First Israeli minister makes Sudan visit after normalization

Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen visited Sudan on Monday, becoming the first Israeli minister to visit the Arab country following the recent signing...

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,...

Gordon Brown is wrong... Britain is already a failed state and should split, not soldier on in this unhappy & antiquated marriage

No one really identifies as ‘British’, it’s basically just a type of passport. That used to be a simple quirk but it’s become something else...

IDF: Palestinian attempts to stab troops near Ariel, is shot dead

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man who tried to stab them along a road in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces...

Israel, Palestinians, and COVID vaccines: A reality check

It seemed too good to be true. Finally, there was a story about Israel — the world leader in vaccinating its entire population, in all its rich...

Normalize this!

The Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party held a forum recently called “A Dialogue with Rising Activists,...

Bribery Suspect Netanyahu Is Trying to Buy Off the Public

B'Tselem's historic declaration: Israel's open war on its own civil society

"A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid," was the title of a January 12 report by the...

If America is to prosper, it must forget about pursuing the global dominance it once held and accept the world has changed

In 1991, US President George H.W. Bush proclaimed a “new world order” on the eve of the Gulf War. The speech marked a turning point in history....

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,...

US, China face off in Middle East contest of coronavirus vaccine diplomacy

AFP — Pfizer or Sinopharm? The US or China? In the Middle East and North Africa, coronavirus vaccine orders are driven by diplomatic and...

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,...

Skuhaj juho, Ljubljana

Najraje imam, ko začne moja oma pripovedovati v prvi moški osebi: »Potem pa sem šel, ga prijel za gvant, ga dvignil v luft in …« Vem, da je...

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...

Zero tolerance

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

Broader family concepts

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A contribution to motherland

By Kim Jin-hyeon There are various fruits, including imported ones, at every local convenience store. The tangerine is one of them and it is so...

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...

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...

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...

Tu Bishvat! and COVID: Making do, making it great

Tu Bishvat is upon us!  The New Year of the Trees – the full moon falling two months before the full moon of spring equinox. In this year where...

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,...

‘Auschwitz Camp’ on a black shirt at the Capitol

A slew of slogans, symbols and other uncommon sights accompanied the violent attack on the Capitol in Washington on January 6: the inscription “...

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...

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...

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...

Psychiatric patient charged with threatening Netanyahu while muttering to cats

Police charged a psychiatric patient for allegedly threatening the life of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, based on comments he muttered to...

Biden may struggle to calibrate his Asia policy

That didn’t take long. Shortly after the echoes of the feel-good song “Kumbaya” died out in Washington last week, German Chancellor Angela...

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...

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...

The Haredi COVID Riot in Context

Many are still reeling from the violence against enforcement of the COVID restrictions in the Haredi sector earlier this week. The problem is...

PODCAST: Ultra-Orthodox rage on and the politics of Eurovision

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...

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...

Abbas rival Dahlan banned from running in Palestinian election — Fatah official

Former Gaza security chief Mohammad Dahlan — widely seen as a key rival of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — will not be allowed to...

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...

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...

(POGLED) Nesvetovljanski slovenski politiki

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

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,...

An Interview with Raghuram G. Rajan

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...

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...

Is it Possible to Escape the Past? Race and the Radicalization of Robert Byrd and Anders Breivik

On the surface, Robert Byrd and Anders Breivik could not have been more different. The former was a distinguished United States Senator from West...