The Pride of Israel: Assassinations

Left-wing Meretz said to reject becoming Jewish-Arab party

Senior members of Meretz have rejected a new initiative to transform the left-wing party into a Jewish-Arab slate, citing small public support for...

Bus hits 7 Palestinian workers in Bethlehem, killing one; driver flees

In an apparent hit-and-run, a bus hit seven Palestinian workers Wednesday morning near a crossing between the West Bank city of Bethlehem and...

Who Still Loves Trump?

NEW YORK – Apart from 74 million voters in the United States, who still approves of President Donald Trump? Most Europeans are overjoyed to see...

Israeli intelligence agencies are preparing to confront Hamas in a technology war

As tension escalates on numerous fronts, Israeli intelligence agencies continue to develop their capabilities, and now have databases and...

In the time of pandemic, debt relief efforts need to go further

In the last few months, due to the devastating effect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the global economy, the fiscal clock has been ticking...

In Israel, Bahraini minister says peace deal a ‘case study for others to follow’

Bahrain wants to open a direct airlink to Israel soon, the country’s industry, commerce and tourism minister said Wednesday during a visit to...

Israeli tech gives Intel breakthrough in market dominated by competitor

Technology made in Israel is allowing US giant Intel Corp to make a breakthrough in a market dominated by competitor Nvidia Corp. Amazon Web...

Elections are coming, but not so fast

Elections loom. The signs have been clear for a while, and there’s no shortage of deep dives into each faction and party’s electoral calculus. But...

NHK needs to clean up its act before thinking about surcharges

A panel of experts, appointed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, has proposed that Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) be allowed...

Wiser heads must prevail after killing of top Iranian nuclear scientist

Last week, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist, was reportedly ambushed and killed outside Tehran by “a highly trained hit...

China's TPP ambition should be viewed with caution

Members must avoid sacrificing standards to expand pact

Iran’s Rouhani calls bill to boost uranium enrichment ‘harmful’ to diplomacy

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday rejected a bill approved by parliament that would have suspended UN inspections and boosted uranium...

A Pathbreaking Novel

The single life in Daniel Ross Goodman’s new novel belongs to Eli Newman, a rising Talmud scholar with an interest in world literature, a star...

On Jewish Unity and Anti-Semitism – The Rise and Fall of the First Temple

(Article No. 4 in a series) In the previous article, we described Israel’s formation into a nation and how they were given the task to be “a...

Waste and greed to merge in Turkey's new environmental law

This week, a bill for the Turkish Environment Agency will be debated at the parliament. This bill will recycle the profits of recyclable waste using...

Amal Asad, Druze Play Important Role in Israel's Regime of Separation

Biden: US will rejoin Iran nuclear deal if Tehran returns to strict compliance

US President-elect Joe Biden said that the US would rejoin the nuclear deal with Iran if Tehran went back to strict compliance with the agreement,...

Sean Connery, Diego Maradona, Robert Fisk… cancel culture has reached a new low with woke warriors’ disrespect for dead icons

Time used to be that it was considered bad form to speak ill of the dead, but that was back in those heady days of civility when a man was unlikely...

That’s what you get for obeying? New Yorker cover mocks lockdown-induced deterioration after months of shaming dissenters

The December 7 issue of the New Yorker features a withering send-up of quarantine neuroses and psychoses, depicting a smiling woman with hair,...

What Yellen Must Do

NEW YORK – US President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to appoint Janet Yellen as the next Secretary of the Treasury is good news for America and...

Expert: 6 vaccine hurdles mean we’re ‘nowhere near’ Israel-wide immunity in 2021

Even a full year after the first COVID-19 vaccinations arrive in Israel, “nowhere near” all citizens will have immunity, a leading epidemiologist...

UK becomes 1st country to approve Pfizer vaccine, to be available from next week

Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for general use and said it would be introduced next...

Gantz claims Netanyahu duped the Israeli public. That’s not what happened at all

Announcing Tuesday night that his Blue and White party would vote for a preliminary motion to dissolve the Knesset — a threat he implemented on...

Sprinterka na maratonski progi

Doktorica Bojana Beović je pri delu odločna in hitra, prava sprinterka. Težko ji je slediti. Stopnjuje. Ne pogleduje nazaj. Ohranja hitrost. Ne...

LISTEN: Medieval poop chute exposed in renovations at Jerusalem’s Tower of David

This week The Times of Israel Podcast is taking you on a journey through thousands of years of history and archaeology at the Tower of David Museum...

Justice minister should resign

President Moon needs to apologize to people Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl returned to work Tuesday immediately after the Seoul Administrative...

Case closed against driver suspected of ramming anti-Netanyahu protesters

Prosecutors have reportedly decided to close the criminal case against a driver who drove into a protester during a Tel Aviv demonstration against...

Gantz delays anti-discrimination law after majority of MKs oppose it

Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party pulled a bill aimed at making discrimination illegal before it was to be voted on Wednesday,...

An America in decline and the dangers that entails

During the Donald Trump presidency, the United States began to withdraw from the world. This withdrawal was accompanied by destructive chaos,...

Biden's presidency will likely be similar to Obama's

By Michael McGrath Barring an unprecedented legal shock, Biden will become president of the United States on Jan. 20. What will a Biden presidency...

EU urges ‘strong and systematic judicial response’ to rising anti-Semitism

A key decision-making body of the European Union on Wednesday adopted a resolution calling for a “strong and systematic judicial response” to...

Appeasement of Iran is a serious danger

In a tweet, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described the death of Dr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last Friday, as a martyr who was killed by “brutal...

Don’t gloat over the SCOTUS ruling about Gov. Cuomo’s synagogue restrictions

Last week, in a five to four decision, the United States Supreme Court granted requests from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and two...

Water Conflicts

The conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia escalated in recent times due to the construction of the Renaissance Dam (RD) over the Blue Nile. Whether...

I Predict Netanyahu Will Win the Next Election in Israel

This morning, Israel woke up to the news that the Blue and White party will support a bill tabled by Yair Lapid to disperse the Knesset and trigger...

Ending this year 2020

This year 2020 has been a year of grace and mercy. Else, we do not know how things could have gone. In February 2020, a team of three including...

BTS marks another milestone

Boy band hoped to keep challenging and achieve far more K-pop boy band BTS has achieved another milestone with its song "Life Goes On," the lead...

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