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Venice Biennale judges won’t consider Israel due to Netanyahu’s ICC arrest warrant

Venice Biennale judges won’t consider Israel due to Netanyahu’s ICC arrest warrant

Artist and sculptor Belu-Simion Fainaru, representing Israel, says he believes ‘art thrives on openness’; Foreign Ministry: ‘Spectacle of false,...

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The Times of Israel

Jackie Hajdenberg

VOX POPULI: Wildfires in Otsuchi dredge up unwelcome memories of 2011

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Ex-Mossad chief: Settler violence an existential threat, curbing it could spark civil war

Ex-Mossad chief: Settler violence an existential threat, curbing it could spark civil war

Tamir Pardo tours Palestinian West Bank villages that suffered attacks; says violence reminds him of Holocaust, failure to stop it could lead to...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Turkey and Iran Demonstrate Pragmatism and Stick to Neutrality

Turkey and Iran Demonstrate Pragmatism and Stick to Neutrality

Turkey and Iran Demonstrate Pragmatism and Stick to Neutrality Iran and Turkey, despite potential points of tension, adhere to a pragmatic policy...

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New Eastern Outlook

Alexandr Svaranc

Messiahs and a Mahdi Overcoming Hot Wars

Scientists warned that Planet Earth could be approaching a “hothouse” state that would be extremely difficult to reverse. Several key parts of the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Allen S. Maller

In a polarized world, Indonesia risks becoming irrelevant

In a polarized world, Indonesia risks becoming irrelevant

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Nikkei Asian Review

Virdika Rizky Utama

Outgoing Mossad chief reportedly says Qatargate affair didn’t seem to harm state security

Outgoing Mossad chief reportedly says Qatargate affair didn’t seem to harm state security

David Barnea said to stress that his comments, which contradict position of ex-Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, don’t touch on potential corruption...

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The Times of Israel

Nava Freiberg

From Lab to Life: Defeating Pancreatic Cancer

Consider pancreatic cancer – the disease that killed Steve Jobs, e.g., despite the best medical technology money could buy. Approximately 467,000 to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shlomo Maital

IDF soldier severely wounded as Hezbollah drones target troops in southern Lebanon

IDF soldier severely wounded as Hezbollah drones target troops in southern Lebanon

Army fires interceptors at drones as ceasefire sees continued attacks on Israeli soldiers; IDF probing officer who let soldiers into combat zone to...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

An Unprecedented War Amid Unprecedented Climate Change: What Could Go Wrong?

An Unprecedented War Amid Unprecedented Climate Change: What Could Go Wrong?

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Haaretz

Hagai El-Ad

Hormuz — the blockade that keeps on giving

The Iran war revealed Iran’s huge vulnerability — a blockade. Because with Iran’s oil wells in danger of soon being severely damaged (because...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yoseph Janowski

The latest Balikatan military exercises have begun in the Philippines

The latest Balikatan military exercises have begun in the Philippines

The latest Balikatan military exercises have begun in the Philippines The latest international military exercises, Balikatan, began in the Philippines...

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New Eastern Outlook

Vladimir Terehov

Transitions: From Pain to Joy

Every year, following the Passover holiday, Israel enters a somber period culminating in Independence Day (Yom HaAtzmaut). Eight days earlier,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Fred Naider

Shoe is Not So Great on the Other foot, Huh?

You’re at the cool kids party or what is otherwise known as the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. All your friends are there rubbing shoulders...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Harold l. katz

Condemned to Meaning: Judging History Without Moral Ground

Condemned to Meaning: Judging History Without Moral Ground

We speak as if judgment were simple, as if we could stand outside history and measure human action against timeless truths, but the moment we try to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stephen Stern

The Islamabad Game: From Lose-Lose to Win-Win in the Iran War

As Trump cancels his envoys’ flight to Islamabad and Iran insists no negotiations are planned with the Americans, a casual observer might conclude...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

Recognition Fuels Israel Advocacy

Recognition Fuels Israel Advocacy

Recognition Fuels Israel Advocacy July 2016 marked a moment I will never forget. It was nearly two years after I had started my Pro Israel advocacy...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

Cynická obluda: Prvý politik, ktorému sa to stalo

Najpravdepodobnejšia hypotéza o páchateľovi útoku na Ferenčáka.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Trump reportedly unhappy with Iran’s proposal to reopen Hormuz but shelve nuclear issue

Trump reportedly unhappy with Iran’s proposal to reopen Hormuz but shelve nuclear issue

Vance said to express concern war depleting US arms stockpiles; Iran reportedly resorting to ‘junk storage’ for oil amid US blockade on exports,...

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

Japan’s constitutional theater: Revising Article 9 would be a mistake.

Japan’s constitutional theater: Revising Article 9 would be a mistake.

Since Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s Liberal Democratic Party secured 316 seats in Japan’s Lower House, the largest majority seen since the end...

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The Japan Times

Andrew Latham

Northern council head, five others arrested on suspicion of bribery

Northern council head, five others arrested on suspicion of bribery

Police allege suspects were part of scam involving computer service contractors who offered kickbacks to secure tenders in several local...

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

Daily Briefing Apr. 28 – Untangling the Iran-Russia-Hezbollah web

Daily Briefing Apr. 28 – Untangling the Iran-Russia-Hezbollah web

Mideast expert Ksenia Svetlova gives deep context for the Tehran-Moscow relationship and assesses that Gulf countries are at a crossroads as they plan...

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Response to Alex Sinclair kippah controversy

I saw the kippah you chose to wear — combining the Israeli and Palestinian flags — and I have not been able to look away from what it represents,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Chava kadoche

Anglo Physicians: Only the Good Come Young

Anglo physicians tend to make aliyah after retirement age, or on the downswing of their professional careers. As in other fields, professional drive...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Adam farkas

Divine Presence

The Talmud in Masechet Brachot makes an interesting observation. Since the time of the destruction of the Temple, 1,958 years ago, the Holy One...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

International Security: 12 Influential Israeli Think-Tanks

International Security: 12 Influential Israeli Think-Tanks

Ideas govern the world, or plunge it into chaos. Who crafts, exports, imports, and sculpts public policy ideas? The following are key Israeli...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Anicet delporte

Shalom Brasil Tests Paulistanos’ Perceptions of Jews

Lilian Hollender, from the program Shalom Brasil, conducted a street survey in São Paulo to hear residents’ opinions about Jews. According to the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Silas Anastacio

Going Home

Going Home

I went home last week.  Or at least, I went to the place that used to be home. Newcastle in early light. Streets that remember me more clearly than I...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Claire R. Bright

The ‘Good Fence’ Model for Israel-Lebanon Relations

For the first time in decades, representatives of both the Republic of Lebanon and the State of Israel are engaged in bilateral talks, held in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nadim chahine

KPK: Stanje na področju lobiranja zaskrbljujoče

KPK: Stanje na področju lobiranja zaskrbljujoče

Komisija za preprečevanje korupcije (KPK) je v poročilu o delu na področju lobiranja za leto 2025 izpostavila, da med zavezanci še vedno vlada...

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Dnevnik

Sta

A Blessing in Colorado

I’m side-stepping over rocks down the incline on the shore of Dillion reservoir in Frisco, Colorado.  I have a travel washing cup in hand and a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tzipah wertheimer

Stolen grain on the Jerusalem tram

In response to warnings from Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha about the possible arrival in the port of Haifa of a second ship carrying stolen...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vitalii Portnikov

Diplomacy by absence: How Donald Trump’s cancelled visits reshaped US engagement in the Middle East

Diplomacy by absence: How Donald Trump’s cancelled visits reshaped US engagement in the Middle East

The cancellation of diplomatic visits by world leaders is rarely a matter of routine scheduling. In international politics, absence can be as...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Ismail Adaramola

Featured Post

Featured Post

There are moments in a long campaign for justice when the most important thing is grit. Monday, three women Torah scholars demonstrated courage in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Seth Farber

Past enournega dremeža: zakaj se zbujamo kot povoženi?

Past enournega dremeža: zakaj se zbujamo kot povoženi?

Kaj je recept za popoln popoldanski počitek? Ključna je meja 20 minut.

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Dnevnik

Vseveda Neda

Featured Post

Featured Post

As a sociologist observing the ongoing upheaval in my homeland, I view the struggle of the Iranian people not merely as a quest for regime change, but...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Fuad mariwan

Odpovedani koncerti Taylor Swift: 21-letnik zdaj na sodišču zaradi načrtovanja napada

Odpovedani koncerti Taylor Swift: 21-letnik zdaj na sodišču zaradi načrtovanja napada

Sojenje 21-letniku, obtoženemu načrtovanja napada na koncertu Taylor Swift na Dunaju leta 2024, se je začelo danes. Njegova odvetnica je že...

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Dnevnik

Šf

What They Saw In Us

What They Saw In Us

Rabbi Berel Wein once shared a story he had heard from the editor of a major American newspaper. The editor explained that as long as he held his...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Cohen

Dr. Robby Needs More Than a Motorcycle

In 2019, while going through my divorce, I learned how quietly a man can disappear inside his own life. I was working, parenting, and trying to be...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Noam raucher

Washington’s North Korea reckoning

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The Korea Times

Park Jin-Wan

Kje v Evropi je med mladimi največ podjetnikov, kje jih je največ zaposlenih?

Kje v Evropi je med mladimi največ podjetnikov, kje jih je največ zaposlenih?

V Evropski uniji je približno 69.000 podjetnikov, starih od 15 do 19 let, medtem ko jih je med mladimi, starimi od 20 do 29 let, več kot dva...

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Dnevnik

Jk

Hunting ‘Man the Hunter’

Hunting ‘Man the Hunter’ For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many...

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Aeon

Vivek V Venkataraman

The Woman Wanted By Iran – A film by Itay Anghel

The Woman Wanted By Iran – A film by Itay Anghel

Directed by Itay Anghel (2026) Itay Anghel’s 60 minute documentary is a bravely filmed comment on the resistance of bands of Kurdish women to the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan baz

20,000 seafarers stranded in Persian Gulf as Strait of Hormuz stays shut despite ceasefire

20,000 seafarers stranded in Persian Gulf as Strait of Hormuz stays shut despite ceasefire

Mariners, mostly from India, endure fear and isolation amid missile blasts and food shortages as they remain trapped at sea since the Iran war began...

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The Times of Israel

Chan ho-him

Lapid willing to drop to #3 spot on ‘Together’ list if it brings Eisenkot on board

Lapid willing to drop to #3 spot on ‘Together’ list if it brings Eisenkot on board

Iran’s security council reportedly expecting anti-regime protests to return as economic woes worsen * Netanyahu returns to court to testify in...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The Alef-Bet of Meaning

The Alef-Bet of Meaning

Writing, Living, and Building From the Generative Core of Language There is a Hebrew expression that almost everyone recognizes—and almost no one...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ivan Bassov

Tel Aviv’s ‘Open Houses’ offers fresh peek at private and public spaces

Tel Aviv’s ‘Open Houses’ offers fresh peek at private and public spaces

City’s annual Batim Mibifnim, Hebrew for ‘homes from the inside,’ event opens for registration on May 1

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Iran selected for a vice presidency post at UN’s nuclear non-proliferation confab

Iran selected for a vice presidency post at UN’s nuclear non-proliferation confab

US envoy tells conference that Tehran’s selection is an ‘affront’ to the NPT, given that the Islamic Republic has ‘long demonstrated its...

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The Times of Israel

David Brunnstrom

Biden’s deputy secretary of state: Netanyahu helped ‘create a genocide in Gaza’

Biden’s deputy secretary of state: Netanyahu helped ‘create a genocide in Gaza’

Veteran Jewish diplomat Wendy Sherman says US also responsible for what unfolded in the Strip, then clarifies that she can’t make legal analysis...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid