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Reruns among this year’s hit products amid the pandemic

Around this time every year, organizations announce their annual rankings of big hits, harking back to products and events that were talked about a...

An Effective Response to Europe’s Fiscal Paralysis

NEW YORK – I have written a lot in the past about the desirability of the European Union issuing perpetual bonds. But today I am proposing that...

Maradona's audacity of hope

I for one am grateful to and humbled by like many other millions in all the continents of our world, Maradona if not for the spectacle he offered...

Yonatan Heilo, who served time for killing his rapist, found dead on beach

Yonatan Heilo, who was jailed for killing his rapist and then given early release after public outcry over his case, was found dead on a Netanya...

Brazil, BRICS and the defence of the Global South

Rarely in the history of mankind does something positive come out of the nerve centre of financial capital and speculative parasites. The BRICS...

Breaking free of the two-state solution catch-22

The dust of the contentious US elections seems to have settled and Joe Biden’s win is starting to dawn on the Republicans. Yet the recent meeting...

Ex-top investigator alleges prosecution coverup in police killing of Bedouin man

The former head of the Israel’s police internal affairs unit has reportedly alleged that the State Prosecution tried to bury an investigation into...

Yad Vashem faces cash crunch due to pandemic, political gridlock

Israel’s famed Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and research center is facing dire financial straits because of the double hit of Israel’s ongoing...

‘Sistine Chapel of the ancients’ rock art found in Amazon forest

Tens of thousands of paintings dating back to the ice age have been revealed for the first time since they were discovered in the Amazonian...

We won’t be drawn into further reopening, health minister warns as numbers rise

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said Monday that Israel will halt moves to ease the nationwide lockdown and may even put more restrictions into...

Iran’s enemies are spoiling for a fight, so how will it respond to top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s assassination?

A day after Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a leading Iranian nuclear physicist, was assassinated while travelling in his car on the outskirts of Tehran, the...

Jewish author pens novel on US teens who refused to debate the Final Solution

Kveller via JTA — On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking officials from the Nazi party and the German government got together in a villa at Wannsee,...

Will U.S. Really Withdraw Troops from Afghanistan?

After the 9/11 attacks, the United State of America has been fighting the so-called longest war in Afghanistan to eliminate the threat from the...

At nuke chief’s funeral, Iran defense minister vows response to killing

Speaking at the funeral of a top Iranian  nuclear scientist who was killed in an assassination widely blamed on Israel, Iran’s defense minister...

A long and winding road to US terror charges against Islamic State ‘Beatles’

WASHINGTON (AP) — As two Islamic State militants faced a judge in Virginia last month, Diane Foley listened from home through a muffled phone...

Biden chooses an all-female senior White House press team

WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP) — US President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, reflecting his...

Grim period awaits Istanbul as pandemic spirals out of control

Regardless of whether or not one thinks that all but shutting down Istanbul's (and the country's) restaurants, bars and cafes is a good idea, a...

Miscalculation of virus relief aid demands review of faulty stats

A number of unexplained factors are hurting the reliability of government statistics, which is manifesting itself in gross underestimation of...

Innovative mobility partnership

Hyundai Motor, Naver set to experiment with new possibilities The country's biggest automaker and top search engine platform have reached an...

Israel-Lebanon maritime border talks postponed amid impasse

A source with the Lebanese military said Monday that an upcoming round of border talks with Israel due this week had been postponed. News of the...

Regulation slowing down vaccine progress, Israel’s bio institute chief gripes

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they happen. BERLIN — The European Union’s latest surge of coronavirus infections is...

Peru should give its latest president a chance

With the Nov. 17 swearing-in of Francisco Sagasti as interim president, Peru has its third head of state in a little more than a week. Sagasti's...

Diego 1960–[neskončno]

Ko si najstnik, potrebuješ vzornika. In mit. On, Amigo, novinar zagrebških Sportskih novosti Zvonimir Magdić (1930–2018), nas je s svojimi...

UAE’s Etihad Airways joins new Israeli program to foster travel tech

Arieli Capital, a holdings and investment company, said that Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will be a partner in...

We Need a Democratic Party in Israel

In a recent conversation with some friends in the USA, I shocked them by telling them that their political situation is much better than ours in...

Letters and Voices, Part 1: Ed from Miami Beach

Death and divorce prevented my brother Cooper and me from knowing our grandparents. My mother’s parents both died in 1959 before I was 3 years...

5 Positive Changes I’ve Observed in Israel This Year

Living in Israel can be a frustrating experience. For most people who live here, that probably doesn’t require elaboration. But just when...

Understanding IHRA

Discussions about Israel, often passionate, occasionally get sidetracked by a descent into—or accusations of—antisemitic rhetoric. When does...

Fake Data = Fake Culture

In my two previous blogs on second-hand dealers of ideas and critical theory I pointed to the role of intellectuals and media in becoming...

The Importance of Listening to America’s Allies

Embed from Getty Images The incoming administration of President-elect Biden has stirred up conversations across the Middle East about America’s...

Anxieties and Apologies

If, like me, you are prone to anxiety, you have no doubt found that a global pandemic is anything but a nurturing environment. In June, after three...

What is behind India’s ‘love jihad’ legislation?

India is a triumph of the imagination: innumerable cultures, languages, and worldviews, often at odds with one other, loosely bound by a...

Nuke chief’s killing is a major blow to Iran, but the price may be high

The killing of Iran’s military nuclear architect outside of Tehran on Friday struck a major blow to the Islamic Republic, both in practical and...

The Tariq Ramadan case exposes even more French double standards

Around half a million French people took to the streets over the weekend urging President Emmanuel Macron's government to abandon legislation which...

Why China's hard-line position on human rights is a strategic folly

Beijing will pay dearly for its uncompromising stance

Nightmare scenario in Gaza as COVID overwhelms the health system

Analysis. Gaza has only 100 respirators, and most are now in use. Doctors warn that in a few days, they will 'no longer be able to care for...

Like ‘Mad King George:’ Trump spends days after vote muttering ‘I won, I won’

US President Donald Trump has spent the last few weeks since the election continuing to deny his loss, surrounded by those who would  only tell...

Iran said distributing pictures of suspects in killing of nuclear chief

A London based Iranian journalist claimed late Sunday that Iran has distributed pictures of four suspects in the killing of top nuclear scientist...

Nuke chief killed with Israeli weapons controlled by satellite – Iranian report

The attack that killed the alleged architect of Iran’s nuclear weapons program on Friday was carried out using an Israeli-manufactured weapon...

Cabinet okays transfer of tax revenues to Palestinians as PA renews cooperation

The security cabinet authorized late Sunday the transfer of some NIS 2.4 billion ($725 million) in tax revenues that Israel collects on behalf of...

Visiting Dubai Is Like Standing on the Sidelines During a Gang Rape

China blocks Australian copper imports – but from solar cells to beating Covid-19, global demand for copper is set to soar

SIMPLY REDIt is less than a decade since China was last buying up vast amounts of copper in the global metals market. In February 2011, the price...

Homeless youth build America’s 1st Tiny House shelter village

OAKLAND, California — For years, the abandoned gas station parking lot sat empty in the shadow of Oakland’s Coliseum Stadium, filling with the...

Shortage of ships

Steps urged to help exporters in need of ships The nation's shipping companies have decided to operate more ships to help exporters suffering from...

Warp speed for clean energy? That won’t work.

Given the success of Operation Warp Speed in driving vaccine development, some commentators have called for Warp Speed equivalents for clean energy...