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...

Myanmar's Rakhine problem is a domestic and international challenge

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

Will Hamas hold or postpone its internal elections?

An important development has occurred recently in the Palestinian arena and it is related to the increasing talk of holding internal elections,...

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...

Thailand's teamwork will make a difference

Path to democracy has had its challenges

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 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...

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...

Biden has only two years to prove Trumpism was a mistake

Commentary. Biden took office with a ticking clock. The moment of truth will come on November 8, 2022, when Americans will vote in the midterm...

Italy arrests ‘Black Sun’ terrorist who planned to kill women and Jews

Report. The 22-year-old from Savona operated a Telegram channel that he used to recruit right-wing extremists to carry out suicide missions....

"Danse Macabre": The new era in Turkey, EU and US relations

The most recent “mot du jour” invented by the punditry at large to define the new era of the combined U.S.-EU relations with Turkey is “firm...

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,...

EU firms punching below their weight in Israeli tech scene, report shows

The economic collaboration between Israel and the European Union has not come close to fulfilling its potential, particularly with regard to the...

Japan’s diplomatic note on the South China Sea shows its self-interest at play

Last week, Japan became the latest country to submit a diplomatic note to the United Nations on the South China Sea, rejecting China’s position...

Netanyahu, Lapid both strengthen and Michaeli-led Labor crosses threshold – poll

A poll released by Channel 13 on Sunday showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and opposition chief Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid both...

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,...

Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the symptoms are...

Police use stun grenades to clear Haredi mob who torched bus at lockdown protest

Police used stun grenades to clear ultra-Orthodox rioters from the streets of Bnei Brak early Monday after a group attacked two buses, setting one...

12 years after bolting, 6 since arrest, Malka Leifer extradited to Australia

Israeli authorities extradited alleged sex abuser Malka Leifer back to Australia early Monday morning, nearly twelve years after she fled Melbourne...

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...

Over 4,000 Reasons Why Transcripts From Israeli COVID Cabinet Meetings Should Be Disclosed

Why Biden Must Not Boycott Hamas

If Hamas wins significant representation in the May elections, the international community, including Israel and the Biden administration, must...

How COVID Rates Among ultra-Orthodox Affect Hospitals' Treatment of Secular Patients

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,...

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...

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...

A suffering formerly Orthodox artist spreads a Jewish spark in northern Maine

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (JTA) — In this speck of a city lives an artist who starts his mornings swathed in a tallit and tefillin, spends most of his...

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...

Chief rabbi condemns ‘delinquent’ Haredi rioters for ‘desecrating God’s name’

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold. Russia issues a protest to the US embassy for what Moscow says are social...

Egypt is synonymous with hopelessness

Ten years ago, upheaval, hope and dreams of a better future swept through the streets of the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Today, there is nothing left...

All quiet on the populist front?

BERLIN – Liberals around the world are daring to hope that there is a silver lining to the violent denouement of Donald Trump’s presidency:...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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....

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Stop the war before it starts

Embed from Getty Images Most Israelis are at least vaguely aware of the political climate in America right now. Certainly the Capitol riot made the...

Was the Capitol riot sedition? Just read the law

It’s an alarming accusation, and when it is made, it is often a serious danger to free expression. In many nations, including the U.S., the threat...