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Military closes area around Gaza ahead of Likud-backed settler march into Strip

Military closes area around Gaza ahead of Likud-backed settler march into Strip

Ben Gvir, Smotrich, several other MKs expected to join Nachala-led march calling for Jewish settlement in Strip, as IDF says it will thwart any...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

US launches 8th night of strikes on Iran to ‘punish’ IRGC for deadly Jordan attack

US launches 8th night of strikes on Iran to ‘punish’ IRGC for deadly Jordan attack

Iran reports strikes in south and in Strait of Hormuz; US bases in Kuwait come under fire, UAE threatened; Washington warns Iran-backed groups might...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Is This my Lost Home?

Is This my Lost Home?

In 1916 my father, Manfred Vanson (van Son) was born in Germany, in the port city of Hamburg. His great-grandfather had moved there in 1823 from...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

A Jewish Name on a Borneo Waterfront

A Jewish Name on a Borneo Waterfront

I stood at Jesselton Point last week watching people queue for speedboats to the islands. The wind carried the smell of petrol across the harbor as...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Bernstein

More or Less

The Torah tells us not to add to or subtract from the Torah. We are to take the Torah as G-d gave it, not less and not more. If G-d told us to hang...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lazer Gurkow

Settlers accused of burning, vandalizing West Bank mosque in overnight attack

Settlers accused of burning, vandalizing West Bank mosque in overnight attack

Pictures from scene show Star of David graffitied on wall, police investigating incident that caused damage to house of prayer and car in South Hebron...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Vietnam’s economic miracle has a made-elsewhere problem

By most economic measures, Vietnam had a spectacular 2025. The economy grew 8.02 per cent, its fastest pace since 2011, even as a 20 per cent US...

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South China Morning Post

Donald Low

The Bloody Trail of the "Civilizers": The West's Colonial Legacy Is Drowning Africa Today

The Bloody Trail of the

The Bloody Trail of the “Civilizers”: The West’s Colonial Legacy Is Drowning Africa Today The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is...

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New Eastern Outlook

Mohammed Ibn Faisal Al-Rashid

The Discomforts of Home

 “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”      Jane Austen “All the comforts of home!”  Travel brochure Home can be...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Avi Rockoff

My Birthday with the IDF in Lebanon: A Reflection on Service and Sacrifice

My Birthday with the IDF in Lebanon: A Reflection on Service and Sacrifice

As I prepare to celebrate my 58th birthday with the men and women of my PALMAR Combat Medical extraction unit in the north of Israel, I find myself...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tuvia Book

UK founder of Muslims Against Antisemitism challenges coreligionists to fight rising hate

UK founder of Muslims Against Antisemitism challenges coreligionists to fight rising hate

Many British Muslim leaders privately denounce the Jew-hatred permeating the country and some of its institutions. Fiyaz Mughal is asking them to...

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The Times of Israel

Robert Philpot

With Ben Gvir’s backing, prison guards quietly branding domestic criminals as terrorists

With Ben Gvir’s backing, prison guards quietly branding domestic criminals as terrorists

Public defenders alarmed over uptick in Arab inmates being moved to squalid security wings where they serve alongside terror prisoners, based on...

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

Network Before Weapons

Network Before Weapons

An Iranian opposition supporter inside Iran recently asked me to remove every reference to Shervin Hajipour and Toomaj Salehi from one of my articles....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tzvi Arieli

Proper Judges

It is interesting to note that in Moshe Rabbeinu’s final address to the nation, he placed the subject of proper judges among the first topics...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

The Hidden Reconstruction Problem in Government and Military AI Systems

The Hidden Reconstruction Problem in Government and Military AI Systems

Long before ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini became public-facing products, governments were using artificial intelligence to search data, classify images,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

The number one health issue in Palestine is the Israeli occupation

The number one health issue in Palestine is the Israeli occupation

Across Palestine, the cumulative effect of Israel’s actions on the Palestinian population since October 7, 2023, is clear: They have eroded the...

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Al Jazeera

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim

Jews Never Quit

Jews Never Quit

“I would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.” With those words, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani reignited a painful reality for many Jews around the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Andy Blumenthal

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup–Day 36

One of the most inconsequential meetings of the English and the French turned out to be one of the most entertaining ever.  Not quite as entertaining...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Doug Klein

Negotiation Geometry: What the Newton–Raphson Method Tells Us about Geopolitics

Diplomats do not think of themselves as numerical analysts. Yet every round of shuttle diplomacy, every incremental concession extracted at a Geneva...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

عهد سبق زمنه

قبل خمسة وخمسين عاما، وتحديدا في الثامن عشر من يوليو/تموز 1971، اجتمع حكام دولة...

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العين الإخبارية

أحمد سعيد العلوي

عهد الاتحاد.. اليوم الذي تحول فيه الحلم إلى وطن

اللحظات العظيمة في تاريخ الأمم ليست مجرد تواريخ مدونة في الكتب، بل هي قرارات جريئة...

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العين الإخبارية

عيسى الكعبي

US launches new airstrikes on Iran for eighth night in a row after soldiers killed in Jordan

US launches new airstrikes on Iran for eighth night in a row after soldiers killed in Jordan

Washington issues Worldwide Caution alert amid concern that Iran will target Americans overseas * Palestinians report settler arson attack on mosque...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

AIPAC stops taking donations for House Democrats who voted to cut military aid to Israel

AIPAC stops taking donations for House Democrats who voted to cut military aid to Israel

Website of pro-Israel lobby group no longer features option to donate to 15 Democrats who it previously endorsed for reelection after they voted in...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Palestinian teen soccer player succumbs to wounds said sustained in clash with settlers

Palestinian teen soccer player succumbs to wounds said sustained in clash with settlers

17-year-old Fadi Hamdallah al-Nassan, a player on the Palestinian national youth team, was reportedly shot in the thigh during an Israeli settler...

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The Times of Israel

Afp

Ten goal thriller: England beats France 6-4 to win World Cup’s third place play-off

Ten goal thriller: England beats France 6-4 to win World Cup’s third place play-off

Would-be marginal encounter between two teams that failed to make it to the final becomes the highest-scoring World Cup game since 1982

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Sun King

The most heavily armed nation on earth is at war, and its supreme commander has lately been obsessed with a tally. According to The Washington Post,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gil Mildar

Monotheistic Pilgrimage: Ka’bah Bait Al-Muqaddas Jerusalem Beit HaMiqdash

The first Gobekli Tepe Temple appears to have been deliberately filled in about 10,000 years ago. We have no knowledge of why this earliest major...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Allen S. Maller

Any Ground Operation in Iran Costs Trump. Except One.

Any Ground Operation in Iran Costs Trump. Except One.

He was forty-one and promoting a book on deals when The Guardian asked him about Iran. Kharg Island, he replied. He would do a number on it. If they...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Celeo Ramirez

The Sumud Flotilla’s new mission: casting Morocco as the Israel of Africa

The Sumud Flotilla’s new mission: casting Morocco as the Israel of Africa

On July 14, the Global Sumud Flotilla announced that it would release a 14-minute documentary titled “One Struggle: Western Sahara” on July 16....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Adil Faouzi

After J.D. Vance and 103 Democrats: Stay in Your Party. Fight for Israel There!

Why pro-Israel Democrats and Republicans should use the trust influence and relationships they have built within their own parties rather than...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mitch Mallett

Mamdani’s Threat to Arrest Netanyahu Isn’t the Real Danger

Mamdani’s Threat to Arrest Netanyahu Isn’t the Real Danger

Zohran Mamdani says Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested if he comes to New York for the United Nations General Assembly in September. Most people...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Judaism Dawn to Dusk in Hidalgo County, Texas

Whenever I travel, I visit Jewish sites, sometimes as a tourist as in Budapest and Vienna, other times as a participant in services. The latter...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

van Wallach

Kairos Palestine

Last week, the Church of England’s General Synod voted to hear the “Kairos Palestine” document that had been presented to them “as heartfelt...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Boyden

The Lithuanian Ratline to Los Angeles

The Lithuanian Ratline to Los Angeles

How Holocaust collaborators remade themselves as anti-Communist refugees, used the Lithuanian émigré community as cover, and walked into the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

US and Iran are back at war. Could it sink Donald Trump's presidency?

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The Korea Times

Daniel Depetris

Netanyahu Gov't Leaks State Secrets and Punishes Those Who Report on Its Crimes

Netanyahu Gov't Leaks State Secrets and Punishes Those Who Report on Its Crimes

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Haaretz

Noa Landau

Prediction Markets Called the Iran MOU’s Collapse Before Tehran Did

Five days before Iran suspended the agreement, the Israel Security Index showed that nearly its entire peace dividend had disappeared. Iran formally...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Robert S. Miller

Zini's Dangerous Bid to Unleash the Shin Bet on Journalists

Zini's Dangerous Bid to Unleash the Shin Bet on Journalists

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Haaretz

Haaretz Editorial

Featured Post

Featured Post

My father, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, profoundly shaped Jewish life through his music, teachings, and ability to touch people’s souls. He also caused...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Neshama Carlebach