Two construction workers killed by collapsing wall in Ashdod

Two construction workers died in Ashdod on Wednesday when a wall collapsed on them at a construction site. The two men were employees of a...

Senior geologist says Israel needs to prepare for major quake ‘in our lifetime’

A top scientist with the Geological Survey of Israel said Wednesday that the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria should serve as a wake-up call...

The Transatlantic Subsidies Race We Need

Putin likely approved supply of missile that downed flight over Ukraine — probe

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin likely decided to supply the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17...

Minor earthquake hits near West Bank settlement of Ariel

The Israeli military’s Home Front Command confirmed that a minor earthquake hit Israel Tuesday night, with tremors reported in Jerusalem and in...

America’s democracy is ‘unbowed and unbroken,’ says Biden in State of Union address

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Joe Biden called on Republicans in his State of the Union address Tuesday night to work with him to “finish the...

Over Decades, Democracy for Israelis Has Been a Military Junta for Palestinians

The present government is dangerous to many Jews, also those who voted for the parties in the government coalition. But first and foremost it is...

Antisemitism: A Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew

Everyday in the news we hear about new cases where Jews are being targeted by hate crimes. As Jews we need to stop dividing ourselves into...

(POGLED) Kolumna Marka Crnkoviča: Tresla se je gora, rodila se je Sapramiška

Pesnico, nagrajenko leta 2000, sta na oder pospremila Boris A. Novak in Jaša Jenull. Robert Balen Kakšen ekskluzivistični fanatizem to mora biti,...

Daily Briefing Feb. 8: Report from Turkey; how the court is to the right of the PM

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world,...

Global conflicts grow

Is South Korea ready for another war among great powers? The last time the world's three great powers clashed, directly or indirectly, was the...

Rothman rules out major changes on first overhaul bill, delays vote to Monday

As the Knesset panel drafting the first salvo of judicial reform legislation moved into preparing the bill for its preliminary plenum vote, the...

4 suspected of planning to attack Arabs in revenge over rape in Gedera

Police on Tuesday questioned four men on suspicion that they were planning to attack Arab construction workers in Gedera as revenge for the recent...

Initial Takeaways from the Disastrous Earthquake

As the scale of devastation from the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and Syria becomes clearer and more horrifying by the minute, initial...

Health funds should charge less when we live well

This goes way beyond just drinking less sugar Your pay less for car insurance when you drive damage-free long enough. Not only do you use more...

Generations

Sometimes I think that part of the reason I choose to work with older adults is that I missed having the experience of older adults in my own...

Long-awaited Streisand memoir ‘My Name is Barbra’ coming this year

NEW YORK (AP) — Barbra Streisand’s very long and very long-awaited memoir, a project she has talked about for years, is coming out this fall....

Rav Kook on Yitro: Becoming a Holy Nation by Establishing a Holy Government

“And you will be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation to me.”  (Exodus 19:6) “וְאַתֶּ֧ם תִּֽהְיוּ־לִ֛י...

We Must End the Shameful Practice of Using Private Prisons

The very first thing we learn from the Torah about human beings is that we’re made in the image of God. We’re taught in the first chapter of the...

The Eighth Heaven: The Divine Wedding

The new Heavenly-Jerusalem cosmic cycle of evolution requires the entry of humankind as  G-d’s people into the reality of the New Heaven and the...

LeBron James breaks NBA all-time scoring record, surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

AP — LeBron James is the NBA’s new career scoring leader. With a stepback jump shot with 10.9 seconds left in the third quarter in the Los...

Year of the Rabbit? Or Year of NewJeans?

By Kevin Kim As 2023, the Year of the Rabbit, began, Korean music charts were filled with the cartoon character of a black rabbit and a blue rabbit...

Terrorists are a product of their conditions

For Israeli Jews, who feel disproportionately hurt by attacks carried out by Palestinians, this could seem like an insane proposition. I know this...

Japan's strategic imperative

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. CAMBRIDGE ― Last December, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced the most ambitious expansion of military power...

Clown noses, tears, and joy

Buttercup is dead. In all my years in the Rabbinate, I have never cried at a funeral — until now. I think it was looking out at the congregation...

Next Gen Search Make a Difference with Every Click

It’s not often that we’re left feeling excited after just 10 minutes of searching the web, but that’s exactly what happened to me with the...

US forces strike at extremism in Africa

By Arthur I. Cyr Bilal al-Sudani is not exactly a household name, which is all the more reason to highlight the fact that this dangerous terrorist...

Child Abuse Prevention: Erasing Titles

“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli  Embed from Getty Images Unfortunately, it happens.  A...

Does the World Know?

This week, I viewed a video released by The Hallelu Foundation. It began by the narrator admitting that he has had moments of feeling sorry for the...

VOX POPULI: Perhaps for the 13-year-old go champion, time passed slowly

I got up in the morning, played, laughed and was scolded. The days were long when I was a child. But now, they just race away. All clocks mark the...

How does US-China relationship continue after the spy balloon saga?

By Daniel DePetris If you thought the Chinese spy balloon saga would deflate as fast as the balloon did over the Atlantic Ocean, you're sadly...

Reflections from a journey to Poland with my yeshiva

On Monday, January 23rd, I along with 44 fellow students and two rabbis from Yeshivat Orayta, touched down in a very cold and cloudy Warsaw,...

President caught in quarrel with lawmaker

By Kang Hyun-kyung Winning the March 8 convention to select the ruling People Power Party's (PPP's) new chairman is part of Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo's...

Vladimir Putin’s favorite entrepreneur specializes in war

For the first time since July 2022, the Russian invaders in Ukraine have been able to claim that they’ve captured a Ukrainian town — Soledar,...

On the matter of North Korean spies in South Korea

The conservatives’ offensive against the opposition is partly carried out under the slogans of searching for pro-Pyongyang NGOs and North Korean...

Algeria, Morocco and the French trap

It is easy to say that France has fallen into the trap of the chronic conflict between Algeria and Morocco by virtue of its historic and current...

Balloon highlights risk of unintentional U.S.-China clash

IDF vets hold 3-day march to Jerusalem to protest judicial overhaul plans

Hundreds of Israeli military reservists and veterans began a three-day march from Latrun to the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning,...

CEOs should prepare for U.S. congressional grilling on China

New congressional body likely to hold hearings on Hollywood, NBA, AI and TikTok

Major tech firm Skai said set to pull funds from Israel due to judicial plans

The Israeli-founded marketing tech firm Skai will pull funding from Israel due to the government’s plans to implement sweeping changes to the...

Amid devastation in Turkey, Israeli rescuers race to save trapped quake survivors

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they unfold. Israeli rescuers are working with Turkish operators to retrieve someone...

Rare 1,600-year-old gold bead found by teenager in Jerusalem’s City of David

A rare gold bead made by hand in Jerusalem some 1,600 years ago was recently discovered by an 18-year-old volunteer in the City of David, not far...

Haredi men three times as likely to be nearsighted, likely due to Talmud study

Reading religious texts like the Talmud at close distance is likely to explain sky-high rates of nearsightedness among Haredi men, according to the...

Aid to quake-hit Syria slowed by sanctions, war divisions

BEIRUT (AP) — Even before Monday’s devastating earthquake, getting aid to all parts of war-battered Syria was fraught with daunting political...

Honoring a US rabbi who went down with his torpedoed warship 80 years ago this month

JTA — Mark Auerbach was not yet 5 years old when he noticed an unusual postage stamp in his father’s dresser. The well-worn three-cent stamp...

Zim­bab­we is los­ing doc­tors, teach­ers to British hypocrisy

The United Kingdom, which is buckling under a deepening shortage of nurses and teachers after exiting the European Union, is raiding, among other...

Woman found dead outside her home in Lod; neighbor arrested on suspicion of murder

A woman in her 30s was found dead outside her apartment Wednesday morning in a residential building in the central city of Lod, with a male...

Top Democrat Adam Schiff fears judicial shakeup will ‘make Israel less democratic’

JTA — Rep. Adam Schiff, the Jewish Democrat from California who recently announced a run for the Senate, said that he was “very concerned”...