Prominent activist who implied Netanyahu deserves death apologizes to protesters

A prominent anti-government activist on Monday walked back a social media post in which he appeared to justify the potential assassination of Prime...

Snowfall in northern Israel and parts of West Bank as winter storm thunders on

Parts of northern and central Israel received a dusting of snow on Tuesday as a powerful winter storm dubbed Barbara continued to lash the country....

For third week in a row, tech workers in Israel rally against judicial overhaul

For a third consecutive week, tech sector workers took to the streets on Tuesday in 10 locations including Tel Aviv, Yavne, Rehovot, and Haifa to...

(PISMO BRALCA) Odprto pismo podžupanu MO Maribor, gospodu Gregorju Reichenbergu, MS MO Maribor in širši javnosti

Spoštovani, na drugi seji MS MO Maribor, 26. 1. 2023, kjer so, med drugimi točkami dnevnega reda, člani MS obravnavali tudi OPPN (TA1-C) za...

Google announces release of ChatGPT rival named Bard

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Google said Monday it will release a conversational chatbot named Bard, setting up an artificial...

From Rio to Paris: International Climate Change Treaties Between Consensus and Efficacy

This is an excerpt from Global Climate Justice: Theory and Practice. You can download the book free of charge from E-International Relations....

Haifa hospital doctor arrested on suspicion of indecent act outside a preschool

A senior doctor was arrested Monday on suspicion of carrying out an indecent act outside a preschool. According to police, the man is suspected of...

Another Israeli aid delegation takes off for southern Turkey after deadly quakes

A delegation of dozens of Israeli doctors, medics, rescue operators and psychotrauma specialists took off for southern Turkey on Tuesday afternoon...

CIA director: Current Israeli-Palestinian tensions resemble Second Intifada

The director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency expressed his concern last week that the current period of tensions between Israel...

2 years after extradition from Israel, Malka Leifer trial set to begin in Australia

The trial of Malka Leifer, a former Haredi girls’ school principal accused of sexually abusing her students in Melbourne, is set to start on...

Quake toll passes 5,000 as rescue efforts in Turkey, Syria hampered by aftershocks

ADANA, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers raced Tuesday to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake...

State lawmaker vows legislative action after antisemitic flyers hit Atlanta suburbs

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — A continuing wave of antisemitic flyers has hit parts of suburban Atlanta, including the home of Georgia’s only Jewish...

60% of Jewish Israelis fear struggle against judicial overhaul will end in violence

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. The United Nations’ cultural agency says it has undertaken a preliminary...

Israeli man who snuck into Lebanon in fog is a repeated border crosser, IDF says

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday wrapped up an initial investigation into an incident earlier this week in which an Israeli man crossed the...

When Jew-haters call themselves Christian

The Church of England has banned the Israel-hating vicar Stephen Sizer from Anglican ministry for 12 years. It took them long enough (the Board of...

Sergei Guriev on Putin, populism, Chinese repression, and more

India's rise is beyond doubt

Investors should welcome country's extensive to-do list

Iran unveils underground airbase tasked with responding to potential Israeli assault

Iran unveiled what it said was its first underground air force base on Tuesday, with the head of the Islamic Republic’s military saying the site...

Report: Cybersecurity giant Wiz to pull cash out of Israel due to judicial shakeup

Cyber tech company Wiz intends to move its money from Israel to foreign bank accounts due to the government’s efforts to weaken the judiciary,...

Palestinian teen killed as gunmen clash with IDF in Nablus

A Palestinian teenager was killed as gunmen clashed with Israeli troops early Tuesday in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian health...

US federal jury says Ohio magistrate was fired for being Jewish

JTA — An Ohio woman who alleged six years ago that she had been fired because she was an observant Jew has won $1.1 million in damages after a...

Knesset law committee to begin votes on judicial overhaul legislation in coming days

The government’s contentious judicial overhaul legislation is swiftly advancing toward its first reading in the Knesset plenum, after a coalition...

We Must Stop Putting Sky-High Healthcare Profits over Human Lives!

For time immemorial, the doctors have played an indispensable part in Jewish life. We know that when Maimonides wasn’t changing the world as a...

Daily Briefing Feb. 7: IDF rescue forces in Turkey for Operation Olive Branches

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 world,...

Neo-Nazi pair planned power grid attack to ‘completely destroy’ Baltimore

A neo-Nazi pair planned to “completely destroy” Baltimore as part of a plot involving an attack on the city’s power grid, according to a...

Netanyahu's Legal Reform Aims to Boost Israel's Economic Freedom

The Israeli economy is part of the world economy, and when the global economy is threatened by a slowdown and crisis, in addition to the...

Egypt is a ticking time bomb

Last week, Saudi writers and media professionals criticised the Egyptian regime, especially what they called the army's "escalating domination over...

Kultura, dekla vseh gospodov

Jutri bo kulturni praznik. Ljudje imajo ta praznik radi. V prvi vrsti, ker je dela prost dan. A v veliki meri tudi zato, ker so muzeji ta dan...

The Impact of Gender on the Study and Practice of International Security

Paragraph 38 of the 1995 Beijing Declaration, which followed the Fourth World Conference on Women, called for governments to include a gender...

Head of tiny Jewish community in Turkey’s Antakya feared dead; Torah scrolls saved

The head of a small Turkish Jewish community and his wife were feared dead after their apartment building collapsed during the devastating...

Baby said born under rubble in Syria, is rescued while mother dies

A baby who was born under the rubble of a building that collapsed in the recent earthquakes in Syria was pulled to safety Tuesday, according to...

US university that fired teacher who reported antisemitism settles with him for $1m

JTA — A university in Oregon that fired a Jewish professor after he reported several incidents, including purported antisemitic remarks made by...

In the Knesset and in the streets, the leaders of the Israeli center-left are MIA

“Mistakes happen. We’re all people,” National Unity party chief Benny Gantz tweeted on January 23. It was an apology of sorts. Gantz’s party...

Rescuers dig through rubble in Turkey, Syria as earthquake death toll passes 4,300

AFP — Rescuers in Turkey and Syria dug with their bare hands through the freezing night Tuesday, hunting for survivors among the rubble of...

Failed experiment: Three reasons why Israel fears a major war on Gaza

Though Israel's past wars on Gaza have often been justified by Tel Aviv as a response to Palestinian rockets or, generally, as acts of...

Bilateral ties between Tokyo and Manila at a crossroads

In just over seven months since taking office, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has conducted as many as eight foreign trips. He kicked...

Welfare for senior citizens

It's time to discuss how old is old enough Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ― George Chapman, English...

Environment minister goes diving to save coral

Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman took a hands-on approach to her job Monday as she went diving to help with the preservation of coral...

Jewish ‘monuments man’ on what Philly’s famous Rocky Balboa statue says about memory

JTA — Paul Farber was shocked when he first watched “Rocky” and saw a Star of David on the grave of Rocky Balboa’s coach, Mickey Goldmill. As...

New department in Negev and Galilee Ministry to bolster illegal West Bank outposts

The government approved on Sunday the creation of a new body to ease the path toward legalizing about 70 illegal outpost settlements in the West...

Its Only Now We Begin

“The Baltics” are often lumped together as one single geographic unit, comprising Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Geography and ideology are...

Peace – at what cost?

Giving land to the Palestinians does not bring peace, as we learned from the Gaza Strip. Israelis were pulled out of Gaza by force, even requiring...

Parshat Yitro: An echo from Bereishit, and the verbosity of the Tenth Commandment

The concept of  אין מוקדם ומאוחר בתורה (Torah narratives are not necessarily in chronological order) is nowhere more glaringly...

A Message from the Israeli Consul General

This January I received a newsletter from the Israeli Consul General in this large North American city. What did it tell me? It introduced the new...

Peaceful solutions lag

By Gwynne Dyer "I wish you a world without Babis. Forget about Babis. Try to live without Babis," said former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on...

Between Chanukah and Purim Part II

Embed from Getty Images   In part I of this post we examined the dual threat of spiritual and physical extinction hanging over the Jewish People....

Permission to Heal

There is a promise given in the Torah for proper observance of the commandments. If we fulfill everything we are expected to do, then all of the...

Moish Rosewasser, Hitler’s buddy?

Some Jews are blond with blue eyes. Some are tall. Some Jews have tiny noses and almost march when they walk. Some Jews speak the national tongue...

Seoul's nuclear gambit is not in favor of alliance politics

Mitch Shin Jagannath Panda By Mitch Shin and Jagannath Panda South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has begun the New Year by provocatively...

New Antisemitism Needs Ancient Solution

In an attempt to counter rapidly growing antisemitism in the country, the French government updated its plan to combat antisemitism to include...