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Death of High Priest

The Abarbanel gives a beautiful explanation as to why the accidental murderer is allowed to leave the City of Refuge upon the death of the Kohein...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Balochistan: Could the Iran War Redraw the South Asia map?

For decades, the borders of the Middle East and South Asia have appeared fixed. Governments changed, insurgencies erupted and wars came and went, but...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sergio Restelli

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup—Day 32

The last time France and Spain really went to war with each other was during the Napoleonic Wars, when What’s-His-Face attempted to put his brother...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Doug Klein

What If A Miracle Would Happen?

What If A Miracle Would Happen?

The tragedy of the Israeli conflict is not born from a lack of imagination, but from a devastating surplus of reality. For decades, the global...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

Strip Away the Spectacle

Hours before England took the pitch against DR Congo in the World Cup round of 32, the dominant item on British social media was not Thomas Tuchel’s...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

Michael Solomonov’s restaurant group says anti-Israel boycott not behind closure of 6 locations

Michael Solomonov’s restaurant group says anti-Israel boycott not behind closure of 6 locations

Owner Steve Cook says move ‘an economic decision that goes back many years,’ as pro-Palestinian activists seek to claim credit

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

The lesson of time: What Iraq might learn from Japan’s two devastating experiences

The lesson of time: What Iraq might learn from Japan’s two devastating experiences

Nations, like men, learn most from the wounds they survive. Japan learned twice. The first lesson nearly destroyed it. The second rebuilt it. Iraq has...

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Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

The West’s Turkey Dilemma

The West’s Turkey Dilemma

WASHINGTON, DC—The rapid rise of China, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the US-Israeli war with Iran have made geopolitical rivalry the main...

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Project Syndicate

Anne O. Krueger

82-year-old man dies of wounds sustained in Iranian missile attack on Haifa in April

82-year-old man dies of wounds sustained in Iranian missile attack on Haifa in April

Michael Katz’s wife says she will ‘live as half a human being’ after her husband of 55 years succumbs to injuries; same missile killed 4 members...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

IDF soldier sentenced to 5 years for spying on behalf of Iran during June 2025 war

IDF soldier sentenced to 5 years for spying on behalf of Iran during June 2025 war

Ruling takes into account that the soldier didn’t provide military intel, and that he ultimately cut off contact and reported the incident to his...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Celebrating the Jewish Day of Love – Tu B’Av: Say It with Garlic

Celebrating the Jewish Day of Love – Tu B’Av: Say It with Garlic

Garlic might be the official Jewish love potion, so it’s a perfect ingredient to feature in a recipe for the Jewish Day of Love, Tu B’Av (the 15th...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Faith Kramer

Pakistan Is Not Stable. It Is Unraveling.

Pakistan Is Not Stable. It Is Unraveling.

A nuclear-armed country is being consumed by insurgency, military domination, political repression, economic despair and the consequences of its own...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mansoor H. Laghari

Knesset passes law restoring Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly over kosher certification

Knesset passes law restoring Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly over kosher certification

Coalition passes raft of contentious laws aimed at appeasing Haredi parties, which say their ‘rift’ with Netanyahu is over

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The Last Strike: Who Controls the Story

The Last Strike: Who Controls the Story

Washington’s Effort to Restore Its Credibility Tehran’s Goal: Preserving the Image of Resistance Who Is Winning the Battle Over the Story? When...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gilles Touboul

Truth Is Like the Sun – You Cannot Cover It with Your Hand

Truth Is Like the Sun – You Cannot Cover It with Your Hand

“Truth is like the sun – you cannot cover it with your hand.” There is a second saying worth remembering alongside it: if we do not tell the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

Riyadh and the Canal projects to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, obstacles, and prospects

Riyadh and the Canal projects to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, obstacles, and prospects Plans to build canals bypassing the Strait of Hormuz are not...

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New Eastern Outlook

Samyar Rostami

Hamas said to demand increased financial, diplomatic support from Iran

Hamas said to demand increased financial, diplomatic support from Iran

In talks on sidelines of Khamenei funeral last week, terror group reportedly asked for help rebuilding military capabilities and for its demands to be...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Pressure Until the Guns Stop

Pressure Until the Guns Stop

Diplomacy with Iran can produce signatures. The question is whether the men with the guns are ever forced to honor them. Today that question sits at...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Seth Eisenberg

This Is How America Wins in Iran and Weakens China

This Is How America Wins in Iran and Weakens China

In the last two weeks, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has repeatedly claimed responsibility for missile strikes on several oil...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Remembering Bette – My Best Friend of Nearly 70 Years

Bette has been my friend, almost a sister, despite distance and long absences, for almost 70 years. She passed away unexpectedly last week. We met the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ronnie Katz Gerber

Let The Doves Fly – How Hadassah is a Lifechanging Moment in My Life

Let The Doves Fly – How Hadassah is a Lifechanging Moment in My Life

Think about the dog days of summer. Think about concerts and festivals. Finally, think about Woodstock. That iconic moment in the summer of 1969. What...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Hope Blecher

Lindsey Graham: Our True Guardian

The tributes pouring in for Lindsey Graham rightly praise his many qualities, especially his deep love for and tireless service to the United States....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stuart Weinblatt

The Challenge of Israel’s Next Elections

 In the Book of Psalms (121:1-2) it is written: “I lift up my eyes to the mountains, from where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sherwin Pomerantz

Terminal Lucidity Preceding Irrational National Incoherence

If you tell me whom you haunt I’ll tell you who you are, said André Breton, but if you tell me whom you taunt, I’ll know, as fact that you can...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gershon Hepner

Destroying Pickaxe Mountain Will Take Far More Than Fordow Did.

Destroying Pickaxe Mountain Will Take Far More Than Fordow Did.

On Monday afternoon, speaking with Hugh Hewitt, President Trump was asked whether he would insist on inspectors reaching the deep tunnels of a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Celeo Ramirez

Global Unity Begins with One More Place at the Table

That is the story of the Jewish people. Not because we have always agreed with one another, but because throughout history, we have always found our...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Avi Schwartz

History Remembers. Torah Transforms

Few observations about history have become as familiar as George Santayana’s famous warning: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ammos Chorny

What Do We Mean When We Say Antizionism?

“What do you mean when you say antizionism?” I relayed what I know, that antizionism is hatred of Israel and the Jewish collective. My new...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jennifer Kogan

Today’s Changing World – a Readers Guide

There was a book I read as a child, which I only partially remember. I pulled it off my grandmother’s bookshelf in the late 60’s early 70’s; and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Erich Kaminsky

How the Tech Lords Hacked the Firm

How the Tech Lords Hacked the Firm

CAMBRIDGE—One of the most impressive feats of the current generation of tech oligarchs is that they have hacked not just computers or software, but...

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Project Syndicate

Quinn Slobodian

Israel now needs a Moroccan prime minister

Israel now needs a Moroccan prime minister

There is an old saying, attributed to Morocco’s King Hassan II, that captures something no diplomatic communiqué ever could: “When a Jew leaves...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Adil Faouzi

Why Judaism Records Its Own Failures

Civilizations often choose to remember themselves through their triumphs. More often than not, it is a story of victories rather than defeats, of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shreeya Anand

HaKatze Series Intro

HaKatze Series Intro

A Modern Joel Test for Israeli Startups The conversation flowed alongside the tea and coffee at a cafe in Herzliya. My third interview for the startup...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

George K. Stein

Hadassah’s Research on Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria is Lifechanging

I had my first hip replacement surgery in 1980 in America. It was a miraculous procedure that enabled me to walk normally, after walking for a year on...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Karen Guth

الحكم بالإعدام على "البعاتي".. مهزلة حكومة بورتسودان

في السياسة قد تختلف الروايات، وقد تتبدل المواقف، لكن أن تتصادم الرواية الرسمية مع...

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العين الإخبارية

د. أسامة أحمد المصطفى

Why Interfaith Alliance Is the Next Front Against Antisemitism

For most of the last century, American Jews compensated for our small numbers with outsized influence. This was built through philanthropy, civic...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ira Ebbin

An Open Letter to Rahm Emanuel

Last week you visited Israel. I watched your speech at Tel Aviv University, I watched your interview with the Jerusalem Post and Channel 12, and I...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ilan Sinelnikov

Jews in the U.S. Report Rising Insecurity After October 7

Jews in the U.S. Report Rising Insecurity After October 7

A survey conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and published by the Times of Israel shows that six in ten American...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Silas Anastacio

Report: Trump’s former ‘digital guru’ leading Israeli influence campaign targeting MAGA

Report: Trump’s former ‘digital guru’ leading Israeli influence campaign targeting MAGA

Time magazine says Brad Parscale behind an Israeli-funded social media effort to stem the anti-Israel shift in young conservatives; Israel, US both...

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The Times of Israel

Ethan Rubinson

Reshaping the Military-Political Landscape in the Indo-Pacific Region

Reshaping the Military-Political Landscape in the Indo-Pacific Region A number of notable recent events provide good reason to revisit the subject of...

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New Eastern Outlook

Vladimir Terehov

Earthquake Diplomacy: The Unexpected Thaw Between Caracas and Jerusalem

Earthquake Diplomacy: The Unexpected Thaw Between Caracas and Jerusalem

The devastating earthquakes in Venezuela have opened a channel for humanitarian diplomacy with Israel, burying nearly two decades of ideological...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Óscar Reyes-Matute

Not Much Will Change After The Elections

Israel is scheduled to hold new elections on October 27, 2026—the first government in 50 years to serve its full four-year term. The polls currently...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ian Joseph

Power of 7: Could an ancient political feud explain Qumran sect’s faulty 364-day calendar?

Power of 7: Could an ancient political feud explain Qumran sect’s faulty 364-day calendar?

New theory offers a solution to one of the Dead Sea Scrolls’ longest-running puzzles, arguing the out-of-sync calendar was used for ideological...

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

Top Democrat in US House says he won’t support bill to cut off US aid to Israel

Top Democrat in US House says he won’t support bill to cut off US aid to Israel

But Hakeem Jeffries urges ‘major reset’ in ties between Washington and Jerusalem, which he says ‘has an advanced economy and is capable of...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

Knesset approves law restoring Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly over kosher certification

Knesset approves law restoring Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly over kosher certification

Law is among legislation that Haredi parties demanded be passed in exchange for support on key coalition bills * US official says no meeting scheduled...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Trump said to urge Netanyahu to pull Israeli troops from Syria, Lebanon in recent call

Trump said to urge Netanyahu to pull Israeli troops from Syria, Lebanon in recent call

US leader reportedly told PM ‘they don’t want you there’; Jerusalem and Beirut hold talks on IDF withdrawals from ‘pilot zones,’ with FM...

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The Times of Israel

Stav Levaton

US reimposes naval blockade as Trump threatens to ramp up strikes on Iran: ‘You better make a deal’

US reimposes naval blockade as Trump threatens to ramp up strikes on Iran: ‘You better make a deal’

US president demands Iranians ‘get to the table and negotiate’ while at same time saying his negotiators just spoke with Tehran, which claims...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Tova Saul, the cat rescuer of Jerusalem

Tova Saul, the cat rescuer of Jerusalem

In this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a woman whose life’s calling is to...

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The Times of Israel

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Kaj se dogaja na najvišjem prelazu v državi? Promet usmerjajo policisti, reditelji in ovce

Kaj se dogaja na najvišjem prelazu v državi? Promet usmerjajo policisti, reditelji in ovce

Na vrhu prelaza Vršič potekajo gradbena dela v povezavi z rekonstrukcijo ceste in gradnjo parkirnih mest, zaradi uvajanja novega prometnega režima...

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Dnevnik

Tina Jereb

Babico, mamo in strica porezal, policistom pa grozil s smrtjo

Babico, mamo in strica porezal, policistom pa grozil s smrtjo

Logatčan David Rovan je znova obžaloval napad z nožem na sorodnike izpred devetih let. Takrat je bil pijan, vzel je tablete in kadil marihuano, je...

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Dnevnik

Mojca Furlan - Rus