Government okays proposal for electronic monitoring of arriving travelers

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen. President Isaac Herzog holds his first work meeting with opposition leader...

Payoneer to pay US Treasury $1.4 million fine over sanctions violations

The U.S. Treasury Department said that Payoneer, a fintech startup founded by Israeli entrepreneurs, has agreed to pay a fine of some $1.4 million...

Israel Should Use Disposable Plastic Tax Revenues Ecologically

Over the past week, the media have reported plans to raise taxes on consumer products from two sectors that seem different at first glance but are...

Israel retains judo bronze hope amid mixed results for team on Tokyo day 2

Israel’s Olympic team held out hope for a second medal at the Tokyo Games Sunday morning as the second full day of the Olympics saw a range of...

Shame on Japan

Tokyo should not deny wartime forced labor A UNESCO committee has called for Japan to deliver on its promise to honor victims of wartime forced...

Outbrain shares start trading on Nasdaq as startup raises $160 million in IPO

Shares of content discovery firm Outbrain started trading in a debut on the Nasdaq on Friday, giving the firm founded by Israelis in 2006 a...

Father and son, 2 others drown over the weekend

The body of a 10-year-old boy was located Sunday morning near the coast of Acre, after he and his father drowned at sea, among a series of drowning...

Iranian dissident on verge of refugee team’s first medal after 3 taekwondo wins

TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Iranian defector Kimia Alizadeh is one victory away from winning the Refugee Olympic Team’s first-ever medal after three...

Cuba and how Biden can avoid another Mariel boatlift

The last two weeks witnessed widespread protests against the authoritarian Cuban regime, with thousands taking to the streets in Havana to express...

Daily Briefing July 25 – Can stats & sanctions bring last unvaccinated to heel?

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...

Scarcity of rental homes

This is no time for policymakers to praise themselves Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki said last week that "many people have benefited from revised...

Olympics and multiculturalism

"Hafu" is the term that's used in Japan to denote someone born from parents of different ethnicities. Apparently, 35 members of the 583-strong...

Want to reduce overdose rates? Treat poverty first

By Alexandra S. Wimberly and Shawna Murray-Browne Overdose rates are higher in areas where people live in poverty and even higher among people of...

Managing new Middle-East order

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV ― Across the Middle East, alliances are shifting in unexpected ways. What does the emerging configuration mean for a...

The meaning of 'small government'

By Cho Hee-kyoung Earlier this month, two presidential hopefuls from the conservative main opposition People Power Party (PPP), Yoo Seong-min and...

Want to reduce overdose rates? Treat poverty first

Alexandra S. Wimberly and Shawna Murray-Browne Overdose rates are higher in areas where people live in poverty and even higher among people of...

Monopoly power is less dangerous today than in the past

By Arthur I. Cyr The hills are alive with the sounds of lawyers, often on phones, discussing matters of monopoly and antitrust. President Biden's...

The problem with Europe’s green unilateralism

MUNICH – The European Union is one of the few signatories to the 2015 Paris climate agreement that initially committed to binding limits on its...

If G-d Wouldn’t Let Moshe In, Who Am I?

What’s frightening in life is not knowing what’s going to happen. For example, this week I read that with Covid this past year, the lifespan in...

The Enigma of Colonel Richard Kemp CBE explained in his own Words

“Why?” was the question I asked Colonel Richard Kemp CBE during our recent meeting in Jerusalem.  Why is the former head of the British military...

Respondeat Superior and Ice Cream

“Respondeat Superior” (Latin for “Let the master answer) is legalspeak for the principle behind the familiar phenomenon of suing an employer for...

How to fall back in love with your spouse

  The Jewish Festival of Love. In Talmudic times 2000 years ago, countless marriages were made as eligible maidens would run through the vineyards...

Recycling, Reweighting, and Recasting Votes: Israel and Gregor-Wright Voting

The following article assumes a basic knowledge of closed list proportional representation. The Israeli electoral system has a problem: it wastes...

An average guy is transformed by inexplicable adventures

My life’s been like Forrest Gump’s. At every turn of the way something strange and unexpected has happened to me.  Like the time I managed to...

Why Isn't Turkey Putting the S-400 Into Service?

As we know, Russia and Turkey signed a contract for Moscow to supply Ankara with S-400 surface-to-air missile systems in 2017. On October 23, 2019,...

Breaking the Measuring-Up Stick

80% of vaccinated COVID carriers didn’t spread virus in public spaces — report

Health Ministry data indicates that 80 percent of vaccinated individuals who recently contracted breakthrough infections of COVID-19 have not...

After welcoming Sephardic Jews, Spain rejects thousands of citizenship requests

Spain has been widely rejecting applications for citizenship by the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from the country more than 500 years...

Serious virus cases rise to 97, in highest tally since early May

Health Ministry data released Sunday morning showed that 97 coronavirus patients were hospitalized in serious condition, the highest recorded...

I was a victim of the Yorkshire Ripper. Why is he getting an inquest into his death, when my case has been ignored?

When Peter Sutcliffe, one of the UK’s most notorious serial killers, died last November, most assumed that was the last they would hear of him. But...

Israeli airlines launch direct route to Morocco’s Marrakesh

Israir and El Al were set to launch direct flights between Israel and Morocco’s Marrakesh Sunday, nearly eight months after the two countries...

IDF: Palestinian hurling firebombs, rocks shot in West Bank; 2 others arrested

A Palestinian assailant who was throwing firebombs and rocks at an Israeli car was shot in the West Bank on Saturday, the army said. Two other...

Israeli coach of Czech basketball team, Iran counterpart shake hands at Olympics

The Israeli coach of the Czech Republic’s national men’s basketball team shook hands with his Iranian counterpart, Mehran Shahintab, during the...

Disabled activists block major highway ahead of state budget debate

Dozens of disabled protesters and activists blocked a major Tel Aviv highway during Sunday morning’s rush hour as part of a renewed campaign for...

Cabinet approves Yisrael Beytenu’s Avidar as minister, Meretz’s Golan as deputy

The cabinet on Sunday voted in favor of appointing maverick Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar as a minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Meretz...

Knesset establishes new committees to improve coalition-opposition power balance

The Knesset House Committee on Sunday approved the establishment of four new permanent committees, as coalition whip Idit Silman of the Yamina...

At CUNY, My Union Condemns Israel, but Cheers on China At CUNY, My Union Condemns Israel for Human Rights Abuses, but Cheers on China

In May and June of this year, my union, PSC [Professional Staff Congress]-CUNY, passed two resolutions on international issues, the first on China...

Palestinian Olympians from Gaza, Canada, US, Jerusalem compete in Tokyo

Palestinians from the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem and North America are set to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, in their seventh time...

New exhibit seeks to explain climate change, how to arrest it

Confused about climate change? Befuddled by terms such as greenhouse gas, biodiversity and ecosystems? Want to be part of saving the planet? Then...

HMO: Those who inoculated early twice as likely to catch COVID as later adopters

People vaccinated before late February are twice as likely to catch the coronavirus than other inoculated Israelis, according to new research....

Is this a time to exist or plan?

Has anyone come up with some positive, useful and inspiring solutions as to how to make the most of CORONA time? Oh yes, I do have a computer and I...

The Hundred Years’ War of Arab Propaganda

“Why is it that on June 4th, 1967, I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?” — Walid Shoebat Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said...

Small farms are the future of food systems

Small-scale farmers can play a crucial role in creating sustainable food systems. But more investment is needed, writes Sabrina Elba, UN Goodwill...

Shaked opposes bill to ban indicted politician from forming government

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked opposes a bill proposed by Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar to prevent a person indicted on criminal charges from...

Top modeling agent accused of sexual abuse over the past 2 decades

Israeli modeling agent Shai Avital, who represents some of the country’s top models, has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple former...