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Petty Netanyahu Gives Bennett a Half-hour Handoff Meeting

Half an hour. That’s how long the handoff meeting between Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his predecessor, opposition leader Benjamin...

Haaretz Editorial

Utility rate hikes

Consumers forced to pay price for policy blunders Starting next month, around 9.1 million households will have to pay 2,000 won ($1.80) more in...

Editorial

Say no to discrimination

Time for National Assembly to act to pass anti-discrimination law Anti-discrimination legislation is gaining fresh traction as a National Assembly...

Editorial

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Federal judge condemns Nazi analogy in Texas anti-vaccination lawsuit

JTA — A federal judge in Houston threw out a lawsuit by health workers objecting to a city hospital system’s coronavirus vaccine mandate on the...

Ron Kampeas

UAE reveals progress on interfaith complex to house synagogue, mosque, church

Construction on the Abrahamic Family House, a complex in Abu Dhabi slated to house a synagogue, a mosque and a church, is 20 percent complete,...

Amy Spiro

Big Tech is broken. But can Congress fix it?

By Jon Healey The internet has been a great unifier, enabling people to join others around the globe in pursuit of common interests. And now, the...

Tribune Service

NPT's midlife crisis

By Rakesh Sood In March 2020, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) turned fifty. The 10th Review Conference (RevCon), originally scheduled for...

Guest Column

Dying art of conversation

By Tom Purcell Texting is replacing talking as the preferred form of communication? According to a?recent survey by OpenMarket, 75 percent of...

Guest Column

North Korea's economic desperation

By Sandip Kumar Mishra COVID-19, a once-in-a-century kind of pandemic, seems to have dealt an unprecedented blow to the North Korean economy. Even...

Guest Column

Only reformist candidate drops out of Iran election on last day of campaign

TEHRAN, Iran — The only reformist candidate in Iran’s upcoming presidential election dropped out of the race Wednesday on the last day of...

Amy Spiro

We Don’t Need the G7

NEW YORK – The latest G7 summit was a waste of resources. If it had to be held at all, it should have been conducted online, saving time,...

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Three things I learned

By Kim Ae-ran As I was recovering from retinal detachment surgery, I learned three things. During those days, I got up earlier because I went to...

Thoughts Of The Times

James answers ‘new government’ questions

Last Sunday the “Change Government” was finally voted-in with a razor thin 60-59 plenum vote along with one abstention. Before the vote took...

James J. Marlow

First, they came for Alta

Alta Fixler has been sentenced to die in Britain. She is not a terrorist. She is not a criminal. She is not even an Israeli soldier accused of...

Steve Rodan

A Jewish call to action: 10 ways to fight back

Seemingly overnight, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and antisemitic incidents are being reported near and far. Many American Jews, who not so long ago...

David Harris

When did Jews get stupid?

We Jews have been accused of a lot of things over the centuries, but up until now, stupidity has not been among them. The conduct of the Jerusalem...

David K. Rees

Navigating a Just Society (Judges 11:1-33)

There are lots of difficult biblical stories; stories which transmit societal rules and then go about breaking them as part of the storyline. We...

Mordechai Silverstein

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The March of Flags: Take 2

Here is how I, personally, see the events of yesterday unfolding: 1. (“Ancient History” by now): The March of Flags that took place on May 10th...

Adele Raemer

Freedom for Assange!

When US vice president Kamala Harris visited Mexico, a demonstration took place in the Mexican capital on June 8 in front of the National Palace....

Valery Kulikov

China's subjugation of ASEAN is a great leap backward for Myanmar

Quad nations should consider alternatives for regional security

Jason Tower

VOX POPULI: Remembering the late Asei Kobayashi, who made TV fun

Screenwriter Kuniko Mukoda (1929-1981) once recalled being annoyed with the casting of the composer, lyricist and actor Asei Kobayashi in the lead...

The Asahi Shimbun

Kljub znanju goli in bosi

Vsaj dva razloga sta za naše zagate v povezavi s starostjo. Elektronske naprave, ki se jim vse bolj podrejamo, jim zaupamo in se nanje zanašamo,...

Matjaž Figelj

Judge dismisses ex-Netanyahu aide’s case against Ohana for violating gag order

A judge in the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court dismissed on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by an ex-aide to former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu against...

Toi Staff

A game-changer? G7 climate pledge could shift Asia's coal policy

The G7 wealthy nations failed to go far enough at their weekend summit to halt the use of coal, but a pledge to phase out international funding for...

Japan Today

Saudi Arabia executes man accused of joining anti-government Shi’ite ‘rebellion’

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia executed a young man on Tuesday who was convicted on charges stemming from his alleged...

Aya Batrawy

(GLOBALNA ARENA) Novi pogled na kubansko raketno krizo

Toda zgodovinar Serhii Plokhy z univerze Harvard v svoji novi knjigi Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Jedrska neumnost:...

Nina Hruščova

Who is Thomas Nides, nominated as next US envoy to Israel?

US President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as ambassador to Israel is a banking executive and former deputy secretary of state with a political...

Jacob Magid

Revitalized G-7 must lead in creating global stability

Coordinating response to China will be key test for democratic nations

Nikkei Editorial

EDITORIAL: METI’s smugness in Toshiba affair fails test of good governance

The government could not be more wrong if it sees no need to explain its actions when national security is involved. Regarding Toshiba Corp.'s...

The Asahi Shimbun

IDF strikes Gaza terror targets after arson attacks in 1st raids since ceasefire

The IDF carried out a series of airstrikes throughout the Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning in response to over two dozen fires in southern Israel...

Toi Staff

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IDF to significantly limit controversial West Bank ‘home-mapping’ operations

The Israeli military will substantially limit its controversial practice of conducting nighttime reconnaissance operations in Palestinian homes,...

Aaron Boxerman

Netanyahu faces High Court petition if he doesn’t leave PM residence by June 27

A group that led the anti-Netanyahu protests over the past year sent a letter to the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday threatening to petition...

Toi Staff

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4.2-magnitude light earthquake rattles southern Israel; no damage reported

A light earthquake shook towns in southern Israel overnight Tuesday-Wednesday, with reverberations felt as far north as Jerusalem. The earthquake...

Toi Staff

As Saudis sell city of the future, investors and critics see a desert mirage

It looks like something out of a science fiction movie. A gleaming, pristine city rising up out of the barren desert, a shimmering white and silver...

Sue Surkes