PM’s office: ‘Action will be taken as needed’ after hostages released looking emaciated

A statement released by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Saturday said that the emaciated appearance of three hostages freed by Hamas...

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Toi Staff

Israel frees 183 Palestinian prisoners, including 18 terrorists serving life terms

Israel on Saturday freed 183 Palestinian prisoners, including some serving life sentences for terrorism, following the release of three hostages...

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Toi Staff

When Individual Needs Challenge Relationship Commitment

The importance of timely awareness and renegotiation in relationships.

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Randi Gunther Ph.d

Why Do We Always Take the Bait? And How to Stop

Recognizing emotional triggers helps us engage when it actually matters.

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Ian Macrae

A Boy and Transcendent Thinking

Engaging with transcendent thought may aid brain development in young people.

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Ran D. Anbar M.d

We Can Have an Impact

A Personal Perspective: Giving someone a hand makes life better.

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Wendy Lustbader M.s.w

Stop Taking the Bait When Others Express Discomfort

For healthier conversations in your relationships, don't rush to fill in gaps.

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Leah Marone Lcsw

The Key to Raising Happy Kids

3 approaches to teaching children purpose.

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Jordan Grumet M.d

Reckless, unhinged, ludicrous? It’s hard to find the words for Trump’s latest outburst on the Gaza ‘Riviera’

Over the last fifteen months, I’ve slowly become desensitised to comments and actions that I would once have considered absurd. I’ve seen British...

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Jonathan Purcell

On idle talk and genocide in Gaza

Today, writing feels like planting the proverbial tree in the face of the apocalypse. Decades ago, I started writing to make words mean again. When...

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Adnan Mahmutović

التأثيرات الجيوسياسية بعد انسحاب أمريكا من مجلس حقوق الإنسان

يتوقع العالم القرارات الهجومية منذ تولي دونالد ترامب الرئاسة الأمريكية، التي...

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علي الزوهري

Gaunt and frail, hostages Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami freed after 16 months

Three hostages abducted during the October 7, 2023, attack were released by Hamas on Saturday, with the men looking gaunt and unsteady on their...

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Toi Staff

Herzog: Emaciated hostages ‘a crime against humanity’; victims group: Evokes Holocaust

The three hostages who were freed from Gaza on Saturday morning are suffering from “severe malnutrition” and lost significant body weight during...

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Toi Staff

Daily Briefing Feb. 8: Day 491 – Emaciated, 3 released hostages to now learn families’ fates

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world....

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

4 decades before Trump, ‘Golden Girls’ mulled Greenland for Palestinians

JTA — Is Donald Trump a fan of “The Golden Girls”? The famously progressive women-of-a-certain-age sitcom pilloried him in 1992, so probably...

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Philissa Cramer

Trump revokes Biden’s security clearance in apparent payback move

PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — US President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s revoking former President Joe Biden’s access to government secrets and...

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Darlene Superville

Jewish actor Tony Roberts, who often starred in Woody Allen movies, dies at 85

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in both plays and musicals and who appeared in several...

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Mark Kennedy

What to Do When Your Worries Feel Imminent

How can you deal with worry when your fears are realistic?

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Jennifer Gerlach Lcsw

The Silent Sexual Revolution

Technology's increasing, yet overlooked impact on intimacy.

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Marianne Brandon Ph.d

Yalta 1945 – Between Cooperation and Rivalry: What Lessons for Today’s World Order? Part 2

As global tensions mount, is a new Yalta-style agreement within reach? This second part of the article examines why great power cooperation remains...

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Ricardo Martins

Trump’s ‘innovations’ are antagonising many Americans and US allies

The US press, loyal to the Democratic Party, underlined that the first executive orders and steps of the 47th US President caused shock in the US...

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Vladimir Mashin

From militants to politicians: Can Hamas follow Syria’s Islamist reinvention?

Since last December, many feared the repercussions of the power vacuum left by the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime. Regionally and...

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Sara El Khatib

North Korean soldiers: the future protectors of China’s belt and road?

Far from the caricatures of malnourished soldiers distracted by online pornography, these troops have shown remarkable combat proficiency and...

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Alessandro Arduino

Poll: 70% of Israelis support second phase of hostage-ceasefire deal

Seventy percent of the Israeli public is in favor of continuing to the second phase of the hostage release and ceasefire deal with Hamas, according...

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Toi Staff

Slain Hamas deputy chief Marwan Issa given Gaza burial

Hundreds of Hamas operatives and onlookers gathered in the Gaza Strip’s Bureij camp on Friday for the funeral of Marwan Issa, the slain deputy...

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Agencies

US State Department informs Congress of $7.4 billion arms sale to Israel

The US State Department on Friday formally told Congress that it plans to sell more than $7.4 billion in weapons to Israel, including thousands of...

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Agencies

The Political Decision That Health Matters

On centering health as a value that informs politics, in divided times.

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Sandro Galea M.d

The Powerful Alchemy of Relationship Synergy

It's the relationship you always wanted, but didn't have the words to describe.

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Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. Ph.d

Is the Fear of Death Behind Your Health Anxiety?

Tackling the fear of death can work wonders for your health anxiety.

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Brittney Chesworth Ph.d

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi was reportedly unaware his wife, daughters were killed on Oct. 7

Released hostage Eli Sharabi’s first request when he was back in Israel was to see his family, because he was unaware that his wife and two...

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Toi Staff

Family of freed hostage Keith Siegel says there were ‘moments when he lost all hope’

After 484 days in Hamas captivity, Keith Siegel’s first question as he boarded the helicopter back home was whether his mother was still alive....

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Toi Staff

5 Thai hostages released from hospital, 10 days after they were freed by Hamas

The five Thai hostages who were released by Gazan terrorists last month were discharged from the hospital on Saturday after undergoing 10 days of...

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Toi Staff

Almog, 3, to his dad, freed hostage Or Levy: ‘It took you a long time to come back’

After their release from Hamas captivity in Gaza, freed hostages Or Levy, Eli Sharabi and Ohad Ben Ami were reunited with their families on...

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Toi Staff

IDF says it carried out airstrike on Hamas arms depot near Damascus

Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck a weapons depot belonging to the Hamas terror group near the Syrian town of Deir Ali, south of the capital...

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Emanuel Fabian

Lebanon forms first government since 2022; Hezbollah to lack ‘blocking third’ veto

Lebanon on Saturday formed its first full-fledged government since 2022, following unusually direct US intervention in the process and in a step...

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Agencies

Trump orders cut to funding for South Africa over land policy, ICJ case against Israel

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on Friday, citing disapproval...

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