Government set to lift cap on outdoor gatherings as COVID ebbs

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz have decided to drop the requirement to cap mass outdoor gatherings at 5,000...

Virus czar says kids’ tests may stop being free, as inoculation set to begin

National coronavirus czar Salman Zarka said on Wednesday that the Health Ministry will discuss the possibility of ending free virus tests for...

Moon shot effort needed to beat the next pandemic

100-day goal for deployment of new vaccines against next emerging infectious disease

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Zuckerberg aims to transform Facebook from a social media platform into a ‘metaverse’ monopoly & we should all be very worried

It is not often that a company like Facebook, which reported revenue growth of 35% to $29 billion in the three months ending in September, with...

Daily Briefing Oct. 27 – Will Israelis agree to vaccinate their young children?

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...

Bucking FDA standards, Israel to allow entry for tourists with Russian vaccine

Starting in the middle of next month, Israel will allow entry to visitors inoculated with Russia’s Sputnik V  COVID-19 vaccine, in a policy shift...

In call with Gantz, Blinken said to protest ‘unacceptable’ settlement building

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Minister Benny Gantz held a “tense” phone call Tuesday on Israel’s advancement of plans to...

Iran offers to talk to Europeans about restarting nuclear negotiations

Iran has formally suggested to the three European countries signed on a landmark 2015 nuclear deal that they hold talks about a return to...

Israel to recognize fibromyalgia, a chronic muscle pain illness, as a disability

Israel will recognize fibromyalgia, a once widely dismissed illness that involves chronic muscle pain, as a disability. People with the condition...

Maghar becomes Israel’s first Druze city

Maghar, in the north of the country, on Tuesday became Israel’s first Druze city as Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked upgraded its status from...

In Israel, Congolese president says seeking ‘closer security, agriculture ties’

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said on Wednesday morning that he wanted to build closer ties with Israel in the fields of...

PM Bennett to convene advisers on vaccinating 5- to 11-year-olds

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is slated to meet Wednesday with top health officials to weigh moving toward approving the Pfizer COVID vaccine for...

Germany demands explanation for Israel’s outlawing of Palestinian groups

BERLIN — The German government said Wednesday it was “very concerned” by Israel’s designation of six leading Palestinian civil society groups...

Israel's Wolves of the Far-right Smell Weakness

Miri “The Sudanese Are A Cancer In Our Body” Regev caused a political storm when she called the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and...

Tax the Rich!

PRINCETON – “The taxation system has tilted toward the rich, and away from the middle class, in the last ten years. It is dramatic, and I don’t...

The Third World Women’s Alliance: Lessons for today

In November of last year, The Washington Post reported that, nearly nine months after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States,...

Lesson for Government and Media – Follow Rule Number 8

In his book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan Peterson lists rule 8 as, “Tell the truth – or at least, don’t lie.” This is...

Imran Khan’s talks with the Pakistan Taliban will not bring peace

In an interview with Turkish media aired on October 1, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan revealed that his government is in talks with the...

Gantz, Show Us the Proof

The public shouldn’t worry that the listing of civil society organizations in the West Bank as terrorist organizations is baseless and that it’s...

Fight against poverty

More efforts needed to eliminate welfare blind spots South Korea ranked fourth in relative poverty among the 37 member countries of the...

Facebook sat as online hate raged after Trump post, leaked documents show

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The reports of hateful and violent posts on Facebook started pouring in on the night of May 28 last year, soon after...

Jay Black of ‘Jay and The Americans’ dies at 82

JTA — When Jay Black wanted The New York Times to understand that he was a hell-raiser, he said he was thrown out of New Utrecht High School in...

Jessica Rosenworcel set to become first woman to lead FCC permanently

JTA — After serving as the acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission, a Jewish woman is now on track to become the first woman to hold...

Facebook whistleblower giving Zuckerberg a good kicking is all good fun but ignores what is really at stake: freedom of speech

It’s not been a great week for Facebook. What began in the UK with a glowing piece on Dr. Priscilla Chan, aka Mrs. Mark Zuckerberg, with a shoot...

Leib, Savior of Humor (or: How I met my wife)

I spotted my roommate already seated, surrounded by young women and the center of some attention. I pushed past schnitzel trays, humus vats and...

Why are veils so important in the Torah?

Why does the Torah specifically utilize a veil in the stories of Rivka and Tamar without explaining its importance? How is it not superfluous? When...

Ancient and Unique Uzbekistan: Samarkand region II

Registan Square in the city of Samarkand is an outstanding example of urban planning in Central Asia. Its name is translated as “Sandy Place”....

In Colombia, hopes for abortion rights fall on the Constitutional Court

Analysis. Between 2006 and 2019 there were 346 convictions against women who had abortions, a quarter of whom were girls between the ages of 14 and...

Activists (and a robotic arm) help women access abortions in Mexico

Analysis. Clandestine networks of activists have helped women in Mexico for years. Now they’re looking across the border into Texas. written by...

Opinion – The Status of China’s Confucius Institutes in American Universities

Great Power competition normally plays out far from the classrooms where the concept is studied as international relations theory. But sometimes it...

Plan for major kashrut reform advances through Knesset committee

Legislation proposed by Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana aimed at significantly reforming the kosher certification industry in Israel...

Israeli Prison Service imposes condemns Palestinian mothers and their children to the same plight

Like eleven Palestinian mothers held inside Israeli jails, a newly released Palestinian mother was isolated from her six-year-old child shortly...

Paying Japan asset managers more will not deliver higher returns

Underperformance reflects multiple systemic causes

VOX POPULI: Union of Mako and Kei Komuro deserves all of Japan’s blessing

As of the afternoon of Oct. 26, Princess Mako's appellation changed from "Mako-sama" to "(Komuro) Mako-san." This sounded strange to me, since the...

Knesset panel okays kosher reform bill, clearing it for final votes

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they happen. A committee convenes today to approve 2,800 new Israeli settler homes in...

Coalition unrest as plans for some 3,000 settler homes okayed, amid American ire

Israel advanced the construction of some 3,000 housing units in West Bank settlements on Wednesday, despite condemnation from within the government...

Porsche, Goodyear invest in Israeli smart car firm Tactile Mobility

Tactile Mobility, a Haifa-based company that provides smart cars with the ability to “feel the road,” said Wednesday that it raised $27 million...

Do the Dems have no respect for parents? Their strategy in Virginia suggests so, and it’s going to cost them dear

The state of Virginia has become a hotbed of political discussion over the past few weeks due to a series of controversies, most of them centered...

India must abandon protectionism to unleash growth

Throwing up barriers to foreign investment won't help boost GDP per capita

'Shared values' allow Israel to act with impunity

European and American politicians and bureaucrats refer frequently to "shared values" when they seek to justify their support for the state of...

Pyrrhic victories ring hollow in the Middle East

Over the past half a century, the Greater Middle East has witnessed more war than any other region. Even when violent conflicts subsided in much of...

Julian Assange must be freed, now

In 1791, in an attempt to stop the publication of the first part of Thomas Paine’s seminal work, The Rights of Man, the British government tried...

‘A party of idiots’: MK angrily leaves Yamina’s WhatsApp group, then returns

A Yamina lawmaker briefly left his faction’s WhatsApp group on Wednesday, after angrily branding the members of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s...

Brez irharic na tribuni, prosim

Adijo, kriza, pozdravljen, kapital! V nogometnem svetu se spet na veliko trguje. Najprej primer z Otoka, iz najbogatejše, če ne že kar...

Leaving behind mixed legacy

Roh's achievements overshadowed by misdeeds The late President Roh Tae-woo, who passed away Tuesday, left behind a mixed legacy. He has been under...

Joan Rivers series that sparked ‘Jewface’ debate scrapped by Showtime

A TV series about the life of the late comedian Joan Rivers will not be moving forward after the network failed to secure the rights to tell her...

Bill to memorialize Kafr Qasim massacre toppled as Arab MKs trade accusations

The Knesset struck down a proposal on Wednesday that would have seen the state formally accept responsibility for the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre, as...

Roh Tae-woo, accidental president

By Kyung Moon Hwang Not to disrespect the newly departed, but the first thing that comes to mind when considering former President Roh Tae-woo's...