After night of mass nationwide protests, Herzog calls to stop legislative process

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they happen. Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway reopens, a number of hours after it was...

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Toi Staff

Firing his defense minister, Netanyahu lifts public anger at his rule to new heights

It’s two in the morning, and hundreds of mainly young Israelis, having spent hours chanting and marching through the streets of Jerusalem, are...

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David Horovitz

Netanyahu lawyer says he won’t represent him unless overhaul halted

A prominent lawyer on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal defense team has reportedly said he will stop representing the premier in his...

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Toi Staff

Military leaders to convene hours after PM ousts defense minister — report

Senior military leaders are said set to meet Monday morning to discuss developments surrounding the firing of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant by...

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Toi Staff

Amid mass protests, calls grow from inside coalition to reconsider judicial overhaul

As mass protesters broke out across Israel Sunday night, calls from within the coalition grew to consider a stop to the relentless legislative...

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Toi Staff

Israel’s NY envoy quits in protest of overhaul ‘to join fight for Israel’s future’

NEW YORK — Israel’s Consul General in New York Asaf Zamir announced his resignation on Sunday, saying he could no longer represent the government...

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Luke Tress

Who Does Israel Really Belong To?

At dawn Saturday, a group of Eritrean workers laid sod alongside a path in Ramat Aviv to Yarkon Park between the Yitzhak Rabin Center, the...

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Gideon Levy

Israel Must Not Become 1930s Spain

How is it that a country, one of the most technologically-advanced on Earth, can lack a national vision of governance? How is it that millions of...

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Dmitri Shufutinsky

Global South solidarity is the key to lifting up Central America — not Washington's Monroe Doctrine

Honduran President Xiomara Castro caused a stir in the media when, on March 14, she remarked that she instructed her foreign minister to...

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Bradley Blankenship

Polish deputy FM: Israel consulted with us on overhauling judiciary

Poland’s deputy foreign minister on Monday said Israel consulted with his country about overhauling the judicial system, following past Polish...

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Toi Staff

Authors, poets to read Book of Lamentations in protest of overhaul

Dozens of writers and poets were set to gather Tuesday to read the Book of Lamentations (Eicha), written in 586 BCE for the destruction of...

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Jessica Steinberg

The world we’ll share tomorrow

Tomorrow morning, or next week, or a year from now, we will all get up in the morning and we’ll all still be here, sharing this space. We will...

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Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Obligation to Testify

In Verse one of Chapter five of Vayikra, there are instructions regarding giving testimony. There is a command to testify about what one hears. The...

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Kenneth Cohen

(POGLED) Svoboda na obisku v Butalah: Saj ne gre za nikakršno krizo, ampak samo za Golobov ego!

Robert Balen Profesor retorike in argumentacije Igor Ž. Žagar se je ozrl "po svobodnem butalskem vsakdanjiku, ki ga s svojo samovšečnostjo in...

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We Were Slaves

He was fifteen years old, but tall for his age, and given a gruelling task too hard even for a grown man. He carried heavy loads from one place to...

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Pauline Schwarcz

I worry for my family. Jews in America must speak up!

The following is adapted from a speech delivered on Sunday at a rally for Israeli democracy in Washington Square Park in New York City. Shalom....

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Esther Sperber

Israel’s security bank is in perilous overdraft

Israel’s streets are on fire. Opposition to the government’s plan to overhaul the Supreme Court and strip it of the right to judicial review –...

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Michael Oren

Everything is a remix: AI and image generation

If all artists take inspiration from previous artists’ work, does AI art really pose a new threat to human creativity? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

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Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist

In 1833, Lydia Maria Child was testing what being a woman meant for the abolition of slavery. Child, a beloved author of novels, self-help books...

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Lydia Moland

Levin said to back academic who helped craft overhaul as next Supreme Court chief

The coalition’s leading candidate to become the next head of the Supreme Court is an advocate of government’s the judicial overhaul who worked...

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Toi Staff

Things fall apart

The Israeli right is gripped in a deep malaise. It has its argument about the over-powerful High Court. It believes that argument. It’s been making...

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Haviv Rettig Gur

Politics in quagmire

Parties need to refrain from life-or-death skirmish The National Assembly is largely tasked with coordinating differing opinions to resolve social...

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Editorial

Hebrew University researchers discover how pancreatic cancer spreads through body

Researchers have known for some time about the DNA mutations that lead healthy pancreatic cells to turn cancerous. What was not understood is how...

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Renee Ghert-Zand

A New Dawn-Birchot Kriat Shema-5

The first blessing of Kriat Shma, called The Former of Lights, goes through a major change in focus after the first paragraph. Initially, the...

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David Walk

Israel’s Path to Becoming a Middle Eastern Democracy

Freedom House, an American research institute, has been studying the global level of freedom and democracy for the past 50 years. While the report...

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Barak Sella

Kinneret: Sea of Life

Moshe Alpert’s spare and poetic documentary, Kinneret: Sea of Life, presents the Sea of Galilee, the world’s lowest freshwater lake, in a...

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Sheldon Kirshner

Managing potential conflict on Korean Peninsula

By Simon Hutagalung In 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed the goal to achieve Korean reunification by 2045 and hosting a joint...

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Guest Column

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Stephanie Z. Bonder

Women's History Month - Help women reach their full potential

By Jennifer Jones March is Women's History Month. This month we celebrate women's achievements and reflect on the ongoing challenges we face in...

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Who are you calling old? An expanding 'middle age' upends everything

By LZ Granderson I've been thinking about death lately. Turning 50 can do that to a person. I exercise regularly, drink water … all of that. But...

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EDITORIAL: U.N. says action ‘in this decade’ key in curbing global warming　

The global warming crisis is on the verge of becoming irreversible. “The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and...

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VOX POPULI: Tamori’s ‘play on sounds’ to end after decades of glorious laughter

The word “soramimi” (mishearing) has been used from ancient times. Sei Shonagon, a court lady in the Heian Period (794-1185), described the call...

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Financial crisis and whale theory

By Peter S. Kim Since the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank launched its historic rate hikes, investors held their breath for the "whale" to surface. Many...

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Peter S. Kim

Is content moderation necessary evil?

By Daniel Shin Content moderation can have a disproportionate effect on already-marginalized groups of people. Content moderation often results in...

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The Chinese leader’s new “Global Security Initiative” and the latest AUKUS summit

On March 15, two days after the conclusion of China’s annual “Two Sessions”, Xinhua News Agency reported an equally remarkable event that was in...

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Vladimir Terehov

UK Football Presenter Succeeds Where “Politicians Have Failed!”

In 1947 the socially notorious Welsh poet Dylan Thomas wrote the untitled poem beginning “Do not go gentle into that good night”. In it he exhorts...

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Seth Ferris

China's diplomatic faux pas pushes Manila back into U.S. arms

Beijing has only itself to blame if it loses out to Washington strategically

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Toru Takahashi

Pohlep kot vrednota

Naj takoj povem, da sem naslov oblikoval po intervjuju z Matevžem Lenarčičem v Nedelu in njegovih besedah. V nekem preteklem prispevku sem pisal...

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Findings Sound Alarm Over Climate Change, Call for Stronger Measures

Editorial 15:42 JST, March 27, 2023 If global warming is left unaddressed, natural disasters such as heavy rains and droughts will occur more...

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The Emotional Lives and Personalities of Backyard Chickens

Tove Danovich offers "a moving tribute to the world's most numerous birds."

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What Your Laughter Reveals About Your Relationship

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ربما تختفي الأخبار المزيفة يوماً

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Ousted defense minister says overhaul rift is an opportunity for Israel’s enemies

Ousted Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned on Monday morning in a closed meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that...

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Legal scholars from Poland, Hungary warn of judicial overhaul’s dangers to democracy

Constitutional scholars from Poland and Hungary, two countries seen to have undergone democratic backsliding in recent years, warned that Israel...

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Jeremy Sharon

Florida bill attacking critical theory in higher education has Jewish profs worried

JTA — The University of Florida has more Jewish students than any other public college in the United States — and earlier this month, one of...

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‘We are not afraid’: Mass protests erupt nationwide after Netanyahu fires Gallant

Mass protests erupted across Israel on Sunday night and into the early hours of Monday morning after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Yoav...

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Histadrut labor chief to make ‘special’ announcement amid growing calls for strike

The head of the Histadrut labor federation was due to give a press conference on Monday amid growing calls to strike following the firing of...

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It’s in America’s interest to end the Ukraine crisis

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Ensure Steady Recovery from Coronavirus Pandemic

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Daily Briefing Mar. 27: Special edition — Israel on strike after PM fires Gallant

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