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Limiting life of nuclear plants to 40 years should be continued

Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, new nuclear safety regulations were created to impose a 40-year limit on the operational lifespan of...

'Abenomasks' turn up in a pandemic-era time capsule

I recently had a surprise re-encounter with "Abenomasks," the face masks that the government distributed to every household in Japan this past...

At vaccine deepfreeze storage site, Netanyahu says end of virus crisis in sight

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he expects no problems with the country’s ability to store millions of virus vaccines in freezing...

EU anti-terror chief warns video games used to spread extremism, prepare attacks

BRUSSELS — Online video games can be used to propagate extremist ideologies and even prepare attacks, the EU’s anti-terrorism coordinator told AFP...

Grateful, yes. Satisfied, no.

How many “gratitude” emails did you get today? I got a ton, which got me thinking about the way things are versus the way I want them to...

'Pro-Israel': How a Term Hijacked by the Right Could Decide Who Controls the U.S. Senate

The slurs against Democratic candidates in Georgia's election runoffs are the perfect showcase for how Trump and Netanyahu have twisted what 'pro-...

Mike Pompeo, Messiah of the BDS Movement

The Israel boycott movement is a dismal failure, but the hard-right in the U.S. and Israel is determined to keep it alive. And Pompeo has excellent...

It’s time for the UK government to hear the plight of gig workers

Abdi is a 40-year-old Somali man who came to the United Kingdom seeking asylum at the age of four. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Abdi had...

Can President Aliyev be trusted on Nagorno-Karabakh?

On November 10, a peace deal was signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan to end the fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Although there were...

Who made the bomb? The full truth about Lockerbie is still not being told

The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, remains the worst act of terrorism ever carried out in Britain....

Six weeks after Facebook vowed to ban Holocaust denial, it’s still easy to find

JTA — As of Wednesday afternoon, one of the first results in a Facebook search for “Holohoax” — a term popular with Holocaust deniers — was...

Our Original Yiddishe Mamme-Rachel Imenu

Embed from Getty Images We are introduced to Rachel, one of the four Matriarchs, in this week’s Torah reading Vayetzei[i]. Like the other...

First commercial Flydubai flight takes off from Dubai to Tel Aviv

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Budget airline flydubai on Thursday launched direct flights to Tel Aviv, the first scheduled commercial...

US Supreme Court blocks coronavirus limitations on New York synagogues

WASHINGTON (AP) — As coronavirus cases surge again across the United States, the Supreme Court late Wednesday barred New York from enforcing...

Forever fifteen

Today (Friday November 27) we mark yet another agonizing birthday. My sweet daughter Malki would now be thirty-five years old if Hamas operative...

Ministers approve pilot plan to reopen markets, 15 malls, starting Friday

Government ministers on Wednesday approved a pilot plan to open 15 malls around the country as Israel continues to emerge from its second...

Daily virus cases top 1,000 for first time in a month as reopening continues

The number of new daily coronavirus cases diagnosed in Israel rose to over one thousand on Wednesday, a level not seen in over a month, according...

Rape added to corruption offenses against Or Akiva mayor, former minister

Yaakov Edri, the mayor of the city of Or Akiva and a former government minister, is suspected of rape, along with other serious offenses, a court...

Netanyahu says ‘elections are on the way’ as Blue and White seethes

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s developments as they unfold. In response to Netanyahu, the Blue and White party says the prime...

Man, 60, dies in Jerusalem building fire 

A 60-year-old man died late Wednesday night in a fire that broke out in the storage area of a building in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of...

Division or Dialogue with China?

HONG KONG – Americans don’t agree on much of anything nowadays. Yet they are largely united in their belief that China represents an...

UN experts have basically just said that Israel is not a democracy

Although it is only one of Israel's many injustices, the case of Mohammed El-Halabi is a particularly egregious example of the colonial-settler...

Europe’s Green Opportunity

BRUSSELS – The COVID-19 crisis has presented Europe with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch a new era of economic growth. If the...

Slavoj Žižek: Trump’s flexible relationship with the truth made him more dangerous than a fascist

On November 23, Donald Trump finally agreed to begin the transition of power, but the way it was announced tells us a lot about him. Head of the...

Racism in Israel isn't going away, it's getting worse

The racism that appears to be inherent within the state of Israel isn't going away, it's getting worse. Although Palestinian Arabs are its main...

Travel bubble: what Singapore and Hong Kong’s contrasting reactions to its suspension tell us about our societies

Last Sunday was supposed to mark the start of a quarantine-free air travel bubble between Singapore and Hong Kong, until a rising number of...

Papanomics: Francis called for a new economic model

Analysis. ‘Things cannot go on the way they are. The present world system is certainly unsustainable from a number of points of view and is...

First commercial Emirati flight lands; Netanyahu hails a ‘new era’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday welcomed the first commercial flight to Israel by the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned flydubai...

Citing broken agreements, Netanyahu says ‘no doubt’ elections are on the way

In a sign of the nearing of the long-expected fall of the government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that there was “no...

Israeli students’ electric car for elderly to compete in Dubai-based show

An electric car for the elderly developed by students in the mechanical engineering department of Israel’s Ariel University was selected to...

Temple Mount Sifting Project uncovers 3,000-year-old gold bead lost on holy site

A first, First Temple-era gold bead was revealed during wet sifting of earth from the Temple Mount in August, when nine-year-old Jerusalemite...

The AKP against the AKP

It is now obvious that the alliance with Bahçeli is different for Erdoğan than the alliance he had with the Gülenists or liberals. Cynics joke...

Moving past apartheid: one-state is not ideal justice, but it is just and possible

Once again, Europe's top diplomats expressed their 'deep concern' regarding Israel's ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking the maxim...

Former Maccabi Games pitcher celebrates LA’s World Series win — as team analyst

NEW JERSEY (Jewish Standard) — Sammy Elias isn’t a cork-popping kind of guy under normal conditions, so when the Los Angeles Dodgers won the...

Thailand approves transfer of 3 Iranians after Australian held in Iran freed

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai officials said Thursday they approved the transfer back to Tehran of three Iranians who were involved in a botched 2012 bomb...

(BRANJE #SLO30) Trideset let permanentne krize

V teh časih nas obkroža toliko problemov, strahov in norosti, da si lahko vsak izbere svojo privatno katastrofo. Filmska katastrofa je blokada, ki...

Kollár je omyl v systéme

Od leta platia v zdravotníckych zariadeniach prísne opatrenia. Mnohí tak pre koronavírus nemôžu navštíviť svojich príbuzných. Akoby...

Hospital heads said to unanimously agree Israel heading to 3rd wave of virus

Hospital heads in Israel unanimously agree that the country is heading into a third wave of coronavirus infections, a report said Thursday, after...