Netanyahu says he wants to hear ‘counter offers’ to proposed judicial overhaul

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is ready to “hear counter offers” to the contentious plan spearheaded by his government’s justice...

Report: Hayut asks to freeze judicial overhaul push to talk compromise, PM says no

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut has reportedly demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government freeze all efforts to push...

Shaped by ‘shanda’: Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s memoir on a life of shame and secrets

All families have their secrets, but from reading Letty Cottin Pogrebin‘s new memoir, “Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy,” it would seem...

Bill calling to end UN probe into Israel reintroduced to US Congress

A bill calling to end a United Nations probe against Israel has been reintroduced to the US Congress after similar legislation failed to advance...

Netanyahu’s conspiratorial-minded government is treating every issue like a war

In 2017, an Israeli right-wing activist published a book that became an overnight mainstay of the conservative Israeli bookshelf. It was a fierce...

Sweden's hypocrisy could cost it NATO membership, warns Erdogan

Sweden is one of the largest countries in Europe in terms of land mass, but it has a relatively small population of around ten million. It is...

Why has the director of the CIA just visited Libya?

The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) arrived unannounced in Tripoli on 12 January for a brief visit that lasted just a few...

Palestine is my cause: Arabs reaffirm support for Palestinians, rejection of the Occupation

The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment of their economic...

In the Middle East and North Africa, corruption and violence fuel each other

In December 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi grew so frustrated with inequality and corruption in the Tunisian government that he set himself on fire in the...

The world is heading towards CBDCs: the inevitable future of finance or new form of dystopian control?

It is the unfortunate – or fortunate, depending on one's propensity to autocracy – nature of every decentralised system in this modern age to...

The torture battalion in the Israeli army

I will always remember the crime of the torture and murder of the 80-year-old ill Palestinian citizen, Omar Asaad from Ramallah, by the Israeli...

Palestinians narrate details of Israeli attacks on Jenin

Over the course of four hours, the Israeli Army carried out a large-scale military operation in the Jenin refugee camp, northern West Bank, which...

This Brazilian activist has worn the Palestinian keffiyeh for decades

The keffiyeh is a traditional scarf in the Arab world. The distinctive black and white Palestinian version has become one of the most iconic...

Condition of IDF officer wounded in Jerusalem attack said to worsen

An Israel Defense Forces officer injured in a shooting attack last weekend near Jerusalem’s Old City has seen a deterioration in his medical...

Jewish initiative aims to support Asian New Yorkers following Monterey Park shooting

New York Jewish Week — After the January 21 mass shooting that took the lives of mostly older Asian Americans in Monterey Park, California, a...

Former deputy IDF chief Eyal Zamir takes up post as Defense Ministry director

Eyal Zamir, a former deputy chief of the military, was appointed as Wednesday as director-general of the Defense Ministry by Defense Minister Yoav...

Doug Emhoff’s trip to Poland and Germany brings him back to Jewish ancestral roots

BERLIN (JTA) — For US Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, the final hours of a five-day working trip to Poland and Germany brought everything into...

The Age of Verbiage

ChatGPT sounds exactly like us. How is that a good thing?

In 1950, Alan Turing, the British computer scientist who cracked the Enigma code during World War II, wrote an article in which he posed a...

TikTok: China's modern-day application of 'The Art of War'

Written over 2,000 years ago, Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu stated in The Art of War that "Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting...

Bob Born, Jewish maker of Peeps marshmallow candies, dies at 98

JTA — Ira “Bob” Born, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant who founded the company that makes Peeps candies, has died. He was 98. Born was the...

France’s updated plan to counter antisemitism will take students to sites of attacks

JTA — The French government updated its plan for fighting antisemitism and racism, which will require teachers to receive training on the topic...

Iran protester on death row gets stay of execution

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian, sentenced to death for his actions during protests triggered by last year’s death in custody of Mahsa Amini, has been...

US insists on glorifying Israel despite its increasing violations of international law

Following the killing of seven Israeli Jewish settlers in the illegal settlement of Neve Yaakov on Friday evening, US President Joe Biden spoke...

Saving the planet and picking fights in the process

The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law in the United States last summer, is “a game changer” for U.S. decarbonization efforts, spurring a...

Gospod natakar, dvojne čričke, prosim!

Evropska komisija je za prehrano v Evropski uniji poleg kobilic in hroščev mokarjev odobrila tudi uporabo hišnih čričkov. Črički so odobritev...

Unicorn CEO says he’ll leave Israel, stop paying taxes to protest legal overhaul

The founder of one of Israel’s most successful tech unicorns declared on Tuesday that he was leaving the country and ceasing to pay taxes in...

Thomas Friedman shows that liberal Jews have no reason left to defend Israel

I watched the recent discussion between Thomas Friedman and Peter Beinart with great interest. Friedman, a New York Times columnist and arguably...

What to expect from the next round of globalization

DAVOS, Switzerland – Is globalization coming back to life? That was the big question at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, where...

Time for India to be firm with drugmakers rather than deregulate

Lax stance risks opportunity for 'friend-shoring' to serve Western nations

Government attorneys threaten strike over planned judicial overhaul

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they unfold. Eyal Zamir, a former deputy chief of the military, takes up his post as...

New York community leaders call to remove Nazi collaborators from ‘Canyon of heroes’

NEW YORK — Jewish community leaders in New York City have called to remove plaques honoring Nazi collaborators from a celebrated section of...

Israeli series with never-before-heard Eichmann confessions comes to Amazon video

Americans subscribed to Amazon Prime Video can now listen to never-before-heard recordings of Adolf Eichmann confessing to his crimes, in his own...

Battle over municipal funding for Haredi schools foreshadows local election showdown

In a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Education Minister Yoav Kisch, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich earlier this...

The Abraham Accords expose international hypocrisy over Palestine

US senators from the Democratic Party are claiming there is no contradiction between the Abraham Accords and the two-state compromise over...

Why is Turkiye blocking Swedish and Finnish NATO membership?

Swedish and Finnish hopes of quickly joining NATO have run into an obstacle in the form of objections by Turkiye, which holds veto powers over...

Israel's new chief of staff faces some stern challenges

It's only been a few days since General Herzl "Herzi" Halevy was appointed Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), succeeding Aviv...

The Beirut Port blast: Why has there been no accountability?

Lebanon's top Public Prosecutor, on Wednesday, charged the judge investigating the 2020 Beirut Port explosion that killed at least 220 people, of...

On Palestinian unity on the ground

There is one point that stands out recently, and that is the cessation of the demands to end the division or the demands to seek reconciliation....

Has Saudi Arabia abandoned the Sisi regime?

In a big surprise, the Saudi writer, Turki Al-Hamad, who is close to the decision-making circles in his country, launched an attack on the Egyptian...

A solution for Syria is complicated and needs serious commitment

The war in Syria remains ongoing after twelve years, a consequence of the Arab Spring and the subsequent rise of anti-government, pro-democracy...

Will the successor of Mahmoud Abbas be appointed or elected?

A heated debate is taking place in Palestinian circles about the next head of the Palestinian Authority; how the president will be chosen; what the...

Who really sets the Israeli government's agenda?

At least 30 Palestinians, including three children, have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank this month alone. A number of the...

Two Years On, Women Remain at the Forefront of Myanmar’s Resistance Movement

Two years have now passed since the Myanmar military stole an election from the people and launched an illegal coup on February 1, 2021. Hours...

Daily Briefing Feb. 1: When High Court intervention helped settlers, religious women

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,...

Likud MK Bitan says Netanyahu will ‘pay a price’ if Amsalem left without role

Likud MK David Bitan on Wednesday warned that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not appoint lawmaker David Amsalem, Bitan’s ally, to a...

If We Surrender to the Internal Tyranny, They Will Win

Last November, after a motorcyclist stabbed a pedestrian to death when the latter chided him for almost hitting himself and his spouse as they...

It's a Shame You Didn't Speak Out About Israel Before. But It's Not Too Late

“It’s a shame you didn’t come earlier, but you came now, and that encourages me,” Leah Rabin told people who gathered near her home after her...

Pakistans tragedy spills over to Kashmir

Pakistan is bandying about failed causes as millions of its citizens are scrambling for wheat flour and pulses, living literally in darkness caused...

Santos bows out of House panels amid fury over lies about his past

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. George Santos of New York announced Tuesday he is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees,...