Israeli air, ground forces bombard northern Gaza in heaviest strike yet

The Israel Defense Forces launched a massive bombardment on a large number of targets in the northern Gaza Strip shortly around midnight on...

Rockets continue to pummel Israel’s south after night of intense fighting

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday’s events as they unfold. For a recap of Thursday’s events, click here. Some 160 aircraft flying...

IDF: Overnight bombardment targeted Hamas’s tunnel network under Gaza City

Some 160 aircraft flying simultaneously conducted a massive attack on a network of tunnels dug by the Hamas terror group under the northern Gaza...

ICC may probe current Israel-Gaza round of violence in war crimes investigation

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said the court may look into the current fighting between Israel and Gaza...

Deserting anti-Netanyahu Coalition Talks, Bennett Gave in to Pressure

The horrific sights of the last few days in Acre, Bat Yam and Or Akiva – mob attacks on Arabs and Jews, businesses vandalized and thugs...

European Jews brace, yet again, for antisemitic attacks spurred by Gaza unrest

JTA — As the body count in hostilities between Israelis and Palestinian rises, so do fears that European Jews will be targeted in a phenomenon...

US issues travel advisory for Israel, West Bank and Gaza

The US State Department raised its travel advisory for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday due to ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas...

As chaos strikes Israel and Gaza, the West Bank stays at a simmer — for now

As Gaza, Jerusalem and Israel’s Jewish-Arab cities see widespread violence and unrest, tensions in the West Bank have simmered rather than boiled...

Rihanna draws praise, criticism after solidarity with both Israel and Gaza

JTA — Grammy-winning pop star Rihanna has called for an end to the Israel-Gaza violence, saying her “heart is breaking” in a rare show of...

Newlywed officers will give honeymoon away to couple from the south

It’s a uniquely Israeli fairy godmother tale. Yarona and Liron Weinberg got married on Thursday, May 6. By Tuesday night, rockets were flying and...

IDF says stabbing attack thwarted in West Bank; Palestinian assailant killed

The Israel Defense Forces said Friday that forces shot and killed a Palestinian assailant who attempted to attack a soldier at the entrance to a...

The Right Way to Worry

In war-weary Ashkelon, resilience, experience and concern over one fresh twist

It was a scene Ashkelon has been through too many times to count. And no one is counting, since everyone knows this isn’t the last time Hamas...

The UK’s absurd ban on ‘junk food’ adverts will outlaw products that have lots of fat and sugars. Watch out, breast milk…

We need to talk about the absurdity of a state taking measures that won’t work to solve a problem that is widely over-exaggerated.  Among the...

Israel in crisis: A view from Jerusalem

JERUSALEM — The State of Israel and Israeli society are currently in the throes of a major crisis, one of the gravest ever. For several weeks, we...

Responding to BBC and other “Summaries” on Israel

There is a recent BBC article entitled “Israel-Gaza violence: The conflict explained.” The article attempts to sum up what is currently happening...

A Fifth Column?

Arab Israeli Muslim citizens (yes, they are “Palestinians” too), have been torching synagogues, cars, buses, and buildings in the Jewish Holy...

Where Do We Go From Here?

We haven’t even recovered from COVID-19, and already, we are at war with our neighbors. And this time, it is not only with our neighbors across...

Hong Kong’s ‘wait and see’ vaccine sceptics should look at the struggles of Asia’s Covid-19 success stories

Various reasons have been given for the slow uptake of Covid-19 vaccines in Hong Kong, where only about 15 per cent of residents have taken at...

India Must Impose a One-Time Tax on the Mega Rich to Fund Its Vaccination Program

While countless Indian families have been forced to turn to social media and black-market price gougers for hospital beds, oxygen, and medicines,...

Podcast: A proposed cure for conversion ‘perversion’ in the State of Israel

Welcome to Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. The holiday of Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks, is here and one of the...

Biden’s Foreign Policy Needs a Course Correction

WASHINGTON, DC – As US President Joe Biden contemplates course corrections after his first months in office, one change seems especially worthy...

In posthumously published book, Ruth Bader Ginsburg puts own stamp on her legacy

The late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg turned to her Jewish roots for the title of her final book, published posthumously in March...

The faux anti-imperialism of denying anti-Uighur atrocities

As evidence of the Chinese government’s atrocities against Uighur and other Turkic Muslims continues to mount – satellite images of...

India is gasping for air

“I can give you one vial for Rs 15,000 ($200),” said the man on the phone, after I reassured him that I was not an undercover cop. He was the...

The fable of the Palestinian ‘right of return’

While more than 1200 rockets rained down on southern Israeli towns during the latest violence from Gaza’s Hamas, the terrorist organization’s...

INTERVIEW/ Ex-adviser: Trump prepared U.S. to square off against China

A former senior policy adviser to former President Donald Trump said he believes Trump's great legacy is that he "prepared the U.S. government for...

Shin Bet aiding attempt to clamp down on Jewish-Arab ‘terror’ wracking cities

Israel’s Shin Bet security agency announced Friday it would be assisting in efforts to prevent violence between Jews and Arabs in cities where...

Rockets shot at Israel from Syria after Hezbollah man killed in border fracas

Three missiles were fired at Israel from Syria Friday evening, hours after the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group said one of its members was killed...

At least six Palestinians reported killed as violence spreads to West Bank

At least six West Bank Palestinians were killed by Israeli live fire during violent clashes with the Israel Defense Forces on Friday, the...

Report: Heavy bombing of Hamas ‘metro’ destroyed miles of tunnels, killed dozens

The Israeli Air Force’s massive bombardment of Hamas’s Gaza tunnel network overnight Thursday-Friday destroyed miles of tunnels and killed what...

‘Let them drive Teslas’: Jennifer Granholm turns into a green Marie Antoinette as she lectures Americans on gas shortages

“Let them eat cake,” A phrase infamously attributed to the doomed queen of France, Marie Antoinette, when she was told the peasants had no bread,...

Communal Violence Tears Israel Apart

Synagogues are set alight by arsonists. An elderly Arab man is killed. A Jewish soldier is viciously beaten. A Jewish police officer is shot. A...

Historian Dominique Vidal on 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis: ‘All That… for This?!’

Dominique Vidal, journalist for the Monde diplomatique and historian, author of numerous books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, published with...

Our synagogue does not want your old books

Attention: Our synagogue does not want any more of your old books for our library. I promise that it does not matter what synagogue you attend: I...

Nadim Nashef: Not religious hatred, but poverty and gentrification

Interview. We interviewed Nadim Nashef, exponent of Israeli Arab civil society: ‘In Lod, the population is poorer than in other cities and the...

Political Musings

I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent bouts of Arab and Jewish violence. As a left-wing person, it’s very easy for me to point out the...

For the Love of Ruth

Ruth is a love story no less compelling or passionate that Shir Hashirim. Their expressions of love are different:  Shir Hashirim is a love of...

Is it Possible to Avoid Armed Hostilites in the Middle East?

A number of days have passed since tensions have boiled over in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem,   which came under the Israeli rule following...

Israel under attack: Erdogan vs. Jerusalem!

The world community is watching with horror the new “massacre” that is taking place between Israel and Palestinian terrorist organizations....

Nevihte ter zmes globalnega in lokalnega

V meteorologiji se je že od vsega začetka razmišljalo globalno. Čeprav so si ljudje skušali vreme napovedovati po krajevnih znakih. Ti nam sicer...