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Levin warns High Court against striking down judicial appointments bill

Justice Minister Yariv Levin, the chief architect of the government’s judicial overhaul push, warned the High Court of Justice on Monday against...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Security forces gear up for Ramadan as tensions remain high in Jerusalem, West Bank

Israeli security forces are once again gearing up for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which coincides with the Jewish holiday of Passover this...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

SVB’s failure endangers more than just money

I confess, my first reaction to news of the problems at Silicon Valley Bank was a smirk. It was hard not to relish the sight of tech libertarians,...

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The Japan Times

Brad Glosserman

Bill aimed at returning Deri to cabinet passes first Knesset plenum reading

The Knesset advanced a bill on Monday to enable Shas leader Aryeh Deri to return to his ministerial posts, after the High Court of Justice ruled...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

‘My home is being undone’: Alarmed by country’s direction, more Israelis weigh move

JTA — When Daniel Schleider and his wife, Lior, leave Israel next month, it will be for good — and with a heavy heart. “I have no doubt I will...

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The Times of Israel

Deborah Danan

Changes to judicial overhaul leave just 10 days to re-do constitutional framework

Chaos descended Monday morning on the government’s plans to overhaul Israel’s judicial system, as the coalition proposed a new model for...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

Trump sweats an arrest. We should sweat a second term.

Donald Trump took to social media on last week to stir up his mob. “The far & away leading Republican candidate & former president of the United...

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The Japan Times

Timothy L. Obrien

Likud firmly backs new proposal to assert control over Judicial Selection Committee

The ruling Likud party headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voted during a Knesset faction meeting on Monday to approve a new proposal aimed...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

IDF top brass said to warn reservist no-shows could impact readiness within a month

Top-ranking commanders in the Israel Defense Forces have voiced concern that a growing trend of reservist personnel refusing to serve in protest of...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Ostensibly softened, Rothman bill gives coalition broad control over choice of judges

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee will begin voting on the new legislative proposal to overhaul Israel’s judicial appointments...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

Kolumna Igorja Gošteta: Noč je še mlada in prvi april

Da ne bo kakšnega nesporazuma, naj takoj pojasnim, da imam rad sproščene ljudi in sproščene sogovornike. Takšne, s katerimi mi je prijetno...

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Večer

Igor Gošte

Daily Briefing Mar. 21: ‘Major’ constitutional crisis & secret to Israel’s happiness

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

Likud MK warns police chief, citizens could face probes, prosecution over protests

A Likud lawmaker said Monday night at the Knesset that “the day will come” when numerous individuals will be investigated and prosecuted over...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Bank heads to PM: Stop overhaul immediately, you’ll turn Israel into a dictatorship

Dire warnings against the judicial overhaul continued Tuesday from the business community, with a forum of bank chiefs and other industry leaders...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Despite 2,500 reservations filed, coalition aiming to push judicial appointment bill

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. A forum of top business leaders tells Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the...

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The Times of Israel

Michael Bachner

Hezbollah Has More Urgent Matters Than a War With Israel

The guesses in Israel regarding Hassan Nasrallah’s intentions once again show that while it’s possible to know where his rockets are stored,...

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Haaretz

Zvi Bar&x27El

Is Germany and Israel's 'Special Relationship' About to Blow Up?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stood side by side last week at Platform 17, a memorial at a Berlin...

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Haaretz

Eldad Ben Aharon

Reimagining Development

HONG KONG – The world is in the midst of a global permacrisis. As interrelated shocks – the war in Ukraine, the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

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Project Syndicate

Andrew Sheng

South Korea at the Ukrainian Crossroads

A year has passed since Russia launched a special military operation to denazify Ukraine’s criminal regime. Against this backdrop, various...

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New Eastern Outlook

Konstantin Asmolov

The Megiddo explosion presents a new front for Israel

Israelis believe that Hezbollah and Hamas were behind the Megiddo junction explosion in northern Israel in mid-March. There is also a growing...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Adnan Abu Amer

Jelena’s song

‘Reclaiming myself and my image’ – one woman’s powerful, lyrical meditation on childhood trauma and personal transformation - by Aeon Video...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

The scar of identity

Paris, France, 1933. The French newspaper Le Figaro reads: ‘It’s a wick to a barrel of powder’ beneath the headline ‘Hitler Is the New Master...

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Aeon

Samantha Rose Hill

Anne Boyer: ‘This is the city for people who love books’

Poet, essayist and professor Anne Boyer is in Buenos Aires on a mission. “All my friends have sent requests and lists of books I’m supposed to...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Agustin Mango

Only Netanyahu Can End the Chaos

He is still here, much to the chagrin of many, and he is still a key figure, despite the signs of weakening. Benjamin Netanyahu is the only one who...

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Haaretz

Gideon Levy

Stuck with the soul

Few ideas are as unsupported, ridiculous and even downright harmful as that of the ‘human soul’. And yet, few ideas are as widespread and as...

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Aeon

David P Barash

Tel Aviv Fashion Week sees anti-overhaul protest on the runway

Designer David Weksler took protests against the coalition’s divisive judicial overhaul on to the fashion runway on Sunday at the opening of...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Trump calls for protests ahead of ‘arrest,’ slams George Soros again

WASHINGTON (JTA) — “They’re coming for me,” Donald Trump said in a fundraising email to his supporters, and he immediately made clear who...

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The Times of Israel

Ron Kampeas

ASEAN's Myanmar paralysis underlines its illiberal skew

Authoritarian order grows in reach as democratic world fails to make its case

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Nikkei Asian Review

Charles Dunst

Knesset okays repeal of Disengagement Law for northern West Bank in 31-18 final vote

The Knesset voted in the early hours of Tuesday morning to roll back legislation that ordered the evacuation of four northern West Bank settlements...

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The Times of Israel

Carrie Keller-Lynn

The Pogrom Against Palestinians That Brought the Occupation Home to Jewish Israelis

What would it take to radicalize a critical mass of a deeply conservative, hope-deprived Jewish community? For my Grandma Aashi (Aashi was short...

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Haaretz

Bradley Burston

Israeli army probes soldiers seen vandalizing car in Palestinian town

The military on Tuesday said it had opened an investigation into a video circulating online showing soldiers vandalizing a car in a Palestinian...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Still in the woods

Government must withdraw longer workweek plan Confusion continues within the Yoon Suk Yeol administration over its plan for an extended workweek....

10

The Korea Times

Editorial

Yosef’s Rebuke Nazir 55 Psychology of the Daf Yomi

Our Gemara on Amud Aleph discusses the situation of a mobile shelter, and if it has the same status as a stationary one, in that it protects one...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Simcha Feuerman

(POGLED) Kolumna Igorja Gošteta: Noč je še mlada in prvi april

Da ne bo kakšnega nesporazuma, naj takoj pojasnim, da imam rad sproščene ljudi in sproščene sogovornike. Takšne, s katerimi mi je prijetno...

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Večer

Igor Gošte

Peace requires betrayal

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV ― In 1795, German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote that perpetual peace could come either through diplomacy or a "war...

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The Korea Times

Guest Column

VOX POPULI: Lessons from the mistake of the Iraq War must not be forgotten

The Iraq War started on March 20 exactly 20 years ago. As I was covering the Middle East at the time, I went into Baghdad after it came under U.S....

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

EDITORIAL: Hakamada deserves swift retrial to gain ‘true freedom’

Prosecutors’ decision not to appeal a court order to hold a retrial for Iwao Hakamada is in line with the common sense view that there should be...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Silicon Valley Bank's collapse may be a blessing in disguise

By Doyle McManus In the brief but spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, we may just have witnessed the best banking crisis ever. It might...

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The Korea Times

Tribune Service

Re-evaluating perceptions of domestic violence

By Ma Kyung-hee The term "domestic violence" may conjure up certain images, such as a battered and bruised woman or a child crouching in a corner...

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The Korea Times

Thoughts Of The Times

Korea's proactive move and Japan's reluctance

By Sandip Kumar Mishra South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visited Tokyo for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on March 16. It...

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The Korea Times

Sandip Kumar Mishra

People are negative

By Casey Lartigue, Jr. When people use the idiom "a penny for your thoughts," I say, "You will probably get back $10 of criticism." If you want to...

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The Korea Times

Casey Lartigue

What the World Bank Can Do About Climate Change

NEW HAVEN – Few institutions have shown as much versatility and adaptability as the World Bank. Initially founded to address global...

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Project Syndicate

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Richard Haass on Russia, Taiwan, and US democracy

Project Syndicate: You recently predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “unwarranted war of choice” will “not end anytime soon,”...

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Project Syndicate

Richard Haass

African countries are challenging Israel's plot across the continent

The sight of Israeli Ambassador Sharon Bar-Li and other Israeli delegates being escorted out of the opening ceremony of the African Union Summit in...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Ramzy Baroud

The United States’ New Yemen Strategy

The US appears to be pursuing an old policy of plundering natural resources in Yemen, where the same Americans have been responsible for the civil...

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New Eastern Outlook

Viktor Mikhin

Are Young Soldiers being used as White Rats in Georgia and Ukraine?

Once something is denied, and adamantly, you can suspect it is either true or something which raises too many inconvenient questions. Old news,...

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New Eastern Outlook

Henry Kamens

Victoria Oluboyo: The PD made mistakes, now we need bold stances

Interview. The 28-year-old councilwoman from Parma has joined the national leadership of the PD. 'Over the years I've seen so many people leave the...

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Il Manifesto Global

Mario Di Vito

Bella ciao!

Na nedavnem italijanskem festivalu popevk San Remo je voditelj in umetniški vodja nenadoma, sredi vsega tistega kiča, spregovoril o »poboju na...

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Dnevnik

Tanja Lesničar Pučko

Hold Russian President Accountable for War Crimes

Editorial 12:30 JST, March 21, 2023 It is highly significant that an international organization that tries war crimes has launched procedures to...

10

The Japan News

The Japan News Editorial

True Value of Young Shogi Star to Be Tested from Now On

Editorial 12:29 JST, March 21, 2023 The 20-year-old strongest shogi player has earned another title. Since his debut, he has been accumulating wins...

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The Japan News

The Japan News Editorial

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