Prosecutors clear suspects in deadly shooting of Arab Lod man during May riots

Five Jewish Israeli men who were investigated in the death of an Arab Israeli man during violent clashes in Lod in May were cleared of wrongdoing...

Alleged Turkish Mossad spy describes unwitting recruitment, training in Zurich

A Turkish man allegedly working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has reportedly described how he was recruited and taken to Switzerland...

China's Journey into the Unknown

Countries’ broken promises leave Afghans trapped and abandoned

Report. Closed borders, deportations, confinements in third countries and push-backs. A new Amnesty International report reveals the world’s...

Podcast: Overlooking the Dead Sea, with Spencer Tunick and 200 nude models

Welcome to Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. This week, arts and culture editor Jessica Steinberg headed to Arad, 25...

Oversight panel rebukes Facebook, will review system exempting VIPs from rules

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Facebook’s oversight panel announced a probe on Thursday of the company’s system to reportedly exempt high-profile users from...

PHOTO ESSAY: Hadassah’s COVID fighters

The coronavirus is still here. The numbers keep dropping and sometimes we forget that in the last year-and-a-half more than 8,000 Israelis died...

From Dylan to Beyoncé: Spiritual Secrets Revealed

The Temptations. The Grateful Dead. The Runaways. Nirvana. Destiny’s Child. The names of rock and roll heroes insist on spiritual liberation and...

Bennett jets to Russia for lightning talks with Putin on Iran, region

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took off Friday for a lightning visit to Sochi to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks expected to...

Israeli scientists halve growth of cancer tumors in mice, using ‘GPS particles’

Israeli scientists have halved the growth of cancer tumors in mice by using “GPS particles” to inject a well-known local anesthetic drug....

Gantz declares six Palestinian human rights groups ‘terrorist organizations’

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz declared six Palestinian human rights groups to be “terrorist organizations” on Friday, saying that they...

For India, It’s Now Clear the Taliban Means Real Trouble

NEW DELHI – Since the fall of Kabul, fear is rising in Indian-administered Kashmir and in New Delhi that the Taliban victory in Afghanistan...

Israel says Russia agreed to not hamper IDF air campaign over Syria

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during their meeting in Sochi on Friday that the two nations would...

Israeli ‘terror’ designation of Palestinian NGOs sparks furious backlash

An Israeli decision to label six Palestinian rights groups and civil society movements as “terror organizations” elicited a swift and fierce...

Director Eric Steel on Jewish-LGBTQ film ‘Minyan,’ one of this year’s top 10

NEW YORK — A famous quote attributed to James Joyce goes, “In the particular is contained the universal.” If you buy this, then “Minyan” is...

Fallen scion Robert Durst charged with murdering wife who vanished in 1982

NEW YORK (AP) — Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst, who was sentenced last week in California to life in prison for killing a confidante,...

Súdna mapa. Je to ešte reforma?

Namieste je otázka, či vôbec možno hovoriť o reforme, či nejde len o kozmetickú úpravu. Celé to pripomína starý vtip, v ktorom na...

China’s loss can be the rest of Asia’s gain

SEOUL – COVID-19 has exposed the myriad weaknesses of cross-border value chains. Once the backbone of globalization, now they are associated with...

Colin Powell and the Meaning of Charisma

LONDON – I have read the obituaries of General Colin Powell, who died this week, with considerable sadness. I got to know this great American...

Celebrating famous Jews from Ukraine: Sammy Cahn

— Join me, Boris Lozhkin, on Twitter  @lozhkin_boris  for news and commentary on Judaism in Ukraine and around the world. Follow me on  Facebook...

Encountering Palestinians: Where do we go next?

Recently I spent a day with Encounter,  an educational organization committed to informing Jewish communal leadership about the situation of...

Seeing and Being Seen – Parshas Vayeira 5782

There is a terrible beauty in the story of the Akeidah. On one hand, every time I read the words of the Torah describing the journey of Avraham...

Reports about airstrikes in Syria. Myths and truth

Dedicated to my Guru Mr. Ron Ben-Yishai ,  a true legend of war journalism,  with deep respect and best wishes. Myths and truth behind reports of...

Parshat Vayera: The Laughter of Infinite Possibility

“Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I in truth bear a child, old as I am?’ Is anything too wondrous for the Lord, (Bereshit 18,13). From...

Is Libya on the Cusp of Change or Falling into Chaos?

Ever since Libyan Jamahiriya leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and sneakily assassinated by European and American champions of “democracy” in...

Gröhlingova reforma pre reformu

Pritom vysoké školy sa reformujú s malými prestávkami už tridsať rokov a stále to nestačí, kvalita naďalej pokrivkáva. Namiesto...

'Incomplete success'

Strenuous efforts needed to become global aerospace powerhouse South Korea reached a brilliant achievement in its aerospace history Thursday, by...

(STRAN 210) O tistih, ki plešejo po grobovih

Nekateri ljudje radi plešejo po grobovih. V mislih nimam kake obskurne sekte, ki bi se ob vsaki drugi zimski polni luni zbirala na britofih in tam...

The Forecast for the Young – Severe Weather and Anxiety

An extensive study among young people ages 16-25 has revealed that they are anxious about the future, and with good reason. The research, whose...

Parshat Vayera: The Test of Choice

We all know people who don’t like making decisions. Whether it’s as minuscule as what to eat for dinner or as important as accepting the right...

Northern Getaway in Israel

If you were going away by car for a few days, could you have lunch at a 2,000 year old seaport, once the most modern in the world? Or, could you...

Mark Zuckerberg needs to change more than Facebook’s name

Mark Zuckerberg wants to rechristen Facebook Inc., giving the financial powerhouse — and social media hothouse — a fresh identity. While...

Remembering History to Solve Problems

One of the most famous of all aphorisms belongs to the philosopher George Santayana: “ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...

Sparing Pigeons Pain, Part 2

Five Cheers for Tel Aviv’s people and government. The story that recently appeared here about pigeons’ pain, local politics, and civic action...

Calling out Bigotry, Both Right and Left

Much “ink” has been spilled in recent years over the dangers posed to both Jewish and American values by a particularly ugly version of the...

Ness Gadol Haya Zoom

In September 1993, I moved with my parents and two younger brothers from Israel to Montreal, Canada. I was almost 16 years old then and have been...

Sinister Rockefeller Food System Agenda -- They Created it and Now Want to Destroy It

No one group has done more to damage our global agriculture and food quality than the Rockefeller Foundation. They began in the early 1950s after...

Shir HaShirim Asher LeShlomo: Rav Kook And Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

“The great souls feel in the depths of their being their connection to all existence, to all creatures and especially to all humankind…they...

How has the Pandemic Redistributed the World’s Wealth?

At a recent IMF event on recovering nations from the coronavirus pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the COVID-19...

VOX POPULI: Banner harvest met with bad omens for future of rice farming

The season of new rice is here, and supermarket shelves are stacked with bags of freshly harvested rice from various regions, marketed under brand...

Globalizirano vreme

Že v osnovi vremenske procese določa neenakomerna razporeditev sončne energije po zemljepisni širini. Na polih je je vedno precej manj kot v...

EDITORIAL: Parties face acid test in dealing with Fukushima reconstruction

It is probably difficult for the communities in Fukushima Prefecture ravaged by the nuclear disaster to describe the weight of their struggles over...

Reestructurando la industria energética con decisiones más inteligentes

Las duras condiciones económicas que ha arrastrado la pandemia han generado gran presión sobre los minoristas durante el último tiempo, quienes...

Alec Baldwin fires prop gun on movie set, killing director of photography

SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) — A prop firearm discharged by veteran US actor Alec Baldwin, who is starring in and producing a Western movie, killed...

Dragging out consulate reopening, Biden does Israel a favor, but not himself

It’s been five months since Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US would be reopening its consulate in Jerusalem. Bringing back...

UAE says nixing pipeline agreement won’t damage ties with Israel

The United Arab Emirates has moved to distance itself from a controversial plan to channel oil from the Gulf to Europe via an overland pipeline...

The day I got to see Van Gogh’s stunning ‘Wheatstacks,’ from both sides

In the course of Friday, a wonderful painting by Vincent van Gogh, Meules de Blé (Wheatstacks), is being packed up and flown from London to New...

Three years on, Pittsburgh synagogue attacker still not on trial

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) — As the three-year mark since the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue approaches, survivors are planning now-...

Warhol in Tehran: Iranians flock to American pop art exhibit

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian hardliners, now back at the helm of the country, may regularly rail against the poisoning of Islamic society by...

Suspect in British MP’s slaying backs IS, plotted attacks for years – prosecutors

Prosecutors said Thursday that a 25-year-old man accused of stabbing British lawmaker David Amess to death was an Islamic State supporter who...