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Biden will be severely tested in ability to restore world order

Never has a new U.S. president been sworn in amid such a depressing atmosphere. Usually, a presidential inauguration in the United States is a...

Netanyahu says art and culture events can resume in 2 weeks

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s developments as they unfold. Israel’s Government Press Office offers the coronavirus vaccine to...

Former Likud MK Benny Begin, son of late PM, joins Sa’ar’s New Hope

Former Likud lawmaker and cabinet minister Benny Begin, son of the party’s iconic founder and former prime minister Menachem Begin, announced on...

Boris Johnson Must Change His Act

LONDON – Some of the United Kingdom’s right-wing newspapers – supporters of both Brexit and its principal advocate, Prime Minister Boris Johnson...

Amazon’s push to privatize vaccinations lifts the curtain on the US government’s transformation into ‘public private partnership’

The e-commerce behemoth reached out to the Biden administration on the day of the new president’s inauguration. It offered to help distribute...

As Abbas seeks a safe exit, who's waiting in the wings?

In January last year, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refused to issue a decree to hold legislative and presidential elections. He...

With return to Paris accord, Biden brings US back into global warming fight

US President Joe Biden returned the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts Wednesday and...

Netanyahu needs Lapid as his chief rival, or he’ll really be saying ‘gevalt’

There are certain unwritten rules to Israeli election campaigns, patterns of behavior embedded in the electoral system and in the way Israelis...

Laschet not to change Germany's approach towards Turkey

The new CDU chairman won’t change the approach towards Turkey. Laschet has never been in favor of Turkey’s full EU membership, but he supported...

Travelers returning from Dubai turn violent at Jerusalem quarantine hotel

A number of people quarantined at a Jerusalem hotel after returning from abroad turned violent and destroyed property in the early hours of...

Syria and Israel: Between Biden and Putin

Israel has been talking about Syrian messages, indicating Damascus's desire to normalise relations with it. Meanwhile, Syrian sources from Ankara...

AI-based software scours literature to help physicians get to a diagnosis faster

Avid followers of the TV medical series “Grey’s Anatomy” will be familiar with the idea of interns scouring piles of medical literature in an...

PODCAST: The Daily Briefing – Biden’s one-legged Talmudic inaugural speech

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing: Your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish...

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2nd vaccine dose causes 37% of health workers side effects, mostly a sore arm

The most common side effect reported among people who received a second coronavirus vaccine shot was light pain at the injection site, Tel Aviv’s...

Netanyahu backs reopening art, culture events in two weeks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday agreed to reopen the locked-down arts and culture industry in two weeks’ time, releasing it from a...

The ugly truth about a ‘beautiful sight’ in Hong Kong

Given the mutual recriminations that characterize the sorry state of U.S.-China relations as of late, it is hardly surprising that China’s state...

How China poked Trump’s legacy in the eye on his way out and drew a red line for Biden

Just hours after Joe Biden had been inaugurated as President of the United States, China announced a sweeping set of sanctions targeting 28 former...

Where Biden stood for inauguration, reminders of a failed insurrection

WASHINGTON (AP) — The reminders of the siege were everywhere. On the very spot where US President Joe Biden delivered his inaugural address, an...

George W. Bush said to hail ‘savior’ Clyburn for Biden endorsement, Trump ouster

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — As they witnessed US President Joe Biden take the oath of office on Wednesday, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn...

Jewish fraternity AEPi exec to leave pro-Trump group after backlash from alumni

JTA — An executive for the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation is leaving his position with a group whose political arm took part in the January 6 rally...

Early humans used prehistoric tool to chop bones, eat the marrow: Israeli study

Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered what use early humans made of a widely distributed but mysterious flint chopping tool, the...

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The Trumpist insurrection is the watershed of US decline

Commentary. How does one dialogue with the half of the country that is anti-vaccine and, at the same time, physiologically immune to dialogue...

Why we should worry about Twitter blocking Trump

Commentary. An acceptance of such patterns of control empowers corporate and financial elites to serve as guardians of civic virtue despite their...

How many years were B’nai Yisrael in Egypt?

In Parshat Bo we read (Shmot 12:40): The habitation of B’nai Yisrael living in Egypt lasted 430 years. Where did the number 430 come from?...

UN ‘experts’ attack Israel over Palestinian coronavirus vaccinations

Michael Lynk, the UN Human Rights Council’s monitor charged with investigating “Israel’s violations of the bases and principles of international...

Civility is Overrated

This post, which will focus on what might be going wrong with communication in this country (and, on a smaller scale, individually)  developed from...

Fashion icon Bernie Sanders steals show at inauguration

Amid the designer outfits and formal elegance on display at US President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, an unlikely fashion icon emerged...

Blood on rabbis’ hands, Haredi emergency chief says after mom’s COVID death

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav waged an uphill battle for virus vigilance in the ultra-Orthodox community. But even his mother didn’t listen — and held a...

Israeli immunity hinges on Palestinians getting COVID shots too, doctors say

Ahmad Sheib, a Palestinian resident of Tulkarem, has followed news of the stunningly successful Israeli vaccination drive against coronavirus with...

Female ministers' exits

President should keep campaign pledge to keep 30 percent share President Moon Jae-in's reshuffle of three Cabinet members Wednesday sharply lowered...

Bedouin women’s activist who backed polygamy joins Ya’alon’s Telem

Ex-defense minister Moshe Ya’alon on Thursday announced his Telem party’s latest pickup, an activist for Bedouin women who has voiced approval...

50 years after her death, magic of Coco Chanel still captivates us

French fashion designer and businesswoman Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) once famously declared, "I don't do fashion. I am fashion."  The...

Dealing with Biden

By Donald Kirk For starters, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un never began to give up his nuclear program after his summit with Donald Trump in...

46th president: Familiar problems, a new beginning

Wednesday at noon, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took their respective oaths of office to become the nation's next president and vice president. Many...

Global migration drops dramatically due to COVID-19

By John J. Metzler Global migration which has surged in recent years has dropped dramatically since the COVID-19 virus closed national borders and...

A COVID genocide in Americas?

By Federico Finchelstein and Jason Stanley NEW YORK ― Many commentators seeking to understand Donald Trump and Trumpism have found clarity in...

What America needs is hearty laugh

By Tom Purcell America could use a hearty laugh right now, but laughter doesn't come easily because too many Americans have lost their sense of...

How should higher education change?

By Kumar Vikrant The ongoing pandemic has proven to be an eye-opener regarding the lens through which we view our higher education...

Middle East braces for fallout of US―China divide

This is the first of a two-part article written by Dr. James M. Dorsey, a Middle East expert, about the rivalry in the Middle East between the U.S....