The House Is Burning, and That's Not a Metaphor

Netanyahu hails outgoing US envoy: ‘There was never a better ambassador’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday thanked outgoing US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman for helping secure landmark changes in...

Meeting Arab mayors, Netanyahu vows to tackle community crime like terrorism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of Arab mayors on Sunday night that he would pass a wide-ranging plan to combat violence and crime...

A Cluster Bomb That Israel's High Court of Justice Will Hopefully Neutralize

Suddenly, common sense and justice seem to be prevailing: The justices have realized the absurdity of the 'tiny plot' regulations that make...

Belated Justice for the Mother Teresa Tank Brigade in Jenin

Israeli hospital: 98% of staff who got 2nd shot have high-level COVID antibodies

A new serological study conducted at an Israeli hospital found that 98 percent of hospital workers who received the second dose of the coronavirus...

Fearing insider attack at Biden inauguration, FBI vetting national guard troops

WASHINGTON (AP) — US defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing US...

PA demands Israel allow East Jerusalemites to take part in Palestinian elections

The Times of Israel liveblogged Monday’s events as they unfolded. The Palestinian Authority is demanding that Israel allow East Jerusalem to take...

Israel’s coming election may be decided on the religious right

The election campaign is now in its least interesting phase, and, arguably, its most important. Sixty-four days out from election day, this is the...

For world’s 1 billion migraine sufferers, COVID a major headache, new film shows

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a huge pain for everyone, and migraine sufferers are no exception. In fact, many have reported more attacks than...

Former Trump campaign aides played key roles in organizing Washington rally

WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans of US President Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign had key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that...

China's faltering performance on economic reform

Xi Jinping's reform failures share a common theme

Model Bar Refaeli’s mother gets COVID in jail; doctors say her life is in danger

The personal physician of Tzipi Refaeli, the mother of supermodel Bar, said on Sunday that her life is in danger and she requires immediate...

Defying education minister’s ban, school goes ahead with rights group’s webinar

The head of Israeli human rights group B’Tselem gave a webinar to students in Haifa on Monday in defiance of an order by Education Minister Yoav...

In highest rate in months, 9.1% of virus tests return positive

The Health Ministry on Monday said the percentage of positive coronavirus tests confirmed the previous day was 9.1 percent, the highest level in...

Refugees’ human rights are buried under the snow of the Balkans

Report. Since the explosion of the Syrian crisis opened a breach through the Balkans, violence, denial of rights and abandonment have taken place...

Israeli chef Assaf Granit awarded Michelin star for Paris restaurant Shabour

Israeli chef Assaf Granit’s Shabour restaurant in Paris received its first Michelin star on Monday as the guide announced its annual pick of the...

Ministers to weigh ban on all outbound travel to curb spread of virus

As COVID-19 cases surge and more contagious strains of the coronavirus proliferate, ministers were set to weigh the possibility of banning all non-...

The documentary, MLK/FBI, is just slick propaganda that reveals nothing new about the bureau’s harassment of Martin Luther King

I’ve heard it said that Americans are the most propagandized people on the planet. I think that statement is quite accurate. What makes the...

In idiot America, for equity investors, what difference does it make?

THE DEVIL WILL FIND WORK FOR IDLE HANDS TO DOA friend of mine said to me on Monday: “you won’t be short of something to write this week!”. Not...

Israel’s data-for-vaccines deal with Pfizer raises privacy concerns

AP — After sprinting ahead in the race to inoculate its population against the coronavirus, Israel has struck a deal with Pfizer, promising to...

Zoom bombers shout ‘Jews in the ovens’ at online Holocaust book launch in Italy

JTA — “Zoom bombers” in Italy crashed the online launch of a book about the Holocaust and shouted anti-Semitic abuse, including “Jews, we’ll...

Violating the nuke deal, Iran shows it wants to talk to Biden

Iran announced last week that it would be taking steps toward producing uranium metal, in direct violation of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of...

US Jewish umbrella group: Grant to far-right group linked to DC riot was anomaly

JTA — A grant funneled through a Jewish federation to a group that was accused of funding the Capitol insurrection was an anomaly, said Eric...

Right-wing protesters, some armed, rally outside fortified statehouses across US

AP — Small groups of right-wing protesters — some of them carrying rifles — gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country...

Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and modern cancel culture

The night before he was murdered, Martin Luther King traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to rally support for striking Black sanitation workers.  On...

Right-wing Channel 20 wins tender to move to channel 14, likely boosting ratings

The openly right-wing Channel 20 won a tender Monday by the Second Authority for Television and Radio regulator, and will be broadcast on channel...

Likud whip accuses defecting minister of choosing ‘white peoples’ party’

Coalition whip MK Miki Zohar, a senior member of Likud, on Monday accused former party member Ze’ev Elkin, who left Likud to join a rival party,...

America's 'Debate' About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Full of Abstract Posturing

Much of the discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today is happening thousands of miles away and increasingly dealing with abstract concepts

Overcoming Trumpism

GOP leaders should debunk Trump's 'Big Lie'

By Trudy Rubin Our democracy cannot heal from the Jan. 6 insurrection, let alone block further violence from far-right terrorists, unless...

From the Outside Looking In: A Black Expat's Grief

By Toni Benn It was December 2019 when I informed my family that I'd be moving to South Korea to teach English. Their apprehension, fear and...

Capitol violence obscures big attack on US interests

By Andrew Hammond The siege of the U.S. Congress on Jan. 6 by what U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has called "domestic terrorists" has dominated...

PA demands Israel allow East Jerusalemites to take part in Palestinian elections

The Palestinian Authority is set to formally request that Israel allow East Jerusalem Palestinians to participate in scheduled Palestinian national...

It is Time to Emerge from the Darkness

This week’s Torah portion of Bo describes the debilitating impact of the ninth plague of darkness. In fact the text states that there was a thick...

The historic masonry of Sheldon Adelson, z”l

Much has been written over time and especially recently, after Sheldon Adelson’s passing, about his and his wife Miri’s unusually significant...

The ‘Young Settlement’ lie

“Young Settlement” is a cover name used to obscure the settler movement’s construction of ten illegal outposts a year. These masters of the...

Unreal city

The immersive exhibition populating London with surreal digital sculptures by Olafur Eliasson, KAWS, Cao Fei and moreBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon

Israel should help vaccinate the Palestinians

Israel’s world-beating Covid vaccination drive has taken its place alongside other jewels in the crown of national pride, from tech superstardom...

On guard

In the violent Summer of 1968, I was one of the National Guardsmen activated for riot duty.  Parts of my city, Cleveland, were burning and there...

Changing needs for volunteer workers require a new approach

Twenty-six years have passed since the Great Hanshin Earthquake devastated Kobe and caused serious damage in wide areas around the port city in...

Dispute over relief funds

Gyeonggi governor should take some time before executing decision The Gyeonggi Provincial Government has decided to provide another round of...