Advent of battery biz

LG Chem's spinoff battery unit should mark first step LG Chem decided to spin off its battery business in a board meeting last Thursday. The...

Haaretz Cartoon

The rise of Covidnomics

ITHACA, New York – Boundaries between academic disciplines are always artificial creations intended to facilitate analysis, given our limitations....

Gantz to take off for Washington to discuss F-35 sales to UAE

Defense Minister Benny Gantz will travel to Washington, DC, Tuesday for a series of meetings with US Defense Secretary Mark Asper and other senior...

Iran to IAEA summit: Nuclear deal with world powers is worth preserving

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they happen. Political pressure is growing in Europe for governments to tackle the rising...

Failed political solutions to healthcare problems

During the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic, physician named Dr. Craig Spencer, who had recently returned to New York from treating Ebola patients in...

Jewish Education – More Crucial Today than Ever 

C.S. Lewis was almost prophetic when he wrote, “The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of...

Good and cheap Chinese eatery in Ginza falls victim to virus crisis

Four factors--quick, cheap, tasty and plentiful--define an ideal dish for me, a person with a big appetite. This type of fare was typically served...

Japan-U.K. trade deal: Cheer amidst the gloom

London – Amidst continuing gloom over the pandemic and uncertainty over the post-Brexit transition, a ray of light and optimism comes shining...

Calling out youth of 1987

By Jason Lim Jang Hye-young is a first-term National Assemblywoman from the Justice Party. She was born in 1987 when South Korea overcame...

Villanueva best ad for sheriff oversight

The Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission and Inspector Gen. Max Huntsman would have enough work on their plates if all they did...

The post-pandemic recovery’s missing link is trust

PARIS – Trust will be key to the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. Yet over the past ten years, people’s trust in governments,...

tretji človek in/ali Tuđman 21. stoletja?

Če predpostavka, da o neki stvari največ pove njen konec, drži, potem nimamo kaj razpravljati, ko govorimo o Jugoslaviji. Država, ki je izgorela...

Zoom shul-goers: a field guide

Many shuls struggled with the question of whether to stream High Holiday services or use the interactive approach of a Zoom session in which...

‘Social Distancing’?! Or Physical Distancing?

A Contemporary Interpretation of The Law of Four Cubits in Judaism Since early March, one of the most ubiquitous terms has been “social...

Popular or Unpopular

The TIMES OF ISRAEL posts, with every edition, the names of the popular bloggers. Almost always, the same names appear on the daily lists. I assume...

Global ‘climate clock’ poorly designed to peer into future before it’s too late

A new so-called “Climate Clock” set up in New York City behind the vision of two climate activists,  one with a new-born child in his dreams, is...

The Music of Silence

The following was given as a sermon on the first day of Rosh Hashana 5781: On a late summer day in 1952, the pianist David Tudor took the stage of...

Game of Thrones: Fire and Ice in Israel

I sometimes identify Israel’s struggle with characters from the TV series “Game of Thrones”. Specifically, Israel’s military might and...

Israel Needs A National Unity Government

No one in their right mind actually believes that we have a National Unity Government, even if Bibi and Ganz protest to the contrary. One can fling...

It’s one strange, strange Rosh Hashanah!

It’s got to be the strangest Rosh Hashana you will ever experience – locked out of shule, locked-down at home. No shofar to blast you out of...

A Rosh Hashanah unlike any other

Every year I attend two days of services for Rosh Hashanah, and usually my parents and I compare notes on the sermons we heard. When I was growing...

US Space Force blasts off to… the Arabian Desert

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The newly formed US Space Force is deploying troops to a vast new frontier: the Arabian Peninsula. Space Force...

What ‘Left Out’ has left out

In their recently published and much acclaimed exposé Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, journalists Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick...

Deadly Weapon: Our Words

When I came to Israel in 1981, to make the Jewish state my home after growing up in New York, I was exhilarated, like so many others who make the...

A Paean to Liberalism and Human Rights

Realizing Second Lockdown Ruined Their Future, Liberal Israelis Will Flee the Country

Reconstruction of Tohoku region to test commitment of ‘self-help’ Suga

In his inaugural news conference, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga listed many policy challenges that he faces but left out one important issue. He...

Anyone but Nafatli Bennett

Bold is better than ambitious

“Un ambitieux incapable”, thus chose to translate French official news agency AFP President Erdoğan’s flattering words about his counterpart...

Court set to hand down long-awaited decision on Leifer extradition to Australia

Nearly six years since her initial arrest, and after 70 court hearings, the Jerusalem District Court was set to give a final ruling Monday on...

Biden to Republican senators: Don’t jam through Ginsburg replacement

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Biden on Sunday slammed US President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to jam through a replacement...

Bulgarian court to deliver verdict on 2012 Israeli bus bombing that killed 5

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AFP) — A Bulgarian court is due to deliver its verdict Monday in a trial over a deadly 2012 bus bomb attack on Israeli tourists...

Bulgarian court jails duo for life in absentia over 2012 Burgas bus bombing

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AFP) — A Bulgarian court on Monday sentenced two men to life in prison over a deadly 2012 bus bomb attack on Israeli tourists at...

What the death of a Bollywood star says about life in Modi's India

New forms of dissent are emerging to challenge the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party

Leak: Israel aerospace giant paid $155m to opaque firms linked to Azeri elites

Israel’s largest aerospace and aviation manufacturer transferred at least $155 million to two companies that were reportedly used as a secret...

Netanyahu aide spotted appearing to break quarantine to film anti-PM protest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s social media adviser was accused of breaking quarantine after he was spotted Sunday evening scoping out a...

Look who’s spreading Jew hatred

Like many supporters of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, Pink Floyd co-founder, Roger Waters, claims he does...

International Law and Political Necessity

LONDON – Whenever the great and the good unite in approval or condemnation of something, my impulse is to break ranks. So, I find it hard to join...

Ginsburg’s impact on women spanned age groups, backgrounds

NEW YORK (AP) — Sure, there were the RBG bobbleheads, the Halloween getups, the lace collars, the workout videos. The “I dissent” T-shirts,...

Jewish tennis whiz beats Nadal to advance to Italian Open finals

JTA — Tenth time is the charm: After previously losing to Rafael Nadal nine straight times, Diego Schwartzman stunned him in straight sets on...

Staying home for Chuseok?

By David Tizzard The National Museum of Korea has created an exhibit entitled "Fighting Epidemics in the Joseon Dynasty" to provide a sense of...

Court rules accused sex abuser Leifer to be extradited back to Australia

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday ruled in favor of extraditing Malka Leifer to Australia where the former ultra-Orthodox girls’ high school...

Honduras to move embassy to Jerusalem by end of 2020, Israel says

Honduras will move its embassy to Jerusalem this year, and Israel will open an embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, the Prime...

It’s Time for Arab States to Drop Another Bombshell on Israel

Saudi Arabia should revisit its surprise 2002 initiative by pushing the four Arab states who have normalized relations with Israel to lobby for a...

The Economic Case for Biden

NEW YORK – Commentators have offered many reasons why one should vote in November for Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for US president. Yet the...

Patriotism v revisionism: Trump’s war against the 1619 Project is a battle for the soul of America

I have never seen the woke cultural establishment react to a statement so fast and with so much venom and hate. ‘Whitewashing US history with...

¿Cambio en la política estadounidense hacia América Latina?

En agosto pasado la Administración Trump hizo público un documento titulado “Marco Estratégico para el Hemisferio Occidental”. En la primera...

Planning new sanctions, US said to claim Iran can make nuke in months

The US will reportedly place sanctions on more than two dozen people and entities tied to Iran’s nuclear and conventional weapons program,...

Flooded by cases, hospitals in Jerusalem and Ashdod stop taking virus patients

Hospitals in Jerusalem and Ashdod on Monday announced they could no longer take in additional coronavirus patients due to overload, as medical...