How Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia-first nationalism led to civil war

Earlier this month, a simmering political and ideological conflict between Ethiopia’s federal government and the northern region of Tigray...

Abe’s lies about banquet funds finally come back to haunt him

We now know that a sitting prime minister repeatedly lied in the Diet and elsewhere, blatantly ignoring the legislature’s supervisory function...

ToI editorial panel sounds off on the US elections and what they mean for Israel

This Thanksgiving week, The Times of Israel’s founding editor David Horovitz, senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur, and US correspondent Jacob Magid...

Raje o ugledu kot o nacionalnem interesu

Predsednika vlade obtožujejo, da uničuje ugled Slovenije v svetu. Najprej je čestital Trumpu za zmago na volitvah. Res je, to je bilo...

Why the vaccine is a common good

Commentary. The issue of ‘common good’ poses a fundamental problem that must be positioned clearly, so that we do not miss this opportunity to...

Pompeo’s ‘Made in Israel’ cannot also be labelled ‘Sold as Seen’

The term ‘slash and burn’ seems like the most accurate description of the purpose and impact of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to...

Biden, Durable Peace Requires Integrating Hawkish Religious Leaders

As President-Elect Biden’s team prepares to craft a policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict it should make a strong effort to consult with...

(POGLED) Sojenje Rudiju Rizmanu ali zakaj že imamo Pen

Član upravnega odbora slovenskega Pena in podpredsednik mednarodnega Pena Boris A. Novak je ob sojenju Rudiju Rizmanu pripravil protestno izjavo....

Border Police cop injured in alleged car-ramming by settler at extremist outpost

A Border Police officer was lightly injured early Wednesday when a resident of the hardline settlement of Yitzhar hit him while trying to force his...

Iran’s parliament demands construction of heavy water reactor

Iran’s parliament on Tuesday passed a bill requiring the country’s atomic agency to build a new heavy water reactor and operate a metal uranium...

Active coronavirus cases surge back over 9,000

The number of active coronavirus cases in Israel has risen to 9,064, a level not seen in nearly three weeks, according to Health Ministry figures...

Yamina will support opposition’s proposal to disband Knesset, MK Shaked says

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s developments as they unfold. Iran has warned against “all interference” by Sweden after...

America’s Fifth Column

LONDON – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the 1970s was a product of the Cold War standoff between the liberal...

Three Israelis indicted for assaulting Palestinians during olive harvest

Three Israelis were charged last week with assaulting Palestinians close to the village of Ni’lin in the West Bank during the annual olive...

Israel innovation chief says work-from-home could pose threat to tech ecosystem

The recent shift toward working from home could threaten the viability of Israel’s tech ecosystem, warned the head of the agency in charge of...

Erdoğan’s man making sales pitches in Cairo and Paris

Since it was revealed that Fayez al-Sarraj, who is the head of the Presidential Council of Libya and who had reluctantly signed critical agreements...

Defense Ministry rejects Hebron shooter’s appeal for disability status

The Defense Ministry on Tuesday rejected the request of a former Israeli soldier convicted for killing an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in...

Liberman: Netanyahu endangering state by keeping security matters to himself

MK Avigdor Liberman, the leader of the opposition Yisrael Beytenu party, criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his recent secret trip to...

America’s Captured Courts

WASHINGTON, DC – Any objective observer of the American political system must wonder why, when the United States confronts the world’s highest...

Thanksgiving – A Jewish American Holiday

On Thursday, November 28, 2013, there was a lot of discussion about the connection between Thanksgiving and Hanukkah because the two holidays...

Israel demands UN Security Council action against Iranian presence in Syria

Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan on Tuesday night demanded that the Security Council take action against Iranian military entrenchment in...

Ancient rock etchings on remote Negev plateau evoke the Bible, draw new interest

Superimposed onto the barren landscape of the Negev desert is a sweeping canvas of human history, culture and worship — if you know where to look....

Shame on You, Sotheby’s

Israel Should Normalize Ties With Qatar Too

Ties with Qatar would not necessarily be at the expense of Israeli relations with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia

Biden taps Palestinian-American as deputy legislative director

US President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday that he had appointed Palestinian-American Reema Dodin to serve as White House deputy legislative...

CP Group takeover of Tesco's Thai unit raises alarming questions

Regulator's green light for hypermarket deal damages competitiveness

Columbus Jewish couple say they were victims of anti-Semitic attack by neighbor

JTA — A Jewish couple in Columbus, Ohio say their neighbor yelled anti-Semitic threats at them and threw rocks through their window on the day...

With school out for months, hundreds of thousands of kids face food insecurity

With most schools shut for months due to the coronavirus, hundreds of thousands of needy school-age children have not been getting the hot meals...

A fourth election within two years is now a certainty

Sometimes it’s important to state the obvious: The 35th Government of the State of Israel was a halting, limping mess. It couldn’t pass a state...

Driver shot during suspected ramming attempt near Jerusalem

A man apparently tried to ram his car into border guards at a checkpoint outside of Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon, police said. “An apparent...

A Triumph of German Innovation and Immigration

MUNICH – The world took note when the German start-up BioNTech announced its breakthrough in the development of a new type of vaccine to combat...

Keeping the Global Focus on Low-Income Countries

WASHINGTON, DC/THE HAGUE – Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy is suffering its sharpest decline since the Great Depression. But...

US-Russia naval game of chicken off Vladivostok is more dangerous than it seems

On Tuesday, November 24, Vladivostok, the main city of the Russian Far East, was still coping with the aftermath of a cataclysmic ice storm that...

The rubble revealed the inept management of the ruling class

Reportage. Together with the fear, suffering and pain, as one crossed those mountains and entered those very poor lands, another...

The story of a man who lost everything

Report. Mario Porreca was 30 years old on the night of the earthquake and lived in Castelnuovo with his wife and three children. Forty years later,...

End of Covid mortgage holiday – will housing prices fall?

Out of the million Israelis furloughed or fired after Covid-19 took over our lives in March 2020, almost two hundred thousand households took...

Evolución

Charles Darwin ya lo decía. Las especies que sobreviven no son las más fuertes, sino aquellas que se adaptan o evolucionan a los cambios de su...

Knesset advances bills to crack down on violence against women

The Knesset gave an initial go-ahead to two bills aimed at providing support for victims of domestic violence Wednesday, as the world marked the...

Portrait Of An Israeli Conscientious Objector

Molly Stuart’s 75-minute documentary, Objector, kicks off the ninth annual Human Rights Film Festival in Toronto, which runs online from December...

The Republicans are crippling Israel’s indispensable ally

Many Israelis have grown accustomed to admiring the US Republican party, out of gratitude toward what is perceived in this country as the...

The long path to Israeli-Saudi normalization

Even if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s secret visit to Saudi Arabia with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo does not lead in the short-term to...

Unity without Uniformity: Merging Many Stones into One (Parshat Vayetze)

TRANSCRIPTION The book of Bereishiet is known as the book of Yetzira, the Book of Creation. It begins with a focus on the physical creation of the...

This Year We Need Thanksgiving More Than Ever

As Thanksgiving approaches, many Americans are experiencing the dilemma that we Jews experienced this past Pesach, Rosh Hashana and Sukkot. And...

Turkeys and Gd

הודו לֹה’ כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו Praise Gd for Gd is good; Gd’s loving-kindness is everlasting. I  went to get my monthly...

A visit to the mall after World War III

They say that after every world war, there is a major revolution. After World War I, the great empires disappeared, new borders were drawn across...

A very odd Thanksgiving

As it does every year, Thanksgiving is coming, but it’s so very different this year. Normally, I know from reading, many families have to gird...

Vayetze: Misunderstanding God

 The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the...

Thanks to you, we can cope with increased demand

Thirty years ago, The Big C was barely ever called by its full name but that narrative changed when my mother Frances Winegarten z”l together...

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Should Be Everyday

Since 1981, women’s rights activists have been observing November 25 as a day against gender-based violence. The date was selected to honor the...

Biden Must Not Give in to North Korea’s Demand for Early Sanctions Relief

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden suggested during his campaign that he will engage in “principled diplomacy” with North Korea to achieve...