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Sixth round of Israel-Lebanon talks begins in Rome, with focus on IDF pullout ‘pilot’

Sixth round of Israel-Lebanon talks begins in Rome, with focus on IDF pullout ‘pilot’

Lebanon wants immediate movement on plans agreed to last month for its army to take control of designated zones, while Jerusalem still has misgivings

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

Pence denounces antisemitism after arson allegedly targets Israeli flag in hometown

Pence denounces antisemitism after arson allegedly targets Israeli flag in hometown

Fire in Zionsville, Indiana, causes $150,000 in damage to historic home; neighboring Indiana Jews join town’s small community in rally condemning...

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

Support Without a Seat at the Table: Poland’s Costly Alignment with Ukraine

Support Without a Seat at the Table: Poland’s Costly Alignment with Ukraine In June 2026, Poland’s policy towards Ukraine split into two...

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New Eastern Outlook

Adrian Korczyński

Let Me Tell You ‘Bout My Ex-Best Friend

Let Me Tell You ‘Bout My Ex-Best Friend

If you had asked me as a child whether an Israeli Jew and the daughter of an Iranian refugee could become inseparable friends, I wouldn’t have...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Marni Davimes

The Church and the Gospel — Part II

A History of Christian Social Action, Social Justice, and Political Power The Great Commission Was Never Limited to Evangelism The command to make...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ed Gaskin

Daily Briefing July 14 – War on? Trump declares US ‘guardians’ of Hormuz

Daily Briefing July 14 – War on? Trump declares US ‘guardians’ of Hormuz

Editor David Horovitz on the IDF chief’s public outcry over this week’s legislative blitz, and a Hollywood-esque Israeli plot to use Iran’s...

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

The Church of England sanctifies anti-Zionism

The Church of England sanctifies anti-Zionism

The Church of England’s General Synod has managed to turn “hearing all sides” into an ecclesiastical form of putting Israel on trial. Its July...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Bepi Pezzulli

Grenade attacks target sushi chain in escalating feud between crime families

Grenade attacks target sushi chain in escalating feud between crime families

One lightly hurt in south Tel Aviv attack, with several bombings and shootings targeting Japanika, which is owned by Barak Abramov, thought to be tied...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

What Budapest’s Pride march taught me about Japan

What Budapest’s Pride march taught me about Japan

BUDAPEST – Pride in Japan has never needed permission. Each summer, hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ rights supporters and allies gather in Tokyo for...

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The Japan Times

Waka Ikeda

Halakha’s Kármán Line: Imagined and Real Jews in Space

Halakha’s Kármán Line: Imagined and Real Jews in Space

In the late 1960s or early 1970s, when Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof – the most prolific author of responsa in the American Reform movement – was asked...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Levi Cooper

Honestly, Does Israel Have a Future? Part 2

Honestly, Does Israel Have a Future? Part 2

The battlefield has changed. Tanks, fighter jets, intelligence operations, and missile defense systems remain essential, but they are no longer...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

Bnei Brak set to implement gender segregation on two main streets — report

Bnei Brak set to implement gender segregation on two main streets — report

Following ruling by rabbis, city will put up signs and barriers segregating sidewalks, despite Supreme Court ban on practice in 2017

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The Times of Israel

Michael Horovitz

Never Again Requires a Plan

Never Again Requires a Plan

There is a sound every Jewish parent knows. It is not the shofar. It is not the clink of kiddush cups. It is not the sound of a child asking why this...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jeff Schindler

VOX POPULI: Marine Rescue Japan says to make like a squid in choppy waters

In October 1886, a British merchantman sank off the coast of Wakayama Prefecture. There were 25 Japanese nationals on board, none of whom survived....

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Iran: The Strategic Pivot of the 21st Century

How the Strait of Hormuz, Kharg Island, and Iran’s political future could reshape global energy and Middle Eastern geopolitics. Iran is not a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Raghu Kondori

Majstrovstvá sveta, aké majú byť

Turnaj nepatrí Trumpovi ani Infantinovi

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SME.sk

Ian Buruma

US lawmaker detained by settlers says lack of punishment shows Israeli complicity

US lawmaker detained by settlers says lack of punishment shows Israeli complicity

Israel’s ‘genocidal’ response to October 7 and the ‘apartheid’ conditions in the West Bank lead Ro Khanna to drop ‘pro-Israel...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

US military footage shows its first-ever suicide boat drone strike on Iran

US military footage shows its first-ever suicide boat drone strike on Iran

Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit Iranian submarine and ship maintenance facility at Bandar Abbas, a month after drone boat rescued downed US...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Long-held strategic assumptions no longer hold

Long-held strategic assumptions no longer hold

It’s been more than 35 years since I started working on Asian affairs. When I began that journey, the United States was a reflexively transatlantic...

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The Japan Times

Brad Glosserman

Rahm Emanuel’s Proposal Deserves a Serious Hearing

When I first watched Rahm Emanuel’s speech in Israel, I was struck by the boldness of his proposal. My immediate reaction was that I liked the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mitch Mallett

Featured Post

Featured Post

The bill expanding gender segregation in Israeli higher education goes to its final readings in the Knesset this week, after clearing the Education...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sarah Segal-Katz

American Jews Need New Alliances to Fight Rising Antisemitism

American Jews Need New Alliances to Fight Rising Antisemitism

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Jo-Ann Mort

Cynická obluda: Ruský boj za čistejší vzduch

V kuse im len niekto robí zle, chúďatkám nevinným.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

New Delhi's New Foreign Policy Initiative in the Indo-Pacific Region

New Delhi's New Foreign Policy Initiative in the Indo-Pacific Region

New Delhi’s New Foreign Policy Initiative in the Indo-Pacific Region In the realms of the ‘Act East’ policy actively promoted by New Delhi,...

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New Eastern Outlook

Anvar Azimov

The geopolitics of spare capacity: The hidden weapon in energy diplomacy

The geopolitics of spare capacity: The hidden weapon in energy diplomacy

For decades, energy power has been measured by familiar metrics: the size of a country’s oil reserves, its daily production and the scale of its...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Correcting a mistake, not retreating: Why ending the war could restore Trump’s credibility

Correcting a mistake, not retreating: Why ending the war could restore Trump’s credibility

As renewed U.S.-Iran clashes around the Strait of Hormuz threaten to unravel another diplomatic pause, an old Chinese proverb offers a useful warning:...

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Middle East Monitor

Greg Pence

Japan looks to Ukraine’s battlefield for defense blueprint

Japan looks to Ukraine’s battlefield for defense blueprint

For the past four and a half years, Japan has watched the war in Ukraine with keen interest — not out of charity alone, but because the conflict...

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The Japan Times

Cory Alpert

Sanaenomics' optimistic ambition to bring back a stronger and richer Japan

Sanaenomics' optimistic ambition to bring back a stronger and richer Japan

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Nikkei Asian Review

Kang-Kook Lee

Turkey Emerges as Israel’s Next Challenge

Turkey Emerges as Israel’s Next Challenge

With international diplomacy largely consumed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the future of its regional influence, a growing number of Israeli...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Saurav Dutt

Somalia’s Dependency Dilemma: Insecurity, Foreign Intervention, State Authority

Somalia’s insecurity is often framed as a military problem, but its roots are deeply political and institutional. Since the collapse of Siad...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mohamed Osman

I Kept Refreshing the News, But It Never Got Better

I don’t spend most of my evenings clicking from one news site to another. On most days, I need to read a couple of headlines to get the gist of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yehuda Mizrahi

PEN America president’s resignation marks latest anti-Zionist uproar in literature

PEN America president’s resignation marks latest anti-Zionist uproar in literature

Dinaw Mengestu quits free-expression group over article that highlighted post-October 7 prejudice against Jewish and Israeli writers and expressed...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

Church of England urges study of Palestinian Christian document accusing Israel of genocide

Church of England urges study of Palestinian Christian document accusing Israel of genocide

Text ‘risks undermining decades of careful relationship-building’ between Christians and Jews, warns UK’s chief rabbi

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The Times of Israel

Kelly Hartog

The Dangers of Purpose as a Proxy for Desire

The Dangers of Purpose as a Proxy for Desire

Your psychic vitality is essential for physical health.

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Psychology Today

Srini Pillay M.d

Američania už nechcú byť zatváraní do rasových škatuliek

Ako rasové kategórie prestali fungovať

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SME.sk

Washington Post

Will Syria’s first lady stand for justice or protect the shadow of the past? asks Yvonne Ridley in an open letter to Latifa al-Daroubi

Dear Madam al-Daroubi, Assalamu Alaikum — Peace be upon you. You have been thrust from the shadows into the world’s most unforgiving spotlight,...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Yvonne Ridley

F-35 to Turkey? Why Israel Should Tone Down Its Alarmist Rhetoric

F-35 to Turkey? Why Israel Should Tone Down Its Alarmist Rhetoric

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Louis Fishman

The Price of Dismantling Our Democracy and the Ongoing Occupation

The Price of Dismantling Our Democracy and the Ongoing Occupation

Last week, the Israeli government crossed another dangerous rubicon by announcing that it does not intend to comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nadav Tamir

Katz seeks pardon for soldier who killed subdued Palestinian stabber; IDF opposed

Katz seeks pardon for soldier who killed subdued Palestinian stabber; IDF opposed

Defense minister’s move aims to shorten time before Elor Azaria’s record is automatically expunged; incident in West Bank exposed deep rifts...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Iran executes two men convicted of links to Islamic State, planning attacks

Iran executes two men convicted of links to Islamic State, planning attacks

Tehran says two men part of cell operating along Iran-Iraq border, were hanged after final decision from Supreme Court

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

السلاح الكيميائي مأزق حكومة بورتسودان

تمثل الاتهامات المتعلقة باستخدام أسلحة كيميائية ضد المدنيين واحدة من أخطر...

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العين الإخبارية

د. أسامة أحمد المصطفى

The looting of science fiction

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Aeon

Ali Rıza Taşkale

Sara Netanyahu said pushing to guarantee security detail for family for next 5 years

Sara Netanyahu said pushing to guarantee security detail for family for next 5 years

PM and wife reportedly fear election loss could lead to loss of protection, but agencies see no reason to commit to specific time period; PM’s...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

Fašizmus na Ukrajine a v Rusku

Rusko v roku 2022 spustilo „špeciálnu vojenskú operáciu“, čiže celoplošnú vojnu s oficiálne deklarovaným cieľom „demilitarizácie a...

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Pravda.sk

Karol Krpala

Ukrajinské drony izolujú Krym a ukazujú, že veľkosť Ruska už nie je výhodou, ale slabinou

Vojna sa možno naozaj otáča.

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SME.sk

Hospodářské Noviny

The Knesset’s Superfluous New Basic Law

I wonder whether the angels in heaven above recited Hallel (the collection of joyous Psalms 113–118, generally said on holidays) this morning in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sherwin Pomerantz