Police to let far-right MK Ben Gvir visit Temple Mount before contentious Flag March

Police are expected to allow far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir to visit the Temple Mount on Sunday amid soaring tensions around the contentious...

With rising attacks on medics, ministry okays budget for cops stationed at hospitals

The Finance Ministry approved on Friday a budget for hiring police officers to be stationed at 28 hospitals across the country, following mounting...

US scientists to open crystals that may hold 830-million-year-old living organisms

American scientists plan to crack open a salt crystal with liquid inside that may contain still-living microorganisms from 830 million years ago,...

‘Send police now,’ kid begged to 911 operator as cops stood outside Uvalde classroom

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Students trapped inside a classroom with a gunman repeatedly called 911 during this week’s attack on a Texas elementary...

Hundreds of settlers clash with Palestinians around illegal West Bank outpost

Hundreds of Israeli settlers clashed with Palestinians on Friday around the illegal West Bank settlement of Homesh, a symbolic site for the...

Netanyahu-led opposition bloc gains ground with voters, nearing majority, poll finds

The government opposition led by Benjamin Netanyahu is gaining ground with voters, and inching closer to being able to win a majority in the...

Police, left-wing activists clash ahead of planned protest at illegal outpost Homesh

Three people were arrested as police clashed with left-wing activists gathered ahead of a planned demonstration at the illegal West Bank outpost of...

In call with Blinken, Lapid protests ‘biased’ CNN, PA probes into Abu Akleh’s death

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid protested to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday that the investigations by the Palestinian Authority and...

Man arrested on suspicion of attacking wife with ax in front of their daughters

A 54-year-old man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of attacking his wife with an ax in front of the couple’s daughters. The 47-year-old woman...

Fisherman hooks a rifle likely used by Syrian soldier in 1967 war

A Tiberian fisherman made a surprise catch on Friday in the Sea of Galilee while out for his weekly fishing run — a Kalashnikov rifle that had...

Ukraine pleads for weapons amid fears Mariupol horrors repeating elsewhere in Donbas

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow-backed separatists pounded eastern Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region Friday, claiming to capture a railway hub,...

Biden shores up U.S. alliances with Japan and South Korea

On its face, Joe Biden’s trip to East Asia this week was a fairly typical international tour by a U.S. president. After visiting South Korea and...

Opinion – A Hidden Victory? The Winter War and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Over the past few weeks, any number of Western observers have come to the conclusion that Russia has lost its war against Ukraine. Given the poor...

Ahead of flag march, military liaison to Palestinians says status quo preserved

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday’s events as they happened. Do you rely on The Times of Israel for accurate and insightful news on...

Palestinian terror groups warn of ‘explosion’ ahead of controversial Jerusalem march

Palestinian terror groups warned on Saturday of an upcoming “explosion” ahead of the controversial Jerusalem Day flag march set for Sunday where...

Car with 1.5-year-old stolen at major highway gas station, found in West Bank town

An Israeli woman had her car stolen — along with her toddler — at a gas station in northern Israel on Saturday, before security forces managed...

21 Spirits: Poem for the Children of Uvalde, Texas

Shock and awe! Tears stream down our angelic faces Shock and awe! Parents cry out for their children As this horror rips our minds Pain grips our...

US Pressures African Countries into Breaking Away from Russia

At the first Russia-Africa summit in 2019, Vladimir Putin hosted 43 African leaders — more than the number attending similar events in the UK or...

This private, on-demand ‘hot rabbi’ may soon be the star of her own reality TV show

New York Jewish Week — Rabbi Rebecca Keren Eisenstadt lives in a one-bedroom apartment on Second Avenue on the Upper East Side, but she feels just...

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Biden’s Taiwan defence ‘gaffes’ could put China-US ties on a slippery slope

It’s hard to overstate the implications of the US president’s so-called blunders. He should know better than goading China into a military...

Tourists and the Japanese art of pandemic envy

The first tourists have begun to trickle back into Japan, with a few guided tour groups arriving this week in a small experiment designed to get...

Growing Rapport between Russia and Turkey

No matter how strange it may sound, Russia and Turkey are very similar, and this creates favorable conditions for their alignment. The history of...

Is it time to play politics with Hamas?

The phone call between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh comes amid clashes in Jerusalem. It also occurred in...

‘You can’t blame the gun’: NRA supporters react to Uvalde slaughter

AFP — Keith Jehlen says the shooting at a Texas elementary school makes him “sick,” but that “you can’t blame the gun” used to murder 19...

Top Texas security official: Police were ‘wrong’ to delay storming Uvalde classroom

A top Texas security official said Friday that police were wrong to delay storming the classroom where a teen gunman was holed up with dead and...

Visiting Indian artist creates stone altar that sings of Jerusalem’s religions

Jerusalem now has a temple shared by three religions. Created by a visiting Indian artist, it is located on the Terrace of Muslala, an urban...

‘Stranger Things’ filmed in Lithuanian prison where Nazis jailed Jews

JTA — Now streaming on Netflix: scenes from inside a notorious Lithuanian prison whose inmates have included Jews en route to being murdered by...

Senior Israeli official said to visit Saudi Arabia amid growing talk of warming ties

A senior Israeli official has reportedly visited Saudi Arabia, amid growing speculation that Jerusalem and Riyadh are readying small steps toward...

Founder of Japan terror group behind deadly 1972 attack on Israel airport set free

Fusako Shigenobu, who co-founded the terrorist group Japanese Red Army, was released from prison Saturday after serving a 20-year sentence, and...

Foreign Ministry slams Iraqi law banning ties with Israel: ‘Wrong side of history’

The Foreign Ministry condemned on Friday a new Iraqi law that criminalizes normalization of ties and any relations with Israel, noting that it came...

Iran airs footage of underground drone facility, amid high tensions

Iran’s army unveiled on Saturday some details about an underground base for its drones, as tensions ramped up following a UAV strike linked to...

Iranian police violently disperse protest over building collapse that killed 29

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian riot police fired tear gas and shot into the air to disperse an angry crowd of hundreds of people near...

Biden’s diplomatic brinkmanship on Taiwan’s ‘strategic ambiguity’

Amid the international upheaval over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden reassured America’s allies and friends in the...

Kolumna Ane Svetel: O težko izgovorljivih obalah

V severnem Walesu se kaže v obliki premožnih slojev, večinoma Angležev, ki kupujejo slikovite obmorske parcele in hiše. "Ne pozabi,...

VOX POPULI: Another school shooting in U.S. When will this madness end?

The state of a society is reflected in the causes of death of its members. In Japan, cancer has topped the list since the early 1980s and now...

Vse groze rdečih čevljev

V tednu, ko smo dobili novega šefa vlade, je najbolj trpela žena bivšega predsednika vlade. Urška Bačovnik je ostala sama. Zapuščena. Mož je...

On Joe Biden’s Visit to South Korea

On April 28, 2022, the White House officially announced that President Biden would travel to Korea and Japan from May 20 to 24 to meet with the...

“Northern Ireland Protocol”: What It Is and Why It Matters?

It you want to write an article nobody will read, the best headline is probably “Northern Ireland Protocol”. Ever since it was made part of the...

Two children among four killed in deadly car crash in southern Arava desert

Four people, including a 13-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy, were killed Saturday in a collision between a truck transporting new vehicles...

Memorial Day. A Day of Remembrance for Those Who Sacrificed for Us

This weekend, millions of Americans will celebrate Memorial Day. Traditionally, most of us have viewed MD as a day off from work, part of a...

Israel: Trading one demographic time-bomb for another? Part 4

The economy The fact that the contribution of the haredi to the national economy is abysmal is incontrovertible. The haredi women’s rate of...

Tantura Breaks A Long Silence

During Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs were displaced from their homes and fields in a catastrophe...

EDITORIAL: Hosoda clearly not qualified to stay on as Lower House speaker

Lower House Speaker Hiroyuki Hosoda has repeatedly made remarks that belittle what is stipulated in law despite his position as head of the...

And suddenly, violent Arabs appeared And Suddenly, Violent Arabs Appeared

I was mistaken to think that the emptiness and insensitivity of the public school history curriculum are concentrated on the bagrut matriculation...

Law on Soldiers’ Tuition Suits Israel's Propaganda Machine Law on Soldiers’ Tuition Suits Israel's Propaganda Machine

One of the areas in which Israel excels is propaganda. Sometimes it seems that its propaganda machine and the brainwashing that it does, especially...

Comedy is America’s lifeline to sanity, but the thought police aren’t laughing

This week, comedian Ricky Gervais rattled liberals with a routine that took aim at transgender ideology. America needs this sort of comic relief to...