Netanyahu challenger Edelstein punished by Likud primary voters, exit polls show

Likud party voters punished a former challenger to faction leader Benjamin Netanyahu and rewarded two loyalists during Likud’s primary contest on...

What led to the key appointments in Kishida’s new ‘unity Cabinet’

Pyeongtaek, South Korea – Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday unveiled his first major Cabinet reshuffle as leader of the Liberal...

Researchers tracking new Langya virus after it infects 35 in China

Scientists are closely watching a new virus which has infected dozens of people in China after apparently jumping from shrews to humans. The Langya...

Condition of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner deteriorates to ‘life-threatening’

The Times of Israel liveblogging Thursday’s events as they unfold. Bruce Reinhart, the federal judge in Florida who signed the warrant allowing...

Condition of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner deteriorates to ‘life-threatening’

A Palestinian prisoner on a protracted hunger strike was moved Thursday from an Israeli jail to a hospital because of his worsening condition, the...

Yemenite Children Affair: All That’s Needed Is to Listen Humbly to the Truth

Yehudit Karveh spoke at the President’s Residence on the day marking awareness of the so-called Yemenite, Mizrahi and Balkan Children Affair. She...

How Shinzo Abe left a legacy for Japan in geoeconomics

The Asia Pacific Initiative (API) has, over the past two years, been producing its series of API Geoeconomic Briefing articles with a focus on...

Inscription points to Sea of Galilee site as St. Peter’s home, say researchers

An inscription found at an excavation near the Sea of Galilee strengthens beliefs that the site was a church built over the home of Saint Peter and...

US ambassador to Israel: We support fight against ‘bad guys’ in Gaza terror groups

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said in a Wednesday interview that the US fully backed Israel in its fight against Gaza terrorists in the past...

Next Time Israel Fights Gaza, It Could Face a Nuclear Iran

For two decades, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have fired tens of thousands of rockets indiscriminately at Israel’s civilian population, over...

For Ukrainian village cut off by river and Russians, deliverance is a rusty rowboat

ZADONETS’KE, Ukraine — The Siverskyi Donets River doesn’t look like much. Only a few dozen meters wide in most places, the meandering river —...

Military court extends detention of Islamic Jihad leader that sparked Gaza conflict

A military court on Thursday extended the remand of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad member, a week after his arrest sparked a round of fighting...

Netanyahu loyalists rewarded by Likud primary voters, led by confidant Levin

With 80% of Likud primary votes counted by Thursday afternoon, Likud faction director Yariv Levin leads the party’s Knesset slate, while some...

Security forces dismantle illegal West Bank outpost Ramat Migron

Israeli forces dismantled the illegal outpost of Ramat Migron in the West Bank overnight Wednesday-Thursday and evacuated settler activists who...

Judge who signed FBI Mar-a-Lago warrant facing antisemitic threats online

JTA — Bruce Reinhart, the federal judge in Florida who signed the warrant allowing the FBI to raid former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago...

After another round in Gaza, Lapid says, ‘There is another way to live.’ Here’s how

A tense calm has returned to central and southern Israel, and to the Gaza Strip, after one of the shorter rounds of conflict between Israel and the...

I Deleted My Tweet, but Israel Is Rightly Suspected of Killing Children

Last Friday afternoon, Israel launched a rather expected surprise assault. In the best of democratic tradition, every caretaker government carries...

The lies that stoked Charlottesville violence – and threatened my husband – endure

Five years ago, my city was the unwilling host of the largest gathering of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and other white supremacist groups in...

Israel will use the Kurds as a tool, yet Turkiye still normalised relations

When it was revealed last month that Israel had requested the United States to prevent a new Turkish military operation in northern Syria, it...

Families of Munich Olympics victims vow to boycott memorial over compensation battle

Families of the Israelis murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics said they will boycott a memorial ceremony marking the 50th...

‘Mac is back’: McDonald’s announces ‘phased’ reopening in Ukraine

NEW YORK — McDonald’s announced plans on Thursday for a “phased” partial reopening of restaurants in Ukraine, where operations have been...

6 killed in traffic accidents across Israel and West Bank in just one day

Six people have been killed in traffic incidents across Israel and the West Bank on Wednesday and Thursday, marking a particularly deadly 24 hours...

3 killed after bus loses control outside shopping center on major Jerusalem road

Three people were killed and another seriously injured after a bus in Jerusalem lost control and plowed into a bus stop outside a shopping center on...

Jewish Israeli woman accused of spying for Iran attempts suicide

A Jewish Israeli woman arrested for spying for Iran in December attempted to commit suicide at her home in Holon on Thursday, Hebrew media...

Family of man who died running to rocket shelter wants terror victim designation

The family of an Israeli man who suffered a deadly heart attack while heading to a bomb shelter during an air raid siren in the recent escalation...

When Roger Waters Cried

Tel Aviv luxury apartments set new price records

A new price record for a Tel Aviv luxury apartment may just have been set this year at the David Promenade Residences, with the sale of two units...

Hailed by some as hero, Lebanese man turns self in after hostage standoff at bank

BEIRUT (AP) — A gunman demanding a Beirut bank let him withdraw his trapped savings to pay his father’s medical bills took up to 10 people hostage...

Israeli delegation fosters tech, innovation ties in Indonesia

An Israeli delegation of tech professionals, investors, and trade officials recently returned from a trip to Indonesia, the world’s most populous...

Iconic Jerusalem building saved from redevelopment plans

The Jerusalem Municipality has decided to shelve plans to radically redevelop the Binyanei Hauma building in Jerusalem, known in English as the...

Preparing for the High Holydays – a cantorial view

From my very first High Holyday services in l976 at Boston University at the age of 19, I knew preparing for the music and spiritual experience was...

The Sperm Gang, USA

Why does the abortion debate of 2022 in the USA never address sperm? After all, you can’t have a fertilized egg without sperm. The forced birth...

The Magic (and the Hassles) of Airline Flight

That’s our three grandchildren in the accompanying photo – Sarit Maayan, Emma Pearl, and Henry Charles – at the airport, before a recent plane...

Parashat Va-Etchanan & Shabbat Nachamu: Healing after devastation

“Console, console (Nachamu, Nachamu) My people,” says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and declare to her that her term of service is over,...

Reunion of classmates after 49 years

By Yi Woo-won On that sweltering afternoon of July 13, 1994, I was in Daegu, rushing down the sizzlingly hot asphalt streets to attend a very...

Don’t Panic, There Is Money Behind It

A new TV series in Israel, titled Don’t Panic, examines if Israel is prepared for events of mass destruction such as earthquakes, tsunamis, or a...

Mr. President. Did You Sleep Well?

The presidential aide entered the room and opened the curtains. “Good morning, Mr. President. Did you sleep well?” The President wasn’t born...

Will Arabs help Jews rebuild an Inner Virtual Jerusalem Temple?

Now that Tisha b’Av is over, unOrthodox and Orthodox Jews should turn from mourning the past, to envisioning the future, by working on how to build...

‘See Forever Eyes’ Parashat Va’etchanan 5782

Moshe stands on the east bank of the Jordan River, just a stone’s throw from the Land of Canaan. As far as he is concerned, though, he could be...

The Right and the Good (Va’etchanan, Covenant & Conversation)

Buried among the epic passages in Va’etchanan – among them the Shema and the Ten Commandments – is a brief passage with large implications for...

Comfort, comfort, my people

For 39 chapters, the prophet Isaiah rebukes the Jewish people. They have betrayed G-d and worshiped idols; they have become arrogant as well as...

Haftarah Va’etchanan: Isaiah’s Advice to Seinfeld to Become a Grasshopper

In season six, episode four of Seinfeld, Kramer decides to stop wearing boxers or briefs or… anything. He just wears his pants. He recently...

A whole lot of love! Every place we find love in the Torah

Tu B’Av is here, the moment we fully turn away from mourning exile, away from Tisha B’Av, and turn toward imagining a world full of love....

Discomfited by the the Seven Weeks of Consolation

Embed from Getty Images We have transitioned from the three weeks of sorrow in anticipation of Tisha b’Av to the Seven Weeks of Comfort or...

‘In the very air we breathed’

Holocaust survivor Maritza Shelley with author and writing teacher Randi Dickson have penned a powerful book, In the Very Air We Breathed. Maritza...