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AG suspends case against Netanyahu aides accused of harassing key witness in PM’s trial

AG suspends case against Netanyahu aides accused of harassing key witness in PM’s trial

Failure to secure extradition of Yisrael Einhorn from Serbia leaves ‘no practical option’ to get his testimony on alleged intimidation of Shlomo...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The African century begins with unity – or it does not begin.Part 1: The land without borders – the single passport to return Africa to Africans

The African century begins with unity – or it does not begin.Part 1: The land without borders – the single passport to return Africa to Africans...

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New Eastern Outlook

Mohamed Lamine Kaba

Jews protest at New York Times office against column alleging abuse of Palestinians

Jews protest at New York Times office against column alleging abuse of Palestinians

Protesters chant ‘Stop the libels, stop the hate,’ outside newspaper’s Manhattan office, expressing outrage and fear that the coverage could...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

The deafening silence: Israel’s inexcusable absence from the Es-Smara chorus

The deafening silence: Israel’s inexcusable absence from the Es-Smara chorus

When projectiles tore through the air above Es-Smara on the evening of May 5 – landing near a civilian prison, behind a cemetery, and wounding a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Adil Faouzi

The Iran war is rewiring the geopolitics of tech in Asia

The Iran war is rewiring the geopolitics of tech in Asia

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Nikkei Asian Review

Abishur Prakash

Australia bans neo-Nazi organization under new law criminalizing hate groups

Australia bans neo-Nazi organization under new law criminalizing hate groups

The National Socialist Network is the second group to be banned under the law, after Islamist movement Hizb ut-Tahrir was outlawed in March

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The Times of Israel

Charlotte Graham-McLay

Putin’s ‘special military operation’ is a catastrophic failure

Putin’s ‘special military operation’ is a catastrophic failure

On Feb. 24, 2022, after Kyiv awoke to a series of missile explosions, Vladimir Putin appeared on millions of television screens seated between two...

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The Japan Times

Sergey Maidukov

Muslim Americans accuse Republicans of using congressional hearings to stoke fear

Muslim Americans accuse Republicans of using congressional hearings to stoke fear

Complaints come after House Judiciary Subcommittee held hearing titled ‘Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam and Sharia Law are Incompatible...

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The Times of Israel

Kanishka Singh

A Man Is Not A Number (Bamidbar)

The Book of Numbers begins, unsurprisingly, by counting. At the opening of Bamidbar (lit. In the wilderness), God tells Moses to take a census of the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Noam raucher

The Witness That Cannot Survive Cross-Examination, Part II

The witness’s own documents convict the institution Part I tried LGGRTC through the institutions that have already impeached it. Lithuania’s own...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

How many Godzillas is too many Godzillas?

How many Godzillas is too many Godzillas?

Though I am a lifelong member of the cult of "Godzilla," I am a know-nothing neophyte next to some of my fellow enthusiasts. I’m...

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The Japan Times

Howard Chua-Eoan

Soldier killed by Hezbollah mortar shell in south Lebanon; rocket fired at north

Slain soldier named as Staff Sgt. Negev Dagan; IDF issues evacuation warnings near Tyre, strikes Hezbollah targets, after third round of...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

How David Ben-Gurion got the Palestinians wrong in 1948

How David Ben-Gurion got the Palestinians wrong in 1948

When European Jewish settlers embarked on brutal ethnic cleansing to establish Israel in 1948, they thought the Palestinian population would be the...

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Al Jazeera

Refaat Ibrahim

Hong Kong’s National Security Education: From ‘Asia’s World City’ to a Sinocentric Node

Hong Kong’s National Security Education: From ‘Asia’s World City’ to a Sinocentric Node

National security education is a powerful tool of spatial and ideological governance, producing new geographical imaginations.

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E-International

Ho-Yeung Yiu

Herzog scraps appearance at JTS after objection from pro-Palestinian students

Herzog scraps appearance at JTS after objection from pro-Palestinian students

President says unspecified ‘circumstances’ preventing his travel to Conservative Judaism flagship in New York; chancellor slams ‘public media...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Ignoring ‘pay-for-slay’ reform, Ramallah court tells PA to reinstate money for prisoner

Ignoring ‘pay-for-slay’ reform, Ramallah court tells PA to reinstate money for prisoner

Unclear if decision affects other 1,600 security inmates no longer receiving controversial stipends, but it potentially marks another blow to...

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The Times of Israel

Nurit Yohanan

The Broken Spell that will Save Us

The Broken Spell that will Save Us

Allegory Inspired by Rumpelstiltskin In a sunny, ancient and restless land in the Middle East lived a tiny, old-new nation called Haaretz, vibrant,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sara Azikri-Dobner

Sir John Monash: The Jewish Australian Who Became Australia’s Greatest General

Sir John Monash: The Jewish Australian Who Became Australia’s Greatest General

The Australian Everyone Knows — But Few Really Know As an Australian, I wanted to write something about Sir John Monash – arguably the greatest...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Damon Isherwood

The Jewish Power Blog: Deep State

The Hasmoneans (Macabees), leaders of the revolt against the Seleucids in the second century BCE, were of priestly descent.  The fact that they took...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Marc J. Rosenstein

Editor's Choice: Xi's Taiwan warning steals the headlines in first round of US-China summit

Editor's Choice: Xi's Taiwan warning steals the headlines in first round of US-China summit

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Nikkei Asian Review

Akito Tanaka

Daily Briefing May 15: Art on trial from Venice to Jerusalem

Daily Briefing May 15: Art on trial from Venice to Jerusalem

Culture editor Jessica Steinberg on anti-Israel protests at the Venice Biennale, a new theater production about the Adolf Eichmann trial and Yaacov...

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The Times of Israel

Gabriella jacobs

Will artificial intelligence solve wealthy nations' debt woes?

Will artificial intelligence solve wealthy nations' debt woes?

HONG KONG – Many people seem convinced that the productivity gains from AI will solve the problem of unsustainable budget deficits in advanced...

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The Japan Times

Kenneth Rogoff

Beyond unipolarity and the end of strategic certainty: Lessons imposed by the war on Iran

Beyond unipolarity and the end of strategic certainty: Lessons imposed by the war on Iran

The war on Iran stands as a revealing reflection of a profound structural shift in an international order that has been taking shape for years. The...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

Jerusalem-A United City

King David in his Book of Psalms, describes Jerusalem as עיר שחברה לה יחדיו, “a city that is united together.” It is the only city...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

The Long War Against Israel’s Existence

The Long War Against Israel’s Existence

The Recurring Echo of History: Understanding Israel’s Defensive Reality The history of the modern State of Israel is often viewed through a lens of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

The Global Water Cycle Is Critical Infrastructure

The Global Water Cycle Is Critical Infrastructure

BEIJING—The global water cycle is our planet’s life-support system. It is a powerful environmental pump, with forests transpiring moisture and...

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Project Syndicate

Erik Berglöf

Shekel vs. Dollar: Guess Who’s Winning? (And Why)

Israel has just been through almost three years of continuous war on several fronts. Tens of thousands of reservists have spent hundreds of days out...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

The People Who Did Not Look Away

An African liberation movement did something many governments, universities, newspapers, and feminist organizations refused to do. It read the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Africa Forward Summit 2026: France’s two-faced Presence in Africa

Africa Forward Summit 2026: France’s two-faced Presence in Africa France cannot decide the image it wants to present in Africa; after burning down...

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New Eastern Outlook

Simon Chege Ndiritu

Israel & Trinidad and Tobago: Mirrors & Parallels – Part 3

PART 3 of 3: Israel-Trinidad and Tobago Mirrors and Parallels. Read PART 1 here. Read PART 2 here.  Trinidad and Tobago gives Israel something it has...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nicholas Jagdeo

Capital Deepening and Brilliance of Startup Nation: What Growth Theory Tells Us

Israel’s economy contracted by 3.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2025 as the Iran conflict shuttered businesses and cratered exports. By early...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

The New York Times missed the mark on Israel and Eurovision

The New York Times missed the mark on Israel and Eurovision

Claims that Israel manipulates Eurovision voting ignore the obvious reality: In a politicized contest, a concentrated bloc of supporters outweighs a...

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The Times of Israel

Amir Ben-David

Was Xi Jinping Inevitable?

Was Xi Jinping Inevitable?

LONDON—The lead-up to US President Donald Trump’s two-day summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, reflected the prevailing assumption...

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Project Syndicate

Steve Tsang

Iraq seeking assistance from IMF and World Bank after oil income slashed by Iran war

Iraq seeking assistance from IMF and World Bank after oil income slashed by Iran war

Talks commenced during global lenders’ meeting in Washington last month, and are expected to be finalized once a new government assumes power in...

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The Times of Israel

Andrea Shalal

VOX POPULI: Leaders, take care not to turn into the ‘monster’ you claim to fear

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Opinion – What the Iran War Vindicates about Clausewitz

Opinion – What the Iran War Vindicates about Clausewitz

Washington has not yet demonstrated it can turn military superiority into a durable political outcome – a problem Clausewitz understood better than...

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E-International

Andrew Latham

One Weapon, One Button, Zero Margin: Iran’s Project 110 and 1964’s ‘Fail-Safe’

In Sidney Lumet’s 1964 masterpiece Fail-Safe, a single technical glitch–a tiny electronic component that fails at the worst possible moment–...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael mosley

Haredi extremists demonstrate outside Military Police chief’s home, 2 weeks after breaking into it

Haredi extremists demonstrate outside Military Police chief’s home, 2 weeks after breaking into it

IDF ‘strongly condemns’ protest by demonstrators opposed to arrests of Haredi draft evaders; one protester reportedly detained, then released a...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Trump says ‘decimation’ of Iran’s army ‘to be continued’ after he and China’s Xi discuss Hormuz

Trump says ‘decimation’ of Iran’s army ‘to be continued’ after he and China’s Xi discuss Hormuz

Trump: Xi pledged China won’t send military gear to Iran; US House narrowly rejects bid to rein in Trump’s war powers; Netanyahu: ‘The regime of...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

Trump posts that ‘the military decimation of Iran’ is ‘to be continued’

Trump posts that ‘the military decimation of Iran’ is ‘to be continued’

US House rejects bid to rein in Trump Iran war powers by one vote * Jews protest Kristof column outside NYT office * ‘Productive’ daylong talks...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Netanyahu said seeking to dissuade Haredi parties from backing September elections date

Netanyahu said seeking to dissuade Haredi parties from backing September elections date

PM reportedly cites need to focus on Iran war; government said to be planning 5-year program to support ultra-Orthodox community; poll again predicts...

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The Times of Israel

Stav Levaton

Do You Hate Vision Boards? Me Too

Do You Hate Vision Boards? Me Too

Personal Perspective: A new approach to vision boards helped my mental health.

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Psychology Today

Victoria Maxwell

When a Police Interrogator Tells You It Isn’t Your Fault

When a Police Interrogator Tells You It Isn’t Your Fault

Does a confession still count if the interrogator tells you it's not your fault?

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Psychology Today

Fabiana Alceste Ph.d

Love as Law, Law as Love (Bamidbar, Covenant & Conversation)

Love as Law, Law as Love (Bamidbar, Covenant & Conversation)

On the face of it the connections between the sedra and haftara of Bamidbar are slender.[1] The first has to do with demography. Bamidbar begins with...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan Sacks

The New York Times' Blood Libel Against Israel

The New York Times' Blood Libel Against Israel

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Haaretz

Israel Harel

Z izginjanjem travniškega cvetja izginja še marsikaj

Z izginjanjem travniškega cvetja izginja še marsikaj

‘Travniki so že zeleni, rožice so razcvetene …« pravi slovenska ljudska pesem. Pustimo zdaj nadaljevanje, ko pridejo kosci in so potem rožice...

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Dnevnik

Andrej Velkavrh

How Sports Friendships Can Protect Mental Health

How Sports Friendships Can Protect Mental Health

Kevin Love’s story shows why teammates and close friends can be life-saving.

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Psychology Today

Tess m. kilwein

Ceasefire nation: Caught between war and peace, can Israelis move forward?

Ceasefire nation: Caught between war and peace, can Israelis move forward?

Day to day, most Israelis aren’t living in wartime, but with shaky truces on 3 fronts and the possibility of conflict around the corner,...

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The Times of Israel

Ben Sales

Recesija partnerstev in ciljana demografija

Recesija partnerstev in ciljana demografija

Statistično je stopnja rasti BDP vsota stopnje rasti prebivalstva in stopnje rasti produktivnosti. Če želimo zagotavljati spodobno stopnjo rasti...

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Dnevnik

Jože P. Damijan

Netanyahu the Altruist: U.S. Aid Talk Masks Israel's War Budget Crunch

Netanyahu the Altruist: U.S. Aid Talk Masks Israel's War Budget Crunch

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Haaretz

Sami Peretz