Poland and Israel appear to mend ties after year-long spat over Holocaust law

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold. Some 17 people remain unaccounted for a day after a huge chunk of an Alpine...

100 days missing: Parents of Moshe Klinerman, 16, urge police to do more

The parents of a teenage boy who vanished in the north of country counted 100 days  on Monday since his disappearance, as police offered no new...

The Energy Price Roller Coaster

Why Target Russian Oil Revenue?

Does the Middle East really need another NATO?

US President Joe Biden's upcoming visit to the Middle East has generated a lot of discussion in the region, not least because he has said that he...

How Can Making "Friends" With The Menopause Ease Symptoms?

How Israeli songs became integral to Taiwan’s national folk dancing tradition

YILAN, Taiwan (JTA) — It was a cool spring day in Yilan, a town on Taiwan’s northeast coast known for its picturesque rice fields and delicious...

Your child’s privacy is worth more than likes

Israeli parents, like most parents in the world, love to share about their children online. Pictures of when the baby was just born or the first...

Haifa man charged with murdering wife as Knesset to vote on domestic violence bill

A Haifa man was charged with murder for allegedly killing his wife last month after she left him, prosecutors said Monday, hours before the Knesset...

Daily Briefing July 4: PA hands Abu Akleh bullet over to US; ice cream spat ends

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,...

Spike seen in Russian media reports hammering false claim of Ukrainian Nazism

Russian media is pumping out news reports that carry the false claim of eastern Ukraine being a hotbed of Nazism as way to convince the public that...

Protests in US after video shows Akron police killing Black man in hail of gunfire

AKRON, Ohio — Several hundred protesters marched Sunday in Akron, Ohio after the release of body camera footage that showed police fatally shooting...

With hospitals calm and deaths low, expert says Israel’s COVID wave about to recede

Israel’s current coronavirus wave is almost at its peak and the number of new daily infections will soon start to fall, according to one of the...

Journalists beware — telling the truth should carry a health warning 

It was no real surprise when Delhi police officers arrested Indian journalist Mohammed Zubair after he outed the media chief of Narendra Modi's...

Mass surveillance in schools won’t prevent mass shootings

Administrators at Oak Hill High School in Fayette County, West Virginia, are attuned to potential violence. If a student scrawls a threat on the...

Murder charge for alleged drunk driver who hit and killed volunteer police officer

Prosecutors filed a murder indictment Monday against the driver accused of fatally hitting a volunteer police officer last month when he sped...

(POGLED) Slovenci in šport: Kaj ni to krasna tema?

"Ampak na koncu bomo tudi na Touru vsi samo eno. Ultimativna želja vseh nas je, da bo na najvišji stopnički stal Slovenec. Eden ali drugi, samo da...

‘People are still getting killed’: Ukraine rabbis bring refugee prayers to New York

NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of worshipers streamed to a New York City cemetery over the weekend to mark the anniversary of the passing of the...

Apparently aiming at Iran, US Navy offers cash for tips on attacks, weapon smuggling

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The US Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet is starting to offer rewards for information that could help sailors...

17 still missing in Italian Alps following deadly glacier disaster amid heatwave

ROME (AP) — Some 17 people remain unaccounted for a day after a huge chunk of an Alpine glacier broke off and slammed into hikers in northern...

Twice corona within a month

I’ve been very careful not to fall victim to corona. Yet, in the past month, I had the doubtful honor to get the virus twice. Here’s some...

Restoring ties with the Syrian regime puts Hamas between a rock and a hard place

Ten years after leaving Syria in the wake of the violent regime crackdown on the popular revolution against President Bashar al-Assad, the...

Indonesia’s green-energy export ban puts Asean’s power grid plans at risk

The export ban dealt a major blow to the long-awaited regional power-grid project, and threw Singapore’s green-energy plans into doubt.

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Ko gledaš ta svet, kako raste in se razvija, obenem pa pada v regresijo, bi lahko pomislil, da je metafora pravljičarja Hansa Christiana Andersena...

The right to health is unavoidable, unless you’re the Italian Democratic Party

Commentary. After the pandemic, the governance of sustainability cannot be separated from innovation and the need to reform health systems, knowing...

Opinion – Russia’s Choices in Ukraine

The Russian attack on Ukraine continues remorselessly as cities in the Donbas gradually succumb to the invasion forces. Today Severedonetk and...

Israeli lawmakers unite for one evening at wedding for MK Gafni’s granddaughter

With Israeli lawmakers busy waging public battles and forming and breaking alliances ahead of a fifth election in under four years, one occasion on...

Family of slain South African immigrant starts global drive to complete Torah scroll

The family of a South African immigrant killed by a Hamas gunman in November 2021 launched last week a global project to complete a Torah scroll in...

The Right to Choose

What possibly could have inspired the Mishnah to consider using Balaam as a foil to accentuate the ideal qualities of Avraham? All who have these...

The Iran Nuclear Agreement Remains In Limbo

Diplomatic efforts to reboot the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement appear to be at an impasse once again following unsuccessful indirect talks between...

The Balance Between the Body and Soul, Water and Fire

  Fire and water express two opposite elements and very different natures. Yet it is these two factors that are necessary to restore purity to...

Where is honor in “Honor Killings“?

Since ancient Rome, honor killings have been a known phenomenon; the paterfamilias or oldest man in the family had the right to kill his unmarried...

To­day, we need hope. But where to find it?

I get mail. A lot of that mail comes from people like you – readers. Some readers are kind and generous. Others are not. Readers have to make a...

This Fourth of July, I am not ‘proud to be an Amer­i­can’

Every year on July 4, to much fanfare and revelry, the United States marks its 1776 independence from Britain. The date is also an official holiday...

Rethinking the Global Order

Cor­rup­tion: Africa’s un­de­clared pan­dem­ic

On June 21, Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera fired the country’s chief of police, suspended several senior government officials and also took...

The West needs to cod­i­fy Rus­sia sanc­tions be­fore it is too late

This week, the leaders of the G7 first reaffirmed at a summit in Bavaria their “unwavering commitment” to support Ukraine’s fight against Russia...

The UK’s new Bill of Rights is a Tory PR ex­er­cise

Many governments around the world are not enthusiastic about human rights laws. This is because human rights laws mean that there will then be...

Starmer’s anti-strike stance will not car­ry Labour to gov­ern­ment

There is a cost of living crisis in the United Kingdom. Soaring inflation is causing real incomes to fall; companies are using inflation as a...

Walter Block: Abortion is justified as evicting a trespasser from private property – but not as killing

With the present kerfuffle concerning the Supreme Court’s rejection of Roe v. Wade, it might be a good time to consider the philosophical case for...

Fires are destroying Italian green spaces, and it’s becoming more frequent

Report. In 2021, 60% of Sicilian municipalities (out of a total of 235 municipalities) were affected by fires. Italy is burning, releasing massive...

After year-long spat over Holocaust law, Poland says it’s returning envoy to Israel

Poland will send its ambassador-designate to present his letter of credence in the coming days, Polish leader Andrzej Duda told President Isaac...

Sa’ar, Shaked trade barbs over talks with Likud in battle for right-wing voters

In a public political spat on Monday, Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked traded initial barbs in what will surely...

Israel goes through governments like Manchester United goes through managers; both are in decline

Israel may not immediately spring to mind when thinking about England's Manchester United Football Club, yet in terms of inconsistent leadership...

Witnesses say Copenhagen attack suspect went to ‘hunt people,’ lured victims closer

COPENHAGEN — A gunman killed three people and wounded several others in a shooting at a busy Copenhagen mall on Sunday as panicked shoppers said...

3 dead, 3 critically wounded in shooting at Denmark mall

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A gunman opened fire inside a busy shopping mall in the Danish capital Sunday, killing three people and critically...

US returns bullet that killed Abu Akleh to Palestinians following examination

An examination of the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was completed at the US embassy in Jerusalem and the round was...

Lapid formally invites Netanyahu for security meeting, as the two quarrel over issue

Prime Minister Yair Lapid formally invited opposition chief Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday to a routine security briefing, as the two continued to...

6 killed in Italy glacier collapse, day after summit sees record-high temperature

CANAZEI, Italy — Rescuers were to resume the search for survivors on Monday after an avalanche set off by the collapse of the largest glacier in...

Threat of Turkish Military Operations on Syria

In March 2019, Turkey launched military operations against the north-eastern area of Syria under the code name ‘OP-Peace Spring’. In this...