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Daily virus case count tops 1,500 for first time since lockdown eased

The Health Ministry on Thursday recorded over 1,500 new coronavirus cases a day earlier, the highest daily rate since October 15, when Israel was...

Ko gori Rim ali patologija zamolčevanja

V mori korone si te dni bržkone vsi razmišljujoči po malem postavljajo ista vprašanja. Kaj pravzaprav počne Janez Janša, ko med katastrofo...

Biden faces pressure from competing factions over pick for secretary of defense

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President-elect Joe Biden is facing escalating pressure from competing factions within his own party as he finalizes his...

‘The Chamber of Secrets[1]’ Parashat Vayishlach 5781

While the Book of Bereishit is studied in nearly every Jewish Primary School, Parashat Vayishlach contains two episodes that are not meant for...

(POGLED) Farmadent - prodati ali ne?

Razlika med uspešnimi in neuspešnimi podjetji, državami in tudi občinami so hkrati tudi razlike med njihovimi uspešnimi in neuspešnimi...

Gantz, This Is the Only Thing You Have to Tell Netanyahu

Debut of energy solution firm

At stake is how to attain economy of scale LG Energy Solution was formally launched Tuesday. The company made its debut in the business world,...

Tales of gloom and doom

By Donald Kirk The North Korean economy is in such dire straits that none of the experts know quite what to do about it other than beg Kim Jong-un,...

Time for compromise

Democrats and Republicans in Congress both claim they want to pass a new federal stimulus bill before President-elect Joe Biden takes office Jan....

Why UK risks post- after corona crisis Brexit meltdown

By Andrew Hammond New OECD data Tuesday shows the United Kingdom has been hit hardest, economically, of any G20 state from the coronavirus crisis,...

In memory of my aunt

By Kim Ae-ran Those who try hard to build a better future talk about "the world since the pandemic" by means of such issues as "sustainability,...

Multicultural South Caucasus is only concept for everlasting peace

By Ramzi Teymurov In accordance to prominent multicultural scholars, multiculturalism represents the ethnic and cultural diversity where people...

US should respond to RCEP trade deal

By Dr. Nehginpao Kipgen and Dishant Choudhary The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal was signed Nov. 15 via a...

Post-Trump: Quo Vadis, America?

By Ron Roman So it's out with Trumpism, in with Bidenism. At least as this is being written in mid-November. Did Joe Biden really win? Or did he...

South Korea’s Financial Pyramid Schemes: Is its Leadership Complicit?

Only just recently, this author wrote about a high-profile scandal that involved the South Korean Minister of Justice. Up until now, they have...

Berlin Climate Fiction Literary Festival Dec. 4-6 has multilingual global flair

The upcoming Climate Fiction Festival Berlin at Literaturhaus Berlin is an international cli-fi literary festival involving German cli-fi...

Why Religion and COVID Have the Relationship They Do (for now)

The ideas of the earth revolving around the sun, Democracy, and America were viewed as wrong by the masses; but it was consideration of the...

Children who were Saved

  To mark the anniversary of the Kindertransport project, in which Britain agreed to accept ten thousand unaccompanied refugee children, the vast...

Resisting the brutality of arrogance

Parashat VaYishlach, 5781 This parasha describes the dramatic meeting between Yaakov and Esav after a separation of over two decades. Yaakov learns...

Eye of the storm

Ya’akov’s life was a bumpy ride, perhaps not unlike an adrenaline rush roller coaster. One might have assumed that the thrill filled run was...

The Jakarta-Bandung Rail Project: 5 Years On and Still Going Nowhere

Five years ago, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo awarded the $5.5 billion Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Rail project to a company from...

A Budget or an Election

Government’s changes to Go To campaign are a drop in the ocean

The changes the government has made to its Go To Travel campaign in response to a fresh surge in new coronavirus cases have come far too late and...

With vegetables now so cheap, it is the perfect time for ‘nabe’

"Kore wa Ohisama" (This is the sun), a picture book written by Shuntaro Tanigawa and illustrated by Ayumi Ohashi, shows the bright red sun on the...

Jailing Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow will ultimately hurt China

Forcing Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement underground will not make it less potent

Defending attacks on Soros, Giuliani raises doubts over his Jewishness

JTA — US President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has a history of publicly attacking the Jewish billionaire financier and...

New York Young Republicans label Andrew Cuomo aide a ‘court Jew’

JTA — The New York Young Republican Club called the state’s governor Andrew Cuomo’s director of Jewish affairs a “court Jew” and tweeted...

'Statue of Peace'

Berlin district council takes right steps A statue of a girl symbolizing the victims of Japan's wartime sex slavery stands a high chance of becoming...

Twitter bans content that ‘dehumanizes’ based on race, national origin

Twitter said Wednesday it was expanding its definition of hateful content to ban language that “dehumanizes” people on the basis of race,...

Biden team will have to reinvent fiscal policy

President-elect Joe Biden has named the leaders of his economic policy team. His most important nominee ― Janet Yellen, for Treasury secretary ―...

Threats to US election officials swell as Trump grievances feed menacing tide

WASHINGTON (AP) — The last throes of Donald Trump’s presidency have turned ugly — even dangerous. Death threats are on the rise. Local and...

Patient, 74, dies in suspected case of reinfection with coronavirus

A man who recently died of coronavirus may have been Israel’s first case of fatal reinfection with the disease, Kan news reported on Wednesday....

Czech Republic says it will open diplomatic office in Jerusalem

The Czech Republic plans to establish a diplomatic office in Jerusalem, the Central European country’s foreign ministry announced Wednesday. The...

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said to secure top jobs for brother, son

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, has secured top jobs for his immediate family in the World Zionist...

Iran intensely disliked in survey of 14 top economies

A poll of 14 top economies around the world shows overwhelmingly unfavorable opinions of Iran, with the Islamic Republic being least popular in two...

Hackers who breached Israeli insurance firm demand $1m to keep data private

Hackers who stole clients’ personal data from Israeli insurance company Shirbit are demanding approximately $1 million in order to keep the...

Virus was spreading in US as early as December 2019, new study indicates

US researchers have found evidence that the coronavirus was spreading through the American population long before it was first observed. A study by...

In Khartoum, Sudanese tell ToI reporter: Prosperity better than hungry idealism

KHARTOUM — Ahmed, a welder from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is puzzled. “I don’t understand what the Palestinians want from us,” he says....

Only an Arab Can Lead Israel’s Left

S. African sensation ‘Jerusalema’ tops 260 million YouTube views

A gospel-influenced house song about Jerusalem and faith has become a global phenomenon over the past year, received over 260 million views on...

Republicans on key panel ‘uneasy’ about F-35 sale to UAE — congressional aides

NEW YORK — Republican members of a key Senate panel are signaling apprehension with the Trump administration’s planned $23 billion arms deal to...

Don’t divorce her: Rabbi’s letter to Henry VIII at heart of British Library show

LONDON — An Italian rabbi’s letter to King Henry VIII concerning the Tudor monarch’s effort to annul the first of his six marriages, a...

PixCell to deploy blood test analyzers in Australia’s New South Wales

PixCell Medical, a maker of point-of-care diagnostic devices, will be deploying its blood test analyzers in small labs and large emergency...

Miami Trumps Biden

CAMBRIDGE – Joe Biden achieved a decisive victory in the US presidential election, beating Donald Trump by over six million votes nationwide....

The Weight of Gold – The Struggle to Become

Parashat Va-Yishlach Embed from Getty Images When I helped guide a young Christian business associate through a spiritual crisis, little did we...

What Biden can and cannot do for the Kurds

Many Kurds across the Middle East welcomed Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the recent elections in the United States. The former vice...

Bio Detection Dogs: Training Man’s Best Friend to Sniff Out the Coronavirus

It’s no secret that most people look at dogs as man’s best friend. Dogs are amazing animals that will do just about anything physically possible...

The Late Yossi Sarid Was a Leftist Back When Values Meant Something in Israel