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The founder of one of Israel’s most successful tech unicorns declared on Tuesday that he was leaving the country and ceasing to pay taxes in...
A bill calling to end a United Nations probe against Israel has been reintroduced to the US Congress after similar legislation failed to advance...
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut has reportedly demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government freeze all efforts to push...
All families have their secrets, but from reading Letty Cottin Pogrebin‘s new memoir, “Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy,” it would seem...
In 2017, an Israeli right-wing activist published a book that became an overnight mainstay of the conservative Israeli bookshelf. It was a fierce...
Two years have now passed since the Myanmar military stole an election from the people and launched an illegal coup on February 1, 2021. Hours...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is ready to “hear counter offers” to the contentious plan spearheaded by his government’s justice...
Americans subscribed to Amazon Prime Video can now listen to never-before-heard recordings of Adolf Eichmann confessing to his crimes, in his own...
Intentionally, I exclude from this pep talk those already addicted “My parents always warned me to look both ways before crossing a street. But now,...
Pakistan is bandying about failed causes as millions of its citizens are scrambling for wheat flour and pulses, living literally in darkness caused...
NEW YORK — Jewish community leaders in New York City have called to remove plaques honoring Nazi collaborators from a celebrated section of...
In a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Education Minister Yoav Kisch, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich earlier this...
Last November, after a motorcyclist stabbed a pedestrian to death when the latter chided him for almost hitting himself and his spouse as they...
Their stiff body language was unmistakably indicative of their sharp policy differences over the combustible, still unresolved Palestinian issue. As...
The United Nations General Assembly on October 20, 2010 proclaimed the first week of February of each year as an Interfaith Harmony Week for all...
The weekly biblical portion Beshalach, meaning When Pharaoh “sent out” the Israelites from their centuries of enslavement, tells how the exodus...
Evidently, both the Song of the Sea — the “sea” being most likely a mere sea of reed, a narrow passage between the big bitter lake and the...
This week, before we begin, a Torah Puzzler: What connects this week’s reading with Parashat Bereshit, at the very beginning of the Torah? The...
Evropska komisija je za prehrano v Evropski uniji poleg kobilic in hroščev mokarjev odobrila tudi uporabo hišnih čričkov. Črički so odobritev...
There is an unusual ceremony mentioned in the Torah, known as פדיון פטר חמור. It refers to the redemption of a first born male donkey. If...
This past week, our family suffered the passing of our Bobby, Mrs. Blanche Steinmetz, Batsheva Beila bas Moshe a”h. Bobby was a survivor of...
The hero of Truman Capote’s (1924-1984) 1958 novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” has a unique calling card posted on her apartment mailbox....
On Feb. 1 exactly two years ago, Myanmar's military staged a coup that has resulted in the deaths of 2,900 civilians and more than 13,000 people...
All international political alliances (particularly military-political ones) are formed on the basis of shared interests and threats to two or more...
Family and friends seek appropriate commemorations for their deceased loved one. But distributing Bamba [the famous Israeli snack] and Coca Cola to...
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they happen. The head of the Israel Bar Association is planning to resign in the next few...
A couple who did not purchase a ticket for their baby boy left the infant at the check-in counter in Ben Gurion Airport and tried to board a plane...
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said he would advance legislation allowing Israel to impose the death penalty for certain terror...
BERLIN, Germany (JTA) — A federal German cultural organization has returned a 16th-century sculpture to the heirs of its pre-war Jewish owner who...
“It’s a shame you didn’t come earlier, but you came now, and that encourages me,” Leah Rabin told people who gathered near her home after her...
JTA — Han Smith and Jennifer Andreacchi recently made international news for becoming the first queer couple to have a Jewish wedding in Scotland....
Amid soaring inflation and other economic woes, the administration of US President Joe Biden has been obsessed with emphasizing any shred of...
The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic...
In December 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi grew so frustrated with inequality and corruption in the Tunisian government that he set himself on fire in the...
Far-right National Missions Minister Orit Strock criticized US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, a day after he signaled that the White...
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,...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to fly to Paris on Thursday and stay in France through Saturday evening, his office said late Monday for...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused his political rivals of trying to harm the economy with their predictions of investors fleeing...
It can take time to set a story straight, even one as public and long-awaited as the mass immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. More than 40...
JTA — An illustrated book about an inspiring Holocaust survivor and two works of fantasy featuring dybbuks and Jewish demons have won this year’s...
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Tuesday morning that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit sent a “clear message” that the United...
No, my title isn’t meant to be sarcastic or judgmental. I truly mean it! If American Jews are truly concerned about the future of the State of...
Welcome to Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. On Monday, you arrived in Jerusalem to meet with the political leadership of the most...
‘He was a baby. He still couldn’t see.’ How one woman nursed an abandoned squirrel back to health – then had to let him go - by Aeon Video...
Six Israeli restaurants were ranked among the 50 best dining establishments in the Middle East and North Africa. The prestigious list published...
NEW YORK — Former prime minister Naftali Bennett said he will return to politics and urged US Jews to continue supporting Israel despite tensions...