How political mismanagement has fuelled Malaysia’s coronavirus surge

It has been a year since Malaysia recorded its first coronavirus infection, last January 25. The country’s recent surge in cases is a perfect...

Increased child infection rates cast doubt on school reopenings

With infection rates remaining high on Tuesday, and amid reports of increased child morbidity as a result of the British strain of the coronavirus,...

Plight of Syrian refugees in Lebanon must not be ignored

On January 18, Lebanon’s human rights record was examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group....

Narendra Modi has turned India into a quagmire

Hindu supremacist agenda has dangerously divided a multireligious society

At Holocaust ceremony, UN chief urges global alliance against rise of neo-Nazis

AP — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged coordinated global action on Monday to build an alliance against the growth and spread of neo-Nazism...

Gantz threatens to block cabinet lockdown talks in spat over Haredi enforcement

Defense Minister Benny Gantz insisted Tuesday that the cabinet would not convene to discuss extending the national lockdown, currently set to end...

Palestine and the election game

The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas was adamant that he was cancelling security coordination with the occupation state,...

F-35s seen flying over southern Lebanon, Beirut in apparent threat by Israel

F-35 stealth fighter jets were spotted over southern Lebanon and Beirut, where the Hezbollah terror group maintains a major presence, throughout...

Janet Yellen confirmed as first female US treasury secretary

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Monday approved US President Joe Biden’s nomination of Janet Yellen to be the nation’s 78th treasury secretary,...

Zero tolerance

Justice Party chief resigned over sexual misconduct The progressive Justice Party has faced its worst crisis since its establishment in 2012 with...

Suga has failed to sell the public on need to revise COVID-19 law

The government is showing little interest in winning public support for its bills to enhance policy measures to stop the spread of the new...

Broader family concepts

Recognizing unmarried couples needs social consensus The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family is moving to recognize unmarried or cohabiting...

Remembering Hank Aaron and the home run he hit for civil rights

Whatever the sport, I imagine that cheers from fans give any athlete on the threshold of setting a momentous record the intense focus needed to...

Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Community Is Playing Its Historic Role

Finally, president with COVID-19 plan

If there is a single day that marks the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, it would be Jan. 21, 2020, when the Centers for...

Biden and Korean Relations

By Bernard Rowan I'm happy Joseph Biden has begun as the new President of the United States. I think Koreans are too, at least those South of the...

It’s time to reduce the world’s trade dependence on China

The COVID-19 pandemic has made many aware of the vulnerability of supply chains, giving an upper hand to China, which manufactures crucial medical...

The eternal promise of the Arab Spring: Democracy isn’t like instant coffee

VIENNA – The Arab Spring that erupted a decade ago was a quest for human dignity whose protagonists sought to overcome decades of repression,...

Life without Trump's tweets

By Nicholas Goldberg He's the most dangerous president in modern memory and he wielded his Twitter account like a weapon of mass destruction. Thank...

Keira Knightly says she won’t do sex scenes directed by men & dislikes the ‘male gaze,’ the same ‘male gaze’ that made her a star

Keira Knightley, best known for her roles in ‘Bend it Like Beckham’, ‘Atonement’, ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘The Imitation Game’ and the...

Rakugo: Uplifting message hides between the lines in Danshun’s New Year shows PREMIUM

Soon after the New Year began, a COVID-19 state of emergency was declared for the second time in Tokyo and other prefectures. People were asked to...

The US and Israel Playing their Cards in the Middle East

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, now 97 years old and having long lost his sense of the reality of international affairs, recently...

Wanted: The Right Leader (Judges 4:4-5:31)

The book of Judges has a very clear worldview. The history of the people operates in a circular pattern. The people are conquered and oppressed on...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: A short recollection

Until that day in 1965, I had never thought of my mother and father as different. Like most of my friends’ parents, mine had accents and secrets,...

Never Again: Praying With Our Feet and Abraham Joshua Heschel

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was devastated to find the Nazi policies he fled as a Jew in play in the U.S. against Black people in March 1940. This...

Viral demonization

Jews were once demonized as the community responsible for the Bubonic Plague. It would seem an historic monstrosity that today Israeli Jews seem to...

Russia gives Israel some unsolicited advice

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov offered Israel some unsolicited advice recently. Criticizing Israel for having bombed Iranian military sites...

What’s a reasonable emissions target for Israel? Zero

Imagine if Israel made the full transition to a low carbon economy. The Ministry of Environment has proposed a reduction in greenhouse emissions by...

Opinion – How Polish Women Fight Their Right-Wing Government

Until autumn 2020, abortion in Poland was only legal in three instances. Pregnancy could be legally terminated if it met either of the following...

Robust Freedom of Navigation Operations Must Continue

Since its founding, the United States has protected freedom of navigation. Of all lawful uses of the oceans, freedom of navigation has proven the...

Bribery Suspect Netanyahu Is Trying to Buy Off the Public

(POGLED) Nesvetovljanski slovenski politiki

Nedavno sem v Mladini prebral intervju z dr. Jožetom Mencingerjem, nekdanjim članom Tomšič-Pučnikove socialdemokratske stranke (SDSS), zdaj SDS....

Where Biden Should Be More Like Trump

NEW DELHI – In his inaugural address, US President Joe Biden declared that Americans “will be judged” for how they “resolve the cascading...

Biden really should reach out to Hamas

Credible reports are now emerging of failed plots by Donald Trump to subvert democracy in America and overturn the peoples' vote. That is why the...

The Promise and Peril of the Bio-Revolution

HAMBURG – Last November, the world cheered the news that three gene-based COVID-19 vaccines – one developed by German biotech company BioNTech...

Finding her roots, reporter Nina Totenberg learns of family Holocaust escape

JTA — In this Tuesday’s episode of the celebrity genealogy show “Finding Your Roots,” pioneering journalist Nina Totenberg and TV personality...

Democrats file second impeachment against Trump in Senate ahead of trial

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats marched the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the US Senate Monday night for the start of his historic trial,...

Online ad firm Taboola to go public on Wall Street at $2.6 billion valuation

Israel’s Taboola, a content recommendation platform used by online advertisers, said it has made a deal to go public on the New York Stock...

Giuliani sued by voting machine company over false claims of election fraud

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who led...

Haredi protesters endangered light rail passengers’ lives, operator says

CityPass, which operates the Jerusalem light rail, said Tuesday that cement poured on the rails during an ultra-Orthodox protest earlier in the...

Pressuring Biden, Iran warns he won’t have endless time to rejoin nuclear pact

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran warned the Biden administration on Tuesday that it will not have an indefinite time period on its disposal to rejoin the...

A day to remember victims and rescuers

On November 1, 2005, the 42nd plenary session of the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 60/7, designating January 27 as the International...

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel says 900 survivors died of COVID-19

Around 900 Holocaust survivors in Israel have died of COVID-19 over the course of the pandemic, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced on...

France says Iran must comply with nuclear deal before US return

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. The World Health Organization is saying pregnant women should for now avoid...

Will COVID Accelerate Productivity Growth?

MUNICH – Since the mid-2000s, productivity growth in advanced economies has been anemic. Average annual productivity growth in the United States...

We are still part of the January Revolution and it is part of us

Bread, freedom and social justice was the slogan chanted by Egyptians on the streets ten years ago yesterday. Yes, it has been ten years since the...

Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day to focus on 1.5 million children killed by Nazis

As countries around the world observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, online events will replace large gatherings at the...

Italian premier quits in tactical move amid crisis over handling of pandemic

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte resigned Tuesday after a key coalition ally pulled his party’s support over Conte’s handling of...

US exploring new bases in Saudi Arabia amid rising tensions with Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The US military is exploring the possibility of using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and additional two...