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Head of local council bordering Egypt says residents concerned after deadly attacks

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen. CAIRO — Egypt deployed three tugboats to tow away an oil tanker that had...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Daily Briefing June 4: Timeline of how an Egyptian infiltrated Israel to kill 3

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 world,...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Man killed, teenager injured in Ramle shooting as crime wave continues

A shooting in the central city of Ramle on Saturday night left a man dead and a teenager wounded, as a relentless wave of violent crime in Israeli...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

In sensational upset, Israel downs Brazil 3-2 to reach U-20 World Cup semifinal

In a landmark achievement for Israeli soccer, the national under-20 team upset powerhouse Brazil 3-2 in extra time in the World Cup quarterfinals...

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The Times of Israel

Michael Bachner

PM: We expect ‘exhaustive and thorough’ probe by Egypt of deadly border shootings

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel has told Egypt it expects an “exhaustive and thorough” investigation into the killings...

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The Times of Israel

Alexander Fulbright

Is Judicial Reform a Trojan Horse for West Bank Annexation?

Bezalel Smotrich, a champion of Israeli settlement in the Palestinian territories and now finance minister, has never been apprehensive about his...

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Haaretz

Yaakov Or

The Best of People

It is easy to overlook the good people who exist in a world where abusers and con artists, gangs and cartels, terrorists and war lords, despots and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Andy Blumenthal

Where Will History Lead Us?

First, what is history? History is the evolution of desires. It starts from the smallest and simplest desires, which every individual has—for...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Laitman

Time to move on: The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Year 1967: On May 18, 1967, the United Arab Republic (then a union of Egypt and Syria) requested the United Nations to withdraw the UN forces from...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jaime Kardontchik

Dying to Be Heard Gittin 15 The Ups and Downs of Exile Gittin 16 and 17

Our Gemara on Amud Beis discusses the ethical and legal concept of a מִצְוָה לְקַיֵּים דִּבְרֵי הַמֵּת It is a mitzvah...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Simcha Feuerman

No Second Chance

The punitive system of the Torah is set up where a punishment only comes for the violation of one of the 365 commandments. There is no punishment...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

How far have we come?

I always love visiting my family. Having lived in Israel for 16 years, there’s so much to look forward to with a trip to the states. So when the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Hayim Leiter

Technological gaze of the Hermit Kingdom

By Jason Lim Elise Hu, who served as the inaugural bureau chief for NPR in Seoul from 2015-2018, recently published a book titled, "Flawless:...

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The Korea Times

Jason Lim

The existential question about Putin’s mercenary boss

Yevgeny Prigozhin shouldn’t have said “grandfather.” But it slipped out. That was last month, during one of his vulgar and lurid rants against...

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The Japan Times

Andreas Kluth

Brazil’s Lula is right on glob­al pol­i­tics and wrong on Ukraine

When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in in January, many policymakers in the West breathed a sigh of relief. Four years...

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Al Jazeera

Bruno Cava

China and India have fewer people than the U.N. thinks

MADISON, WISCONSIN – In April, the United Nations estimated that India had overtaken China as the world’s most populous country. While the...

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The Japan Times

Yi Fuxian

Govt Must Do Everything Possible to Resume Dialogue

Editorial 12:29 JST, June 4, 2023 People abducted by North Korea and the families waiting for their return are aging. The government must do...

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The Japan News

The Japan News Editorial

Limitations of Election System Behind Difficulties In Ruling Parties

Editorial 12:30 JST, June 4, 2023 Japan is facing difficult challenges, including a chronic decline in the birth rate and a rapidly deteriorating...

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The Japan News

The Japan News Editorial

الإدارات الأهلية ودورها في فض النزاعات

تزخر المجتمعات المحلية في المناطق الأفريقية المختلفة بالعديد من التقاليد...

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العين الإخبارية

أنور إبراهيم

قصة ملهمة.. ودروس ودلالات مهمة

في إحدى المناسبات العامة شرفت بلقاء أحد قادة قواتنا المسلحة السابقين، ممن عاصروا...

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العين الإخبارية

يوسف جمعة الحداد

Comedy for Koby’s Dan Ahdoot: Why Falafel Phil and overtipping hold the keys to peace

Dan Ahdoot, New York-born son of Iranian Jewish immigrants, was well on his way to becoming a doctor. He had completed all the premed course...

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The Times of Israel

David Horovitz

Can Nato manage its ambitions in Southeast Asia, where memories of colonialism linger?

Nato looks to venture into Indo-Pacific and deepen European involvement in Asia’s security but it remains widely distrusted in the non-Western...

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South China Morning Post

Shaun Narine

Oil tanker breaks down in Egypt’s Suez Canal, briefly disrupting traffic

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — A tanker transporting crude oil broke down in a single-lane part of Egypt’s Suez Canal on Sunday, briefly disrupting traffic...

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The Times of Israel

Samy Magdy

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #95, Ghost Walkers

In this episode Rabbi Yose comes to our hero in a dream. The Eternal Jew’s Tale Fifteenth Era, Part 2, ~1272 C.E., Herat Three nights sleepin’ in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stephen Berer

Religion, Ethics, Animals, and Choosing Vegan

Dr. Lisa Kemmerer has made it her mission to help people to recognize that core religious teachings in every faith require that we rethink our diet...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Richard H. Schwartz

Matovič si z Ódora robí dobrý deň

Premiér Ódor počas týždňa absolvoval rokovania s lídrami politických strán. Je dobrým znakom, že diskusií sa nestránil. Vysiela totiž...

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Pravda.sk

Michal Horský

TMS: Stimulating the Brain Back to Health

Understanding Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.

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Psychology Today

Alexander Danvers Ph.d

Australian police reopen probe into Jewish school for allegedly helping Leifer flee

Australian police have reopened an investigation into whether a Jewish girls school in Melbourne helped former principal and convicted sex offender...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

2 arrested for stabbing 11-year-old on Jerusalem outskirts

Police have arrested two Jerusalem residents for stabbing an 11-year-old boy on the city’s outskirts. The two, ages 18 and 23, are suspected of...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Biden envoy said to meet Iran’s UN ambassador as West looks to restart nuke contacts

The Biden administration’s special envoy for Iran has reportedly held several recent meetings with the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations,...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Netanyahu vows to probe deadly shooting of troops by Egyptian policeman ‘to the end’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to fully investigate the killing of three soldiers in southern Israel by an Egyptian policeman on Saturday,...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Making a splash: Cops pull over pickup truck turned into pool

The owner of a pickup truck from the Sharon region will have to explain to a judge why he converted the back of his vehicle into a pool and drove...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Coalition members back Rothman after he seizes protester’s megaphone in NYC

Several coalition lawmakers expressed support for Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman on Saturday after he was filmed forcefully seizing a...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

Cyclist killed by concrete-mixer truck in Tel Aviv hit-and-run

A man riding an electric bicycle was killed in a hit-and-run by a concrete-mixer truck in Tel Aviv Sunday, police and medics said. Paramedics...

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The Times of Israel

Michael Horovitz

Halevi taps general to investigate ‘systemic’ failures in deadly Egypt border attack

Israel Defense Forces chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi on Sunday appointed a general to lead an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Beit Shemesh teen indicted for rape of toddler, sexual assault of 9-year-old boy

A 17-year-old was indicted on Sunday for allegedly raping a 2-year-old girl and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old in Beit Shemesh. The charges were...

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The Times of Israel

Michael Horovitz

Original Churchill World War II victory letter goes on sale for $200,000

An original letter signed by then-British prime minister Winston Churchill and sent to wellwishers upon the Allied victory in World War II was...

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The Times of Israel

Michael Horovitz

Tens of thousands set to march in Poland against law they say harms democracy

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s largest opposition party is leading a march Sunday meant to mobilize voters against the right-wing government,...

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The Times of Israel

Vanessa Gera

Rescue work ends for deadly train disaster in India that killed over 300

BALASORE, India (AP) — With rescue work finished, authorities began clearing the mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in...

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The Times of Israel

Rafiq Maqbool

At 70, No One Suspects Me of Being a Shin Bet Agent

When my grandfather turned 70, his friends celebrated his birthday. In the living room of the small apartment on Rosenbaum Street in Tel Aviv,...

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Haaretz

Gideon Levy

'K-care' dilemma

Nation must increase doctors and improve reward system Korea's healthcare system was exemplary until a few years ago. It was easy to access, had...

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The Korea Times

Editorial

As Israel Woos the Saudis, It Must Not Neglect Ties With Abu Dhabi

The Saudis’ hosting of the Arab League summit, attended by Syrian President Bashar Assad, seemingly made a statement about who’s in charge. In...

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Haaretz

Moran Zaga

How Do You Say 'McCarthyism' in Hebrew?

In the book “Finding George Orwell in Burma,” journalist Emma Larkin describes the extensive network of informers established by the military...

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Haaretz

Yoana Gonen

Israel's Finance Minister Knows Nothing of 'Exalted Principles'

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke a lot of nonsense during his celebratory interview with the free daily Israel Hayom last week. The part...

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Haaretz

Tamar Kaplansky

The Erstwhile TV Presenters Masquerading as Israel’s Opposition

Aside from her enormous talent, what stood out in a new documentary about Inbal Perlmuter, “If You Let Me Go” (broadcast on Yes), was the ability...

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Haaretz

Carolina Landsmann

Shabbat 22: The Crisis Should Open Our Eyes

In the previous week, after the last protest to save democracy in Israel (21), I heard in the media voices that said that perhaps it was ok to relax...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Orna Raz

Antisemitism: It’s a Name Changer

Do the names Erich Weisz, Natalie Herschlag, Bernice Frankel, and Chaim Witz ring a bell? You’ve read about them with great interest, but under...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tami Lehman-Wilzig

Anti-Semitism and intersectionality

By Slavoj Zizek LJUBLJANA ― On May 14, 2023, the European Jewish Association held its annual conference in Porto, Portugal, where it adopted a...

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The Korea Times

Guest Column

Escaping the Pain‏‏

Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse Miri* reached out to us regarding a drug addiction that had developed after years of avoiding the trauma resulting...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Zvi Gluck

Ondol: one thing that's missing

By John Alderman Linton As part of the fourth generation of a family of missionaries, I've witnessed many changes during my time in Korea. It's...

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The Korea Times

Guest Column

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