Panel okays 12.5% increase in funds for party election campaigns

A key committee on Wednesday approved increasing public funding for political parties’ election campaigns by 12.5 percent. The Public Committee...

Out of the forest

We have thought of humans for a century or more as creatures of the savannah, shaped in every way by grassland life. Not so - by Patrick Roberts...

3 Israelis, including IDF commander, lightly wounded in clashes at Joseph’s Tomb

Palestinian gunmen opened fire during clashes with IDF troops guarding worshipers at a Jewish shrine in West Bank early Thursday, lightly wounding...

Daily Briefing June 30: 11th-hour drama as the Knesset officially disbands, finally

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world,...

(POGLED) In potem je Urškino dejanje prevpilo vse Kosovelove udarne citate. Oh, Uršika zala, zdaj tebi gorje!

- Zadnja proslava ob počastitvi 31. dneva državnosti prejšnji petek na Kongresnem trgu prestolnice je bila pričakovana z večjim vznemirjenjem....

Two Roads in the Ramallah District: A Microcosm

With the center-right government crumbling and the settlers increasing their organized assaults on Palestinians, with help from our beloved...

Algeria at 60: reflecting on history is good, but looking forward is better

This 5 July marks 60 years since Algeria got its independence from France, after an occupation that lasted over 13 decades, from 1830 until 1962,...

Amerika proti Ameriki, zarodki versus otroci

Oktobra 1991 sem za mesec dni prišla na prakso v redakcijo časnika Grand Forks Herald v Grand Forksu, prestolnici ameriške zvezne države...

Israeli cops said to tell Greece that arrested man’s ID number doesn’t match warrant

The lawyer of an Israeli man held in Greece for alleged drug trafficking expressed confidence Wednesday that his client would soon be released...

No, They Don’t Want to be Friends

This was clearly a low point for the Jewish people. It was the fortieth year of the sojourn by the Jewish people in the desert, and they were...

Why Japan doesn’t have a concrete China strategy

Postwar relations between China and Japan have seen a number of epoch-making occasions, and one of the most important events in recent years was...

Poll shows Shaked’s Yamina winning 5 seats, capable of giving Netanyahu a majority

A snap opinion poll published by Channel 12 showed that the Yamina party, whose leadership was publicly handed over by outgoing Prime Minister...

As NATO expands with Sweden and Finland, Putin slams ‘imperial’ alliance

MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The United States vowed to reinforce Europe’s defenses in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as NATO declared...

God Bless Israel

Who do you think would be more likely to buy a shirt with the phrase “God bless Israel” on it, a Jew, or a Christian?”  If you answered “a...

4-month-old boy dies in Elad after being left by father in car for three hours

A 4-month-old boy died Thursday after being left by his father in a car for over three hours in the central ultra-Orthodox city of Elad. Paramedics...

COVID vaccines halved infection in kids during winter, Israeli study finds

The world’s largest study on COVID vaccines and kids has found that they halved the risk of COVID infection during Israel’s winter wave. The...

Russian forces leave strategic Snake Island; Ukraine claims they were driven off

SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Thursday pulled back its forces from a strategically placed Black Sea island where they have faced relentless...

International artists return to Jerusalem Jazz Festival

When the 8th Jerusalem Jazz Festival runs at the Israel Museum July 5-7, it will be the first in several years to feature international artists....

In no particular order: My adventures of commenting on the Dobbs case

I do not consider myself to be an anti-abortion activist. I am just a highly biased and opinionated guy who speaks his mind, and who views the...

In Hong Kong, dreams for a new Jewish deli devolve into a war between owners

TAIPEI (JTA) — When Rebecca Schrage arrived in Hong Kong from her home near Boston to work in finance around 2014, “there were no bagels. The best...

Lapid’s Revolution: We All Live in Micah Goodman’s World

As soon as Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid concluded their joint statement announcing the end of their government, a wave of nostalgia hit...

Parashat Korach: Debates not for the Sake of Heaven

Every dispute that is for the sake of Heaven, will in the end endure; But one that is not for the sake of Heaven, will not endure. Which is the...

The Russo-Ukraine War through the lens of the media. Myths and truth. Part II.

The Russo-Ukraine War through the Israeli mainstream prism.  “Stockholm syndrome is an emotional response. It happens to some abuse and hostage...

Keep the Woke Movement’s Antisemitism Out of L.A. Schools

Antisemitism is infecting Los Angeles public and private school curricula, poisoning young minds with harmful misinformation endorsed by the woke...

How Liberals Quash Housing Development by Getting Gentrification Wrong

Kristin Richardson Jordan, Harlem’s City Council member, seems to have put the final nail in the coffin of a 917-unit development, One45, proposed...

R. Prof. David Weiss Halivni–An Intellectual and Religious Tribute

R. Prof. David Weiss Halivni has passed away, and the tributes and memories have been pouring in. I first heard about R. Halivni, זכרונו...

Trump has steered himself into a legal morass

We’ve run out of words to describe the magnitude of the evidence unearthed by the House Jan. 6 committee, or the enormity of what former U.S....

The Plan Emerges: America’s Leadership Will “Dismantle Russia” for Good

The Russian Federation just came out with a new imperative entitled “Destroying America: A Moral Imperative.” Okay, not really. But the United...

The Trauma of Temblor: Afghanistan

Deep, deep, deep inside earth, the Indian plate collided with the Eurasian plate and a  6.1 magnitude temblor shook and shocked Afghanistan...

The Glob­al South has the pow­er to force rad­i­cal cli­mate ac­tion

During the past several years it has become clear that the international climate negotiations are failing to address the climate crisis. Existing...

Modi’s crit­ics have a pre­car­i­ous life in In­dia

On June 16, the Supreme Court of India cautioned the Uttar Pradesh (UP) state government against taking punitive actions targeting those who...

Lawmakers head back to Knesset for dispersal vote; Lapid set to become PM

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they unfold. No agreement has been reached to pass a bill to enable the creation of a...

Russia’s antisemitism aimed at Zelensky is a variant of a very old European virus

The Conversation via AP — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, was asked in May 2022 how Russia could claim that...

‘No progress made’: US blames Iran for failure of indirect nuclear talks

DOHA, Qatar (AFP) –Indirect talks in Qatar’s capital between Iran and the US on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal have concluded with “no progress...

Latin Amer­i­ca can now lead the way on abor­tion rights

With the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade – the landmark 1973 ruling that enshrined the right to abortion in the United States...

China is steadily wiping out German industry

National strategy that defined Angela Merkel era has run its course

The Fed­er­al­ist So­ci­ety: Ar­chi­tects of the Amer­i­can dystopia

Last week was one of the most consequential weeks in the history of the United States Supreme Court – and perhaps that of the country itself. In...

The Education Ministry Is Ruining Israeli Schools

The K-12 education system has a terminal illness. It has big problems and low achievement. But Israel Teachers Union head Yaffa Ben-David doesn’t...

Yair Lapid’s unlikely rise from TV star to Israel’s incoming prime minister

Some in Israel dismissed Yair Lapid as just another media star when the former news anchor, ad pitchman, and soap actor launched his bid for...

‘This isn’t how you run a session!’: Knesset sees rowdy, venomous final meeting

Coalition and opposition lawmakers let fly at each other Thursday morning as the Knesset convened to disperse itself, having failed to do so at a...

What a Netanyahu Comeback Could Mean for Abortion Rights

People the world over were shocked. The United States, the symbol of democracy, and its Constitution, which was synonymous with concern for...

Banning Anna Netrebko Like the Israelites

“I am not guilty. I am guilty of nothing,” declared Anna Netrebko, proving that she is as deaf as the spies who used the Hebrew word for...

The Blessing of the Religious Atheist in Haarlem

God for Atheists 4 As many of my readers know, I am the child of a mixed marriage where my father was Jewish, and my mother was not. I converted...

Parashat Huqqat: The Two-State “Solution” & Land for Peace

The Hebrew word “Huqqat [חקת], after which our Parasha is named, means “decree.”  Indeed, the Parasha opens with, “And HaShem spoke to...

Parsha Poem for Chukas

בס״ד Chukas Red cows without blemish, Then Miriam dies, At Tzin, in the Land of Kadesh. Then the waters dry up, And the people now turn, On her...

The last day of school: A mother’s lament

It is the last night, the last night before the last day of elementary school, and we are having a meltdown. It is a minor one, just a little bit...

One positive outcome of the Biden visit to Israel

President Biden is making an untimely visit to Israel (and Saudi Arabia) in July. I understand his visit to the Saudis as he has to grovel at their...

Europe’s Fate and Ukraine’s Survival

Who and what to do first to tackle global climate emergency

By Jang Daul High temperatures scorched the Earth in June, including in North America, Europe, Russia, India and China. We, people in South Korea,...

Pres­i­dent Road Rage

President Road Rage. Beyond being a gangster and, of course, a preening fascist – I mean, is there any other kind? (see Benito Mussolini, et al)...