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UAE shifts workweek to Monday-Friday in move to align with West

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday its official workweek will move to Monday to Friday, a significant...

Isabel Debre

A Radical Answer To Joseph The Evil Tzadik: Building A Just Society

Joseph, the star of the last 14 chapters of Genesis, is called Yosef Hatzadik, “Joseph the Righteous.” However, the political story buried at the...

Jeremy Benstein

Hacking the Tragedy of the Commons

NEW YORK – The word of the week, unfortunately, is Omicron. With yet another new COVID-19 variant dominating the headlines, the global spotlight...

Alex Friedman

Syria says Israeli warplanes attacked Latakia port

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s military said Israeli warplanes fired missiles on the port of the coastal city of Latakia early Tuesday without...

Agencies

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Netanyahu said to request extension of security protection for his family

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter to the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday requesting that high-level protection of his family...

Toi Staff

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President Herzog partners with Facebook for new campaign against cyberbullying

President Isaac Herzog launched a new awareness campaign on Tuesday, in collaboration with Meta (Facebook), to combat cyberbullying and “change...

Toi Staff

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Ex-aide testifies Netanyahu ‘tried to rob state funds for personal needs’

A key witness for the prosecution in Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial alleged Tuesday that the former premier tried “to rob the state’s funds for...

Toi Staff

Man opens fire during apparent road rage incident on Route 6

A man and a woman were arrested early Tuesday morning after shots were fired at a vehicle traveling on Route 6 during what an initial investigation...

Toi Staff

Hogeg kept list of prominent associates he trafficked girls to – report

Police have reportedly discovered that businessman Moshe Hogeg kept a list of prominent individuals who allegedly had sex with, or assaulted, women...

Toi Staff

After alleged Syria strike, Bennett says Israel fighting ‘bad forces’ night and day

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. Global stock markets rally on fading fears over dangers arising from the new...

Toi Staff

Knesset okays minimum sentences for possession, trafficking illegal weapons

In a bid to tackle rising crime, particularly in Arab communities, the Knesset passed a bill on Tuesday morning mandating minimum sentences for...

Toi Staff

Non-Israeli parents of pregnant women exempted from travel ban — report

The Health Ministry has decided to allow the non-Israeli parents of some pregnant women into Israel, despite a travel ban barring foreigners from...

Toi Staff

Don't Give in to the Rabbis' Pressure on 'Kosher' Phones

For the past 14 years, Israelis have been able to change their cellphone provider and keep their phone number. Since the amendment was passed on...

Haaretz Editorial

Intel to take Mobileye public in 2022 at estimated $50b valuation

Four years after Intel Corporation acquired Israel’s Mobileye for over $15 billion, the semiconductor giant said Tuesday that it was planning to...

Ricky Ben-David

Avoiding prosecution, Michael Steinhardt to return $70 million in looted antiquities

JTA — Michael Steinhardt, the hedge funder and megadonor to Jewish causes, has agreed to surrender 180 stolen antiquities worth $70 million to...

Ron Kampeas

As its profile rises, Yeshiva University launches campaign to raise $613 million

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — While its basketball team has been amassing a historic winning streak, Yeshiva University has been on a spree of...

Lisa Keys

Volunteer divers remove 1.6 tons of discarded tires, other waste, from Red Sea

Volunteer divers in the Red Sea Port of Eilat spent the weekend lugging 1.6 tons of discarded tires and other waste from the seabed to the shore as...

Sue Surkes

Why Isn't Washington Merry?

WASHINGTON, DC – The lighting of Christmas trees notwithstanding, Washington is an unhappy place. Indeed, I’ve never seen the city so glum....

Elizabeth Drew

I’m stepping back from hugs and embracing the mitzvah of consent

Hugs have always been complicated for me. I grew up in a family where hugging was very important. And not just hugs, but long, intimate embraces....

Neshama Carlebach

The approach to conservation in Africa needs to change

Ask a timid child what their favourite animal is, and they will open up instantly. Indeed, as a young girl, pets were my first friends. At some...

Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

Phenomena: magnitudes

Exploring natural surfaces at a range of scales – from the microscopic to the cosmic – finds astonishing resonances in pattern - by Aeon Video...

Aeon Video

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Songs of conquest

From Tallis’s choral beauty to the unnerving bells of Mexico City, early modern power created a whole new world of sound - by Thomas Irvine &...

Thomas Irvine & Christopher J Smith

Health Ministry to look at legalizing use of cannabinoid CBD

The Health Ministry said Tuesday that it had set up a committee to examine the implications of excluding substances or products containing CBD from...

Toi Staff

(POGLED) Kuhanček revolucija, kulturni boj: pozabite partizane in domobrance, zdaj gre za lifestyle

Bi lahko odlok sprejeli prej? Še preden so si ponudniki gostinskih storitev na prostem omislili kolibe in nabavili zaloge? Seveda. Glede na...

Marko Crnkovič

After ending cinema ban, Saudis rolls out red carpet for 1st film festival

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabi (AFP) — Less than four years after lifting a ban on cinemas, Saudi Arabia rolled out the red carpet Monday in the Red Sea city...

Rania Sanjar

China throws down the gauntlet on development aid

After he launched the Belt and Road initiative (BRI), the multitrillion-dollar infrastructure development program that is reshaping global...

Brad Glosserman

China Strengthens its Ties with Africa, which Irritates Those Opposing It

The Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which took place on November 29-30 in Senegal, Dakar, is quite...

Vladimir Terehov

In flurry of diplomacy, Saudi crown prince tours Gulf states, Erdogan heads to Qatar

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince traveled Monday to Oman, the first stop of a tour of Gulf Arab states that will see him...

Abdullah Al-Shihri

Jordanian TV rejects German station’s accusation of antisemitic content

AMMAN — A Jordanian broadcaster on Monday rejected accusations of publishing antisemitic content that led a German broadcaster to suspend a...

Agencies

Lebanon may be independent, but it still depends on too many other states

Lebanon marks its "independence day" on 22 November annually, the day that it became independent of France in 1943. Or did it? Is Lebanon really...

Dr Amira Abo El-Fetouh

VOX POPULI: Lawmaker spoke out against war before attack on Pearl Harbor

On the day when Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was reported, author Fujio Noguchi (1911-1993) headed to a movie theater as if to turn...

The Asahi Shimbun

Matovičovo malé veľké víťazstvo

Šéf OĽaNO, potom ako pred 2 týždňami prišiel s ďalšou „atómovkou“, tvrdo narazil na odpor koaličnej SaS. Zdalo sa, že záchranné...

Marián Repa

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What made Pearl Harbor inevitable

Over 2,400 Americans died that Sunday morning as the 1st Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the dreaded Kido Butai, struck the Pacific Fleet...

Nebojsa Malic

Candle scandal Chanukah?

My wife started it! “Do you know, all Chanukah candles come from China?” “Really?” “Really?” said the Chief Rabbi, a sharp tone in his...

Sheldon Paul Stone

What’s in a date?

“When did the war begin?” More than seven decades since World War II’s conclusion, the answer would seem simple enough. This December 7,...

Marina Yudborovsky

Israel and Hanukkah: Jewish Pride Amidst the Nuances

A story from 45 years ago which I remember glimmers of…. I was on my dad’s shoulders, but there were people all around. It was a little...

David Lerner