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South Korea says Israel’s detention of flotilla activists ‘way out of line’

South Korea says Israel’s detention of flotilla activists ‘way out of line’

South Korean’ president says citizens are detained for reasons not valid under international law, and ICC warrants against Netanyahu will be judged...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Japan’s challenge in a world moving beyond old alliances

Japan’s challenge in a world moving beyond old alliances

The global economy is entering a more fragmented and uncertain era. Long-standing frameworks built on international cooperation, multilateralism and...

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The Japan Times

Sayuri Shirai

Daily Briefing May 20: Drama at Knesset as coalition plows ahead with legislation

Daily Briefing May 20: Drama at Knesset as coalition plows ahead with legislation

Political correspondent Ariela Karmel discusses judicial overhaul legislation, while reporter Amy Spiro reflects on Noam Bettan’s second place at...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

The Fraying Transatlantic Alliance

The Fraying Transatlantic Alliance The US-Israeli war on Iran is exposing deep fissures in US-EU ties, with NATO allies increasingly resisting...

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New Eastern Outlook

Abbas Hashemite

Sally Rooney to publish novel in Hebrew with ‘BDS-compliant’ Israeli publisher

Irish literary star says publishing ‘Intermezzo’ in Hebrew through November Books is compatible with the boycott campaign, after declining to...

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The Times of Israel

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The two deaths of Megillat Rut

They say you die twice: once when you stop breathing, and again when your name is spoken for the last time. Megillat Rut doesn’t open this way, but...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ruthie Hollander

The Gulf’s Post-OPEC Order

The Gulf’s Post-OPEC Order

BRAZZAVILLE/DOHA—The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC and OPEC after nearly six decades of membership has dealt a major structural...

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Project Syndicate

Rabah Arezki

Akiva, You Have Consoled Us

There is a story in the Talmud, Tractate Makkot 24b, about Rabbi Akiva walking with other leaders of the Jewish people along the destroyed streets of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Harold l. katz

IRGC threatens war will ‘spread far beyond the region’ if US renews attacks on Iran

IRGC threatens war will ‘spread far beyond the region’ if US renews attacks on Iran

Military force says its ‘devastating blows will crush’ its ‘American-Zionist enemy’ if Trump resumes strikes, as Pakistani interior minister...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

How will Japan react to Trump’s China pivot?

How will Japan react to Trump’s China pivot?

Soon after departing Beijing for the U.S. last Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump called Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to brief her on his talks with...

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The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

White House pans Tucker Carlson for telling Israeli TV Netanyahu dragged US into war

White House pans Tucker Carlson for telling Israeli TV Netanyahu dragged US into war

Administration calls right-wing podcaster a ‘low-IQ person’ after he tells Channel 13 Trump folded to pressure from Israel lobby, accuses...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

A Proud Judaism is the Response to Islamophobia

A Proud Judaism is the Response to Islamophobia

As Jews we must condemn attacks like those we saw at the San Diego Islamic Center the other day in the strongest terms. I certainly condemn them as an...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Aaron Benson

Edmund S. Phelps (1933-2026)

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Project Syndicate

Ps Editors

Indonesia must respond more forcefully to Israel’s detention of its journalists at sea

Indonesia must respond more forcefully to Israel’s detention of its journalists at sea

Indonesia has condemned Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Officials have demanded access to detained Indonesians and called for...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Lithuania Cannot Criminalize Jewish Memory

Lithuania Cannot Criminalize Jewish Memory

The Fridman prosecution is not law. It is state mythology enforced by criminal statute. Lithuania does not merely remember the Forest Brothers. It...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

As Trump Met Xi, China Was Already Sailing Under Iran’s Rules

As Trump Met Xi, China Was Already Sailing Under Iran’s Rules

Just before Donald Trump sat down with Xi Jinping in Beijing, Iranian news outlets reported a significant development in the Strait of Hormuz: Chinese...

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Middle East Monitor

Greg Pence

The US and China Must Learn to Coexist

The US and China Must Learn to Coexist

NEW HAVEN—The recent summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing produced no major breakthroughs on tariffs, Taiwan, or ongoing...

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Project Syndicate

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Orbánov mocenský stroj sa začal rúcať zvnútra

Málokto si vedel predstaviť, že sa to udeje naraz a tak rýchlo.

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SME.sk

Edit zgut-przybylska

The Remake: American Religion in Transition

 As leaders are set to gather in a few days to launch the third iteration of “Recharging Reform Judaism,” what are some of the core trends and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Windmueller

The Gulf Cooperation Council is shooting itself in the foot

The Gulf Cooperation Council is shooting itself in the foot

The most accurate portrayal of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is perhaps the 2017 Kuwait summit, which was held at the height of the...

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Middle East Monitor

Karam Nama

Reducing deep stomach fat can improve your brain function, Israeli scientists find

Reducing deep stomach fat can improve your brain function, Israeli scientists find

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Leipzig and Harvard, say visceral fat reduction even for 18 months can decrease cognitive...

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The Times of Israel

Diana Bletter

Poklonkovanie ako bezpečnostná stratégia

Novodobí imperátori nebudú uspokojení poklonami.

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SME.sk

Matúš Ritomský

MKs advance bill to dissolve Knesset, potentially trigger slightly earlier elections

MKs advance bill to dissolve Knesset, potentially trigger slightly earlier elections

Netanyahu absent from preliminary vote, which left-wing leader calls ‘beginning of end of worst government in Israel’s history’; bill does not...

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The Times of Israel

Sam Sokol

President Trump, Please Get Off Your Seesaw

President Trump, Please Get Off Your Seesaw

It seems that every week or two, President Trump starts a cycle of threatening Iran with a military attack, and then a deferment because he says they...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lawrence A Frazin

America at 250: The Continental 2.0

America at 250: The Continental 2.0

At 250, the United States should complete the Continentals’ project through a rights-bound Continental Union of America. By Benjamen Franklen Gussen...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Benjamen gussen

US acting AG doesn’t rule out Trump payouts to Capitol rioters who assaulted police

US acting AG doesn’t rule out Trump payouts to Capitol rioters who assaulted police

Todd Blanche, leading US Justice Department after Pam Bondi’s firing, defends $1.8bn fund for victims of federal ‘lawfare,’ as angry Democrats...

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The Times of Israel

Dan rosenzweig-ziff

Canada’s Great Recalibration

Canada’s Great Recalibration

WATERLOO—Faced with a rapidly changing global terrain, Canada is adjusting its footing. The new reality is one where technological control,...

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Project Syndicate

Paul samson

The Need to Rediscover Clarity

Everyone keeps asking what is happening to the Jewish community. We talk constantly about antisemitism. We talk about the Mandanis of the world, the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Anna steinberg

Teacher Appreciation

I have kids in four different schools and my inbox has been slammed with an abundance of creative ideas to show “teacher appreciation” before the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ariele mortkowitz

“Discretely Continuous” Shavuot 5786

In an earlier essay[1], we noted that Pesach and Sukkot commemorate the same event, the exodus from Egypt, but from fundamentally different...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ari Sacher

From Lab to Life: Coffee’s Health Benefits

From Lab to Life: Coffee’s Health BENEFITS These days, it seems as if the world runs on hydrocarbons – and the price of oil reflects an apparent...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shlomo Maital

Somaliland is Israel’s true partner in the Horn of Africa

Somaliland is Israel’s true partner in the Horn of Africa

In a rapidly changing world where alliances are increasingly shaped by trust, stability, and strategic cooperation, the relationship between...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mohamed abdi idiris

Cynická obluda: Fico nemá dôvod prestať

Keď mu neustále nahrávajú na smeč, prečo by neustále nesmečoval.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Why don’t you live in Israel?

Why don’t you live in Israel?

“Why don’t you live in Israel?” It was not the first time an Israeli had asked me that question, but this time felt different. The person asking...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Daniel Elbaum

Why Trump Sued Himself

Why Trump Sued Himself

BERLIN—The king has two bodies: a mortal one that eats, sleeps, and dies, and an immortal political one that persists as the state. US President...

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Project Syndicate

Stephen Holmes

Apple grandmaster Tim Cook is playing 3D chess with AI

Apple grandmaster Tim Cook is playing 3D chess with AI

I am not here to bury Tim Cook, but to praise him. Last month’s announcement that the Apple CEO is handing the job to hardware chief John Ternus in...

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The Japan Times

Gautam Mukunda

The Fragile Weight of Trust

The Fragile Weight of Trust

Trust is one of the most valuable things a country can possess. It takes years to build, generations to protect, and only seconds to destroy. That...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

Shavuot: Torah at the Center

Shavuot: Torah at the Center

At first glance, Shavuot appears to stand apart from the other pilgrimage festivals. Pesach and Sukkot are expansive, physical, and highly structured....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ben Lazarus

NYT: Israeli-developed plan sought to have Ahmadinejad run Iran after Khamenei killed

NYT: Israeli-developed plan sought to have Ahmadinejad run Iran after Khamenei killed

Assessing that bombing and expected Kurdish invasion would collapse regime, Israel reportedly used airstrike to free Holocaust-denying ex-president...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Looking for a donkey

A film is a goodbye that never ends Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Featured Post

Featured Post

Like most weeks, last week the Jews were in the news. While adults in the Jewish community rightfully and forcefully responded to articles in The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Bryfman

Featured Post

Featured Post

Shavuot is approaching. The wheat fields have already been harvested, the straw bales have been gathered, and we are preparing once again to wear...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yoav Ende

Diplomacy of Symbols: What Trump’s Visit to China Revealed About the New Global Balance of Power

Diplomacy of Symbols: What Trump’s Visit to China Revealed About the New Global Balance of Power Trump’s China pilgrimage revealed not American...

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New Eastern Outlook

Phil Butler

Make No Mistake

This post is based on a sermon I delivered to my congregation, Temple Sholom in Vancouver BC Canada on May 15, 2026 Once an error enters, it stays...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dan Moskovitz

The Only Woman Leading an Israeli Political Party

As Israelis prepare to celebrate Shavuot — the holiday marking the formation of a people bound by shared responsibility and destiny, and during...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ariel rodal-spieler

Bullying crows attack children, parents at Tel Aviv kindergarten

Bullying crows attack children, parents at Tel Aviv kindergarten

People say birds swooping down and assaulting them, with some drawing blood; municipality cites annual phenomenon of adults protecting chicks as they...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Ukrajina sa drží lepšie, teraz je na rade Európa

Drony zmenili povahu vojny

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SME.sk

Washington Post