Palestinians say teen shot and killed by IDF during Jewish West Bank pilgrimage

Palestinian officials said a 16-year-old Palestinian died early Wednesday after being wounded during clashes with the IDF near a Jewish shrine in...

Millions in funds for Arab community approved in Knesset Finance Committee

The Knesset Finance Committee authorized the transfer of NIS 740 million ($220 million) in pre-approved funding for the Arab community on Tuesday....

Son, grandchildren of MK hurt in West Bank rock-throwing attack

The son and two grandchildren of a right-wing lawmaker were wounded Tuesday night after rocks allegedly thrown by a Palestinian attacker hit their...

A Pakistani Group Visited Israel. Then Pakistan Erupted

For Muslims, Jews are fellow Ahl e Kitab (People of the Book) and children of Abraham, a religious kinship that, ideally, should translate into...

China’s Cardinal Sins in Hong Kong

Relations between Russia and Algeria are Developing Rapidly

Unlike Europe, Russia did not leave a colonial imprint on the Arab world. Moreover, it was Moscow that in the previous century was actively...

Turkish FM meets with PA President Abbas, says stance on Palestinians won’t change

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday night in a rare visit, on the eve of...

Biden: ‘When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?’

WASHINGTON (AP) — An anguished and angry US President Joe Biden called for new restrictions on firearms Tuesday night after a gunman massacred 18...

Bennett mourns ‘horrific murder of innocent children and teachers’ in Texas massacre

Israeli leaders on Wednesday expressed their condolences after a gunman massacred at least 19 children at an elementary school in Texas. Local...

Stilled life: Why did farmers flee a homestead 2,100 years ago in the Galilee?

What caused a family to pick up and abandon their farm 2,100 years ago in the eastern Galilee? An unprecedented Hellenistic-era farmstead uncovered...

47-year veteran of Brooklyn’s Acme Smoked Fish celebrates his final ‘Fish Friday’

New York Jewish Week — Every Friday, a line snakes down the block at the Acme Smoked Fish headquarters on Gem Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn,...

GOP primary win for Georgia secretary who wouldn’t ‘find’ votes for Trump in 2020

ATLANTA, United States (AP) — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who was a top target of former US President Donald Trump, has won...

Feed people or feed conflict, UN chief warns

By John J. Metzler "If we do not feed people, we feed conflict," warned U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressing an urgent summit on food...

Why Didn't Israelis Condemn the Buffalo Shooter's Hate Crime?

Since last week, I’ve carefully followed the Instagram page of Noa Tishby, a valued diplomat and our special envoy in the fight against global...

VOX POPULI: Biden’s gaffes about China may well be scripted, like ‘manzai’

Would the United States defend Taiwan if China invaded? Washington's traditional stance has been to remain vague, saying neither yes nor no. But at...

Another Phase in Japan’s Relations with Europe; But with Which?

Japan is increasingly marking its presence at the table of the Great Game as a significant participant. To be more precise, Japan is returning to...

Coronavirus has Reached North Korea

Alas, this has happened and the author begins a series of articles on what the situation looks like at the moment, as well as on the likely causes...

Reasons To Doubt the Foreign Policy of The New Labor Government

Australia held a general election last Saturday, 21 May. The governing Liberal National party coalition was heavily defeated. It will be replaced...

Preventivno

Poznopopoldanski veter je po pobočju navzgor s seboj prinašal zvoke oddaljenih bobnov. Sprva komaj slišno, nato pa vse bolj razločno, da so...

Japan's unwelcome move

Tokyo should not seek UNSC permanent seat U.S. President Joe Biden's support for Japan's bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations...

Fair and neutral Assembly speaker

DPK should cede judiciary committee chairmanship to ruling party The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) elected five-term lawmaker Kim...

‘I hope she’s alive’: Relatives wait for answers following Texas school shooting

AP — Relatives turned to social media and waited in a desperate attempt to find their missing children as the death toll in a gruesome school...

In Uruguay, a ritzy resort city’s Jewish population has doubled during the pandemic

PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay (JTA) — The upscale Uruguayan coastal resort city of Punta del Este checks a lot of boxes for 18-year-old Argentine Sofia...

Unrepentant Taylor Greene wins GOP primary in Georgia, repeats conspiracy theories

A defiant US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene easily defeated five fellow Republicans on Tuesday in a primary race that showed her conservative Georgia...

India has become a US partner in countering China - a limited partner, that is

By Doyle McManus For more than two decades, American presidents have invested high hopes in a deepening U.S. relationship with India, the world's...

Reminiscing Poland

By Choe Chong-dae Ever since Korea opened its doors to the outside world in 1876, many foreigners have entered Korea through the port city of...

Economic security between Korea and Latin-America

By Federico Alberto Cuello Camilo Step by step, a realignment is taking place in a world that had turned the page, supposedly, to the Cold War. A...

Welcome reboot of Korea-US alliance

By Kim Won-soo The summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and his Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol took place merely a dozen days following...

EDITORIAL: Quad’s mission must be to build an inclusive regional order

The world today requires an international order that is based on rules, not on the desires of major nations. We hope to see the Quad serving as a...

Biden's empty Taiwan rhetoric reveals Quad's core weakness

Group will have to move fast if it is to maintain status quo in the Indo-Pacific

‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ is filming an Israel scene and looking for ‘Jewish types’

Kveller via JTA — Season four of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” was just as Jewy as the ones that came before it — with bar mitzvah scenes, lots...

New Australian government must continue crucial efforts to deter China

Economic and security cooperation among democratic allies is critical to ensuring stability in Indo-Pacific

Second body found in exhumation of grave of suspected ‘kidnapped’ Yemenite child

Officials exhuming the grave of a baby who died in 1952 to confirm to the boy’s family that he really is buried there, halted the dig on Tuesday...

Report: Shin Bet urged no intervention in Abu Akleh funeral; police ignored it

Police ignored a recommendation from the Shin Bet in the lead up to the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, suggesting that it...

Texas elementary school massacre sparks yet another gun control debate in US

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A mass school shooting that left 19 schoolchildren and two teachers dead in the deeply pro-gun state of Texas...

(POGLEDI) Samorogi na pohodu

Če gre verjeti investitorjem - in ti po navadi vedo najbolje, saj prav oni soustvarjajo trende -, bo letošnje leto prelomno na področju prevzemov...

One evening a week, no entertainment

A steady way to put more meaning into our lives and get more out of it Israel is doing very well with one meatless day per week. It’s time to...

Does torture help fight terrorism?

The barbaric killing spree in the Israeli town Elad, as Independence Day was coming to end, was the latest deadly terror attack in a series of...

Biased CNN Report Claims Abu Akleh Killed in Targeted Attack by Israel

Two news organizations released reports today regarding the tragic death of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 in Jenin.  One,...

Mass school shootings is nothing new

My heart breaks each and every time I hear about another senseless school shooting. Once again our country is in mourning. This time an elementary...

Blue and White MK vows to boycott votes due to planned reforms, in blow to coalition

A lawmaker from Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party said Wednesday he would no longer vote for coalition bills in protest of...

Startup Nation: How Israel Climbed The Ranks

Despite economic drawbacks experienced throughout 2020 and 2021 as much of the global economy tries to shake off the effects caused by the...

Israel: Trading one demographic time-bomb for another? Part 3

On 13 June 2021, with a 60–59 vote and 1 abstention, the Knesset voted to approve the 36th government of Israel led by Naftali Bennett and Yair...

If I Forget Thee…

Naomi Shemer wrote her famous song “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav” in 1967, on the eve of a war whose outcome she could not have known. The song,...