Daily Briefing Jan. 26: Intense month for Knesset; robot helps ibex cross the road

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 world,...

Construction worker killed by collapsing wall in Bnei Brak

A construction worker was killed Thursday when a wall collapsed on him at a site in the central region city of Bnei Brak. It was the third death in...

Tel Aviv Demonstration Was More Like a Scouts Meeting

The organizers of the recent demonstration on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv deserve praise. Their excellent organizational ability, including raising...

Israel, Take a Lesson From Brexit

Ray, 65, from Birmingham, England was a keen supporter of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, saying he was fed up with the...

Anger soars in Beirut after prosecutor orders release of all suspects in port blast

BEIRUT (AP) — Scores of protesters Thursday scuffled with riot police in Beirut as they tried to break into the chief offices of Lebanon’s...

The world ignores Myanmar’s plight at its peril

At the end of a conversation with a Ukrainian official a few months after Russia’s invasion, I asked what her greatest worry was. She replied...

Nobel laureate on judicial plans: ‘Not the Israel I want my grandkids to grow up in’

Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Daniel Kahneman said the contentious planned judicial overhaul advanced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new...

Military lawyers: Smotrich’s West Bank powers will be seen as de facto annexation

Senior legal authorities within the defense establishment reportedly warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting this week against the...

Nazi-appointed Jewish Councils largely exonerated in transnational comparative study

For many decades following World War II, the Jewish Councils appointed by Europe’s Nazi occupiers have been blamed for allegedly collaborating in...

Herzog says Israel committed to ‘equality’ as EU parliament leader sounds warning

BRUSSELS — President Isaac Herzog declared Israel’s commitment to equality and justice in a speech Thursday to the EU lawmakers, after the...

Biden betrays US history on the Temple Mount

The UN Security Council recently held an emergency meeting, its first of 2023. The meeting wasn’t called to condemn the missile that Gaza...

Why Industrial Policy Is Back

Why has the director of the CIA just visited Libya?

The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) arrived unannounced in Tripoli on 12 January for a brief visit that lasted just a few...

India will win more foreign investment if it opens up to trade

Ease of importing components enhances attraction of Southeast Asia

(POGLED) Kolumna Janje Hojnik: Enotni trg ostaja nedvomno jedro delovanja Evropske unije

Profimedia - Enotni trg je bil ob velikih krizah v zadnjih petnajstih letih na preizkušnji. - Najprej ga je zadel zlom finančnega trga, ki je...

Realism About Techno-Optimism

NEW YORK – Technology will save us! No, it won’t! Sleepwalking on Megathreat Mountain Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Economics 17...

This Brazilian activist has worn the Palestinian keffiyeh fo...

The keffiyeh is a traditional scarf in the Arab world. The distinctive black and white Palestinian version has become one of the most iconic...

In NYT op-ed, Bret Stephens hails Zelensky as the Jewish leader Netanyahu should be

Conservative columnist Bret Stephens took Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to task in a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday for enabling corruption in...

PA’s Abbas announces 3 days of mourning for 9 Palestinians killed in Jenin firefight

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they unfold. The Ukrainian army says it has shot down 47 out of 55 missiles launched by...

Palestinian killed in clashes between gunmen and IDF soldiers in Jenin

A Palestinian man was killed and several were wounded during clashes between Israeli troops and gunmen in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on...

Fired drivers back in PM’s convoy – but not car carrying Netanyahu

Three drivers, ostensibly fired because they are prosecution witnesses in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial, were restored to...

High Court declines to hear petition calling for disqualification of Netanyahu as PM

The High Court of Justice rejected a petition filed this week by a democracy watchdog to declare Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unfit to hold...

Why Deny the Holocaust When We Can Simply Forget about It?

January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In recent years, there has been a sharp resurgence of antisemitism, which seems to be...

Biden hands Trump a political gift

By Carl Golden A constant in the political universe is the quest to occupy the moral high ground, that space that sets apart those with noble...

(PISMO BRALCA) Ob svetovnem dnevu spomina na žrtve holokavsta: Vrh nacistične rasne politike

Meta to reinstate Donald Trump to Facebook, Instagram after two-year ban

Facebook parent Meta is reinstating former President Donald Trump’s personal account, ending a two-year suspension it imposed in the wake of the...

Star-crossed lovers tackle Black-white, Jewish-Muslim divides in ‘You People’

AP — Ezra Cohen and Amira Mohammed don’t exactly meet cute. He jumps into the backseat of her red Mini Cooper, mistaking it for his Uber and...

The Pelta Story – Arrive in USA – San Francisco (1951) (chapter 15)

Grandpa Leon and Szyfra Pelta arrived on January 18, 1951 in the city of New York in the United States of America, via the Queen Mary ship. They...

Letter to an American friend

I have only now found the time to sit down and write to you about the new reality we are facing in Israel. Fighting this new government, who has...

Explainer: Israeli Judicial Reform – Threat to Democracy?

You probably have seen recent critiques in various mainstream media publications about “the threat to Israel’s democracy” presented by judicial...

Iran-Europe: Where will the political pendulum swing?

Relations between Iran and Europe, particularly the three European giants France, Germany, and the United Kingdom (E3), which signed the Joint...

Ben Gvir orders Prison Service to put an end to soldiers guarding terror convicts

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir issued an order on Wednesday to permanently halt the placement of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers...

Israeli smart freight firm to list on Nasdaq via SPAC merger at $500m valuation

Freightos, a Jerusalem-based smart freight booking and payment platform, will start trading on Nasdaq on Thursday through a merger with a special...

2 Palestinian rioters shot and wounded during clashes in East Jerusalem, police say

Police officers shot and moderately hurt two Palestinians allegedly involved in riots in East Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, law enforcement...

(POGLED) Kremelj in njegove elite v času vojne

Reuters - Ker ruskim vojaškim neuspehom ni videti konca, Putin že posega po vse daljšem seznamu sredstev za izvajanje avtoritarnega nadzora, s...

Iran is still the world’s leading state-sponsor of Holocaust denial

On January 20, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution that condemned the denial and distortion of the Holocaust. To no...

Japan’s future security lies in a ‘denial and competition’ strategy

In December, the Cabinet approved three key strategy documents that serve as the basis for Japan’s national security and defense policies for the...

Charges dropped against 2nd woman accused of contact with Iranian spy

Prosecutors announced Wednesday that they had withdrawn the allegations against Afsana Mazloumian, an Iranian expatriate who was accused last year,...

‘Fauda’ tops Lebanon Netflix chart; is in top 10 in UAE, Jordan, Qatar

The Israeli drama “Fauda” is at the top of the Netflix television streaming chart in Lebanon, where much of the season was set, and features in...

Nadler joins list of Jewish, pro-Israel Democrats to raise alarm over new government

The US Congress’s longest-serving Jewish member warned Wednesday that the proposals by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to...

Tel Aviv-based payroll giant Papaya Global says it’s taking its money out of Israel

Papaya Global, a Tel Aviv-based global payroll and payment management platform unicorn, declared on Thursday that it plans to withdraw all of its...

Jewish nominee quits bid for US human rights post amid scrutiny of Israel comments

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Jewish nominee withdrew her bid for a top US State Department human rights post after a key Republican senator refused to...

IDF braces for escalation as Gaza terror groups vow revenge for deaths of 9 in Jenin

Terror groups in the Gaza Strip on Thursday vowed to respond to the deaths of nine Palestinians during an Israeli army raid in the West Bank...

Natasha Lyonne’s well-played old Jewish man shtick makes ‘Poker Face’ a sure bet

NEW YORK — In the morning, when my wife and I have time, we share breakfast and turn the page on our Daily Jumble calendar. Remember the Jumble?...

The Right to Disagree

I understand Eliyahu Revivo MK. He is behind a bill to bar people from standing for election, who either directly or indirectly favour boycotting...

EU Jewish student group sues Twitter over handling of antisemitism, Holocaust denial

BERLIN (JTA) – Europe’s main Jewish student organization is fed up with the antisemitism, Holocaust denial and other hate speech burgeoning on...

What’s in a Number?

How long did the agony of servitude and exile afflict our ancestors in Egypt? Well, that depends on the source you quote. Often chronology is a...

The dark irony of Croatia as guardian of Holocaust remembrance

Just in time for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations, the state of Croatia adopted the definitions of antisemitism, Holocaust denial...

Can you help identify these Holocaust-era Jews?

I was born in Israel in 1950 and named after my father’s first daughter. In 1954, our family immigrated to America and settled in St. Louis,...

The Beirut Port blast: Why has there been no accountability?

Lebanon's top Public Prosecutor, on Wednesday, charged the judge investigating the 2020 Beirut Port explosion that killed at least 220 people, of...