Israel to close Ben Gurion Airport to all arrivals amid mutation fears

Cabinet ministers on Sunday approved shuttering Ben Gurion Airport until the end of January, amid fears over fast-spreading or vaccine-resistant...

Cop shoots in air after ultra-Orthodox rioters surround and shove police

A police officer shot in the air Sunday afternoon after ultra-Orthodox rioters surrounded and shoved him and other officers while enforcing...

The Military Radio Station Is Too Political? What About the Army Itself

Ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with police as some schools flout virus lockdown

Clashes broke out Sunday morning in three cities across Israel as police attempted to enforce coronavirus lockdown restrictions in a number of...

Israel predicts rise in anti-Semitism, as virus-related hate is spread online

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry has predicted a steep rise in anti-Semitic incidents around the world in 2021, warning in an annual report...

Israel predicts rise in anti-Semitism after pandemic used to spread online hate

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they unfold. Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry predicts a steep rise in anti-Semitic...

‘Vaccine Apartheid’ – blatant blood libel, but too good to resist

Jews and the Jewish nation have been subject to libels throughout the history of the People Israel.  The latest ominous libel meme – ‘Israel...

I, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hereby Declare...

PODCAST: The Daily Briefing — COVID, politics and ‘autonomous’ ultra-Orthodoxy

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...

Ministry publishes map of fire ant-infected plant nurseries

As green-fingered Israelis prepare for the new gardening season, marked by the festival of Tu Bishvat which begins on Wednesday, the Environmental...

The divine embrace — fusing word and movement in Kaddish

When each one of us is a newborn, our parents often hold us up to them by cupping their palm in one hand under our heads and wrapping their other...

Meridor and Turner Are Right

Balad faction elects new leader as future of Joint List hangs in balance

Joint List Knesset member Sami Abou Shahadeh won the leadership of the Arab nationalist Balad faction Saturday night, beating out incumbent Mtanes...

Israel's Top ex-Treasury Officials Are Right

Cold-headed restructuring

LG Electronics seeks to give up smartphone business LG Electronics has begun the process of shedding its smartphone business unit, which has...

Minister slams claim COVID death rate is ‘failure’ compared to others in region

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein angrily denied a TV report on Saturday that suggested Israel was faring poorly in terms of its death toll from...

Damage compensation

Question is how to raise funds to cover losses The Moon Jae-in administration and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) have started the...

Freedom of 'anonymous' expression?

By Jason Lim Freedom of expression is enshrined in the constitutions of all democratic nations, but does that mean that there is also a freedom to...

People's trust needed to heal nation

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. ― what a relief it is to write those words ― was unstintingly candid in acknowledging the drastic circumstances...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny risks it all for democracy. Will GOP senators do the same?

By Trudy Rubin Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading fighter for democracy, returned home last week, after recuperating in Germany from a Kremlin...

Lessons from living through a pandemic

The year 2020 undoubtedly defied expectations and predictions. Yet as a new year commences, the experience has not deterred many from offering...

Secret to good health

By Kim Ae-ran What is the secret to good health? Getting vaccinated to protect ourselves from the dangers of COVID-19 is definitely on the top of...

Compensation for victims of car accidents

By Chang Se-moon An SUV suddenly cut off a city bus as it left a stop in Jinju City, South Gyeongsang Province, on Dec. 16, 2019. The bus screeched...

Who needs English? It’s all Hebrish, anyway

Here’s a comedy bit from “Zehu Zeh,” the beloved Israeli television comedy series, that doesn’t need much translation. The familiar crew of...

Take your booty

In the Song of the Sea, the Jewish People recount the events leading up to the miraculous parting of the Red Sea and the Egyptians’ fateful...

For Haredim, the Bible is AWOL

When talking about Haredi education, the controversy almost always revolves around the lack of core subjects in their curriculum. But there’s...

From Trump Square to Balfour Street

A five-minute walk from my house takes me to the embassy of the United States, and seeing it fills me with pride. Finally, the world’s greatest...

Somewhere Better Than We Are Now? Only a Big Tent Offers Hope

The news this morning carried the hurried announcement that MK Merav Michaeli, running to head the battered, bleeding and, many say, moribund Labor...

Twitter owes its users a plausible explanation

Twitter, the social networking service, owes all its users a plausible and definitive explanation regarding the posts it allows on its...

Bo: You don’t have time? or you don’t want to?

I’ll do it tomorrow  — Everyone (at some point) Time is such a crucial part of our lives. Tim Ferris in his bestselling book The Four Hour Work...

There Is Nothing In The World Quite Like Being a Teacher

“In a lifetime, you must meet a good teacher who will change your life.” There are an enormous number of impediments to a student’s ability to...

Written Reflections from My Trip to Poland

In 1999, I spent a week touring Poland. We traveled to cities and concentration camps. I took pictures and wrote poems. The pictures were to...

Proud to be an American

I was born in Liverpool, England, and spent time both in the Netherlands and in South Africa. By the young age of 15, I had already traveled and...

Speckled Floors (in the Time of Corona)

You know the ones I’m talking about – those tan/beige/brown dots on an otherwise would-be white floor, the ones that make you think this...

Festival of Life at Dodger Stadium

After hearing about what was happening at hospitals and vaccination clinics, I had called a few shul members and donors on Sunday to set up #...

With another title race over, the Bundesliga is out of lives

At the midway point in the season, the Bundesliga title race looks like its over. Bayern Munich have taken a strong lead, an all-too familiar sight...

The Trust Test

Trust is a fickle thing. It is hard to build and it can shatter in a moment. Once shattered, it is painstaking to rebuild. If this is true of trust...

Wine of the Week: Dalton Kna’an (Canaan) 2019 red

The city of Mashad is Iran’s second largest city, revered as the country’s holiest city and the center of Persia’s famous carpet production. ...

The opening of miraculous doors (Daf Yomi Pesachim 64)

Embed from Getty Images “He would rest his hand on another’s shoulder.” Today’s Daf Yomi reading provides a vision of an elegant ceremony of...

There Is No Tidy Ending to My Eating Disorder

Trigger Warning: This post contains weights and calories. I’ve been struggling with my eating disorder. I haven’t gained the pandemic fifteen,...

Islamic Movement leader shot dead in Jaffa, 2nd man moderately wounded

A senior official in the Islamic Movement was shot dead and a second man moderately injured on Sunday when a gunman opened fire in the central city...

The death of K-pop

Courtesy of Peter Kaminski By David Tizzard The Korean ascent to greatness has been steep and fraught with danger, yet it is all the more...

Assange vs the violence of imperial ‘humanitarianism’

In the United Kingdom court decision sparing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from extradition to the United States (for now, pending appeal), the...

Ministries feud over future of natural gas in climate change tug-of-war

Just hours after Wednesday’s inauguration, US President Joe Biden signed executive orders rejoining the 2015 Paris Climate Accords and...