Man killed, another injured in Umm al-Fahm shooting that caused car to crash

A man was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting attack on a vehicle in the northern town of Umm al-Fahm on Thursday, in the latest...

Bennett to Blinken: US must immediately halt Iran talks over ‘nuclear blackmail’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called on the United States on Thursday to immediately halt the ongoing negotiations in Vienna over Iran’s nuclear...

Shinzo Abe’s no-nonsense message to Beijing

During a virtual keynote speech on Japan-Taiwan relations Wednesday, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Beijing that an attack on Taiwan would...

The Virus Strikes Back

Out of Texas, a cowboy solution to an Afghan crisis

The idea began with urgent phone calls between United Nations agencies and an anonymous business executive in Texas. It’s resulted in a steady...

Roe vs. Wade in jeopardy if current arguments before top court are anything to go by

Chief Justice John Roberts is searching for a compromise to preserve some basic right to abortion while moving it earlier in pregnancy, perhaps as...

At home in the Jewish body

“Can you believe she’s Jewish?” The photo featured a young woman with straight blonde hair, blue eyes, and a turned-up little nose. It was...

Great art explained: Mona Lisa

Diving into the literal and figurative layers behind that mysterious smile to explain why the Mona Lisa still matters - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

The beautiful experiment

Science has become extraordinarily technocratic and complex. Is the simple and decisive experiment still a worthy ideal? - by Milena Ivanova Read...

Passing Arab Commuters By

A disgraceful scene took place last week at the Knesset committee for public complaints. The committee’s chairperson, Yael Ron Ben Moshe (Kahol...

How vulnerable is your personal information?

When you enter your personal information or credit card number into a website, do you have a moment of hesitation? A nagging sense of vulnerability...

(POGLED) Scholzeva napoved drznejše Nemčije

Po osmih tednih pogajanj ima Nemčija novo vlado. Za socialdemokrata Olafa Scholza, ki je nasledil Angelo Merkel na mestu kanclerke, težko...

Take stricter measures

It's time to shift to emergency mode The Moon Jae-in administration is facing growing calls for stricter quarantine measures to better respond to...

All hope is not lost for US-China relations, despite tensions and tepid virtual summit

By Tom Plate Can it be that fresh air is being permitted to enter U.S. foreign affairs thinking? The other day, a critique of U.S. policy toward...

Just say no to unaffordable spending

By Tom Purcell I wish I had a change of heart, but I still can't support it. Back in 2009, long before I got my beloved 11-month-old puppy, Thurber,...

Partnering with persons with disabilities for an inclusive, accessible and sustainable world

By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana As the world observes the International Day of Persons with Disabilities today, we honor the leadership of persons...

1 in 4 adults are estranged from family and paying psychological price

By Galit Atlas Search "toxic parents" on Instagram, and you'll find more than 38,000 posts, largely urging young adults to cut ties with their...

Celebrating New Beginnings

First, let me thank the Blog Editor for approving my application. Scanning the latest blog posts, with the authors’ biographies (several of whom...

Hamas’ inconsistent media coverage of the deadly Western Wall terrorist attack on November 21st

On Sunday, November 21st, north of Jerusalem, a terror attack was perpetrated near the Western Wall, killing 25-year-old Eliyahu David Kay, of...

Yuval David’s Meaning of Hanukkah

Chanukah is one of my favorite festivals of the year.  Also called ’the Festival of Lights’, Chanukah is celebrated with the lighting of the...

It is diplomacy, stupid!

By Yun Byung-se Two years ago, Bill Burns, the then-president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and now the CIA director,...

Biden is Trying to Make an Anti-Chinese Stand on the Olympics

China will host the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, from 4 to 20 February 2022. Beijing became the first city in history to host both the Summer and...

VOX POPULI: Makoto Kitajo’s lyrics epitomized the final decades of the Showa Era

"Kandagawa" (Kandagawa river), a memorable 1973 hit song, was completed in less than an hour. The opening line goes, "Anata wa mo wasuretakashira"...

“Summit for Democracy” - Enhancing Empire, Not Defending “Democracy”

The very first “Summit for Democracy” will be held in early December 2021. Organized by the United States, it will include “leaders from...

Kao(s)landija in vsi njeni modreci

V deželi Kao(s)landija se je del državljanov – no, skoraj polovica – odločil, da pri vožnji ne bo pritiskal na zavore svojih vozil. Z jasnim...

EDITORIAL: Pressing need to recognize ‘black rain’ victims as hibakusha

We urge the state to take swift action in line with a high court ruling that all individuals exposed to radioactive “black rain” in the...

The inflation boom worries finance officials more than the Omicron variant

Report. Inflation hasn’t been this high in Italy since 2008. This amounts to €1,346 of extra spending for a family with two children. The US...

People power can stop the Uyghur genocide

Boycotts are a powerful weapon in the quest for justice. This is why the Israeli leadership is making so much effort to have the peaceful...

Prosecutors to charge nurse with murder in death of 17-year-old Lital Yael Melnik

Edward Kachura, 49, will be charged with murder over the killing of 17-year-old Lital Yael Melnik last month, prosecutors announced on Thursday....

Sa’ar appoints temporary Supreme Court justice after deadlock in appointments

In a rare move, Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar has appointed a temporary justice to the Supreme Court, after the Judicial Selection Committee hit...

Best export year

Still, Korea Inc. cannot afford to remain complacent in 2022 South Korea's annual exports are likely to hit an all-time high this year. The...

Haaretz Cartoon

Noise pollution - overpopulation-related health crisis

By Joe Guzzardi Overpopulation's negative consequences are well-known to the nation's environmentalists. Too many people lead to overdevelopment...

Teen settler gets 20 months for stun grenade attack on West Bank Palestinian homes

The Lod District Court on Wednesday sentenced a teenage Israeli settler to 20 months in prison for throwing stun grenades into Palestinian homes in...

Lapid’s Iran approach seems to be paying off with Western allies… for now

The governments that sent their negotiators to Vienna this week are well aware that the foundations of their foreign policy are being put to a very...

'A shrimp among whales'

By Donald Kirk The notion that South Korea should adopt a "neutral" position between the U.S. and China has been gaining traction as President Moon...

Crime and punishment

By William R. Jones In January 2020, The Korea Times graciously published "Siamese twins" in which I presented binominal pairs (expressions having...

D’var Torah Parsha Miketz and Hanukah Great Lessons for People and Businesses

The lessons from this week’s Torah Portion, Miketz, are an important economics lesson.  The story is well known,  Joseph’s imprisonment ...

Making the Old New Again

Recently I was asked what the halakha is if a person forgot to make the brakhah of Shechiyanu when he or she lit candles on the first night. Should...

We need a miracle of our own making

One of the tragedies of Hanukkah is what a short-lived victory it was. After a two decade rebellion that pushed the Seleucids out of the Land of...

Tunisia's half coup and the idea of a counter-revolution

Tunisia's President, Kais Saied, vehemently denies what he did in Tunisia is, literally, a constitutional coup, as his adversaries claim. The...

The Supply-Chain Mess

BOSTON – Global supply chains used to be the last thing policymakers worried about. The topic was largely the concern of academics, who studied...

Hanukkah Will Never Melt 

Melting Trajan’s column gold down to build St. Peter’s offended John Paul Getty. When a column teeters so that a great Renaissance monument be...

Britain's missed opportunity to redeem itself

This year's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was yet another missed opportunity for Britain. There were no messages of...

Syria is Actively Emerging from International Isolation

The complete fiasco of Washington, which for 20 years participated in the complex Afghan conflict, ineptly squandered $ 2.3 trillion taken from the...

With Herzog's visit to Hebron, is Israel considering a microstate deal for the Palestinians?

Israeli President Isaac Herzog chose to celebrate the Jewish Hanukkah holiday — the "Festival of Lights" — at the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied...

Prominent national-religious rabbis call for protests against government

A group of prominent rabbis affiliated with the national-religious movement have issued a call to protest the government over its policies on...

As Israel awaits Omicron confirmations, one likely case sparks cautious optimism

The number of Israelis officially confirmed to have caught the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is expected to rise significantly by the end of...

A Day in Our Lives as an Occupying, Dispossessing Nation

Have we, Israeli Jews, developed a mutation in our genetic material due to the extended and unstoppable process of dominating another people and...