The Times of Israel
Our investigations stand on The Times of Israel's reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
26 stories, each opening at its source.
- The Times of Israel — the ADL and the KKK, 'born of the same murder,' 100 years ago
- The Times of Israel — Foreign Ministry to receive massive budget for public diplomacy abroad (~$150M)
- Times of Israel, 2015 declassification coverage
- Times of Israel on the 2021 promotion
- The Times of Israel — Smotrich says there's no Palestinian people
- Ellison’s ties to Netanyahu and the trial record — Reuters / Times of Israel coverage
- The Times of Israel — days before Oct. 7, UAE leader warned Netanyahu; PM did nothing with the info (report)
- The Times of Israel — Liberman: Mossad chief and top general 'begged' Qatar to pay Hamas
- Times of Israel — analysis of the footage calls Israel's account into question
- Times of Israel / JTA — 'Israel just quintupled its PR budget to $730 million; experts say it won't work' (the $730M figure, ~5x prior year, ~20x pre-war baseline, Sa'ar quote)
- Pew Research Center via Times of Israel — 60% of Americans hold an unfavorable view of Israel, up sharply since 2022
- Times of Israel — 'Dead Sea product hawkers skirt law, decency' (Israeli Foreign Ministry)
- The Times of Israel — bill to withhold federal funds from universities boycotting Israel
- Times of Israel — IDF officers invoked the 'Hannibal' protocol during October 7 fighting, report says
- Record raised for IDF at Beverly Hills gala (Ellison’s gift) — Times of Israel
- Times of Israel — freed hostage recounts ordeal, slams Israeli failures, speaks well of captors
- The Times of Israel — Netanyahu's reported divide-and-rule remarks on strengthening Hamas (March 2019)
- The Times of Israel — Knesset panel on Vaturi's 'burn Gaza' calls
- Times of Israel retrospective
- Times of Israel — 'Tantura' director on the alleged 1948 massacre and the decades of silence (2022)
- Times of Israel — Waltz's coordination with Netanyahu on Iran strike contributed to firing
- Times of Israel — US charges 10 Israelis in illegal network of mall kiosks (the recruitment model)
- Times of Israel — 'Lawmaker backs segregated Jewish-Arab maternity wards' (Smotrich, 2016)
- Times of Israel, Wexner Foundation: We paid Barak $2.3 million for 2 reports (July 9, 2020) — the Foundation’s 2020 statement
- Times of Israel — Lifshitz press conference panned as disastrous for Israel, PR win for Hamas
- The Times of Israel — Gallant announces 'complete siege' (Oct 9, 2023)
Where their work appears on this site
- Boycott Israel, Lose Your Funding →
- The Hannibal Directive on October 7 →
- In Their Own Words →
- The Lavon Affair: Operation Susannah and the Israeli false-flag campaign in Egypt →
- The Permanent Pollster →
- First They Kill. Then They Find a Reason. →
- How Netanyahu Kept Hamas in Power →
- The Warning He Didn't Pass On →
- “Not Like Everyone Else”: Israel’s Ideology of Exemption →
- Partition & the Nakba →
- Jonathan Pollard: the largest documented US intelligence theft on behalf of a foreign ally →
- The $18,000 Face Cream →
- The Ellison Press →
- The Hostages Who Praised Their Captors →
- The Leo Frank Inversion →
- Leslie Wexner →
- Israel & Zionism →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Fake Opposition →
- Media Ownership →
- The Club →
- The Oldest Lies →
- Too Big to Jail →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
23 FACT · 2 PROBABLY TRUE · 3 SOME SMOKE · 1 FALSE / MISLEADING. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- The Leo Frank Inversion →
'Even the KKK didn't believe it' — the modern Klan was revived out of Frank's lynching.
FALSE / MISLEADING - The Permanent Pollster →
A firm in Penn’s Stagwell empire registered as a foreign agent for Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
FACT - The Lavon Affair: Operation Susannah and the Israeli false-flag campaign in Egypt →
Aman directed the 1954 Cairo/Alexandria bombing campaign
FACT - Jonathan Pollard: the largest documented US intelligence theft on behalf of a foreign ally →
Aviem Sella, indicted for recruiting Pollard, was never punished and was instead rewarded by Israel.
FACT - In Their Own Words →
Bezalel Smotrich, Finance Minister: 'there is no such thing as a Palestinian people.'
FACT - The Ellison Press →
Ellison is personally close to Benjamin Netanyahu.
FACT - The Warning He Didn't Pass On →
Haaretz reported that the UAE president warned Netanyahu of a major Hamas attack ~10 days before Oct 7.
FACT - How Netanyahu Kept Hamas in Power →
In February 2020, Israel sent the Mossad chief to Qatar to urge it to keep the money flowing.
FACT - First They Kill. Then They Find a Reason. →
Israel said it targeted a Hamas camera. By a soldier's account, the army never found evidence the camera was Hamas's.
FACT - Israeli Influence on the United States →
Israel's 2026 budget raises state ‘public diplomacy’ (hasbara) spending to roughly $730 million
FACT - The $18,000 Face Cream →
Israel's own government calls these hawkers a national embarrassment.
FACT - Boycott Israel, Lose Your Funding →
It strips federal aid from the whole institution — not from individual protesting students.
FACT - The Hannibal Directive on October 7 →
It was used on October 7: 'not a single vehicle' back to Gaza.
FACT - The Ellison Press →
Larry Ellison is one of the largest individual donors to the Israeli military's US support charity.
FACT - The Lavon Affair: Operation Susannah and the Israeli false-flag campaign in Egypt →
Lavon personally and knowingly authorized the operation
SOME SMOKE - The Hostages Who Praised Their Captors →
Lifshitz said it on camera: 'they treated us very nicely.'
FACT - How Netanyahu Kept Hamas in Power →
Netanyahu framed propping up Hamas as a way to block a Palestinian state.
PROBABLY TRUE - In Their Own Words →
Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Knesset Speaker (Likud): 'erase Gaza.'
FACT - Jonathan Pollard: the largest documented US intelligence theft on behalf of a foreign ally →
Rafi Eitan later stated on the record that Prime Minister Peres and Defense Minister Rabin knew of and authorized the operation.
FACT - Partition & the Nakba →
Tantura: Israeli veterans' own testimony increasingly says surrendered prisoners were killed — but the scale, and the alleged mass grave, remain unverified.
SOME SMOKE - Israeli Influence on the United States →
The 2025-26 loop — Operation Midnight Hammer and Mike Waltz
FACT - The $18,000 Face Cream →
The business model: recruit post-army Israelis for aggressive overseas kiosk sales.
PROBABLY TRUE - “Not Like Everyone Else”: Israel’s Ideology of Exemption →
The current cabinet says it out loud: the two most powerful ministers under Milwidsky's own coalition.
FACT - Leslie Wexner →
The Ehud Barak payments, 2004–2006
FACT - The Hostages Who Praised Their Captors →
The hospital spokesman who let her speak was pushed out.
FACT - The Hannibal Directive on October 7 →
The IDF's position.
FACT - The Lavon Affair: Operation Susannah and the Israeli false-flag campaign in Egypt →
The strategic purpose was to block British withdrawal and derail Western rapprochement with Nasser
FACT - How Netanyahu Kept Hamas in Power →
Whether the money strengthened the force that attacked on Oct 7 is under scrutiny — not settled.
SOME SMOKE - In Their Own Words →
Yoav Gallant, Defense Minister: the 'complete siege' and 'human animals.'
FACT