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The Climate-Education Crisis

NEW YORK – Climate change threatens the very future of humanity. Entire villages are already being washed to sea, and conflicts over scarce...

Yasmine Sherif

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Netanyahu said to blame Smotrich for Knesset defeat: ‘He tripped us up’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is blaming Religious Zionism and its leader Bezalel Smotrich for Likud’s defeat in the Knesset on Monday in a...

Stuart Winer

New Zealand is right not to align itself too closely with the US’ relentless anti-China crusade

New Zealand has put the cat among the pigeons. On Monday, its Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta stated that Wellington is “uncomfortable”...

Tom Fowdy

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Wife of New Hope’s Elkin files police complaint over abuse by Likud supporters

The wife of New Hope MK Ze’ev Elkin has filed a police complaint against supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who verbally attacked...

Nurit Chinn

A Palestinian prayer for Ramadan: May the voices of the oppressed be heard

Covid-19 cases in occupied Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious...

Dr Ramzy Baroud

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Diplomacy or appeasement? New Zealand’s China policy risks undermining its commitments to human rights, democracy and the rule of international law

Very recently in the Bay of Bengal a naval exercise took place involving India, France, Japan and Australia. While it received little or no...

Alexander Gillespie

Why mRNA Covid-19 vaccines like Pfizer’s jab should be part of a long-term public health strategy

Last week, the chief executive of Pfizer said anyone who receives its Covid-19 vaccine will probably need to have a third dose within 6-12 months...

Nathan Bartlett

Daily Briefing Apr. 20 – Did you blink? Likud may have lost its coalition chance

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...

Toi Staff

Israel, UK weighing travel corridor for the vaccinated

Israel and Britain are considering establishing a “green” travel corridor with mutual recognition of vaccinations, following the successful...

Toi Staff

The Tokyo Olympics will go on, but in name only

In 1964, less than two decades removed from World War II, Japan used the Summer Olympics to showcase its astonishing recovery from a horrific...

Japan Today

Iran reports progress in nuclear talks; discusses traces of uranium with IAEA

High-level talks in Vienna aimed at bringing the United States back into the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran are moving ahead, with experts working on...

Agencies

Feds charge extremist Jewish sect Lev Tahor with exploiting, kidnapping children

JTA — US Federal authorities filed child exploitation and child abduction charges against leaders of an extremist Haredi Orthodox sect that has...

Shira Hanau

You may loathe him, but Jean-Claude Juncker is right…he could have stopped Brexit by ignoring snake charmer David Cameron

Time supposedly heals all wounds, but not if your name is David Cameron. The former British prime minister was the man who led the Conservatives...

Chris Sweeney

Meet the 27-year-old amplifying the sounds of the Borscht Belt

New York Jewish Week via JTA — Growing up, Aaron Bendich would spend lots of time with his grandfather Max in the North Bronx, in a house “filled...

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Put the distractions aside, the real threat to Egypt is Sisi's regime

I would like to make two suggestions to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, regarding possible TV programmes for Ramadan 2022 and 2023. The...

Osama Gaweesh

State Social Media and National Security Strategy: Israel’s Operation Protective Edge

Direct communication with social media followers is a relatively new tool for the state to narrate and characterize each use of force. For the...

Marisa Tramontano

Post-blast security measures at Natanz slowing down enrichment — report

Iran’s nuclear enrichment program at the Natanz facility has slowed down due to increased security measures implemented following a blast at the...

Toi Staff

East Jerusalem teenager arrested on suspicion of slapping Haredi boys on train

A 17-year-old East Jerusalem resident suspected of slapping two ultra-Orthodox boys on the Jerusalem light rail last week has been arrested, police...

Toi Staff

Israeli startup starts sale of cocoa spreads in US, touting 50% less sugar

DouxMatok, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based food-tech company that says it is able to cut sugar levels in foods without affecting their taste, on...

Shoshanna Solomon

With Afghanistan withdrawal, Biden focuses on the big picture

U.S. President Joe Biden announced last week that he will withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 of this year, the 20th...

Brad Glosserman

Productivity After the Pandemic

BERKELEY – With COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out and supportive fiscal and monetary policies fueling aggregate demand, the US economy is poised...

Laura Tyson

Syria faces sanctions from chemical weapons watchdog, rejects attack claims

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The world’s chemical weapons watchdog will decide this week whether to impose unprecedented sanctions on Syria for...

Danny Kemp

Getting Back to Normal

“Is life getting back to normal in Israel?? I need to know there’s light!!” This is the message my friend in New York sent me on Yom...

Risi Adler Finkel

EDITORIAL: Basic issues left unaddressed by move to revise immigration law

A government-drafted bill to revise the Immigration Control and Refugee-Recognition Law fails to address key issues, virtually assuring that Japan...

The Asahi Shimbun

Opinion – Brexit and the Continued Troubles in Northern Ireland

Of the many pernicious and long-lasting side effects of Brexit, perhaps none is as tragic and devastating as that of Northern Ireland. Long the...

Alexander Brotman

The Demonisation of Migrant Masculinities in British Politics

On the 24th March 2021 the UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, took to the floor of the House of Commons and hailed her ‘New Plan for Immigration,’...

Lizzie Hobbs

Foreign national stabbed and killed in fight in south Tel Aviv

A man in his thirties was stabbed to death Tuesday in Neve Sha’anan, a neighborhood in the south of Tel Aviv. Two others were injured. Magen...

Toi Staff

Microsoft says new Israel cloud data center to start operations in early 2022

US tech giant Microsoft said Tuesday it will open its regional data center in Israel at the beginning of next year, offering cloud services to...

Shoshanna Solomon

Abbas statements are complicit with Israeli settler-colonialism

Known for belatedly spouting known truths, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was true to form in his address to the J Street conference...

Ramona Wadi

More than a meet-and-greet, Suga-Biden summit re-imagines partnership

When Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrived at the White House on Friday for his first meeting with Joe Biden — Biden’s first in-person meeting...

Tobias Harris

Haredi mob ambushed cops in Jerusalem, injuring 3 and locking some in building

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. Chad’s newly re-elected president Idriss Deby Itno, in power for three...

Michael Bachner

The Case for Green Consumer Taxes

LONDON – Many governments, aiming to foster a green and inclusive post-pandemic recovery, have embraced the slogan “Build Back Better.” So...

Mark Cliffe

What price democracy in the Palestinian territories?

Next month, for the first time in 15 years, the Palestinian people will finally have the long-coveted opportunity to hold democratic elections....

Shai Bazak

What ASEAN Leaders Should Say to the Head of Myanmar’s Junta

In September 2012, Myanmar’s then President Thein Sein confidently told the U.N. General Assembly that the country’s democratic progress had...

Dino Patti Djalal