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Stuart Winer

Stuart Winer

Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
Screen capture from video of Gal Gadot in 'Heart of Stone.' (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 18, 2023, 8:30 am
Wonder Woman to super spy: Gal Gadot previews new action flick
Israeli actress stars in ‘Heart of Stone,’ produced with her husband, in which she plays an agent for a secret peacekeeping organization trying to save the world
By Stuart Winer
Likud MK May Golan visits at then-MK Itamar Ben Gvir's makeshift Office in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, February 14, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
June 14, 2023, 9:36 am
Second woman tapped to be ministry director under current government
Minister for Advancement of the Status of Women May Golan says she will seek approval for Merav Stern to head her office
By Stuart Winer
MK Yosef Taieb, chair of the Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee leads a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 6, 2023, 10:05 pm
Ultra-Orthodox MK cheered for (mistakenly) joining LGBTQ rights meet
Shas’s Yosef Taieb slips out shortly after Knesset LGBTQ lobby members applaud him, thinking he’d joined discussion intentionally; he apparently expected a Higher Education meeting
By Stuart Winer
Undated photo of Adel Hayeb, who was acquitted by a district court of raping an 82-year-old Holocaust victim, June 5, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 5, 2023, 9:31 pm
Court clears man of raping Holocaust survivor, 82; says it’s not certain she objected
Outrage as judges say they are unconvinced that alleged victim did not consent to sex, noting lack of resistance toward 43-year-old man previously convicted of raping 70-year-old
By Stuart Winer
Gal Gadot arrives at the ninth Breakthrough Prize ceremony at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, on, April 15, 2023. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
May 25, 2023, 9:08 am
Gal Gadot was first choice to play Barbie, but wasn’t available
Producer Margot Robbie, who eventually took the part herself, says Israeli star has ‘Barbie energy,’ is so ‘impossibly beautiful’ and ‘enthusiastically kind’ that she fit the role
By Stuart Winer
MK Limor Son Har Melech attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 17, 2023, 4:33 pm
Far-right bills against ‘enemy’ flags, ‘racist sexual harassment’ given initial okay
MKs pass in preliminary vote legislation that doubles punishment for sexual harassment if committed for racist motives, and a bill banning display of flags of hostile entities
By Stuart Winer
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
May 11, 2023, 3:07 pm
EU Parliament slams ‘hateful’ Palestinian textbooks, threatens funding freeze
Resolution ‘deplores’ that problematic and inciting content has not been removed, conditions financial support for education on its removal
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Oriane Ben Kalifa, a former Border Police officer accused of assaulting a Palestinian woman in Jerusalem's Old City, seen as she arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, May 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 2, 2023, 12:53 pm
Ex-Border Police officer convicted of assaulting East Jerusalem woman at checkpoint
Court finds Oriane Ben Kalifa used unauthorized force in altercation with Hala Salim, pulling her hair and shaking her; defendant acquitted of obstructing justice
By Stuart Winer
A site that researchers say is the remain of a temporary Roman camp in the Arabian desert. (APAAME)
April 30, 2023, 10:42 am
Newly identified Roman army camps indicate unknown ancient campaign in Arabia
Google Earth imagery shows outlines of three sites in Jordan that have classic design of temporary bases built by Rome; believed tied to conquest of Nabatean kingdom
By Stuart Winer
Screen capture from video of a pro-government demonstration outside the home of former chief justice Aharon Barak in Tel Aviv, April 19, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 20, 2023, 10:34 am
‘May God burn you’: Pro-overhaul protesters rally at home of ex-chief justice Barak
Demonstrators say they responded to former Supreme Court head’s call for further rallies against government’s plan to restrict judiciary; Barak defends their right to protest
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: An empty classroom in Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem on February 10, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 19, 2023, 8:34 pm
Parents association calls middle, high school strike in anger at ministry, teachers
Students to stay home Wednesday; National Association says children used as tool in teachers’ wage dispute, protests against newly introduced humanities matriculation framework
By Stuart Winer
Rabbi Moshe Haliwa's tefillin after the straps were cut off by Jordanian airport security officials, February 20, 2023. (Moshe Haliwa)
February 22, 2023, 7:36 am
Rabbi’s tefillin desecrated during inspection by Jordanian airport officials
Moshe Haliwa says guards cut straps off phylacteries before allowing him to fly to Dubai, ‘humiliating’ experience reminded him of Holocaust images
By Stuart Winer
Passengers at the arrival hall in the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on February 6, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 20, 2023, 7:05 pm
Tour operators urge Finance Ministry to keep VAT waiver for tourists
Tourism Industry Coordinating Office sends letter warning that ending waiver would be ‘damaging and irreversible’ to industry, economy and Israel’s international image
By Stuart Winer
Environment Protection Minister Idit Silman, left, dives at the coral reefs in Eilat, February 6, 2023. (Omri Omsi/Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
February 7, 2023, 10:09 am
Environment minister goes diving to save coral
Idit Silman dons scuba gear with parks authority officials to help relocate coral that has grown on submerged garbage, as part of project to protect Eilat’s reefs
By Stuart Winer
Antisemitic vandalism on the wall of a New York synagogue, August 17, 2022. (Courtesy)
January 12, 2023, 5:15 pm
ADL: Number of Americans believing antisemitic stereotypes nearly doubled since 2019
Poll finds that 85% of people in US agree with at least one racist trope about Jews, while 20% believe at last six; 20% think Jews have ‘too much power’
By Stuart Winer
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