Police break up ‘illegal’ East Jerusalem International Women’s Day event

Israel Police on Monday broke up an event at a women’s center in East Jerusalem to mark International Women’s Day, saying it was being held...

Hundreds pack Brooklyn study hall and street for Hasidic rabbi’s funeral

JTA — Hundreds of men flouted public health rules to crowd into a study hall in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn Sunday afternoon for the...

Oil prices surge after attack on Saudi site by Iran-backed Houthis

BANGKOK (AP) — Oil prices pressed higher Monday after strikes on major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, shook...

Could the Covid digital transformation hold open the door for women?

We have all seen the articles about women, especially mothers, being disproportionally affected by the pandemic. There are few positives from Covid...

Dear Israeli Voters, Your Info Is Vulnerable

Scaled-down combined exercise

Allies should ensure smooth wartime OPCON transfer South Korea and the United States began a two-day springtime combined military exercise Monday....

Transparent policy-making

Energy plan should not be swayed by political wrangling The state audit agency has concluded that there were no procedural problems in the Moon...

Gantz halts appointments, demanding he be tapped as full-time justice minister

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz on Monday stopped a round of appointments of full-time cabinet ministers, protesting the fact that it did...

America needs a $15 minimum wage

At $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage is appallingly low. It's so low that a full-time worker making the federal minimum wage qualifies for...

What could cause US-China war?

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. CAMBRIDGE ― When China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently called for a reset of bilateral relations with the United States,...

My wife is vaccinated. I'm not. Welcome to the new world of haves and have-nots

By Nicholas Goldberg In my house, we have a problem. My wife has been vaccinated; I haven't. Am I envious? Of course I am. Resentful? Yeah, some of...

Moon's last year

By John Burton It will be nearly a year from now when Korea holds its next presidential election on March 9, 2022. The last year in office usually...

Go for what feels natural and easy

By Kim Jeong-kyoo Spring is all but here, and more people may be inclined to go outside to exercise. When I visit a golf driving range, I hear...

Umm al-Fahm man sentenced to five years for helping Hezbollah

The Haifa District Court on Monday sentenced an Israeli man to five years in prison an Israeli man for supporting Hezbollah by providing the...

Redemption Delayed – Shabbat Hahodesh (Ezekiel 45:16-46:18)

This Shabbat is the last of the four special Maftir Torah readings before Pesah. The special Torah reading recounts the preparations for the first...

Reconstruction panel wasn’t ‘dancing’ PREMIUM

Walter Cronkite’s 40th anniversary sign-off & today’s signs of US apartheid tactics

בסייד Walter Cronkite Was The “Most Trusted Man In America”, But I Could Never Watch His Program Once I Moved To Johannesburg. It was 40...

What is Important to Me? Voting on the Issues

This post is the second in a series covering the Israeli political map in the lead up to the 2021 elections. I will explain some of my own...

It’s time for Greece to follow Israel’s example and recognize Kosovo

Last month Kosovo celebrated the 13th anniversary of its declaration of independence. The declaration came about a decade after the Serbian...

Erdogan’s Cosmic Ambitions

The victories scored by a range of countries over the past few days, including the bold message delivered by the United Arab Emirates in the form...

Foreign currency being snapped up by the Bank of Israel in 2021

Reports say that the Bank of Israel (BOL) is projected to purchase more than $30 billion of foreign currency in 2021. These claims were backed by...

Building beauty with biology

When viewing the work of the US artist and tool developer Joel Simon, you might find that his images are unlike anything you’ve ever seen before...

Was Thomas Jefferson a heretic and anti-Semite?

Often when I hear people wanting to destroy statues of historical figures and burn books of authors who mentioned something they considered wrong,...

VOX POPULI: China’s chilling move to destroy Hong Kong’s elections

Even during the Pacific War, Japan held a Lower House election. Candidates toeing the government line, designated as “recommended candidates,”...

'Hamas Will Conquer the West Bank'? How Israeli Defense Officials – and Media – Distort Reality

The Hebrew-language headline of a Haaretz analysis about a potential Hamas victory in Palestinian elections unintentionally reveals a false...

Edelstein: We’ll live with COVID for many years, but the worst is behind us

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said Sunday the novel coronavirus will be around for years to come, but the worst had passed, in comments that...

Israel to bus COVID patients to polling stations, may set up booths at airport

Israel will fund special shuttles to polling stations for active COVID-19 patients during the March 23 Knesset elections, a top official said...

A Greentech Bubble?

CAMBRIDGE – Following the tenfold growth of Tesla’s stock between March 2020 and January 2021, the company’s founder, Elon Musk, has emerged as...

After delays, Israel kicks off vaccination drive for 120,000 Palestinian workers

JABA’A CHECKPOINT, West Bank — Palestinian workers eagerly lined up outside the Jaba’a checkpoint close to Beit Shemesh on Monday morning, as...

UK and royal family absorb blow of revealing Harry, Meghan interview

LONDON (AP) — Britain and its royal family absorbed the tremors Monday from a sensational television interview by Prince Harry and Meghan, in...

Fully vaccinated people can gather without masks, CDC says

NEW YORK (AP) — Fully-vaccinated Americans can gather with other vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or social distancing, according...

Pursuing Justice: The ICC Takes a Wrong Turn

While this situation is brimming with complicated and technical concepts, the recent ICC decision to move forward with opening a criminal...

Tufts Must Protect Students from Anti-Semitism

http://gty.im/135309038 Anyone who has been paying attention knows the sad reality — Jewish students on college college campuses face hostility,...

Myanmar protesters stage a 10-day general strike in the face of military violence

Analysis. The junta responded with a 24-hour curfew to prevent street protests. Women have taken a central role in organizing against the coup....

Not a Day to Celebrate – a Day to Work

International Women’s Day is not a day that exists out of a need to celebrate femininity, or any preconceived notions society may have impressed...

EDITORIAL: China’s military buildup makes ‘defense’ claims hard to swallow

How can the world buy the narrative of “peaceful development” China is trying to sell? Beijing keeps building up its military, and it is little...

Podcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 8 – On Int’l Women’s Day, how does Israel stack up?

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing: Your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish...

Of fully vaccinated Israelis, only 0.2% develop COVID-19 symptoms

Data released by the Health Ministry Monday provided a further indication of the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccine in Israel: Out of those...

The US Recovery’s Promising Moment

LAGUNA BEACH – President Joe Biden’s announcement that the US will have enough COVID-19 vaccines for every American by the end of May has...

Drake raps ‘I should probably go to yeshiva’ on new single

JTA — One of rapper Drake’s latest tunes gives a nod to his Jewish roots — even as he hints that he might be finding Jesus. In “Wants and...

Israel inks deal to link electricity grid with Cyprus, Greece via undersea cable

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Israel, Cyprus and Greece on Monday signed an initial agreement on laying the world’s longest undersea power cable linking...

El debate peruano sobre las vacunas en perspectiva internacional

Hasta donde recuerdo, el primer mandatario latinoamericano en declarar públicamente que no se oponía a la importación privada de vacunas contra...

80 years

Lithuanian anti-Semitism of the 20th century instigated the slaughter of 220,000 Jews on Lithuanian territory. Eighty years later, that country is...

Why I’m here

The blaring buzz of our doorbell startled me out of my morning prayers. It was one of our first days in our new apartment in Efrat. The visitor was...

The nonsense of a “human rights action plan” in an authoritarian setting

The last decade in Turkey showed that since the constitutional referendum that was held in 2010, all elections, whether local or national, from...

Officials stumped by source of NY variant in Israel; 1st cases uncooperative

Officials are unable to trace the source of the first three cases of the so-called New York variant of the coronavirus found in Israel because the...

Iranian drone footage shows Israeli ship after explosion damage

Iranian drone footage showing an Israeli-owned cargo ship after it was struck by a mysterious explosion was published by the al-Mayadeen news...

Why China’s Hong Kong Crackdown Could Backfire

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – The year of the ox has begun darkly for the people of Hong Kong. On February 16, nine pro-democracy activists, including...

Women at Intel Israel are using the power of AI to boost other women

Several years ago, Bella Abrahams, the public affairs director at Intel Israel, spoke to a group of female students from the Ben-Gurion University...

‘Suicidal’ Meghan tells Oprah royals worried about color of her son’s skin

LOS ANGELES — In a wide-ranging interview aired Sunday, Harry and Meghan described painful discussions about the color of their son’s skin,...