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People with disabilities face real danger at train stations

Train stations are often likened to a "bridge without a guardrail" for people with a visual impairment. How scary it must be to rely only on your...

Israel’s ‘preventive’ assassination complicates Biden’s agenda

Commentary. We fully deserved Trump after all, since the Western press writes such rubbish that risks making a direct attack on Iran seem...

Chile is again in the streets as pressure mounts on Piñera to leave

Analysis. Repression also returns. The central demand of a large and varied movement is that Piñera has to go. written by Andrea Cegna Topic Latin...

Sexist remarks don’t disqualify top prosecutor pick, justice minister says

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. An appeal against the controversial acquittal of a British-born militant...

Questioning the Diversity Delusion on Race-Obsessed Campuses

When he wryly observed that “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act,” Orwell may well have had academia...

If not now, when? What the press is saying on December 1

1. Are we voting yet? Israel is headed toward early elections. That much the country’s news outlets can agree on, though they all seem to be...

A glimpse of the future at the JLM conference

Last weekend’s Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) Conference will be seen many years in the future as a critical and historic event.  Never in the 100...

Ex-president must apologize

Court recognizes choppers' firing during 1980 Gwangju Uprising Former President Chun Doo-hwan was found guilty on Monday of defaming a late priest...

Diet, unable to bring clarity to scandals, faces credibility crisis

The current extraordinary Diet session is scheduled to close in five days, and the ruling camp has no intention to extend it. But the...

Biden and Korean security

By Bernard Rowan As the United States, her allies and the world prepare for the end of the Trump presidency, the calls begin for President-elect...

A triumph of German innovation and immigration

MUNICH – The world took note when the German start-up BioNTech announced its breakthrough in the development of a new type of vaccine to combat...

China's global climate boost

By Kevin Tu BEIJING ― In his video address to the United Nations General Assembly in September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a slight...

Australian-British academic freed by Iran ‘blown away’ by support

SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian-British academic released after two years imprisoned in Iran on spying charges said she thanked supporters from...

Does Being a Therapist Make Me a Better Parent?

Whenever casual conversation turns toward the topic of my profession, I am invariably asked, “ Does being a therapist make you a better parent?”...

Wisconsin, Arizona certify Biden wins in election; Trump vows another challenge

Two battleground states, Wisconsin and Arizona, certified their presidential election results Monday in favor of Joe Biden, even as US President...

La recuperación de la capacidad y demanda aerocomercial en América Latina

Según la empresa OAG, la oferta de asientos de las aerolíneas en la región a finales de octubre mostraba que el crecimiento de la capacidad estaba...

Israel Philharmonic streaming Hans Zimmer pre-Hanukkah event

JTA — The Israel Philharmonic Foundation is streaming a pre-Hanukkah concert event featuring music by — and an interview with — Hans Zimmer, one...

Palestinians’ self-destructive delusions of a zero-sum victory

November 29 is the anniversary of the UN decision in 1947 to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. The date is remembered by the...

Yad Vashem should remain politically neutral

Who is Effi Eitam and why should you care about him? On the one hand, he is a decorated Israeli soldier, who retired 20 years ago from the Israel...

Turkey’s new legal reform stuck in our throats

It is clear that the future of the People’s Alliance, and the relationship between the AKP and the MHP, which Bahçeli offered and Erdoğan...

Total policy failure

Regulation, heavier taxes cannot stabilize housing prices A tragic incident took place last Friday in which a man in his 30s committed suicide...

Iran denies senior Revolutionary Guards commander killed in drone strike

A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry denied on Tuesday reports that a Revolutionary Guards commander was killed in a drone strike on the...

Deputy health minister says Hanukkah curfew possible to battle rising infections

Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch on Tuesday said Israel may impose a national curfew to stem family visits over Hanukkah and Christmas, amid a...

Biden must build US diplomacy back better

In January, Joe Biden will take charge of an executive branch left in woeful disrepair. Practically every important federal institution has been...

Diplomatic mission impossible

By Choi Sung-jin U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, unlike the current occupant of the White House, is seen as a reasonable and predictable person....

Progressives may not like Biden’s foreign policy

Shortly after President-elect Joe Biden clinched his party’s nomination in May, a group of 50 progressive organizations sent his campaign a...

ASCOM facility and Korean wave

ASCOM is an acronym of Army Service Command XXIV Corps located in Incheon's Bupyeong District since 1945. The Corps facilities have included a dozen...

A Reminder of the Events that Occurred on Yeonpyeong

On November 23rd, 2020, South Korea pointed out the “10th anniversary of North Korea’s deadly artillery strike on the South Korean island on...

A New Strategy for China with Biden? Or is it Too Late?

During the Obama era, in which Biden served as Vice President, the US approached China quite differently. Will Biden be able to revert to a softer...

Yaakov and the Angel – “The Match of the Millennium”

It was billed as the “Match of the Millennium”, the contestants eager for battle, well, at least one of them was. In one corner, hailing from...

The Lifelong Learning of Educators

It is not uncommon for adults to enter fields inspired by childhood experiences.  Sometimes those experiences motivate us to follow in the...

Ramifications of COVID-19 Vaccine Implementation

With shipments of vaccines just around the corner, it is time to speculate upon the implications of their implementation. Given that there are...

Love, Disability, and Suicide Prevention – A Good Read

Love, disability, and suicide prevention are the themes that run through the book My John, I Was his Sunshine, by Debra L. Smith.  Yet this...

The Fountain of Eternal Youth

Throughout centuries, countless methods and treatments have been created that claim to stop or diminish the aging process, as people experience...

The future is here … to destroy us

Riding the warhorse of capitalism (if you can make big bucks ripping everyone off, you should be free to do so), innovation is threatening the...

Adolf Eichmann and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

In 1962, the state of Israel executed Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Nazi’s “Final Solution.” While we Jews feel pride and a sense of...

(POGLED) Dileme šolstva v koroni: Ohranjanje bližine na daljavo

Otvoritev skoraj slehernih večernih poročil preteklih osmih mesecev so številke: okuženih, hospitaliziranih in žal tudi umrlih. Dan za dnem v...

Labor party will back vote for new elections, ending government ‘paralysis’

The Labor party on Tuesday said it would back a bill to disband the Knesset and call early elections, amid widespread speculation that Israelis...

The king's man: Blinken's appointment reassures Israel that little will change under Biden

Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has nothing to worry about as the man who will directly handle America's foreign policy in...

Foot-in-mouth Jen Psaki is the perfect spokesperson for gaffe machine Joe Biden

Psaki celebrated her new role on Sunday by gushing about the “talented, battle-tested communicators…also all women” Biden had picked for his...

China Won 2020

BERLIN – In future history books, 2020 will be known as the year of the great COVID-19 pandemic, and rightly so. But it will also be remembered as...

Sama si je kriva

Diego Armando Maradona je umrl na mednarodni dan boja proti nasilju nad ženskami. To je tisti dan, ko svet vsem zlorabljenim, posiljenim,...

Second Bahraini minister in two weeks due in Israel to expand trade ties

The second ministerial delegation from Bahrain in two weeks is set to land in Israel Tuesday morning with hopes of deepening the two countries’...

Israeli with muscular dystrophy elected to UN committee for disability rights

An Israeli woman with muscular dystrophy was elected Monday to serve on a United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,...

Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar tests positive for COVID-19

The head of the Hamas terror group in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and entered quarantine, Hamas announced on...

Startup unveils ‘new generation’ rocket engines with ‘PowerGel’ fuel

Israeli startup NewRocket has unveiled what it says is a “new generation” of rocket engines that are gel-fueled, low-cost and environmentally...

Suspected balloon-borne explosive found in Israel near Gaza

A suspected balloon-borne explosive device apparently launched from the Gaza Strip was found Tuesday in southern Israel, following a lull in the...

Hackers breach Israeli insurance company, steal client data

Hackers targeting an Israeli insurance company claimed to have made off with a vast hoard of personal data on its clients, many of whom are civil...

‘Mercenary’ donor exploited US politics to help Erdogan, other foreign officials

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — As an elite US political fundraiser, Imaad Zuberi had the ear of top Democrats and Republicans alike — a reach...