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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

Global COVID deaths soar 20 percent in a week as cases surge in Middle East, Europe

The number of deaths from COVID-19 soared by a fifth worldwide in the last week, as the number of daily cases surged in the Middle East, Europe and...

US said demanding to know why probe of citizen’s death after IDF arrest not finished

The US State Department on Friday reportedly sent a letter to the Israeli military, demanding to know why the army’s probe into the death of a...

Hungarian journalists, activist will sue NSO Group after alleged hacking

Several journalists and two other people in Hungary allegedly targeted with spyware made by the NSO Group will pursue legal action against the...

Icon of progressive camp

Sim should strenuously pursue values for minorities It is fortunate that Justice Party presidential candidate Sim Sang-jung has restarted her...

Haaretz Cartoon

Awaiting Washington's new man in Seoul

By Donald Kirk One odd question hangs over U.S. relations with Korea, both South and North, in this pivotal election year in which South Koreans...

How China Views the Ukraine Crisis

‘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...

J’accuse: the BBC is institutionally antisemitic

This happened a few years ago: I was attending Limmud – the Jewish learning event that takes place in the UK every year around Christmas time. I...

Celebrating famous Jews from Ukraine: Mossad Directors

If you decide to visit the Mossad website, be prepared to see a warning: “We strongly recommend that you consider how safe it will be for you to...

A watershed moment — Parshat Mishpatim

Alban William Housego Phillips (Bill to his mates) was born on a dairy farm in Te Rehunga, New Zealand, in 1914. The town in the Manuatu Whanganui...

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...

Can you afford to join the great resignation?

Many of us fantasize about quitting our jobs. In 2021, more people than ever turned that dream into reality. The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor...

EDITORIAL: Realistic debate needed instead of new push for fast nuclear reactors

Japan has agreed to work with a U.S. company in technological cooperation to develop a sodium-cooled fast reactor. People involved in the project...

VOX POPULI: Entrance exam cheater an innovator of the wrong sort

I was stunned by the extraordinary meticulousness with which a test-taker tried to cheat on a unified university entrance exam on Jan. 15. The...

Britský minister obrany: Putin sám napísal, ako to je

Autor je britský minister obrany V poslednej dobe som prestal počítať, koľkokrát som musel svojim európskym spojencom vysvetľovať význam...

Predvidljivo ponavljanje

Mogoče res nisem po naključju meteorolog, saj prav uživam pri tem, kako se sedaj zima spreminja in pridobiva nekoliko prijaznejšo podobo z vsak...

Vse, kar potrebujete, je modrost

V tretjem letniku gimnazije smo z velikim zanimanjem spremljali novice o morebitnem razpadu skupine The Beatles. Takrat ni bilo facebooka,...