Daily Briefing Jan. 25 – Who should be handling extremist settlers?

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...

Islamic Movement elects new spiritual leader seen as close to Ra’am’s MK Abbas

The Southern Islamic Movement has elected a new spiritual leader over the weekend, replacing Sheikh Hamad Abu Daabes, who led the faction for 12...

No longer an MK, Deri convicted of tax offenses in plea bargain

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri was convicted of tax offenses Tuesday after pleading guilty at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court as part of an...

Woman and her toddler injured in apparent car bombing in central city

A 29-year-old woman and her one-year-old baby were moderately wounded in an apparent car bombing in a residential area of the Tel Aviv suburb of...

Pamela Adlon kvells over rabbi forefather

JTA — Pamela Adlon describes learning that her great-great-grandfather was a famous rabbi as “mind-blowing” in an upcoming episode of the...

Biden calls Fox reporter ‘stupid son of a bitch’ over inflation question

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Joe Biden responded to a question about inflation on Monday by calling a Fox News reporter a vulgarity. The...

Japan needs ‘smart’ economic security

The Asia Pacific Initiative, an independent think tank, recently published the results of its Economic Security Survey that covered 100 Japanese...

Monetary security is a fight over infrastructure financing, currency and sanctions

Upon hearing the term “economic security,” many people think of measures such as export controls, screening of investments by foreign firms,...

Three family members stabbed in their home in brawl with visitors

Three members of the same family were stabbed Monday night in the southern port city of Ashkelon during a brawl with visitors to their apartment....

Nuclear talks spark glimmer of hope for Westerners held by Iran

VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — When Barry Rosen, one of those held in Tehran’s American embassy in the 1979-81 crisis, saw coverage of the talks in...

Worker killed after ceiling collapse at Tel Aviv construction site

The ceiling of a building undergoing renovations in Tel Aviv collapsed on Tuesday afternoon, killing one construction worker and injuring another...

‘Auschwitz did not fall from the sky’

“The racism and anti-Semitism of the National Socialists did not fall from the sky. The concentration and extermination camps did not fall from...

The big picture AND the fine print (Parshat Mishpatim)

CLICK HERE FOR TRANSCRIPT This week in Jerusalem, when you walked the beautiful streets of the city, you saw geysers of water on the rooftops of...

Borrell má pravdu, Únia sa nemôže len prizerať (píše Javier Solana)

Autor je bývalý vysoký predstaviteľ EÚ pre zahraničné veci a bezpečnostnú politiku, generálny tajomník NATO a španielsky minister...

(V SPOMIN) Meat Loaf in Aki Rahimovski: Zdaj pa res "nikad više" …

Kot glasbeni urednik ne morem mimo tega, da je svet v minulem tednu svet izgubil dva velikana rock glasbe. Prvi je bil velikan v svetovnem merilu,...

“These are the laws…” Mishpatim for the modern mind

“These are the laws…” “Primitive, Archaic, Irrelevant, Patriarchal, Old-fashioned,” are just some of the sentiments one may hear from people...

Health Ministry experts back 4th COVID vaccine dose for over-18s

A Health Ministry advisory panel on Tuesday recommended that the government make available a fourth coronavirus vaccine shot to Israelis aged 18...

Investigate Israeli Veterans' Testimonies, Commemorate Mass Palestinian Grave

The renewed discussion of the capture of Tantura during the War of Independence is aimed at correcting a historic injustice for which the...

Ukrainian Jews prepare to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day as Russia war jitters loom

JTA — The military standoff between Russia and Ukraine is escalating as Jews in both countries prepare to commemorate International Holocaust...

IDF soldier gets jail for TikTok video of himself firing across border into Gaza

An IDF soldier stationed along the Gaza border has been sentenced to 10 days in military prison for shooting in the air toward the enclave in a...

Person of the Year? Islamist Leader Has No Real Influence on Israel's Strategy

Just before we headed into 2022, there seemed to be a consensus in Israel that Mansour Abbas was person of the year, at least in politics. That...

Israel’s 2022 Olympic bobsled dreams are crushed. But AJ Edelman is not giving up

It all came down to 0.2 seconds. That minuscule sliver of time is essentially what kept Israel’s bobsled team from qualifying – for what would...

Woman found dead in Ramat Gan; partner arrested

A 27-year-old woman was found dead overnight Monday in an apartment in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Gan. Police arrested the woman’s partner, 32,...

Ministers’ trips abroad cost nearly NIS 16 million — report

In the seven months since the government’s establishment, ministers have conducted at least 46 flights and trips abroad, at a cost of NIS 10-16...

Populist campaign pledges

Candidates should not try to 'buy votes' Presidential candidates of the rival political parties have gone too far in making campaign pledges they...

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China Should Know That it’s Investment is not Safe in Balochistan: BNA

Two important Baloch armed groups Baloch Republican Army (BRA) and the United Baloch Army (UBA) recently announced their merger and formation of a...

Climate outlook 2022: Making climate action matter

By Yoo Yeon-chul The new year has come. The first global event of this year was the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022, held from January 5th to...

Biden earned a solid D in first year

Rarely has a president faced more crises upon taking office than did Joe Biden, or so assiduously ignored most of them. He has earned a solid D for...

Ukraine urges calm amid tinderbox tensions, says Russian invasion not imminent

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s leaders sought to reassure the nation that a feared invasion from neighboring Russia was not imminent, even as...

‘Devil’s Arithmetic’ author honored with lifetime achievement award

JTA — Jane Yolen, the acclaimed and prolific children’s book author whose oeuvre of more than 400 books includes the bestselling Holocaust...

Hearing is Believing

Parshat Mishpatim opens with a discussion of the laws of the Hebrew slave. According to the Torah, a Hebrew could become a slave either in order to...

Gemara and Gut Health

Back when I was a student, we viewed Aggadah – the non-legalistic, stories within the Talmud – as the ‘easy’ part of study. Rather than being...

The Legal Character of a Jewish State

Law and legality are at the center of a Jewish identity. This has been the case since Hashem cemented Bnei Yisrael and their fellow travelers into...

Elephant v. Buffalo

Only holders of a VALID Green Pass admitted beyond this point! If you would have the waitress thank you, and the chef not curse you, do(n’t) do as...

A River That Once Froze

Today the waters of the Danube in Novi Sad are very cold, but not nearly cold enough to freeze over. There are seagulls bathing in its waters,...

Excavating stories, building empathy

With International Holocaust Remembrance Day upon us, it’s especially timely to write about a woman who keeps making sure that we hold critical...

Democracy isn't going away

By Bernard Rowan Recently, the world has faced a rise in autocracy. We are in what I call an "autocratic age." The ascent of Xi, Bin Salman Al Saud...

In today’s world, precision timing is everything

Since COVID-19 restrictions have eliminated most international travel, readers probably didn’t pay much attention to reports last week that the...

Time to Hit Back With a Conference in Nazareth

A few weeks ago, Christians leaders in Jerusalem initiated a smear campaign against the state of Israel. It began on Dec. 13, 2021 when the...

Month 10

It measures 4×48”. It is monochromatic (tan) and has the same stitching pattern from top to bottom. It has no special border or internal design...

Permission to Pray

Our Shmoneh Esreh prayer, or the AMIDA, is a marvel of liturgical engineering. The Men of the Great Assembly (established c. 516 BCE), under the...

A global tax on millionaires would benefit the wealthy as well as the poor

An open letter was recently published that was signed by more than 100 millionaires and billionaires, pleading to their class brethren –...

VOX POPULI: Dismal turnout in Nago election reflects voters being worn down

What do citizens of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, think about the central government's program to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the...

EDITORIAL: Nago poll result does not mean voters resigned to base plan

Government-backed incumbent Taketoyo Toguchi was comfortably re-elected as mayor of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 23. His rival, who had the...

Koga naj voli 30-letnica?

Oni dan sva se s prijateljico nasmejali do solz. Na plan sem namreč potegnila seznam kandidatov zavezništva Povežimo Slovenijo na prihodnjih...

Healthy Boundaries for Adult Children of Toxic Parents

Manufacturing job losses

Answer lies in improving business environment Korea's manufacturing jobs have declined sharply over the past five years, due to businesses going...

London police probing Downing Street lockdown parties that fueled crisis for Johnson

LONDON, United Kingdom — London’s police chief on Tuesday said her officers are investigating several parties that took place at Prime Minister...

Quieting Eastern front

By Robert Skidelsky LONDON ― As the world drifts toward a new cold war, democracies and authoritarian states must determine what they want from...