Israel’s incredible shrinking car heads to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

City Transformer, the Israeli company behind a car that can shrink in size to squeeze into parking spots, announced Sunday that it is heading to...

Haredi passengers said to refuse to wear masks on flight from New York to Israel

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox passengers refused to wear face masks throughout a United Airlines flight from New York to Israel that landed last week,...

Israel's apartheid regime is the work of a callous rogue state

Covid-19 can strike anywhere and anyone. We are all vulnerable, regardless of faith, nationality, ethnicity or culture. World leaders, politicians,...

How COVID-19 has changed the rules of the game in the aid sector

Optimism bias is the belief that the future will be better, much better, than the past or present. And most of us display this bias. That is not a...

Republicans signal growing opposition to impeaching, convicting Trump

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republican lawmakers signaled Sunday that Democrats will have a fight on their hands to secure the conviction of Donald Trump...

As Biden embraces Trump’s America-first protectionism, foreign investors give up on the US and bet big on China. Power has shifted

Donald Trump is gone, but many aspects of his legacy are here to stay. On trade, absolutely it seems. Biden’s team members have pledged a  “new...

An 80-year search for ‘the student K,’ murderer of Jewish babies

This is a story about a Nazi war crimes investigation that began in 1945 and continued intermittently until 2021. It concerns the brutal murder of...

This is not my Judaism!

Today, I am ashamed to be a religious Jew. I see and hear what is happening in the Haredi neighborhoods, the violence that amounts almost to a...

Mapping out new strategy

Allies should work closely over North Korea The United States has vowed to map out a "new strategy" for the denuclearization of North Korea in...

Suga should listen to others, rally everyone to fight pandemic

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s blunt Diet responses, reiterating the same old explanations, have failed to convey any determination or enthusiasm...

Trade imbalance with Japan

It's imperative to encourage companies to invest more in R&D South Korea's trade deficit with Japan amounted to $20.84 billion last year, up from...

Bank of Israel criticizes Netanyahu’s proposed cash handouts to Israelis

The Bank of Israel on Monday criticized an economic stimulus plan presented by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a day earlier, which would include...

Penalizing people who refuse to be hospitalized for virus is absurd

Everything that happens in Lewis Carroll’s novel “Through the Looking-Glass” is absurd as it is unfolding in the topsy-turvy world of a mirror....

Navalny vs. Putin is an epic and existential battle

Seen from the outside, developments since Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny boarded a Moscow-bound plane in Berlin on Jan. 17 resemble the...

Strategic engagement with N. Korea

By Tong Kim The Biden administration is making it clear that it will review its policy toward North Korea in consultation with allies including...

Joe Biden gave speech America needed

By Michael Waldman Joe Biden gave the speech we needed after the trauma of an insurrectionist attack on the Capitol building before which he stood....

Biden’s Vaccine Challenge

MILAN – US President Joe Biden’s plan for ending the COVID-19 pandemic and hastening the economic recovery is well designed and comprehensive,...

Workable words

By Casey Lartigue, Jr. "Go big or go home" is a saying meant to challenge people to do bigger things, but are there other options? It seems if you...

Rising distrust amid the pandemic

By Mehmet Fatih Oztarsu The emergence of COVID-19 has proven to be a balance-changer in the 21st global system. The deadly situation is reminiscent...

Allies need closer cooperation in diverse areas

The Korea Times will start publishing a "Letter to President Biden" series from today. The series is aimed at conveying policy recommendations in...

Can America be trusted again?

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM ― A sigh of relief swept across Europe when it became clear that Joe Biden would replace Donald Trump in the White House....

Japan and SARS-CoV-2

Exactly one year ago, the SARS-CoV-2 factor, like a typhoon that suddenly came out of nowhere, burst into the international policy space, taking...

The Labor Party – no more

The Labor Party chose today a new leader, Merav Michaeli Mk, so first of all congratulations. Nothing to do with my political sympathies, but when...

We are all essential (Daf Yomi Pesachim 65)

“How could they walk in blood up to their ankles?” Embed from Getty Images If there has been any doubt until now that the scene at the temple...

Campus Racial Thoughtcrimes

As the Maoist-like purges on university campuses continue, yet another faculty member has suffered the consequences of speaking words that may not...

The young woman of Prague: A short story

Embed from Getty Images Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary 5 Shevat 5662 of the Hebrew calendar, corresponding to 13 January 1902 of the...

The anti-Semitism in protests you don’t notice

2021 has just begun the world is already going crazy. We all witnessed what occurred in Capitol Hill and were agitated. That is not the first...

Trump’s Middle East peace policy, ‘Erratic’ or ‘Clever’?

My readers expect the truth from me and I will write only the truth and the whole truth. Too bad for those who want propaganda. I never understand...

Las protestas en Perú en perspectiva comparada

Las protestas contra el gobierno de Manuel Merino en Perú guardan múltiples paralelos con las que tuvieron lugar en otros países. Uno primero...

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An Analysis of the Act of Domestic Terror That Took Place at the Capitol

When people turned on their TV sets during the afternoon on January 6th, 2021, they expected to see every routine session of Congress taking place....

U.S. progressives discover patriotism

Going into Election Day last November, less than three months ago, the image of America in the eyes of the country’s progressives, its...

It’s the hypocrisy, stupid!

Not unlike the coronavirus, the BDS movement tends to come in waves. It’s always being transmitted from person to person, bubbling just below the...

The problem with prediction

The machine they built is hungry. As far back as 2016, Facebook’s engineers could brag that their creation ‘ingests trillions of data points every...

A New Tone in US-China Relations?

HONG KONG – Donald Trump has left the White House, but Trumpism has not left US politics. With Joe Biden as America’s president, the world hopes...

Egypt's Arctic Spring

Demonstrators who joined the millions of people in downtown Cairo a decade ago, 25 January 2011, navigated the shifting sands of the regime's...

Responsibility for the Riots Lies With Netanyahu

Bring the COVID Criminal to Justice

Palestinian worker said to die from heart attack after being tear gassed by IDF

A Palestinian worker died of a sudden heart attack on Monday after Israeli forces fired tear gas towards him while he attempted to illegally cross...

Rubio: Ivanka Trump will face ‘tough race’ if she wants to be Florida senator

Republican Senator for Florida Marco Rubio on Sunday declined to speculate on rumors that former US president Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka,...

Greece, Turkey open first talks since 2016 to resolve explosive maritime dispute

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Greece and Turkey bowed to European Union and NATO pressure on Monday and opened the first direct talks in nearly five...

29-year-old composer releases ‘Kaddish’ for survivor grandfather on top label

Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad’s new work, “Kaddish,” begins with an amorphous rumble. To this writer, the deep tones were reminiscent of...

My digital death: Who will be my executor?

I trust you’ve written your will, disbursing worldly goods to family members and charities. But what have you left to the digital world? And who...

Is the pandemic an opportunity to shift from oil to greener energy?

It is crucial to an understanding of the global consequences of the coronavirus pandemic to consider the transition to alternative energy sources...

Shovavim Today: Getting in Touch with Reality

Shomer. It’s one of those words you hear a lot in high school, as a sort of indication of either how self-righteous or lame you are, or on the...

Kosher Movies: Soul

My daughter, Chani, sent the family the following WhatsApp message: “I thought 2020 would be the year I got everything I wanted. Now I know 2020...

Last acre

At the beginning of the 20th century, a number of impoverished Britons set out in search of their own Arcadia. They found it, for a time, in poorly...

Egypt’s suicidal state

After a turbulent decade of revolution and counterrevolution, Egypt appears to have gone 360 degrees back to entrenched and brutal military...

Myanmar's Rakhine problem is a domestic and international challenge

National leaders must end toxic rivalry to sustain cease-fire with Arakan Army

China-Australia clash may be more about Beijing’s economic fears than a coronavirus probe

FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINAWhen Britain first started to trade with China, neither nation knew much about the other. Britain had just started to...