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PODCAST Daily Briefing Mar. 4 – Pirates deploy Iran’s ‘environmental terrorism’?

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...

Attorney general says 6 permanent ministers must be appointed, and fast

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday notified Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his unity government partner Alternate Prime...

Don't bring America's longest war to end just yet

President Joe Biden, a longtime critic of U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, can't be eager to preside over the 20th anniversary of what is...

Why Russian Jews are divided over the anti-Putin movement

JTA — Lucy Shteyn is only 24 years old, but she already has firsthand knowledge of what awaits vocal critics of President Vladimir Putin in her...

House of God or place of penitence

One of the perks of walking around our neighborhood is that we can see the Temple Mount. My wife and I often try to visualize what it will look...

Call it what it is: A Pandemicide

How can we embrace a sense of morality and justice during a time when our society and the world is overwhelmed with the acceptance and...

In search of a gluten-free chocolate éclair in Jerusalem

She studied the culinary arts at Paris’s renowned Le Cordon Bleu, and the chic pâtisserie that Amit Barkat recently opened in Jerusalem’s...

UTJ head says party won’t join a coalition that doesn’t revoke conversion ruling

United Torah Judaism party chief Moshe Gafni said Thursday that his party won’t join a coalition unless it finds a way to nullify a High Court...

Climate Justice

In blow to Abbas, senior Fatah official to form separate bloc to run in election

Fatah Central Committee member Nasser al-Qidwa on Wednesday declared his support for a separate bloc to run in the scheduled Palestinian elections,...

Environment minister adamant oil spill is Iran terror; defense figures skeptical

Environmental Protection Ministry Gila Gamliel insisted Thursday that a huge oil spill that polluted most of the country’s beaches was an Iranian...

Ahead of visit to Iraq, Pope Francies says he will go as a ‘pilgrim of peace’

VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP) — On the eve of his historic trip to Iraq, Pope Francis paid tribute Thursday to those who have suffered from years...

The rise and rise of AR in Israel: why AR is thriving in Startup Nation

Israel may be known as the startup nation, but after a series of acquisitions in the field of augmented reality, could the world’s most compact...

Ki Tisa You Shall Not See My Many Faces and Be Lively

In Judaism, the two most common names for God are Elohim and the tetragrammaton (Y-H-W-H). The word Elohim (אלהים) is the plural for Eloah...

How to debate BDS on campus? Jonathan Marks says be reasonable

Jonathan Marks’s Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education  shows what higher education can be at its best. But his subtitle...

When did ‘Israel-loving Jew’ become a skill set?

M y Jewishness has never defined me which is perhaps why I’m not the kind of Jew my parents intended to raise. For instance, I’m far more...

Shocked

In the early 1970s, I was a naive 21-year-old, in love with my first job since graduating university, as a nursing aide on a psychiatric ward in...

Mandelblit says ICC’s Israel investigation undermines legitimacy of court

Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit condemned on Wednesday the decision of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in...

Is Inflation Alive?

Short-term financial measures for Palestinians will not address decades of deprivation

Short-term funding initiatives for Palestinians provided without addressing Israel's colonialism and military occupation have been proven to be a...

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claim missile hit Saudi oil facility

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they attacked a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jeddah on Thursday, the latest in a series of cross-border...

A Test for Ivory Coast’s Democracy

YAMOUSSOUKRO – When Europeans or Americans ask about Ivory Coast, we locals may sound a little bit like we are quoting Charles Dickens. We have,...

What Should Biden Do About Venezuela?

CAMBRIDGE – Imagine you are driving down a road and arrive at a junction. You are not sure where to go, so you turn right. After some time, the...

US House passes police racial profiling reform, days ahead of Floyd murder trial

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A sweeping police reform package that bans chokeholds and combats racial profiling cleared the US House of...

Satellite photos show North Korea may be trying to extract plutonium

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea may be trying to extract plutonium to make more nuclear weapons at its main atomic complex, recent...

Atomska bomba – naš petletni plan

V uredništvo smo polni vznemirjenja dobili prve primerke novega priročnika za objektivno in nepristransko poročanje o političnih dogodkih v...

Were you hidden in Przemysl, Poland, 1942-1944? 75 years later and searching

An Appeal for Assistance 75 Years After Liberation We are seeking to reunite with the descendants of all those saved by our personal hero, the man...

A significant detail in US lawmakers' Turkey letter

There is a recent letter from the U.S. Congress calling on Biden to put pressure on Turkey regarding human rights issues. The letter references a...

Setback in R&D

Deregulation, tax breaks urgently needed to boost investments Korea's status on the map of global research and development (R&D) investment is...

Deaths after inoculation

Efforts needed to ensure vaccine safety Concerns are growing over the administration of COVID-19 vaccines here after two people died following...

Enhanced efforts needed to stop rising suicides at height of March

The number of people who take their lives due to anxiety and distress tends to increase toward the end of the nation’s fiscal year in March. At...

DC Wizards to hold Jewish heritage night featuring Israeli singer

The Washington Wizards basketball team will celebrate a Jewish heritage night on Thursday as the NBA club hosts the Los Angeles Clippers for a game...

Once believed extinct, this rare redwood thrives as a ‘living fossil’

Two towering trees stretch their branches into the wintry sky in a corner of the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo’s Ueno district....

Historic scoop, March 1, 1919

By Donald Kirk The suffering inflicted on Korea by Japan lives on in exhibits in the Seoul Museum of History about the nightmare of Japanese rule....

Can Japan really shoot at vessels over the Senkaku Islands?

Kyodo News on Feb. 25 ran an article with an incredible headline that said “Japan (now) can shoot at foreign government vessels attempting to land...

Money isn't key to happiness

By Tom Purcell Get this: A?study by McGill University?has found that more money does not necessarily make people in low-income countries happier. I...

US must ditch Cold War containment obsession - China is not the Soviet Union

By Tom Plate America must understand that China is different, emphasized the late Lee Kuan Yew when some 25 years ago I asked Singapore's iconic...

What Neera Tanden’s demise says about ‘cancel culture’

Neera Tanden became President Joe Biden’s first Cabinet casualty on Tuesday when she withdrew her nomination to be budget director. The...

Pyongyang, one-time Jerusalem of East

This photo shows a Pyongyang church in the first decade of 20th century. Courtesy of Richard Pennington By Richard Pennington Please be so kind as...

Impartial divorce counselor

By Choi Sung-jin On Monday morning, I watched the nationally televised ceremony celebrating the 102nd anniversary of the March 1 Independence...

What can we do about bullying?

By Adam Borowski While it's fantastic that bullying has turned into a global issue, we must be careful not to go on ''witch hunts'' by wrongfully...

Israel’s Aleph Farms and meatmaker BRF to bring cultured steak to Brazil

Aleph Farms, Ltd. and BRF S.A., a global Brazilian meat and food maker, have signed an accord to jointly develop cultivated meat and bring it to...

Germany to surveil far-right party for posing threat to democracy

BERLIN (AFP) — Germany’s domestic security agency has placed the far-right AfD under surveillance for posing a threat to democracy,...

Europeans drop plan to condemn Iran at UN nuclear watchdog, opting for diplomacy

VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — European nations will not go ahead with a planned resolution criticizing Iran at this week’s meeting of the UN nuclear...

Speculation: Who gets the most-serious coronavirus infections?

First of all, it must be noticed that the new coronavirus sometimes works as Russian roulette. It even kills people in an instant who were not in...

Will Biden Tame the Arabian Racehorse?

In his strategy to bridle recalcitrant states, the newly-minted US President Joe Biden decided to start with the demonstrative taming of one of the...

Biden Failed to Drive a Wedge between Iran and Iraq

The air strikes inflicted by the US Air Force on February 25 in the Syrian regions bordering Iraq, and the consequences these actions taken by...

Conversion and lies

A leading member of the United Torah Judaism charedi political party, Moshe Gafni, suggested in a radio interview that a movie clip should be made...

A brief history of melancholy

The Ancient Greeks blamed sadness on bodily humours called ‘melaina kole’ (black bile). Today, clinical depression is often understood as an...