Indonesia still hopes to host U-20 World Cup after protests over hosting Israel

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian President Joko Widodo said Tuesday he was sending the country’s soccer association chief for talks with FIFA about...

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Shaun Tandon

Right-wing activists accost, threaten ‘leftist’ drivers at 2 kibbutz entrances

Far-right activists on Monday accosted and threatened drivers at the entrances to two kibbutz communities due to their belief that residents oppose...

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Toi Staff

Daily Briefing March 29: Biden and Netanyahu at odds, deepening US-Israel discord

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,...

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Toi Staff

WATCH: Netanyahu tells US Democracy summit that alliance with US is unshakable

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they occur. A day after being sworn in as a minister, Likud MK David Amsalem resigns...

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Toi Staff

Facing strong opposition, coalition puts off bill to let PM keep gifted money

The coalition on Wednesday postponed work on a bill that would allow public servants to keep money gifted to them for the purpose of covering...

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Carrie Keller-Lynn

Patriots owner Robert Kraft launches campaign to raise awareness of antisemitism

AP — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft faced the camera during a video call, pointing to a small, sky-blue lapel pin on his blazer. The pin...

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Deepa Bharath

Morocco increasingly struggles to balance Israel ties with support for Palestinians

RABAT, Morocco — Morocco is struggling to balance its alliance with Israel with support for the domestically popular Palestinian cause, an...

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Melanie Lidman

Netanyahu says alliance with US ‘unshakable’ after overhaul bust-up with Biden

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israel’s alliance with the United States is “unshakable” Wednesday, shaking off...

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Jacob Magid

The Israeli Center-left Must Be Wary of Soldiers' 'Spontaneous Putsch'

The fear of the disintegration of the reserves – and the consequences for the regular army and the military’s capabilities overall – are...

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Yagil Levy

From Division to Dialogue: Lessons from Passover

In an era marked by division and uncertainty within the Jewish community, Passover assumes a pivotal role in uniting people across the diaspora and...

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Isaac Choua

How best not to sell your chametz

While the dangers of the Internet and the digital age have been widely written about over the years, the blessings that the internet offers to the...

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David Fine

China must immediately release detained Japanese citizen

Opaque interpretation of law means anybody can be arrested anytime

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Do You Have a Local Urgent Care Devoted to Treating Migraine?

Finding emergency migraine treatment is difficult but worth exploring.

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Kathleen O’Shea

Fernández and Biden to meet in Oval Office this afternoon

President Alberto Fernández and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden will hold a bilateral meeting today in the White House’s Oval Office at 2.40 p.m....

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هل العلمانية تمنع لعنة العقد الثامن؟

ما يحدث في إسرائيل الآن أمر غير مسبوق، فلأول مرة يظهر المجتمع العلماني الإسرائيلي...

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Ben Gvir reportedly set to detail plan for billion-shekel, 1,800-man national guard

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir plans to detail elements of his proposal to create a new security force, which may include a...

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Toi Staff

Israel launches new Ofek-13 spy satellite into orbit

The military successfully launched the “Ofek-13” spy satellite into space early Wednesday morning, the Defense Ministry said. The satellite,...

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Toi Staff

Likud, far-right scorn Biden criticism; one MK says Israel can defend itself alone

Members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition reacted furiously Wednesday morning to US President Joe Biden’s extraordinary criticism...

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Michael Bachner

Three Months of Madness: What a Fully Right-wing Government Has Done to Israel

It has been three months of madness, and nausea, and laughter, and utter astonishment, and dread, and amusement. Dear Lord, where did all this come...

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B. Michael

Explosive thrown at IDF troops near West Bank border, causing no injuries

An attacker threw an explosive at Israeli troops near the West Bank border early Wednesday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said. The explosive...

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Toi Staff

Palestinian teachers’ strike over wages grows, reflecting deep crisis in governance

AL-AZZA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — In schools across the world, children are halfway into their second semester. But in a Palestinian refugee camp...

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Agencies

US backs special tribunal on Russian ‘aggression’ against Ukraine

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Tuesday threw support behind a special international tribunal to try Russia for...

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Shaun Tandon

To Reconstruct Turkey, Rebuild Its Democracy

BOSTON – The devastating earthquakes that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey (and at least 7,000 in northern Syria) in February have...

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Daron Acemoglu

The Malady of Corruption: Is It Contagious or Inherited?

Psychologists find that you can be infected by corruption by being around it.

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Debbie Peterson

How the grandmothers of disappeared children drove a revolution in genetics

“Martín, I am your grandmother,” 89-year-old Delia Giovanola, one of the founders of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, said down the phone. It was...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Facundo Iglesia

Levin vows to pass overhaul when Knesset resumes, amplifying doubts over dialogue

Justice Minister Yariv Levin said Wednesday he would resume efforts to pass the hard-right coalition’s judicial overhaul after the Knesset’s...

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Toi Staff

Leading NY Jewish security organizations form supergroup to coordinate activities

New York Jewish Week via JTA — After police officers arrested two armed men at Penn Station last November and accused them of planning to attack...

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Jacob Henry

Achim Anachnu – We Are Brothers

My dear brothers, Please recite this prayer for unity. May it be Your will our Lord and the Lord of our forefathers That You have mercy upon us...

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Judah Lifschitz

Where To Now? A Marathon With No Known Finish Line

As the streets erupt, the Inciter-in-Chief addresses the nation, posing as the responsible adult, lecturing us about unity and love over division....

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Shulamit S. Magnus

Xi’s the Boss

MOSCOW – Despite their shared communist ideology, China and the Soviet Union were hardly close friends and committed partners during the Cold...

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Nina L. Khrushcheva

Banco digital de Banorte apunta llegar a tres millones de clientes

Nueva York. El mexicano Grupo Financiero Banorte se prepara para lanzar un banco digital a finales de este año o principios de 2024, con el que...

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América Economía

Ingresos de Pemex caen 21,5% en febrero

El volumen de exportación de crudo de Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) hiló cinco meses por debajo del millón de barriles diarios en promedio durante...

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América Economía

Why I Finally Started Applying Gratitude Research to My Life

I research gratitude for a living, but don't always live gratefully.

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Amie M. Gordon

UK Labour formally bans Corbyn from running as a candidate in elections

The UK Labour party on Tuesday formally banned past leader MK Jeremy Corbyn from running as a candidate of the party in the next elections. Corbyn,...

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Toi Staff

Ancient jaws: Recently found 6,000-year-old copper fishhook was likely for sharks

Shark was on the menu in Israel more than 6,000 years ago, archaeologists believe, after they uncovered one of the oldest known copper fishhooks in...

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Melanie Lidman

As crisis engulfs ties with US, an opportunity emerges… if only PM would take it

An earlier version of this Editor’s Note was sent out in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive...

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David Horovitz

The Latter Day Solomon’s Speech

What he said is in regular print. What he shouldn’t have said is in yellow in parentheses. What he should have said is in Italics. Note:...

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Jonathan Zausmer

The dark, Islamophobic world of a UAE 'dirty smear campaign'

A "smear campaign" alleged to be orchestrated by the United Arab Emirates and executed through a Geneva-based private intelligence firm has...

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Nasim Ahmed

Greece suspects fixer in Iran paid terror suspects to target Jewish site

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities said police were continuing searches in Athens and other parts of the country Wednesday following the...

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Derek Gatopoulos

‘Vision’ of UK-Israel Ties Is Blind to the Occupation

Despite the worrisome trajectory of Netanyahu’s ultraright coalition, the UK lays out a roadmap for developing bilateral ties based on expedient...

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Susie Becher

Agatha Christie novels edited to remove offensive references to Jews

JTA — The HarperCollins publishing company has revised multiple novels by the famed British mystery writer Agatha Christie to remove references...

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Gabe Friedman

When Israel's Far-right Politicians Call, Their Racist Soccer Thugs Come Running

The violence of La Familia, the racist hooligan fan club of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team, at Monday's right-wing demonstration in Jerusalem...

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Sophia Solomon

Darkening Waters, Gathering Storm: Sino-Indian Water War on the Brahmaputra River

As the world faces the growing threat of water scarcity, policymakers and scholars are growing increasingly concerned about the potential for...

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Kosher Dekal aims to stick the landing one year after its Passover product fail

New York Jewish Week — Last year, a company that advertised a Passover-friendly counter lining became a household name — but for the wrong...

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Jacob Henry

Democracy in Iraq appears to be taking its terminal breath

We are witnessing another decline in Iraq. The Economist Intelligence Unit's annual Democracy Index indicates another low point, with Iraq falling...

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Haifa Zangana

Changing environment is compelling China to raise its global profile

Ukraine peace plan is a sign of Beijing's wide-ranging interests

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Jacques Attali

Seven dead and 10,000 infected in dengue outbreak

At least seven people in Argentina have died from dengue this year. With 9,388 cases, this is the second biggest outbreak of the disease since the...

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How did disaster happen so quickly?

The speed and force of the coalition’s assault on Israel’s democracy has stunned many liberal Israelis. It has revealed how fragile the social...

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