The Pride of Israel: Assassinations

Bus hits 7 Palestinian workers in Bethlehem, killing one; driver flees

In an apparent hit-and-run, a bus hit seven Palestinian workers Wednesday morning near a crossing between the West Bank city of Bethlehem and...

Left-wing Meretz said to reject becoming Jewish-Arab party

Senior members of Meretz have rejected a new initiative to transform the left-wing party into a Jewish-Arab slate, citing small public support for...

What Yellen Must Do

NEW YORK – US President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to appoint Janet Yellen as the next Secretary of the Treasury is good news for America and...

Israeli intelligence agencies are preparing to confront Hamas in a technology war

As tension escalates on numerous fronts, Israeli intelligence agencies continue to develop their capabilities, and now have databases and...

In the time of pandemic, debt relief efforts need to go further

In the last few months, due to the devastating effect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the global economy, the fiscal clock has been ticking...

In Israel, Bahraini minister says peace deal a ‘case study for others to follow’

Bahrain wants to open a direct airlink to Israel soon, the country’s industry, commerce and tourism minister said Wednesday during a visit to...

Israeli tech gives Intel breakthrough in market dominated by competitor

Technology made in Israel is allowing US giant Intel Corp to make a breakthrough in a market dominated by competitor Nvidia Corp. Amazon Web...

Elections are coming, but not so fast

Elections loom. The signs have been clear for a while, and there’s no shortage of deep dives into each faction and party’s electoral calculus. But...

NHK needs to clean up its act before thinking about surcharges

A panel of experts, appointed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, has proposed that Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) be allowed...

Wiser heads must prevail after killing of top Iranian nuclear scientist

Last week, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist, was reportedly ambushed and killed outside Tehran by “a highly trained hit...

European Banking’s Moment of Merger Truth

BARCELONA – The days when bankers could pay 3% interest on their customers’ deposits, lend at 6%, and make it to the golf course by 3 p.m. (the...

Normalisation has included the deliberate humiliation of the UAE

The roses with which the UAE welcomed the first Israeli aircraft to land in the country of Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, who was known for his...

A Pathbreaking Novel

The single life in Daniel Ross Goodman’s new novel belongs to Eli Newman, a rising Talmud scholar with an interest in world literature, a star...

Why Jewish education is so Important

I went to Withington Girls’ School, a posh all girls’ school in Manchester. I loved it! I still have fond memories of my time there. The...

On Jewish Unity and Anti-Semitism – The Rise and Fall of the First Temple

(Article No. 4 in a series) In the previous article, we described Israel’s formation into a nation and how they were given the task to be “a...

Waste and greed to merge in Turkey's new environmental law

This week, a bill for the Turkish Environment Agency will be debated at the parliament. This bill will recycle the profits of recyclable waste using...

BTS marks another milestone

Boy band hoped to keep challenging and achieve far more K-pop boy band BTS has achieved another milestone with its song "Life Goes On," the lead...

A roadmap for stabilizing Sino-American relations

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Devising an effective strategy to compete, cooperate, and co-exist with China will be one of U.S. President-elect Joe...

Language and lockdowns amid the pandemic

ITHACA, New York – Our recent experience with COVID-19 and the word “lockdown” once again illustrates the power of language to influence our...

Biden's challenge: Restoring US as leader against global warming

The election of Joe Biden as president signals a return to sanity in the federal government's approach to climate change. For starters, Biden at...

China scores big against poverty but the poor haven’t gone away

China has all but met President Xi Jinping’s pledge to eradicate extreme poverty by 2020. More than 800 counties considered severely impoverished...

Biden's presidency will likely be similar to Obama's

By Michael McGrath Barring an unprecedented legal shock, Biden will become president of the United States on Jan. 20. What will a Biden presidency...

Just Listen to This

Some years ago, well, quite a few years ago, when I was at school, our music teacher decided to form a choir. He stood in front of the class and...

Appeasement of Iran is a serious danger

In a tweet, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described the death of Dr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last Friday, as a martyr who was killed by “brutal...

Will Oslo shoot itself in the foot again with Peace Prize choice?

When U.S. President Barack Obama was named the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, I went through overseas news clips, looking for reactions...

Empowering the disabled in a post-COVID world

Disability inclusion must be central to the region's response to build back better

Baby among five killed as car runs down shoppers in Germany

AFP — A baby was among five people killed when a car tore through a pedestrian shopping street in the southwestern German city of Trier on...

Hannah Senesh’s last note

Anyone who even casually follows the course of Hannah Senesh’s life quickly discovers her biography’s common thread: Hannah Senesh (often...

A Global Town Hall Welcomes America Back

On November 20, 8,300 people in 83 countries attended a virtual Global Town Hall to watch and hear 66 speakers in multiple countries discuss “...

Amal Asad, Druze Play Important Role in Israel's Regime of Separation

Biden: US will rejoin Iran nuclear deal if Tehran returns to strict compliance

US President-elect Joe Biden said that the US would rejoin the nuclear deal with Iran if Tehran went back to strict compliance with the agreement,...

Sean Connery, Diego Maradona, Robert Fisk… cancel culture has reached a new low with woke warriors’ disrespect for dead icons

Time used to be that it was considered bad form to speak ill of the dead, but that was back in those heady days of civility when a man was unlikely...

That’s what you get for obeying? New Yorker cover mocks lockdown-induced deterioration after months of shaming dissenters

The December 7 issue of the New Yorker features a withering send-up of quarantine neuroses and psychoses, depicting a smiling woman with hair,...

Expert: 6 vaccine hurdles mean we’re ‘nowhere near’ Israel-wide immunity in 2021

Even a full year after the first COVID-19 vaccinations arrive in Israel, “nowhere near” all citizens will have immunity, a leading epidemiologist...

UK becomes 1st country to approve Pfizer vaccine, to be available from next week

Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for general use and said it would be introduced next...

Sprinterka na maratonski progi

Doktorica Bojana Beović je pri delu odločna in hitra, prava sprinterka. Težko ji je slediti. Stopnjuje. Ne pogleduje nazaj. Ohranja hitrost. Ne...

Gantz claims Netanyahu duped the Israeli public. That’s not what happened at all

Announcing Tuesday night that his Blue and White party would vote for a preliminary motion to dissolve the Knesset — a threat he implemented on...

LISTEN: Medieval poop chute exposed in renovations at Jerusalem’s Tower of David

This week The Times of Israel Podcast is taking you on a journey through thousands of years of history and archaeology at the Tower of David Museum...

Officials may declare UAE a ‘red’ zone as flights with Israel begin: report

Health Ministry officials are reportedly considering declaring Dubai and Abu Dhabi “red” zones due to their increasing number of COVID-19...

Active virus cases in Israel pass 11,000 for first time in over a month

Health Ministry data on Wednesday morning showed 1,182 new cases of coronavirus diagnosed in Israel a day earlier. The number of active cases in...

Trouble in store: How highly paid, job-secure lockdown zealots have helped kill off the British high street

It was more than just a shop. Debenhams was part of British life. Part of the national fabric. It was a Clark who started it. William Clark (no...

6 biggest Israeli hospitals use Aidoc software to read CT scans, firm announces

Aidoc, a maker of AI-based software that helps radiologists in their work, said on Wednesday that Israel’s six largest medical centers have begun...

Israel transfers billions to Ramallah, does not deduct for terror stipends

Israel transferred NIS 3.7 billion ($1.12 billion) in tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to Ramallah on Wednesday,...

Disputing Trump, US attorney general says no widespread election fraud

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that...

Knesset set to back preliminary motion to dissolve itself, call early elections

The Knesset was set Wednesday to vote on — and likely approve — a preliminary reading of a bill to dissolve the parliament and call early...

Hold Tufts University Accountable

Tufts must defend democracy and reject the chaos brought by anti-Israel activists Tufts University has experienced intense pressure to undermine...

Is Hong Kong Heading Toward a Russian-Style Electoral System?

The passage of Hong Kong’s national security law has marked the end of the city as we once knew it. However, Beijing is not seeking to turn Hong...

Justice minister should resign

President Moon needs to apologize to people Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl returned to work Tuesday immediately after the Seoul Administrative...

The message of Islamist beheadings

New Delhi – In October, an 18-year-old Chechen immigrant stalked, stabbed and decapitated a history teacher, Samuel Paty, in a Paris suburb near...