The Military Radio Station Is Too Political? What About the Army Itself

Ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with police as some schools flout virus lockdown

Clashes broke out Sunday morning in three cities across Israel as police attempted to enforce coronavirus lockdown restrictions in a number of...

The death of K-pop

Courtesy of Peter Kaminski By David Tizzard The Korean ascent to greatness has been steep and fraught with danger, yet it is all the more...

Cold-headed restructuring

LG Electronics seeks to give up smartphone business LG Electronics has begun the process of shedding its smartphone business unit, which has...

Minister slams claim COVID death rate is ‘failure’ compared to others in region

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein angrily denied a TV report on Saturday that suggested Israel was faring poorly in terms of its death toll from...

Freedom of 'anonymous' expression?

By Jason Lim Freedom of expression is enshrined in the constitutions of all democratic nations, but does that mean that there is also a freedom to...

Lessons from living through a pandemic

The year 2020 undoubtedly defied expectations and predictions. Yet as a new year commences, the experience has not deterred many from offering...

Secret to good health

By Kim Ae-ran What is the secret to good health? Getting vaccinated to protect ourselves from the dangers of COVID-19 is definitely on the top of...

Compensation for victims of car accidents

By Chang Se-moon An SUV suddenly cut off a city bus as it left a stop in Jinju City, South Gyeongsang Province, on Dec. 16, 2019. The bus screeched...

Who needs English? It’s all Hebrish, anyway

Here’s a comedy bit from “Zehu Zeh,” the beloved Israeli television comedy series, that doesn’t need much translation. The familiar crew of...

Israel predicts rise in anti-Semitism after pandemic used to spread online hate

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they unfold. Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry predicts a steep rise in anti-Semitic...

Ministry publishes map of fire ant-infected plant nurseries

As green-fingered Israelis prepare for the new gardening season, marked by the festival of Tu Bishvat which begins on Wednesday, the Environmental...

In US, boogaloo adherents’ aloha shirts coopt peace symbol for violence

HONOLULU (AP) — People following a violent movement that promotes a second US civil war or the breakdown of modern society have been showing up...

Take your booty

In the Song of the Sea, the Jewish People recount the events leading up to the miraculous parting of the Red Sea and the Egyptians’ fateful...

A ‘wineing’ hypocrisy: The BDS movement in Canada

Recently, both as an academic who studies the Holocaust and as a passionate Canadian Jew, I have been struggling to make liminal to others my fear...

Proud to be an American

I was born in Liverpool, England, and spent time both in the Netherlands and in South Africa. By the young age of 15, I had already traveled and...

Twitter owes its users a plausible explanation

Twitter, the social networking service, owes all its users a plausible and definitive explanation regarding the posts it allows on its...

Bo: You don’t have time? or you don’t want to?

I’ll do it tomorrow  — Everyone (at some point) Time is such a crucial part of our lives. Tim Ferris in his bestselling book The Four Hour Work...

There Is Nothing In The World Quite Like Being a Teacher

“In a lifetime, you must meet a good teacher who will change your life.” There are an enormous number of impediments to a student’s ability to...

The Trust Test

Trust is a fickle thing. It is hard to build and it can shatter in a moment. Once shattered, it is painstaking to rebuild. If this is true of trust...

Festival of Life at Dodger Stadium

After hearing about what was happening at hospitals and vaccination clinics, I had called a few shul members and donors on Sunday to set up #...

There Is No Tidy Ending to My Eating Disorder

Trigger Warning: This post contains weights and calories. I’ve been struggling with my eating disorder. I haven’t gained the pandemic fifteen,...

PODCAST: The Daily Briefing — COVID, politics and ‘autonomous’ ultra-Orthodoxy

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...

And The Rocket’s Red Glare, The Bombs Bursting In Air

בסייד Yes, those are the words from the US National Anthem that I learned to sing in school as a young boy. I kept on looking into the sky at...

I, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hereby Declare...

Labor to pick new leader as frontrunner Michaeli looks to renew struggling party

Labor members go to the polls on Sunday to task a new leader with saving the center-left party, which governed Israel for its first three decades...

Military task force warns that Israeli COVID variant could emerge

A military-led task force has warned of the potential emergence of a mutated Israeli variant of the coronavirus resistant to vaccines. In a report...

Why the US is wrong to designate the Houthis as ‘terrorists’

On January 10, then US Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the Trump administration was designating Ansar Allah, the de facto Houthi-led...

Holocaust survivor turns falafel into symbol of Jewish resilience

(JTA) — On January 18, 1945, the Nazis at Auschwitz forced David Leitner and about 66,000 other camp prisoners to march through the snow....

Iran said to lay out 7 preconditions to US for renewal of nuclear deal

Iranian diplomats have been in touch with members of US President Joe Biden’s administration about restarting talks on Iran’s nuclear program and...

Israel's Top ex-Treasury Officials Are Right

Damage compensation

Question is how to raise funds to cover losses The Moon Jae-in administration and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) have started the...

Islamic Movement leader shot dead in Jaffa, 2nd man moderately wounded

A senior official in the Islamic Movement was shot dead and a second man moderately injured on Sunday when a gunman opened fire in the central city...

Asia’s movie rebound is good news for everyone

Has the pandemic dimmed the houselights for good at American movie theaters? Stay-at-home orders, capacity limits and simple fear of the virus have...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny risks it all for democracy. Will GOP senators do the same?

By Trudy Rubin Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading fighter for democracy, returned home last week, after recuperating in Germany from a Kremlin...

People's trust needed to heal nation

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. ― what a relief it is to write those words ― was unstintingly candid in acknowledging the drastic circumstances...

Wine of the Week: Dalton Kna’an (Canaan) 2019 red

The city of Mashad is Iran’s second largest city, revered as the country’s holiest city and the center of Persia’s famous carpet production. ...

Vaccines: the case against Bibi

In a leaked video , Bibi claimed that he will win the upcoming elections because of his execution of a swift vaccine rollout.  Israel is doing far...

Israel’s street cats are my therapy

I sit on a park bench and hold Pinky, one of my outside kitties. Winter has definitely arrived here in Israel, a welcome relief from the sweltering...

5 Inspiring Quotes on Education by Rav Sacks zt”l

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l was a world-renowned educator. His teachings reached millions of people around the globe and changed countless...

Speckled Floors (in the Time of Corona)

You know the ones I’m talking about – those tan/beige/brown dots on an otherwise would-be white floor, the ones that make you think this...

The art of ‘leaking’ in the Japanese government

PYEONGTAEK, SOUTH KOREA – Last week, a “senior member” of the ruling coalition fueled a breaking story in The Times that then garnered a...

Ministries feud over future of natural gas in climate change tug-of-war

Just hours after Wednesday’s inauguration, US President Joe Biden signed executive orders rejoining the 2015 Paris Climate Accords and...

Israeli artist paints Trump from every angle

AFP — The face is obscure and grim, but the blonde comb-over and tie leave no doubt that the image carpeting the studio of Israeli painter Iddo...

Meridor and Turner Are Right

Cabinet to okay Morocco normalization, debate travel ban to curb virus variants

The cabinet on Sunday was set to convene, with ministers slated to approve the establishment of diplomatic ties between Israel and Morocco and...

Case shelved against Shin Bet agents accused of torturing suspected terrorist

The attorney general on Sunday halted the investigation into the Shin Bet security service agents suspected of torturing a Palestinian terror...

US Jewish philanthropists give more during pandemic but struggle with allocation

JTA — Lisa Greer used to devote a significant share of her time and money to long-term philanthropic projects. She didn’t mind that it could...

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, blacklisted in McCarthy era, dies at 101

NEW YORK (AP) — Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, among the last survivors of Hollywood’s anti-Communist blacklist whose Oscar-nominated script for...

We must depoliticise life in the West otherwise we will turn into a totalitarian society where nothing is personal anymore

In 1938 the great Irishman William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called ‘Politics’. It could perhaps, more accurately have been entitled...