Health Ministry chief says COVID curbs to be eased, but mask mandate to continue

Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash said Friday that as COVID-19 numbers continue to wane, Israel can allow itself to ease more and more...

Bravo to students who refused to cower to Professor Miller

In the 1970s and 80s, in the wake of an infamous UN resolution on Zionism, far-left activists attempted to ban Jewish societies from campuses...

Cyprus said to believe terror is likely motive in alleged plot against Israelis

Cypriot authorities now believe terrorism is the most likely motive in last month’s alleged plot to assassinate one or more Israeli businesspeople...

Several far-right Israelis, groups said on extensive Facebook blacklist

A far-right Israeli activist and the racist organization he heads were both revealed to be on Facebook’s blacklist of entities banned from the...

Businessman, Eritrean national shot dead in separate incidents in central Israel

A prominent real estate businessman was shot dead Friday morning outside a synagogue in the central Israel city of Rehovot, with police reportedly...

Another Star Is Born, but the Shin Bet Remains a Cruel Organization

It’s cyclical, every four or five years: The Shin Bet security service gets a new chief. The resume of a superstar, the looks of James Bond, all...

System error: What the press is saying about hacks and cheap cracks

1. A different kind of infection: Israel’s health system is still trying to catch its breath Friday morning, two days after a ransomware attack...

Robert Durst sentenced to life for murdering best friend Susan Berman

LOS ANGELES (AP) — New York real estate heir Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without chance of parole for the murder of his...

Trade and the Future of Food

GENEVA – No one can survive without food. And yet, the world’s food systems are badly in need of reform. To ensure universal access to adequate...

The Statelessness Pandemic

Avraham the “Ivri”

I remember as a child reading about the stories Avraham Avinu, how he revolutionized the idea of monotheism, how he challenged the superpower of...

Lebanon is on the brink of another civil war, and the Western media are covering for the culprits

To top it off, the trauma inflicted in Lebanon’s capital was instantly weaponised against Hezbollah in the Western media, who are refusing to...

Dialogue, not diatribe

Earlier this week far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich (leader of the Religious Zionism party) attacked the Arab members of Knesset and by inference at...

A US consulate in Jerusalem states that Jerusalem is not in Israel

At a Washington news conference attended by Yair Lapid, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the Biden administration intends to...

New cross-dressing TV ad typifies the obsession with ‘breaking boundaries’, and it’s causing an identity crisis

A new advert in the UK for John Lewis home insurance offers compelling evidence that transgenderism has become the sacred cause of the woke...

China's self-defeating cryptocurrency ban is unnecessary

Beijing cannot be a blockchain champion while waging war on the thing that drives it

Netanyahu snubs Bennett at Shin Bet event, is jeered by crowd: ‘The PM is here’

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to snub his successor Prime Minister Naftali Bennett while giving a speech at an event to mark the...

After snub, Bennett says Netanyahu ‘dangerously’ delegitimizing his government

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett hit back on Friday at opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the latter was “undermining the legitimacy” of...

Zvi Gur, Israel’s longest-serving prisoner, dies 41 years after murdering boy

Zvi Gur, who served 41 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a young boy, died on Friday of cancer at age 74, four years before he was...

Religious Zionist Society Uses Organ Donation to Virtue Signal

As is widely known, Culture and Sports Minister Chili Tropper donated a kidney to a man he didn’t know. His brother Avishai did so as well. It’s...

‘Fiddler’ meets ‘Sopranos’: Gritty Sholem Aleichem novel in English for 1st time

JTA — Move over, Tevye the dairyman. Make room for Moshkele the thief, the rough-and-tumble rogue hero from the wrong side of the shtetl in a...

How the hydroelectric genius of Einstein’s dad lit up an Italian town in 1899

MANTUA, Italy — Over a century ago, Hermann Einstein, father of the famous Nobel laureate physicist Albert Einstein, installed a hydraulic turbine...

How Britain Is Confronting Its Jew-hating Fascist Past

Britain has a complicated relationship with its fascist past, in that it barely acknowledges it.  It’s a source of national pride that the country...

Sally Rooney Just Revealed the Feelgood Futility of BDS

The tiny Hebrew-language publishing world took on larger than life proportions this week after Irish writer Sally Rooney, author of the...

Don’t Call Them ‘Stray Weeds’

The rioters who left the Havat Maon and Avigayil outposts on Simhat Torah to wreak destruction in the village of Khirbat Mufkara also disrupted the...

Word games: What does Lapid mean when he pushes ‘other options’ on Iran?

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid gave an unprecedentedly harsh warning about Iran’s nuclear program during his visit to Washington, DC this week. “At...

‘Jeopardy!’ contestants fumble question about cholent on Shabbat

(JTA) — Contestants on an episode of “Jeopardy!” that aired Wednesday night were stumped when presented with a photo of cholent, a stew...

Lebanon unrest revives all-too-familiar ghost of civil war

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Bullets riddling residential facades, snipers on roofs, residents crouching inside their homes — the scenes that filled...

Even NCIS, which should know better, can’t seem to tell Russian warships from US Navy ones

Most Americans know about NCIS from the CBS TV series that’s been running for almost 20 years – a brainchild of the same producer that...

George Galloway: Facebook is fighting to the death to stop those with the ‘wrong’ opinions from being heard

If you had told me during the years I sat with Nick Clegg in the British Parliament that the achingly liberal member for Sheffield Hallam – later...

Despite all the severe sanctions that were supposed to boost US industry, imports from China are up and the economy’s in trouble

At the beginning of this year, the mainstream media was blasting rays of optimism over America’s Covid-19 economic recovery, which, owing to the...

Empty gestures or substantive change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and its discontents

The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is...

Afghan lives depend on international engagement with the Taliban

Deep humanitarian crisis affecting everybody demands urgent attention

Netflix launches film collection of 32 ‘Palestinian Stories’

Netflix has launched a collection of films and documentaries meant to highlight Palestinian life and culture, the streaming giant announced...

The Jewish Far-right Contender for French Presidency

On April 10th, 2022, the good people of France will go to the polls to pick a president. This is already on the mind of the electorate, and one by...

Why Israeli fascists are more honest than liberal Zionists

The Palestinian citizens of Israel "are here by mistake—because Ben-Gurion didn't finish the job and throw you out in 1948." That was the latest...

An important issue for Japan’s coming Lower House election: Defending Taiwan

On Thursday, the recently inaugurated Fumio Kishida Cabinet decided to dissolve the Lower House. This decision itself was not unexpected: When his...

Bravo to students who refused to be cowered by professor Miller

In the 1970s and 80s, in the wake of an infamous UN resolution on Zionism, far-left activists attempted to ban Jewish societies from campuses...

War crimes, invasion and the Human Rights Council

On Thursday 7 October, I received a call from the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Middle East office...

New UN Women chief should push for further gender equality in Asia

Jordan’s Sima Sami Bahous was appointed as executive director last month to lead UN Women, the United Nations’ gender equality and empowerment...

Europeans and Americans Are Divided on the Transatlantic Relationship

Last month, U.S. President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron called each other to patch things up after the almighty diplomatic...

Israel's New Government Promised Change, Now Is the Time to Act

Remarks by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference Tuesday, according to which the political influence of ultra-...

Reinventing nuclear power

Time to reconsider nuclear phase-out policy French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the importance of nuclear power while unveiling his "France...