ebb after Israel election

Amy Teibel · January 20, 2013 7:06 pm

FILE - In this July 6, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they walk to Netanyahu's car outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Obama heads into his second term weighed down not only by an American government snarled in partisan gridlock but also by a similarly unproductive relationship with the leader of Israel, the bedrock U.S. ally in the tumultuous Middle East. And the puzzle that is the U.S.-Israeli relationship under Obama and Netanyahu is only growing more complex. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Obama, Netanyahu seem headed for US-Israel clash

Amy Teibel · January 16, 2013 5:00 am

Israel's former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, center, visits the site known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. Lieberman indicated on Monday that he would quit politics if convicted in his breach of trust and fraud case. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Voter turnout push could challenge Israeli leader

Amy Teibel · January 14, 2013 5:00 am

Israel leader appeals for right-wing votes

Israel leader appeals for right-wing votes

Amy Teibel · January 6, 2013 9:50 am

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 17, 2012 file photo, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman leaves a press conference after meeting with Cyprus foreign minister Erato Kozakou Marcoullis, unseen, at Foreign house in Nicosia, Cyprus. Lieberman was formally indicted on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012 on charges of breach of trust and fraud, allegations that could hurt his political future if he is convicted. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Israel indicts ex-minister Lieberman

Amy Teibel · December 30, 2012 2:57 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo, a construction worker works on a new housing unit in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa. Israel is planning its biggest construction surge in east Jerusalem in decades, settlement opponents say, a move that would complicate prospects for restarting peace talks with the Palestinians. With more than 9,000 apartments in the pipeline, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reaffirming his opposition to ceding any parts of the holy city to the Palestinians, who say there can be no peace accord without partitioning the holy city.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Unprecedented east Jerusalem building in pipeline

Amy Teibel · December 27, 2012 5:00 am

Israeli police cordon off the area next to the site of an attempted attack outside a police station in Jabel Mukaber, in east Jerusalem, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. According to Israeli police spokesman and Palestinian sources an Arab taxi driver tried to drive into the police station and was prevented by border policemen who fired shots to stop the vehicle. Both the driver and a police officer were lightly injured in the incident. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Ilean)

Israel to build 942 more homes in east Jerusalem

Amy Teibel · December 25, 2012 5:00 am

FILE - In this March 7, 2008 file photo an ultra-orthodox Jewish youth peers through a bullet-riddled glass door before the funeral of eight yeshiva students killed in a shooting attack at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem. America's top gun lobbyist has his facts wrong when he holds up Israel's stationing of armed guards at all schools as a model of how to avoid another massacre like the Dec. 14, 2012 slaughter of 20 first-graders and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school. What's more, the gun laws in Israel, a country where most people serve in the military, are far more onerous than those in the U.S., containing restrictions that would be anathema to the National Rifle Association and its members. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

Israel rejects US gun lobby claims on its security

Amy Teibel · December 24, 2012 8:16 pm

FILE - in this Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 file photo, Israelis inspect damage at an apartment building after it was hit by a rocket fired by militants from Gaza Strip, in the israeli central city of Rishon Lezion, near Tel Aviv. Peacemaking with the Palestinians, once the main issue by far in Israeli politics, has been strikingly absent from the campaign for next month's general election. After years of public frustration with failed peace efforts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's badly divided challengers are trying instead to tap the economic frustrations of the middle class and a widespread resentment of perks enjoyed by fervently devout Jews. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Israeli election downplays Palestinian issue

Amy Teibel · December 15, 2012 8:15 pm

Israel bars academic from Berlin diplomatic event

Israel bars academic from Berlin diplomatic event

Amy Teibel · December 6, 2012 10:55 am

A Jewish settler looks at the West bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim, from the E-1 area on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. An Israeli-Palestinian showdown over plans for new Jewish settlements around Jerusalem escalated on Wednesday: Israel pushed the most contentious of the projects further along in the planning pipeline, while the Palestinian president said he would seek U.N. Security Council help to block the construction. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel, Palestinians escalate settlement showdown

Amy Teibel · December 5, 2012 5:00 am

Palestinians march during a protest against president Mahmoud Abbas in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp, northern Gaza Strip Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. Gazans protested against Abbas' remarks at an Israeli television that suggested millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants would not be able to return to the places they fled, or were forced to flee, during the fighting surrounding Israel's creation in 1948. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian leader violates taboo on refugees

Amy Teibel · November 4, 2012 4:00 am