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‘We are not afraid’: Mass protests erupt nationwide after Netanyahu fires Gallant

Mass protests erupted across Israel on Sunday night and into the early hours of Monday morning after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Yoav...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

A Letter to the Women of Today

David Hamelech was a small boy, a shepherd living in the barn by the big house where his brothers lived. He was somewhat shunned and grew up this...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Miriam Simmonds

Kinneret: Sea of Life

Moshe Alpert’s spare and poetic documentary, Kinneret: Sea of Life, presents the Sea of Galilee, the world’s lowest freshwater lake, in a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sheldon Kirshner

Global South solidarity is the key to lifting up Central America — not Washington's Monroe Doctrine

Honduran President Xiomara Castro caused a stir in the media when, on March 14, she remarked that she instructed her foreign minister to...

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RT.com

Bradley Blankenship

Pohlep kot vrednota

Naj takoj povem, da sem naslov oblikoval po intervjuju z Matevžem Lenarčičem v Nedelu in njegovih besedah. V nekem preteklem prispevku sem pisal...

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Dnevnik

Dragan Petrovec

What Your Laughter Reveals About Your Relationship

Understanding the differences between romantic partner and friendship laughter.

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Psychology Today

Arash Emamzadeh

Dichter, possibly in line for defense chief seat, says he will back overhaul

Two Likud Knesset members who had signaled they could vote against parts of the government’s judicial overhaul reversed course on Sunday and...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Xi's 'Chilling' Remarks: A Multipolar World Offers Challenges and Opportunities to the Middle East and Africa

The final exchange, caught on camera between visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian host and counterpart, Vladimir Putin, sums up...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Ramzy Baroud

Gantz says he’s committed to holding ‘good faith’ talks with coalition on overhaul

National Unity leader MK Benny Gantz on Sunday penned a letter to coalition members urging them to pause the judicial overhaul legislation until...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

To the EU: Stop Rehabilitating World War II Collaborators

Embed from Getty Images This past Tuesday, the fascist collaborator and former Archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac was commemorated in the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ronen Shnidman

Head of think tank behind judicial push sees dead end for ‘idiotic’ override clause

The head of a think tank deeply involved in the government’s judicial overhaul said his organization has advised lawmakers to drop their pursuit of...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Daily Briefing Mar 26: Netanyahu vs his defense minister on judicial overhaul pause

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,...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Trump holds first 2024 campaign rally, dismissing potential looming indictment

WACO, Texas (AP) — Facing a potential indictment, former US president Donald Trump took a defiant stance at a rally Saturday in Waco, disparaging...

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The Times of Israel

Jill Colvin

What is at stake in Turkiye's upcoming election?

President Tayyip Erdogan faces the biggest test of his 20-year rule in the May elections that will decide not only who leads Turkiye but how it is...

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Middle East Monitor

Reuters

Edelstein: ‘Didn’t miss earlier overhaul votes by chance, hope common sense prevails’

Likud Knesset Member Yuli Edelstein said Sunday that his absence from key votes tied to the coalition’s sweeping plan to shift power from the...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

After Herzog plea, UAE frees Israeli woman serving life sentence for drug smuggling

An Israeli woman was released from prison in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday night and was flown back to Israel early Sunday, after UAE...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Man dies after being shot, allegedly by a cop, then thrown from moving car in north

A man was shot and killed early Sunday in an Arab town in northern Israel in unclear circumstances, with eyewitnesses claiming the shooter was an...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Halevi: IDF now has dual mission of ensuring security and keeping army united

Military chief Herzi Halevi on Sunday told new recruits they were enlisting at a difficult period marked by external security threats and domestic...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Several Likud MKs back Gallant’s call to pause overhaul; others urge PM to fire him

Internal divisions within the ruling Likud party came to the fore on Saturday night in the wake of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s call for the...

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The Times of Israel

Ash Obel

Knesset to see decisive week for Supreme Court, as cracks appear in coalition

With only days until the Knesset breaks for its April recess, the coalition is sprinting to close core elements of its judicial overhaul amid...

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The Times of Israel

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Gulf states ask US to respond to Smotrich’s comments on Palestinians

As Israel’s relationships with its Arab partners show signs of significant strain, the foreign ministers of the six countries in the Gulf...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

America’s Lady Prophets Fighting for Democracy: Upending the U.S. Caste System

Imagine the House Un-American Committee targeting the biblical prophet Amos for proclaiming that “if you have more than you need, you’re a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stephen Stern

The Generals of Israel's Occupation Are Now Protesting

We're living in an upside-down world, said former Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman in an interview on the “Uvda” television program last week in which...

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Haaretz

Carolina Landsmann

The Palestinian succession war

An irrational activism that is fodder for modern antisemitism that takes full refuge in the Arab-Palestinian cause. Little, if any, is being said...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Luciano Mondino

The Doctrine of Deterrence Has Failed

The United States is Israel’s greatest ally in the world. So, it is troubling that the U.S. seems to be losing much of its deterrent powers on...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Andy Blumenthal

Who’s to blame? The Messiah

If you live in Jerusalem, you may have noticed recently that members of the Chabad-Lubavitch Chasidic movement have started attaching large, yellow...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Daniel Raphael Silverstein

Will Netanyahu Destroy the Israel I Left America For?

I remember a conversation with one of my closest friends from high school, on a New York City subway. I spoke of my longing for Israel, and to be...

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Haaretz

Shulamit S. Magnus

50 Holocaust survivors urge stop to judicial overhaul: ‘Shattering Jewish democracy’

Over 50 Holocaust survivors sent a letter to the government Sunday urging that it stop a planned far-reaching overhaul of the judiciary that they...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

With dire public warning, Gallant tries to compel Netanyahu to put state before self

As the vast crowds made their way along Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street on Saturday night, for their twelfth successive week of escalating protests...

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The Times of Israel

David Horovitz

We rejected our fanatics. What are you doing about yours?

As Israel grapples with a complex political quagmire, those of us who champion peace find ourselves contemplating the nature of the Israel we will...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nadim Koteich

The first Australian soldier has been charged over Afghanistan war crimes, but those ultimately responsible remain in command

Earlier this week, an Australian soldier, Oliver Schulz, 41, was charged with murder by the Australian Federal Police in relation to the killing of...

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RT.com

Graham Hryce

Palestinian home torched in northern West Bank in suspected settler revenge attack

A Palestinian home in the northern West Bank village of Sinjil was set on fire overnight Saturday with locals blaming extremist settlers they say...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

2 Likud lawmakers make clear they support overhaul legislation after urging pause

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen. Shots were fired at the West Bank settlement of Avnei Hefetz earlier this...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

PM said to mull firing dissenting defense chief Gallant, tapping Dichter instead

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly readying to fire his defense chief after the senior minister publicly called for the government to...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Bookended by protests, Netanyahu’s London trip overshadowed by overhaul dissent

The chants likely sounded familiar. Cries of “de-mo-cra-cy” and “shame” in Hebrew rang out through most of Prime Minister Benjamin...

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The Times of Israel

Amy Spiro

Defense Ministry preparing for extreme hot weather as climate change sets in

The Defense Ministry said Sunday that it has put together an extreme weather scenario for government ministries so the country can prepare for the...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Pension reform in disarray

Nothing can succeed without winning people's hearts Two developed countries are undergoing social turmoil due to reforms. Over a million people...

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The Korea Times

Editorial

Hametz law set to pass, in time for hospitals to ban non-kosher food on Passover

The Knesset is set to pass a law that will enable hospitals to set policy banning or restricting the entry of leavened food, or hametz, ahead of...

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The Times of Israel

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Faust is dressed like an ultra-Orthodox Jew

Is it possible to pinpoint the exact time that a model society loses its soul? Is there a defining event whereby a principled society fundamentally...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eliyahu Berkovits

Two Are Better Than One

Regarding the laws of Shabbat, if one wishes to avoid a Torah violation, he can have a friend participate in what he is doing. For example, it is...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Obstacles to South Korea's relations with North Korea and Japan

By Joseph Yi On March 9, South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol administration announced a bilateral agreement with Japan to compensate former wartime...

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The Korea Times

Guest Column

Spring broke

By Jase Graves When my three semi-grown daughters were young (and since I work in the lucrative world of public education), we'd spend our spring...

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The Korea Times

Guest Column

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #85, From a Georgian Han, 2

In this episode, four more sketches of life in a Georgian han. The Eternal Jew’s Tale Fourteenth Era, Part 20, ~1190 C.E., Mtskheta 6. There’s a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stephen Berer

Should Israel’s top judges be ideologically aligned?

In a speech on the evening of March 23, 2023, after mass disruptions (a ‘Day of Paralysis’) were held throughout Israel, Prime Minister Bibi...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steve Kramer

Protecting the Nonprofits from a Reform Fallout

Embed from Getty Images For nearly three months little else has been discussed and debated throughout the media than the potential threat to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Barry Newman

A Night at the Opera

Times are hard at the moment in Israel, with a sense of impending doom hanging over us as the politicians continue to pursue their objectives at...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Leadership and Consensus in Crisis

It is a common mischaracterization that the draconian judicial legislation currently being bludgeoned through the Knesset at breakneck speed is...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Martin Levi

Japan and South Korea reach important accord

By Arthur I. Cyr Japan and South Korea, two increasingly powerful nations, have reached an important agreement with far-reaching positive...

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The Korea Times

Thoughts Of The Times

Our space junk problem just got a cheap solution

By Adam Minter This month, a hunk of space junk hurtled toward the International Space Station, putting the safety of astronauts and their orbiting...

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The Korea Times

Tribune Service

The Dems and the right sparred over imprisoning mothers

Analysis. “The government is going from 'law and order' to 'inhumanity and incivility.'” Surprise amendments from the right had the FdI’s...

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Il Manifesto Global

Adriana Pollice

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