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'Drive-through' rallies

Politicians should stop instigating people It is deplorable some ultra-right conservative organizations and politicians are plotting to hold mass...

Haaretz Cartoon

A century on from the 1918 flu pandemic, much left undiscovered

The Spanish flu rose from the dead like a ghost from a frozen grave in Alaska in 1997. That year, a team of U.S. pathologists from the Armed Forces...

Rise of covidnomics

By Kaushik Basu ITHACA ― Boundaries between academic disciplines are always artificial creations intended to facilitate analysis, given our...

America's Broken Syria Project

A recent altercation between Russian forces and US occupiers in northeastern Syria helped highlight the increasingly tenuous position Washington...

Arab normalisation is another attempt to defeat the Palestinians psychologically

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and foreign ministers representing the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed the “Abraham...

Virus czar says lockdown stricter than it should be, laments ‘tremendous’ cost

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s developments as they unfold. The European Commission urges EU members states to better explain and...

The Shame and Blame Game

Because we live in a competitive society where the good/evil complex runs rampant (see my article of January 12, 2012, entitled “The Good/Evil...

‘When All is Said and Done’ Yom Kippur 5781

One of the key motifs of the Ten Days of Penitence between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is the “Akeida”, in which G-d commanded Abraham to...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the abortion issue

Following her passing on the eve of Rosh HaShanah, many laudatory paeans to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have been written, including many that...

Trumpashenko locks up Minsk DC

As its pioneer and defender, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, lay in state on the steps of the Supreme Court, US democracy was put onto the critical list —...

Turning the page to 5781… alone

The prospect of COVID-19 High Holidays brought to mind a vivid memory from a quarter century ago. I am sitting on a bench outside the auditorium...

Abraham and Jeremiah

“The Akedah is not in the Torah; it is but one of several rabbinic constructs through which to read the narrative of Genesis 22.”  So I have...

Holding Our Mental Health Sacred This Tishrei

Every year on the 1st of Tishrei ( September 18th, this year), we went into an in an intense three week long time known as the Chagim. It starts...

The rise of podcasts have created awareness of sex positivity in Israel

Podcasts made such an incredible and lasting impression when they reappeared on the scene. Indeed, podcasting is not a new invention and has been...

Poll: Yamina closing in on Likud, public supports limiting protests, prayers

The right-wing Yamina party is closing the gap with the ruling Likud, which has seen its support drop sharply in recent weeks, according to a poll...

Jerusalem’s Islamic art museum says it has to auction off part of its collection

Facing financial pressure, Jerusalem’s L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art will sell part of its storied collection in October through Sotheby’s...

Chicago burial fund gives penniless Jewish COVID victims a dignified sendoff

David Jacobson, founder of Chicago Jewish Funerals, stood behind the podium at Chicago’s Waldheim Jewish Cemetery on July 2. “I’m not a rabbi or...

This is what the Palestinians need to do to confront Arab normalisation

The most dangerous thing about the new wave of Arab normalisation with the Israeli occupation is that the countries involved are trying to justify...

Army shoots at Palestinians throwing Molotov cocktails; two said injured

Israeli soldiers fired at a group of Palestinians in the West Bank preparing to hurl Molotov cocktails close to the village of Kafr Malik, the army...

Air force chief: UAE F-35 sale could be ‘less optimal’ for Israel in long term

The proposed United States sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates could have a long-term negative strategic impact for...

How can we trust the National Trust if they conflate Kipling and Churchill with slavers to pander to the woke mob?

The National Trust has become the latest group in Britain that has decided it would rather pander to the woke mob than do its actual job. The...

New virus cases near 7,000 for 2nd straight day, with over 1 in 8 tests positive

The Health Ministry said Thursday morning that 6,808 new virus cases were diagnosed a day earlier, after ministers agreed in a late-note vote to...

Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3...

As hospitals overflow, As Haifa’s Rambam transforms car park into virus ward

AFP — As Israeli doctors confront a surge in coronavirus cases, with some patients waiting for hours in ambulances, one hospital is tackling the...

The trial against Bashir for 1989 coup d’état is against Sudan law

Just how Sudan will be able to convict former President Omar Al-Bashir and 27 defendants for staging the 1989 coup remains a major issue of...

Asia must rethink bans on short-selling

Being able to sell high and buy low a vital way of maintaining efficient markets

Dear Rossana, with your own words I bid you goodbye

Commentary. I will say goodbye to you as I have always done, with your own words which you shared in what you called ‘booklets.’ I consider these...

Collector gifts Hebrew University 130,000 post cards from the Holy Land

A London-based collector has donated to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem a huge trove of some 130,000 post cards sent from the Holy Land,...

Netanyahu ally: Anti-PM protesters are happy there are 7,000 daily cases

A key ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Thursday that the protesters against him were paradoxically happy about the virus surge...

Lebanon pleads for world’s help ‘trying to rise from its rubble’

BEIRUT (AP) — Facing an economic meltdown and other crises, Lebanon’s president on Wednesday asked for the world’s help to rebuild the...

Historic webinar shows how journalism can help sustain warming Arab-Israel ties

We were speaking a mix of English, Arabic and Hebrew, all trying to say as much as we could as clearly as we could, and also as quickly as we could...

For Israeli chefs, pandemic means pivot

When COVID-19 emerged in Israel in March, Nofar Zohar started making sandwiches. Not just any sandwich, of course, but a carefully calibrated...

Netanyahus said to bring suitcases of laundry when staying as White House guests

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara repeatedly brought with them suitcases of clothes to be laundered and dry cleaned while staying...

Cabinet approves near-total national shutdown to stem runaway infection rate

Ministers voted early Thursday to dramatically tighten the country’s coronavirus lockdown amid fears that the infection rate is spiraling out of...

The American deep state revives its tired allegations of Russian interference in November’s presidential elections

There have been a spate of reports recently, alleging Russian interference in the 2020 US presidential election, specifically the charge that...

TEPCO’s fitness to operate nuke reactors still open to question

The Nuclear Regulation Authority has effectively endorsed Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s fitness to operate nuclear reactors in its safety screening...

How Climate Targets Can Help Economic Recovery

SANTIAGO – With the world gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers have turned their attention to economic stimulus and financial support...

Yom Kippur: From Einstein to Elijah

For observant Jews, there is no day in the calendar more solemn than Yom Kippur – a day we believe all our sins are forgiven. See how Einstein...

(GLOBALNA ARENA) Odgovornost se konča pri Putinu

Nemški, francoski in švedski zdravniki soglašajo: Aleksej Navalni, najvplivnejši domači kritik ruskega predsednika Vladimirja Putina in...

Hyundai Motor's decision

Major automaker sets precedent for pandemic-stricken industry Union leaders and management at Korea's largest carmaker, Hyundai Motor, agreed...

America's 'perfect storm'

By Donald Kirk PHILADELPHIA ― The Independence Hall where 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence is a vision in red brick, its clock tower...

New York should look to reopen state's cinemas

It's time to open the movie theaters ― carefully and maybe gradually ― but with most other businesses successfully finding their way through the...

Post-Abe, Japan matters even more for Canada

The Japan-Canada partnership remains underdeveloped despite both countries sharing democratic institutions, the opportunities and challenges of...

Afghanistan peace negotiations move forward

By Arthur I. Cyr Representatives of the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban movement have begun formal direct peace negotiations. The two...

A new justice wouldn’t guarantee a pro-Trump election verdict

Everyone understands why U.S. President Donald Trump and Senate leader Mitch McConnell are in such a rush to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a new...

Potential Saudi recognition of Israel is $64,000 question

By James M. Dorsey Will the Saudis formalize relations with Israel or will they not? That is the 64,000-dollar question. The odds are that Saudi...

Does 'October surprise' matter?

By Troy Stangarone On July 5, 1945, British citizens went to the polls for the first time since 1935. Less than two months earlier the Allies had...

Join the ToI Community for Rabbi David Wolpe on Yom Kippur and Jewish resilience

Please join us this Friday, September 25, for the latest in our Behind the Headlines video series, exclusively for the ToI Community. In a special...