Zaka emergency group co-founder awarded Israel Prize for contribution to society

A co-founder and chairman of the Zaka volunteer emergency response group was declared Tuesday a winner of the Israel Prize’s life achievement...

Conciliatory gesture

Japan should compromise to mend ties with Korea President Moon Jae-in has made a conciliatory gesture toward Japan to mend soured ties with Tokyo....

Amazon alters app icon after Hitler mustache comparisons

Amazon has quietly updated the icon on its app after a recently revamped version was said by some to bear a resemblance to Nazi leader Adolf...

Loss of public trust widening as dining scandal still simmering

Cabinet public relations secretary Makiko Yamada stepped down on March 1 after becoming embroiled in a wining and dining scandal involving senior...

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Time for exit strategy

Soaring interests raise concerns about post-coronavirus economy Fiscal deficits and national debt are rising in many countries as governments have...

Panel blocks child from flying in with family, claims he’s already in Israel

The controversial panel deciding which Israelis are permitted to return to the country during a general closure of the borders has told a family...

The ‘winter of bureaucrats’ in Japan has turned into an ice age

"Kanryo-tachi no Natsu" (The summer of bureaucrats), which is novelist Saburo Shiroyama's (1927-2007) seminal work, portrays officials of the...

Israelis, Demand Palestinians Get Vaccinated, Too. Or the Pandemic Won’t End

With COVID-19 cases soaring, there is a serious public health emergency among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. And Israel won’t be immune

The EU seeks collaboration with Biden, without political space for the Palestinians

European politicians are finally waking up to the issue of Israeli annexation of Palestinian land, acknowledging that the suspension brought about...

Japan, the national security superpower

Deep breath. OK… As the author of “Peak Japan,” for me to give an optimistic take on this country’s future is both difficult and risks...

Afghanistan awaits Biden's big decision

By Andrew Hammond Almost two decades after 9/11, one of the biggest early foreign policy decisions that U.S. President Joe Biden will have to make...

Central Banks’ Green Goals Are Raising Red Flags

LONDON – It might seem surprising that, amid all the challenges central banks are facing nowadays, their contribution to combating climate change...

Democrat lawmakers Meng, Lieu join anti-Semitism task force leadership

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two Taiwanese-American members of Congress have joined the leadership of its anti-Semitism task force. Reps. Grace Meng of New...

Wix buys Miami’s SpeedETab to boost offering of online presence for restaurants

Wix, an Israeli firm that helps small businesses build and operate websites, said Tuesday it is acquiring Miami-based ordering technology provider...

Data shows coronavirus pushed Israel’s 2020 death rate up by as much as 10%

The coronavirus outbreak pushed Israel’s mortality rate up from its lowest-ever level at the start of 2020 to numbers not seen since the 1990s,...

Biden retreats from vow to make pariah of Saudis

AP — As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden promised to make a pariah out of Saudi Arabia over the 2018 killing of dissident Saudi writer Jamal...

Censored: You have the right to free speech, unless you're a minority

So there are limits to freedom of expression after all! Professor Memdani of Makarere University says it brilliantly: Power can instrumentalise...

Saudi crown prince accused of crimes against humanity over Khashoggi murder

BERLIN (AP) — An international media rights group has filed a complaint with German prosecutors against Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and four other...

Pebbles from bereaved families to be flown in from around world for Memorial Day

With the coronavirus pandemic expected to still be disrupting international travel next month, the Israeli government has turned to alternative...

The Eurasian Economic Union is Alive - and Expanding

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), created in 2014 as an international organization for regional economic integration with international legal...

Jewish supernatural horror: Oxymoron? Discuss.

Given all we’ve been through, do Jews really need supernatural horror movies? The question arises anew with the streaming release of...

Groundhog Day for Middle East ‘peace processers’

If, as the saying goes, “nothing breeds success like success,” it is equally true that, as far as much of the DC foreign policymaking elite is...

A New Heart, a New You – Parshat Parah (Ezekiel 36:16-38)

Ezekiel was a revolutionary and visionary prophet. His prophetic message, in this third of the four special haftarot which precede Pesah, opens...

VIP Passes for Netanyahu's Allies at Ben-Gurion Airport

Top health official: Election fever driving government’s pandemic decisions

A senior Health Ministry official on Tuesday suggested the government’s latest decisions to lift coronavirus-related restrictions were influenced...

(JAVNO PISMO) Spoštovani gospod minister za zdravje Janez Poklukar!

Ob vaši izvolitvi najprej iskrene čestitke, toliko bolj, ker se s svojimi dejanji in zavzetimi stališči za to izjemno zahtevno vlogo kažete...

Greening the “Special Relationship”

WASHINGTON, DC – COP26, the United Nations climate summit being held this November in Glasgow, is already looming large in US and UK policymaking...

The Goldilocks Stimulus Myth

ATHENS – US President Joe Biden, facing the great challenge of stimulating his country’s economy for the post-pandemic era, and haunted by...

What Could Cause a US-China War?

CAMBRIDGE – When China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently called for a reset of bilateral relations with the United States, a White House...

The EU is demanding I hand over my personal medical data or I can’t go on holiday there this summer? Here’s why it can get stuffed

Disaster contingency planning is the sort of thing to make any consultant’s mouth water. Dreaming up catastrophic scenarios where things go very...

The Growing Threat of Far-Right Extremism

Project Syndicate · The Growing Threat of Far-Right Extremism | Cynthia Miller-Idriss Listen and subscribe to all episodes from your favorite...

Trump’s not-quite-triumphant return

The former president made a semi-Trumphant return on Sunday. Donald Trump’s rapturous reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference...

Conservation is failing communities who share space with wildlife

When we think of elephants, we may think: gentle giants, majestic, noble creatures. All of which is true. Especially for visitors to the areas they...

Sanders lauds Israeli health officials for pushing to vaccinate Palestinians

US Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday lauded senior Israeli health officials who have urged the government to vaccinate the Palestinians, in a rare...

Amid resistance from Turkey, Kosovo embassy may not be in Jerusalem

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s prime minister-designate has found himself in a difficult diplomatic position ahead of taking the post following...

Michigan professor fired over anti-Semitic, racist social media posts

JTA — Ferris State University, a public research school in Big Rapids, Michigan, fired a professor last week for using anti-Semitic, racist,...

Labelling every bad habit an ‘addiction’ simply means people with no self-control fail to take responsibility for their behaviour

So, what are we to make of a recently published alarmist report that claims that almost four out of 10 students are addicted to their smartphone?...

It’s time Malaysia had a law against party-hopping

When Malaysia’s King Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah declared a state of emergency in January, his message to the MPs was unequivocal: cut the...

The mental rollercoaster of being a student shutout of Israel

Co-authored by Alexa Sussan, Brandon Werbel and Lea Thomas Wake up, check the Israeli news. Go to online school, check the Israeli news. Complete...

The Extraordinary Catharsis of The InTeaFada

Twitter is not the real world, and often what transpires within the confines of that website is of no consequence. But on Monday, March 1st,...

The real problem with anti-Zionism

A heated debate has arisen in the last decade as to whether the contemporary anti-Zionism of progressive groups such as the BDS movement or of...

Seth Rogen, who ‘really loves weed,’ brings cannabis company to US

Actor Seth Rogen is bringing his cannabis company, Houseplant, to the United States. “Almost ten years I go, I envisioned having my own weed...

Gal Gadot confirms she’s pregnant with third child

Israeli-born actor Gal Gadot confirmed Monday that she is pregnant with her third child. The “Wonder Woman” star posted a picture with her...

How Israeli tech shares some of its wealth by donating options

Investors, founders and employees of MyHeritage, a genealogy company that was sold to US private equity firm Francisco Partners last week, won’t...

Calls mount for Cuomo to resign as 3rd sexual harassment accuser comes forward

NEW YORK (AP) — Calls for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation intensified late Monday after a third woman accused him of offensive...

Išče se vsaj miceno odgovorna oseba

Na posnetku četrtkove videokonference predsednikov vlad EU je bilo videti Janeza Janšo brez kravate, z odrtimi gumbi na srajci, s tistim odsotnim...

UK’s silence over ICC’s dangerous precedent is problematic

With the ongoing distraction of a global pandemic, Israel’s enemies have seized the opportunity to ramp up attacks on the Jewish State in the...

Never-ending conflict in Armenia

Turkey condemning the coup attempt shows that it associates Pashinyan’s keeping his position with the implementation of the agreement. No doubt,...

The nature of the NATO-Turkey relationship

Despite the S-400 elephant in the room, Turkey and NATO seem to be getting on well. Given this rosy outlook, is the NATO-Ankara template a model...