Kissing the ground, hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants welcomed to Israel

Waving Israeli flags as they came down the steps of the aircraft, over 300 members of the Ethiopia’s Jewish community arrived in Israel on Thursday...

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Debut of energy solution firm

At stake is how to attain economy of scale LG Energy Solution was formally launched Tuesday. The company made its debut in the business world,...

The Late Yossi Sarid Was a Leftist Back When Values Meant Something in Israel

Palestinian bus driver arrested over fatal hit-and-run near Bethlehem

A Palestinian man was arrested on Thursday over his alleged involvement in a fatal hit-and-run near Bethlehem, while driving a bus he was not...

Tales of gloom and doom

By Donald Kirk The North Korean economy is in such dire straits that none of the experts know quite what to do about it other than beg Kim Jong-un,...

Time for compromise

Democrats and Republicans in Congress both claim they want to pass a new federal stimulus bill before President-elect Joe Biden takes office Jan....

Post-Trump: Quo Vadis, America?

By Ron Roman So it's out with Trumpism, in with Bidenism. At least as this is being written in mid-November. Did Joe Biden really win? Or did he...

Why UK risks post- after corona crisis Brexit meltdown

By Andrew Hammond New OECD data Tuesday shows the United Kingdom has been hit hardest, economically, of any G20 state from the coronavirus crisis,...

US should respond to RCEP trade deal

By Dr. Nehginpao Kipgen and Dishant Choudhary The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal was signed Nov. 15 via a...

India’s angry farmers have reason to worry

The third rail of Indian politics has always been agriculture. While the economy has been partly liberalized since opening up to the world in 1991,...

In memory of my aunt

By Kim Ae-ran Those who try hard to build a better future talk about "the world since the pandemic" by means of such issues as "sustainability,...

Multicultural South Caucasus is only concept for everlasting peace

By Ramzi Teymurov In accordance to prominent multicultural scholars, multiculturalism represents the ethnic and cultural diversity where people...

‘The Chamber of Secrets[1]’ Parashat Vayishlach 5781

While the Book of Bereishit is studied in nearly every Jewish Primary School, Parashat Vayishlach contains two episodes that are not meant for...

Bio Detection Dogs: Training Man’s Best Friend to Sniff Out the Coronavirus

It’s no secret that most people look at dogs as man’s best friend. Dogs are amazing animals that will do just about anything physically possible...

Eye of the storm

Ya’akov’s life was a bumpy ride, perhaps not unlike an adrenaline rush roller coaster. One might have assumed that the thrill filled run was...

Resisting the brutality of arrogance

Parashat VaYishlach, 5781 This parasha describes the dramatic meeting between Yaakov and Esav after a separation of over two decades. Yaakov learns...

The Weight of Gold – The Struggle to Become

Parashat Va-Yishlach Embed from Getty Images When I helped guide a young Christian business associate through a spiritual crisis, little did we...

Closer to ‘Sleepy Joe’ Biden

Ideologically, Joseph R. Biden stands in a compromise position within the Democratic Party. Analysts and experts call it “center-left,” as a...

Why Religion and COVID Have the Relationship They Do (for now)

The ideas of the earth revolving around the sun, Democracy, and America were viewed as wrong by the masses; but it was consideration of the...

The Jakarta-Bandung Rail Project: 5 Years On and Still Going Nowhere

Five years ago, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo awarded the $5.5 billion Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Rail project to a company from...

'Statue of Peace'

Berlin district council takes right steps A statue of a girl symbolizing the victims of Japan's wartime sex slavery stands a high chance of becoming...

Amid pandemic, deaths in Israel in March-October up 9% from 2019

The death rate in Israel in March-October was 9 percent higher than a year earlier, and 10% higher than projections for 2020, amid the coronavirus...

Biden team will have to reinvent fiscal policy

President-elect Joe Biden has named the leaders of his economic policy team. His most important nominee ― Janet Yellen, for Treasury secretary ―...

Syria Falls Victim to US Highway Robbery

Recently, you can very frequently see in the reports of the Middle Eastern media information that the United States is exporting military personnel...

The sound of gravity

In 1916, shortly after publishing his theory of general relativity, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves – warps in...

Berlin Climate Fiction Literary Festival Dec. 4-6 has multilingual global flair

The upcoming Climate Fiction Festival Berlin at Literaturhaus Berlin is an international cli-fi literary festival involving German cli-fi...

Biden set to assemble health care team to tackle pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — Up soon for US President-elect Joe Biden: naming his top health care officials as the coronavirus pandemic rages. It’s hard...

UAE launches tourist visas for Israelis as waiver deal lags

DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates launched tourist visas for Israeli citizens on Thursday, official media said, in the latest move following the...

Children who were Saved

  To mark the anniversary of the Kindertransport project, in which Britain agreed to accept ten thousand unaccompanied refugee children, the vast...

Living in Israel Without Speaking Hebrew in 2020

This article is going to be helpful for you if you are considering moving to Israel from any part of the world… or if you already live in Israel...

S. African sensation ‘Jerusalema’ tops 260 million YouTube views

A gospel-influenced house song about Jerusalem and faith has become a global phenomenon over the past year, received over 260 million views on...

Patient, 74, dies in suspected case of reinfection with coronavirus

A man who recently died of coronavirus may have been Israel’s first case of fatal reinfection with the disease, Kan news reported on Wednesday....

Hackers who breached Israeli insurance firm demand $1m to keep data private

Hackers who stole clients’ personal data from Israeli insurance company Shirbit are demanding approximately $1 million in order to keep the...

Republicans on key panel ‘uneasy’ about F-35 sale to UAE — congressional aides

NEW YORK — Republican members of a key Senate panel are signaling apprehension with the Trump administration’s planned $23 billion arms deal to...

With vegetables now so cheap, it is the perfect time for ‘nabe’

"Kore wa Ohisama" (This is the sun), a picture book written by Shuntaro Tanigawa and illustrated by Ayumi Ohashi, shows the bright red sun on the...

Thousands attend funeral of top rabbi who died after coronavirus infection

Thousands of people took part in a Jerusalem funeral procession Thursday for a senior ultra-Orthodox rabbi who died after being infected with the...

New York Young Republicans label Andrew Cuomo aide a ‘court Jew’

JTA — The New York Young Republican Club called the state’s governor Andrew Cuomo’s director of Jewish affairs a “court Jew” and tweeted...

Biden faces pressure from competing factions over pick for secretary of defense

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President-elect Joe Biden is facing escalating pressure from competing factions within his own party as he finalizes his...

Threats to US election officials swell as Trump grievances feed menacing tide

WASHINGTON (AP) — The last throes of Donald Trump’s presidency have turned ugly — even dangerous. Death threats are on the rise. Local and...

Win-win-win: The Abraham Accords’ opportunities with Asia

At a dinner this week with ambassadors of Asian countries to Israel, one ambassador in particular raised the possibility of establishing trilateral...

No cops to be charged over serious injury to 9-year-old in East Jerusalem raid

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they happen. Thousands of people in Jerusalem attend the funeral of a prominent ultra-...

Claims that Biden will be influenced by Beijing are Trump’s brazen attempt to create a Chinagate crisis that doesn’t really exist

Is Joe Biden susceptible to influence from China? That’s the narrative that’s being peddled. US intelligence official William Evanina claimed...

Shekel continues gain on dollar, shrugging off shadow of elections

The Israeli shekel continued to gain on the dollar even as the Knesset on Wednesday approved a preliminary bill that sets the stage for a fourth...

In bid to kick out anti-Semitism, UK’s Premier League adopts IHRA definition

The English Premier League, the most widely-watched soccer division in the world, announced on Thursday that it had adopted the International...

US coronavirus deaths set record at over 3,100 in a single day 

The US recorded over 3,100 COVID-19 deaths in a single day Wednesday, obliterating the record set last spring, while the number of Americans...

Politician named Adolf Hitler wins local election in Namibia

A man named Adolf Hitler has once again come to power — in Namibia. Adolf Hitler Uunona, who goes by Adolf Uunona, won a local election in the...

The UN is not objecting to a 'Plan B' to annexation

The UN's hypocritical manner of dealing with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People finds a contender in the way of the...

China Can Spend More to Grow More

BEIJING – China’s economy seems largely to have bounced back from the COVID-19 shock. It registered 4.9% annual growth in the third quarter of...

To preserve a 31-year-old lie, Britain is ready to tarnish Scottish justice

The third appeal hearing for the Lockerbie bombing's only conviction ended last Thursday before Scotland's highest court. The five judges have now...