Israel’s incredible shrinking car heads to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

City Transformer, the Israeli company behind a car that can shrink in size to squeeze into parking spots, announced Sunday that it is heading to...

Haredi passengers said to refuse to wear masks on flight from New York to Israel

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox passengers refused to wear face masks throughout a United Airlines flight from New York to Israel that landed last week,...

Israel's apartheid regime is the work of a callous rogue state

Covid-19 can strike anywhere and anyone. We are all vulnerable, regardless of faith, nationality, ethnicity or culture. World leaders, politicians,...

How COVID-19 has changed the rules of the game in the aid sector

Optimism bias is the belief that the future will be better, much better, than the past or present. And most of us display this bias. That is not a...

As Biden embraces Trump’s America-first protectionism, foreign investors give up on the US and bet big on China. Power has shifted

Donald Trump is gone, but many aspects of his legacy are here to stay. On trade, absolutely it seems. Biden’s team members have pledged a  “new...

Republicans signal growing opposition to impeaching, convicting Trump

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republican lawmakers signaled Sunday that Democrats will have a fight on their hands to secure the conviction of Donald Trump...

An 80-year search for ‘the student K,’ murderer of Jewish babies

This is a story about a Nazi war crimes investigation that began in 1945 and continued intermittently until 2021. It concerns the brutal murder of...

Suga should listen to others, rally everyone to fight pandemic

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s blunt Diet responses, reiterating the same old explanations, have failed to convey any determination or enthusiasm...

Mapping out new strategy

Allies should work closely over North Korea The United States has vowed to map out a "new strategy" for the denuclearization of North Korea in...

Trade imbalance with Japan

It's imperative to encourage companies to invest more in R&D South Korea's trade deficit with Japan amounted to $20.84 billion last year, up from...

Penalizing people who refuse to be hospitalized for virus is absurd

Everything that happens in Lewis Carroll’s novel “Through the Looking-Glass” is absurd as it is unfolding in the topsy-turvy world of a mirror....

Strategic engagement with N. Korea

By Tong Kim The Biden administration is making it clear that it will review its policy toward North Korea in consultation with allies including...

Joe Biden gave speech America needed

By Michael Waldman Joe Biden gave the speech we needed after the trauma of an insurrectionist attack on the Capitol building before which he stood....

Navalny vs. Putin is an epic and existential battle

Seen from the outside, developments since Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny boarded a Moscow-bound plane in Berlin on Jan. 17 resemble the...

Workable words

By Casey Lartigue, Jr. "Go big or go home" is a saying meant to challenge people to do bigger things, but are there other options? It seems if you...

Rising distrust amid the pandemic

By Mehmet Fatih Oztarsu The emergence of COVID-19 has proven to be a balance-changer in the 21st global system. The deadly situation is reminiscent...

Allies need closer cooperation in diverse areas

The Korea Times will start publishing a "Letter to President Biden" series from today. The series is aimed at conveying policy recommendations in...

Can America be trusted again?

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM ― A sigh of relief swept across Europe when it became clear that Joe Biden would replace Donald Trump in the White House....

Japan and SARS-CoV-2

Exactly one year ago, the SARS-CoV-2 factor, like a typhoon that suddenly came out of nowhere, burst into the international policy space, taking...

Lapid jets back from US after pre-election parley with Democrat advisers

One of the last people to enter the country before the airport is closed at midnight Monday was opposition leader Yair Lapid. Lapid, who has been...

The Labor Party – no more

The Labor Party chose today a new leader, Merav Michaeli Mk, so first of all congratulations. Nothing to do with my political sympathies, but when...

Campus Racial Thoughtcrimes

As the Maoist-like purges on university campuses continue, yet another faculty member has suffered the consequences of speaking words that may not...

Stop the war before it starts

Embed from Getty Images Most Israelis are at least vaguely aware of the political climate in America right now. Certainly the Capitol riot made the...

The young woman of Prague: A short story

Embed from Getty Images Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary 5 Shevat 5662 of the Hebrew calendar, corresponding to 13 January 1902 of the...

The anti-Semitism in protests you don’t notice

2021 has just begun the world is already going crazy. We all witnessed what occurred in Capitol Hill and were agitated. That is not the first...

Trump’s Middle East peace policy, ‘Erratic’ or ‘Clever’?

My readers expect the truth from me and I will write only the truth and the whole truth. Too bad for those who want propaganda. I never understand...

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An Analysis of the Act of Domestic Terror That Took Place at the Capitol

When people turned on their TV sets during the afternoon on January 6th, 2021, they expected to see every routine session of Congress taking place....

Biden has only two years to prove Trumpism was a mistake

Commentary. Biden took office with a ticking clock. The moment of truth will come on November 8, 2022, when Americans will vote in the midterm...

Italy arrests ‘Black Sun’ terrorist who planned to kill women and Jews

Report. The 22-year-old from Savona operated a Telegram channel that he used to recruit right-wing extremists to carry out suicide missions....

Day 5 of International Holocaust Remembrance Week

On this fifth day of the week leading up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I review this fifth document sent to my...

Facebook deletes Netanyahu post asking to identify unvaccinated Israelis

Facebook on Monday deleted a post by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and suspended a chatbot operated by his official account for a week for...

Shovavim Today: Getting in Touch with Reality

Shomer. It’s one of those words you hear a lot in high school, as a sort of indication of either how self-righteous or lame you are, or on the...

We are all essential (Daf Yomi Pesachim 65)

“How could they walk in blood up to their ankles?” Embed from Getty Images If there has been any doubt until now that the scene at the temple...

Las protestas en Perú en perspectiva comparada

Las protestas contra el gobierno de Manuel Merino en Perú guardan múltiples paralelos con las que tuvieron lugar en otros países. Uno primero...

U.S. progressives discover patriotism

Going into Election Day last November, less than three months ago, the image of America in the eyes of the country’s progressives, its...

It’s the hypocrisy, stupid!

Not unlike the coronavirus, the BDS movement tends to come in waves. It’s always being transmitted from person to person, bubbling just below the...

Why Biden Must Not Boycott Hamas

If Hamas wins significant representation in the May elections, the international community, including Israel and the Biden administration, must...

Over 4,000 Reasons Why Transcripts From Israeli COVID Cabinet Meetings Should Be Disclosed

How COVID Rates Among ultra-Orthodox Affect Hospitals' Treatment of Secular Patients

Was the Capitol riot sedition? Just read the law

It’s an alarming accusation, and when it is made, it is often a serious danger to free expression. In many nations, including the U.S., the threat...

EU firms punching below their weight in Israeli tech scene, report shows

The economic collaboration between Israel and the European Union has not come close to fulfilling its potential, particularly with regard to the...

In Lod, a community brings ‘love thy neighbor’ to a special needs bachelor pad

LOD — When Jerusalem-based entrepreneur Udi Marili went looking for a community to adopt an experimental apartment where six young men with...

Chief rabbi condemns ‘delinquent’ Haredi rioters for ‘desecrating God’s name’

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold. Russia issues a protest to the US embassy for what Moscow says are social...

A suffering formerly Orthodox artist spreads a Jewish spark in northern Maine

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (JTA) — In this speck of a city lives an artist who starts his mornings swathed in a tallit and tefillin, spends most of his...

Japan’s diplomatic note on the South China Sea shows its self-interest at play

Last week, Japan became the latest country to submit a diplomatic note to the United Nations on the South China Sea, rejecting China’s position...

This is not my Judaism!

Today, I am ashamed to be a religious Jew. I see and hear what is happening in the Haredi neighborhoods, the violence that amounts almost to a...

Egypt is synonymous with hopelessness

Ten years ago, upheaval, hope and dreams of a better future swept through the streets of the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Today, there is nothing left...

A New Tone in US-China Relations?

HONG KONG – Donald Trump has left the White House, but Trumpism has not left US politics. With Joe Biden as America’s president, the world hopes...

Will Hamas hold or postpone its internal elections?

An important development has occurred recently in the Palestinian arena and it is related to the increasing talk of holding internal elections,...