Mother of 18-year-old Texas school shooter says he ‘wasn’t a violent person’

The mother of Salvador Ramos, the 18-year-old who killed 19 children and two teachers in a mass shooting in a Texas elementary school, has...

Top Abbas adviser al-Sheikh to lead PLO’s executive committee – report

Senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein al-Sheikh is set to be appointed secretary-general of the executive committee of the Palestine...

On Open Houses weekend, Tel Aviv honors a specialist in site-specific sculpture

Just around the corner from Tel Aviv’s central Dizengoff Square, Noa Karavan-Cohen grew up playing in the tree-filled park designed by her...

Amid wage dispute, Israelis abroad increasingly unable to get replacement passports

Growing numbers of Israelis overseas may be unable to acquire replacement passports amid an ongoing labor dispute in the Foreign Ministry. Some...

Is Taiwan Next?

The Pandemic’s Innovation Lessons for the Climate Crisis

On Washington’s Request, Ukraine has Now Turned against Turkey as Well

As the Russian proverb says: “You can give the wolf the best food, but he would hanker for the wood.” This folk wisdom has a disapproving,...

Israel said to tell US it killed IRGC officer who was deputy head of covert unit

Israel reportedly told US officials that it was behind the assassination of a senior member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps earlier...

Judge rules against Jews who prayed at Temple Mount, accepting state’s appeal

The Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday ruled against four Jewish teens who prayed on the Temple Mount, reversing a lower court decision, which...

The Lawmaker Who Quit Israel's Coalition Is Another Closet Netanyahu Supporter The Lawmaker Who Quit Israel's Coalition Is Another Closet Netanyahu Supporter

I respect people like MK Amichai Chikli, who from the day they entered public life they announced they were supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu, much...

US says it hasn’t been asked to held in probe of Al Jazeera reporter’s killing

Neither Israel nor the Palestinian Authority has formally requested US assistance in the investigation into the killing of a Palestinian-American...

Man killed in ‘industrial accident’ at Iran’s Parchin military facility

A man was killed and another was injured in Iran’s Parchin military complex Wednesday night, in what the country’s Tasnim news agency called an...

US Supreme Court rejects petitions against longtime Ann Arbor anti-Israel protesters

MICHIGAN, United States (JTA) – The US Supreme Court has declined to hear two different requests to take up a suit against a group of protesters...

With fork, knife and scissors: Man indicted for ‘frenzied’ attack on passersby

An indictment was filed this week at the Haifa Magistrate’s court against a man accused of attacking passersby in the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Yam...

It is in ASEAN’s Strategic Interest to Admit Timor-Leste Now

On May 20, 2002, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became Asia’s youngest country following a two-year transitional administration by the...

We're Losing Part of Our Summer This Year

Heard-Depp trial not just a media spectacle; it's an opportunity to discuss intimate partner violence

Strip away the celebrity intrigue and media frenzy, and the high-profile court battle between actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard involves issues...

Jewish Racists Also Cry, but They Don't Condemn – Just Look at This 'Centrist' MK Jewish Racists Also Cry, but They Don't Condemn – Just Look at This 'Centrist' MK

Our Meravy was very insulted. Ahmad called her scum. And why, for heaven’s sake? What did she do to deserve that horrid slur? After all, she’s...

Israel’s untenable political dysfunctionality exposed in a ridiculous Knesset battle

This Editor’s Note was sent out Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s...

Lebanon’s nascent, fragmented reform movement faces tough road ahead

BEIRUT (AP) — Ramy Finge spent two years braving tear gas and rubber bullets, sometimes trying to scale the cement walls surrounding Lebanon’s...

Playing games in NATO, Turkey eyes its role in a new world order

NATO’s spat over Turkish opposition to Swedish and Finnish membership is about more than expanding the North Atlantic military alliance. It’s as...

Grappling With The Texas Massacre: Five Pressing Thoughts

Evil has, once again, reared its ugly head. Yesterday, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, a monstrous 18-year-old entered a Texas elementary school...

Levi Gornish is on Fire!

Here’s the inside scoop about how Levi Gornish went from a house fire in 2014 to being “on fire” and winning R U Idol competition at Reichman...

Extremists don't reflect entire demographic of political thinkers

By Christine Flowers The shooter in Buffalo had a racist motive. He wanted to kill Black people. We don't know exactly how he developed his hatred,...

California's water shortage requires updates in technology, law - and mindset

Californians responded to Gov. Gavin Newsom's request for voluntary water conservation earlier this year by using more, not less. On Monday, Newsom...

Growing change agents effectively

By Kim Jong-nam Many corporations are interested in growing "change agents," employees tasked with the role of helping change an organization's...

Why US arrogance is the biggest barrier to peace in Ukraine

By Tom Plate It's just possible that a favorable diplomatic wind is forming that could alter the trajectory of the storm of war raging over...

When the Individual Counts

Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by families following their fathers’ houses; a head count of every male according...

Biden's promises to Northeast Asian allies

By Donald Kirk U.S. President Joe Biden projected a superficial image of firmness in defense of America's Northeast Asian allies during his...

VOX POPULI: With beer season here at last, let us remember not to drink to excess

I may draw criticism for writing that COVID-19 has done us some good, but there is the saying that every cloud has a silver lining. One windfall...

Your Majesty: Say sorry to mark your Platinum Jubilee and help end that poisonous history

The British Empire once ruled over a quarter of the world's population, from North America to India and from interior Africa to the Middle East....

EDITORIAL: Quick fix needed to give voters overseas access to justice review

A Supreme Court ruling has delivered a scathing rebuke to the government and the Diet, which have denied the people, who have the sovereign power,...

Jerusalem is not an internal Israel affair to be discussed before the judiciary

The Israeli government took note of the statement issued by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, which condemned an...

Lebanon Plagued by Social and Economic Woes

Almost three years of political, economic and social problems and disastrous policies have transformed life in Lebanon, once known as the “Paris...

Biden Promises Conflict and Elusive Developments in his Asia Visit

In his maiden tour to Asia as the US President, Joe Biden announced that the US will “defend” Taiwan if China attacked. The announcement, while...

West Decries Philippine’s New Government - US-backed Protests Begin

Recent general elections in The Philippines appear to signal the island nation’s continued but gradual move out from under US subordination and...

Thailand’s Tourism Industry and Russia's Vacation Season Amid International Sanctions

The COVID-19 pandemic, which swept the world in 2020, hit all sectors of the economy, but tourism was possibly hit the hardest. Tourism was the...

West must learn to live with Erdogan the unpredictable

Turkish leader a live rebuke to those who say NATO is forcing everyone to tow its line

Jejhata, ta rdeči gredo!

Prav zabavno je opazovati odzive na napovedano obdavčitev premoženja in druge ukrepe, s katerimi namerava levosredinska koalicija oblikovati...

At Davos, Zelensky calls on Europe for more weapons and money

Report. ‘This is the moment when it is decided whether brute force will rule the world,’ he said. At the center of the World Economic Forum is...

Likud opposes its own lawmaker’s bill to widen tax on plastic bags

The Likud party voted Wednesday against a bill submitted by one of its own lawmakers, following pushback from allied ultra-Orthodox factions...

Toward gender equality

More steps needed to prompt advancement of women President Yoon Suk-yeol has been the target of criticism for his apparent lack of conviction and...

Huge business investments

Government should reciprocate with bold deregulation On Tuesday, four of Korea's major conglomerates announced massive business investment plans...

South Korea's game changer: New Southern Policy

By Kavi Chongkittavorn It was a well-kept secret among the ASEAN members during the 1980s that the only topic that interested South Korea was its...

Economic security needs to work both ways

By Troy Stangarone In the lead up to Joe Biden's recent trip to South Korea, Washington and Seoul agreed to establish a dialogue channel on...

The Miracle of Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Day

It was the summer of 1966. After over 10 years of active participation in a Zionist Youth movement (Habonim) in South Africa, my husband Lionel and...

It’s Don’t FryDay!

When I first began dating Jason, the man who later became my husband, I noticed a small spot on his back that didn’t look right to me. It was...

Worth the Effort

One of the great mysteries, at least for me, in our Chumash is: How come Yerushalayim isn’t clearly identified? The Torah indicates our...

‘Mistaken Identification’ Parashat Bemidbar 5782

The vast majority of the portion of Bemidbar pertains to counting, the people who were counted, and the people who performed the counting. G-d...

Reflecting on Buffalo

In classrooms, at kitchen tables and throughout the halls of government, Americans are grappling with how to understand the massacre in Buffalo....