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Yonatan Heilo, who served time for killing his rapist, found dead on beach

Yonatan Heilo, who was jailed for killing his rapist and then given early release after public outcry over his case, was found dead on a Netanya...

The Importance of Listening to America’s Allies

Embed from Getty Images The incoming administration of President-elect Biden has stirred up conversations across the Middle East about America’s...

Shortage of ships

Steps urged to help exporters in need of ships The nation's shipping companies have decided to operate more ships to help exporters suffering from...

Innovative mobility partnership

Hyundai Motor, Naver set to experiment with new possibilities The country's biggest automaker and top search engine platform have reached an...

Trump remains unpredictable

By Donald Kirk The rise of Joe Biden is ushering in an array of old and new names vying for the president-elect's ear, or the ears of those close...

'Hotel beggar'

By Park Moo-jong "Do you know the word, 'hoggar'?" I asked many foreign friends of mine, who asked in return, "Beg your pardon?" When I first...

Thanksgiving in thankless year

By Jason Lim As I write this, the international media is reporting that Diego Maradona has died. The outpouring of grief and condolences has been...

Peru should give its latest president a chance

With the Nov. 17 swearing-in of Francisco Sagasti as interim president, Peru has its third head of state in a little more than a week. Sagasti's...

We are in a war and losing

By Chang Se-moon "We are in a war right now and the virus is winning." Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland made this statement Nov. 17 describing the...

How investment banks encourage America's hidden addiction to petroleum

By Emanuel Pastreich I have watched the sad sight of high school students led by Greta Thunberg and other climate activists demanding of political...

Pyongyang's reticence on Biden

By Tong Kim For weeks, North Korea has been silent on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. Since Joe Biden was recognized as the U.S....

Korea's Sexual Exploitation Runs Deeper than One Man

By David Tizzard South Korea breathed a sigh of relief after the Seoul District Court found a 25-year-old male named Cho Ju-bin guilty of running...

War and peace in Bosnia

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM ― At a U.S. Air Force base in Ohio 25 years ago, the European continent's most devastating war since 1945 came to an end...

Asian nations take major step forward

By Arthur I. Cyr A comprehensive new trade agreement among the nations of East and Southeast Asia promises greatly to increase production in the...

CaFF 2020

By Kim Ae-ran More than ever, watching films seems to be more interesting and moving than reading books and the Catholic film festival (CaFF) is a...

[VIEW] A letter to friends in China fighting against coronavirus

By Hwang Jae-ho Hwang Jae-ho. Difficulty knocks on the door out of nowhere. Adversity comes in many forms. We all bound to face hardships from...

Korea's policy choices amid increased global uncertainties

By Dr. Jeffrey I. Kim The results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election can be recorded as one of the most unusual happenings in American history....

Chest-faced men and other lies

Gettyimagesbank By Scott Shepherd In his 1596 account of a voyage to South America, English explorer Walter Raleigh wrote of a strange tribe living...

Crafting diplomacy-first US foreign policy

By Anne-Marie Slaughter and Alexandra Stark Anne-Marie Slaughter Alexandra Stark WASHINGTON, DC ― U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has made it...

Trump no habría perdido por la pandemia

Cuando Jair Bolsonaro pronunció el discurso de victoria tras su elección como presidente, el libro "Lo mínimo que se necesita saber para no ser...

Bank of Israel holds benchmark rate at 0.1% as pandemic casts pall

The Bank of Israel on Monday kept its key lending rate unchanged at 0.1 percent as the coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh on economic activity...

Schadenfreude is Not a Jewish Word (The Book of Obadiah)

The book of Obadiah is an angry book; its fury is vented against Edom, a small nation of little geo-political consequence which once dwelt on the...

Gantz ups pressure on Netanyahu as coalition teeters on brink of collapse

Amid growing speculation Israelis will soon find themselves at the ballot box for the fourth time in under two years, Defense Minister Benny Gantz...

Hannah Senesh archives, including handwritten poems, come to National Library

It’s been 76 years since Hungary-born poet and paratrooper Hannah Senesh, at the age of 23, was parachuted into occupied Europe by the British in...

The Palestinian Refugee Fallacy

Since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 the Palestinian refugee issue has been used as a pawn to castigate Israel for its “occupation”...

Holiday Grief Strikes

It’s unlike any holiday grief season I’ve ever experienced. What about you? Trigger, trigger everywhere. Sounds like a nursery rhyme. Let me get...

Combating Workplace Burnout/ Fatigue through COVID 19 Part 2

In having to deal with the uncertainty of the world in the light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, we often find ourselves dealing with...

After a Humbling Election Experience, Will the US Change Its Tune on China?

Putting aside the outcome, the 2020 U.S. election has already sent a substantially confusing message to the world: The United States, which has...

You cannot separate Bin Salman's betrayal from Bin Ramadan's

Uncle Sam always exposes his agents, pulling them into his bed in the dark of night, then exposing them in the bright light of day. That is the...

Video appears to show Palestinian shot dead after alleged ramming incident ended

A Palestinian killed during what police initially reported as a suspected ramming attack may have been shot after the incident had ended and as...

Killing Iran's Nuclear Weapons Chief Was Justified. But It Wasn't Wise

When Israel weighed up the targeted killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, there are ten criteria it should have considered. Instead it appears that...

Ex-top investigator alleges prosecution coverup in police killing of Bedouin man

The former head of the Israel’s police internal affairs unit has reportedly alleged that the State Prosecution tried to bury an investigation into...

Like Guinea Pigs to the Slaughter

A few years ago, a friend of mine found himself in Peru in a smart restaurant. Looking at the menu, he was surprised to find “guinea pig” offered...

Living in the river of uncertainty (Daf Yomi Pesachim 9)

Embed from Getty Images “And is it so that an uncertainty does not override a certainty.” The last few days of readings inspired me to research...

Women and Dogs

Many readers will have spotted the mistake in the title of this blog. It should, of course, be Dogs and Women. We have to get our priorities right....

Whodunit? Who didn’t? What the press is saying on November 30

1. Twitter’s reliable, right? Israel’s press is following along closely as Iran attempts to piece together the assassination of nuclear...

The Falastin Cookbook – Culinary Agitprop

Falastin: A Cookbook by Coming April 2020: A ground-breaking Middle Eastern cookbook from Sami Tamimi, the co-author of OTTOLENGHI: THE COOKBOOK...

The Upcoming Post-Corona Crisis

“We have a maximum of choices and a minimum of meaning.” — Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l As I mentioned in my last essay, it seems that many...

The Hypocrisy of Effi Eitam’s Critics

Amotz Asa-el, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Deborah Lipstadt, are among the chorus of those on the political left who are criticizing the apparent...

With Trump a lame duck, Bibi is moving fast

Benjamin Netanyahu boasts that “he has been very busy” in recent weeks since the results of the US elections have made it clear that Joe Biden...

Turkey Talk

Golf is just not a thing here. There is just one course in the whole country, for the 9M of us, and never a problem getting a tee time. Whacking...

The message of the Golem

It is possible that the legend of the Golem which is told in the Talmud, in many books, and even several films has a disturbing message. Let’s take...

Blind Samson

“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue, nor virtue without citizens.” Rousseau Having started a “dirty...

Empire of fantasy

Much has changed in the fantasy genre in recent decades, but the word ‘fantasy’ still conjures images of dragons, castles, sword-wielding heroes...

What is behind India’s ‘love jihad’ legislation?

India is a triumph of the imagination: innumerable cultures, languages, and worldviews, often at odds with one other, loosely bound by a...