Podcast: New Yad Vashem head on why Holocaust distortion has overtaken denial

This week in honor of the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Times Will Tell spoke with Dani Dayan, the new head of Yad Vashem, in...

The South China Sea's Environmental Crisis

Indonesia-Singapore deals a milestone for Asean neighbours navigating minefields

Indonesia and Singapore’s landmark agreements this week on airspace boundaries, extradition and defence cooperation have been lauded as a mark of...

Tail end of storm to bring heavy rain, threats of flood to south, more snow in north

Heavy rains were forcest for much of central and southern Israel on Friday, with warnings of possible floods in southern coastal cities as the...

Israel signs deal to procure 5 million Novavax COVID vaccine doses

Israel on Friday signed an agreement with the US company Novavax to buy five million doses of its COVID-19 vaccines, the Health Ministry said. The...

42 bipartisan US lawmakers urge Blinken to work to end UN commission on Israel

A bipartisan group of 42 US lawmakers has sent a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging him to lead an effort to end an ongoing...

(POGLED) O čajnici, ki jo je odnesel tornado

Na Slovenski 4 stoji čajnica. Ima dolgo zavito stopnišče, sonce na stropu in slone na oknih. Ima knjige, do katerih moraš priplezati čez ljudi,...

Six rockets hit Baghdad airport, damaging disused civilian plane

BAGHDAD — Six rockets were fired Friday at the Iraqi capital’s airport, causing damage but no casualties, security sources said, the latest in...

Russian envoy: Our talks with Israelis don’t focus on Ukraine tensions

With tensions in Europe continuing to rise, Russia’s ambassador to Israel told the Times of Israel on Wednesday that conversations with Israeli...

When it snows, it pours: What the press is saying about Bennett, Omicron and Litzman

1. Bennett blitz: Israeli prime ministers don’t often give one-on-one interviews to the press, but when they do, they do it all at once. Thus it...

Instead of Being Shocked by Settler Violence, Separate From the Palestinians Instead of Being Shocked by Settler Violence, Israel Must Separate From the Palestinians

So now we are all shocked by the settlers’ harsh violence against Palestinians and left-wing activists. So now we are all shocked and even the...

Reuters has finally dropped the misleading 'Houthi rebels' narrative

After several years in being at the forefront of Western mainstream media's coverage of the war on Yemen, describing it as being between the...

Japan's Middle East policy needs fresh thinking

New Asian defense pacts can help set a new tone from the Indo-Pacific to the Gulf

Pivotal mental states

Spiritual highs and mental breakdowns are both products of the same evolved brain system granting us the power to transform - by Ari Brouwer Read...

Police to drop sexual assault charges against leading LGBT activist Gal Uchovsky

Police plan to recommend dropping sexual assault charges against screenwriter and producer Gal Uchovsky, one of the most prominent LGBT rights...

Teachers union head undeterred by backlash for strike call over nixing of isolation

Awaiting a final court decision after an injunction was issued Thursday blocking a planned teacher’s strike in protest of new rules that nix...

Biden said he’ll nominate a Black woman to US Supreme Court — who’s in the running?

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement gives President Joe Biden a chance to make his first nomination to the...

Jerusalem’s pristine snow day, sullied by ugly politics

For those who missed the news, yesterday, Jerusalem awoke to a snow-covered city coated in white. A road sign on Hebron Road in Jerusalem covered...

Debating whether nuclear power is green energy or not

MUNICH, Germany – With its 2020 “taxonomy for sustainable activities,” the European Union found a way to use the European Central Bank to...

Miriam Miranda: In Honduras, another coup in the land of the absurd

Interview. Xiomara Castro’s presidency begins uphill, with a hostile congressional leadership. We spoke with indigenous leader Miriam Miranda:...

Confessions of a Narcissist Magnet

UK Jewish groups slam BBC ‘non-apology’ for misreporting antisemitic Hanukkah attack

Jewish groups in the United Kingdom slammed the BBC on Thursday for a “whitewash non-apology” after it said sorry for apparently falsely alleging...

Former IDF chief calls US withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal ‘a strategic mistake’

Former army chief Gadi Eisenkot criticized the US decision in 2018 to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, calling it a “strategic mistake” in...

Ukraine official says in call with Zelensky, Biden told him to ‘prepare for impact’

US President Joe Biden pledged support for Ukraine in its confrontation with Russia during a phone call Thursday with his counterpart in Kyiv,...

Ukraine and the Future of Europe

Amid winter storm Elpis, 9 kids suffer CO poisoning from coal burnt to heat homes

The Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba said Friday morning that nine children suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning from charcoal grills used to...

Tireless triage: How Israeli community medicine prevents Omicron swamping system

There has never been illness in Israel on such a scale. With 1 in 20 citizens currently confirmed infected with the coronavirus, and 10 percent of...

In tactical shift, US and allies name and shame Russian disinformation on Ukraine

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a break from the past, the US and its allies are increasingly revealing their intelligence findings as they confront Russian...

Keeping school children safe from sexual predators

I helped set up Nahamu, a Jewish human rights lobbying group to raise awareness of harms in the charedi community. One of the harms we lobby on is...

Gaza, the Betrayed

Gaza is less than 100 kilometres from Jerusalem. It is deliberately placed out of reach, separated by three visible borders. The Israeli border is...

After being freed from jail, Palestinian activist denounces Egypt as ‘a big cell’

PARIS (AFP) — Egyptian-Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath has denounced Egypt as “a big cell” weeks after his release from jail and departure for...

The second drone age is here and it’s a free-for-all

The pandemic has already given the future a distinctly dystopian look. And then there’s this: the burgeoning of the “second drone age.” That’s...

Saudi crown prince called Netanyahu to renew kingdom’s NSO spyware license – report

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman directly phoned then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get a renewal of the kingdom’s...

Omicron wave appears to slow, but experts warn serious cases could still rise

Health officials reportedly believe the Omicron wave in Israel is on the downswing, but that the number of patients in serious condition could...

Stop the Illegal Trade in Palestinian Work Permits

Some 110,000 Palestinian laborers legally enter Israel to work for their living. They have no other choice. The wages for a plasterer in Israel are...

New York lights Niagara Falls, other sites yellow for Holocaust memorial

NEW YORK — New York lit up major landmarks across the state yellow on Thursday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. New York State...

FBI files shine light on homegrown Nazi plot to overthrow US government during WWII

During the 1930s, an estimated 30 million Americans regularly tuned into Father Charles Edward Coughlin’s controversial radio broadcasts, which...

Lavrov: Russia doesn’t want war with Ukraine, but will defend its interests

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat said Friday that Moscow will not start a war but warned that it wouldn’t allow the West to trample on its...

How a plane crash has exposed the West’s racism towards China

Several days ago, a US F-35 fighter jet fell into the South China Sea during a military exercise. Despite the current geopolitical tensions, you...

China’s response to America’s call to back it over Russia’s Ukraine ‘aggression’ is telling

On Wednesday evening, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken phoned his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, and lectured him on what he described as...

Digital IDs could easily turn into a dystopian social credit system

The idea of a digital identity and wallet for citizens residing within the European Union may date back to 2020, but pandemic-era restrictions have...

2 women accused of spying for Iran released to house arrest

Two Israeli women accused of assisting an Iranian espionage operation have been released to house arrest, Hebrew media reported Friday. The women...

Trump plan favored delivering COVID vaccines to Israel over poorer countries: report

The Trump administration created a secret list prioritizing the countries that would receive COVID-19 vaccines from the US early in the pandemic,...

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A Woman Left Behind

The legal mind is not supposed to get emotional, but sometimes the Torah laws can cause a sudden surge of feelings. In Exodus 21:4, the Torah...

‘Happy as a Jew in France!’ – What happened to smash the dream

The Wiesenthal Centre chose to open its office in Paris as France had — and still has — the largest Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe....

Thrown to the dogs: Can one act so badly that the rules don’t apply to them?

We are just two weeks out from the events of Colleyville, Texas, where four people were taken hostage by a gunman and the gunman was eventually...

As tensions over the Ukraine worsen, is the West on the wrong track?

Fighting the last war is always said to be the weakness of generals. But is fighting the last confrontation emerging as the weakness of Western...

When slaves kept Shabbat

US president James Buchanan called for a public fast day on January 4, 1861, in support of the abolition of slavery. The president’s view on...