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Daily Briefing Oct. 3: US visa waiver ‘is gamechanger’ for bilateral ties and travel

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

Woman, man wounded in overnight shootings as crime wave continues

Two people were wounded in separate overnight shooting incidents, medics said Tuesday morning, as rampant criminal violence in Arab communities...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Netanyahu said to meet Ben Gvir one-on-one after minister left out of security talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly hosted National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for a private meeting on Sunday in an attempt to...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Singer intervenes as anti-overhaul protesters heckle Gallant during speech

A prominent singer intervened as protesters opposed to the government’s judicial overhaul heckled Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during a speech...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Gazan terrorists test fire rockets days after border riots halted

Gazans test-fired several rockets from the coastal enclave toward the Mediterranean Sea Tuesday morning, setting off an alert in southern Israel,...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Nearly 1,000 arrested as Turkey cracks down on Kurdish group after suicide blast

ANKARA, Turkey — Police detained almost a thousand people in raids across Turkey on Tuesday, including dozens with alleged links to Kurdish...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

GOP lawmaker Gaetz files motion to oust McCarthy as speaker, sparking House tumult

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing an extraordinary referendum on his leadership of the House after a conservative member of his...

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The Times of Israel

Farnoush Amiri

Sam Bankman-Fried must convince jury that the former crypto king was not a crook

NEW YORK (AP) — For a while, Sam Bankman-Fried tried to convince politicians and the public that he was the next JP Morgan. Now, he has to convince...

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The Times of Israel

Ken Sweet

Piqued by COVID, storyteller Simon Schama takes a stab at the history of vaccines

Three and a half years ago, as COVID-19 raced its way around the modern world, award-winning historian Simon Schama turned his attention to...

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The Times of Israel

Renee Ghert-Zand

Bayit-Succah

The Maharal gives an interesting explanation as to why we add in the Birkat Hamazon the prayer, הרחמן הוא יקים את סוכת דוד...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Chief Rabbi: What you say, you are yourself

It’s a Dutch expression for look who’s talking The habitually verbally abusive Chief Rabbi has opened his mouth again. He now suggested the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Africa is the future of multilateralism

By Mark Malloch-Brown By Mark Malloch-Brown NEW YORK ? “We do not seem to have any common values on which we can all agree, nor common goals to...

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The Korea Times

Guest Column

SEVENTEEN's unique approach to artistry: A deep dive into self-production and collaboration

  By Kevin Kim In the ever-evolving world of K-pop, where trends shift rapidly and groups come and go, SEVENTEEN has managed to carve out a...

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The Korea Times

Guest Column

Learning To Live In Our Shared Sukkah

I left my synagogue after Neilah on high, feeling inspired by the beautiful service I had just experienced. However, when I got home and read the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Noah Leavitt

EDITORIAL: Lower House Speaker Hosoda must come clean even if he resigns

Lower House Speaker Hiroyuki Hosoda’s decision to resign comes far too late as it has long been evident that he is not fit for the job as the head...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Bunching COVID-19, the flu and RSV as a 'tripledemic' is misleading

By Sheldon H. Jacobson The term “tripledemic” is being used to express the concerns about the collective spread of COVID-19, influenza and the...

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The Korea Times

Tribune Service

Israel’s Dangerous Silence on the Global Stage

Since the establishment of the State of Israel, its history and reality have been the subject of global controversy and debate. Yet, much of this...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Elmescany

Sukkah and Sex

When you imagine your best night ever with your partner the last place it would be is in a crowded, vulnerable, temporary hut you built on your...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Aviva Safir

A ‘Samuel Accord’ for Saudi Arabia and Israel

There is an ancient Arab story from the sixth century about a Jewish man named Samuel, or “Samawal,” in Arabic. He was entrusted with the money...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Salman Al-Ansari

Is Chinese youth unemployment as bad as it looks?

  By Nancy Qian CHICAGO — China’s youth unemployment rate, after rising every month this year, reached a record high of 21.3 percent in June....

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The Korea Times

Guest Column

Impactful Climate Change Technology: PLANETech World 2023

In an age defined by climate change, sustainability has become paramount. It’s not just a buzzword; it’s a global imperative and a realm of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jeffrey Levine

Decoding Iconography in the Hebrew Biblical Text

The Hebrew Bible or usually known as the Tanakh is widely considered as holy scripture in Judaism which is also a significant book for...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Denise Bruno

Ending the UK’s Permanent Silly Season

LONDON – It is the season of political parties’ annual conferences in the United Kingdom. While much of the attention will be on the governing...

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Project Syndicate

Jim O&x27Neill

Controladores de tránsito aéreo realizarán movilización en los aeropuertos de todo Chile

Este viernes 6 de octubre, los controladores de tránsito aéreo de Chile realizarán una movilización cuyos detalles entregarán este jueves,...

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América Economía

América Economía

Genfar será la nueva marca de genéricos de Eurofarma para países de Latinoamérica

Eurofarma, la farmacéutica multinacional de capital brasileño presente en 22 países de Latinoamérica, Estados Unidos y parte del continente...

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América Economía

América Economía

Economía mexicana registra crecimiento durante el tercer trimestre

La economía de México muestra un crecimiento sólido, destacó hoy lunes el Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas (IMEF) al interpretar...

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América Economía

América Economía

Pushing back against China’s media offensive

When I was a wee little thing, I sniffed at the idea of being a journalist, reasoning that I would rather make the news than report it. After a...

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The Japan Times

Brad Glosserman

Nobel for mRNA vaccines shows the power of perseverance

This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine is a testament to the power of perseverance in science. Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won...

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The Japan Times

Lisa Jarvis

Shohei Ohtani, Home Run King: Great Achievement Disproves That It ‘Can’t Be Done by a Japanese Person’

Editorial 14:29 JST, October 3, 2023 The home run is one of the splendors of baseball. The home run crown has been won by a Japanese player for...

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The Japan News

The Japan News Editorial

Nonlife Insurance for Companies: Having Inappropriate Arrangements for Premiums Common Practice?

Editorial 14:30 JST, October 3, 2023 There are growing suspicions that inappropriate price arrangements for premiums have become common practice...

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The Japan News

The Japan News Editorial

Is it Autism or OCD?

Perseverating on perseveration.

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Psychology Today

Debra Brause Psy.d

How Social Media Distorts Our Body Image

From magazines to Instagram: Unraveling the influence of media on mental health.

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Psychology Today

Pernille Bülow Ph.d

How Consciousness Is Different From Augmented Reality

Making decisions based on what is in one's conscious field in the present.

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Psychology Today

Ezequiel Morsella Ph.d

How to Improve the Human Ability to Forecast

Much of the strength of foresight comes from our awareness of its limits.

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Psychology Today

Thomas Suddendorf Ph.d

Anti-Arab sentiments in Turkiye will not save Turkish Lira

Last week, a Turkish man was detained in connection with an assault on a Kuwaiti tourist in the northern city of Trabzon. The attack was widely...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Elif Selin Calik

The Climate Crisis: Helping Youth With Emotional Distress

Hopeful strategies can help young people deal with the climate crisis.

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Psychology Today

Elaine Miller-Karas Msw

Memory of a Green Slipper

A Personal Perspective: Why traumatic memory is so focused, and so limited.

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Psychology Today

Richard M Brockman M.d

Data could let Xi loosen grip on China's economy but keep control

Tools like digital yuan key to vision of using technology to raise alarms

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Nikkei Asian Review

Diana Choyleva

Khaled and the Israeli demonstrations, a legal system perpetuating inequality

Commentary. The heterogenous demonstrations in defense of the rule of law and the arrest of an Italian-Palestinian may seem like distant events,...

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Il Manifesto Global

Chiara Cruciati

CFK calls court to retract rulings reopening cases against her

Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner presented an appeal to the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation on Monday, calling for it to annul...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Valen Iricibar

Reproductive technologies

Feminist critics first met in vitro fertilisation (IVF) developments with suspicion. Gena Corea argued that assisted reproductive technologies...

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Aeon

Gulzaar Barn

Minister, Knesset committee chair land in Saudi Arabia for postal conference

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi and Knesset Economy Committee chairman David Bitan on Monday landed in Saudi Arabia, leading an Israeli...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Israeli government delegation holds Jewish prayer service in Saudi Arabia

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi participated in a morning prayer service in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday morning, complete with a Torah scroll...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

Learning to spot Russian, Chinese and Iranian meddling in other countries can help U.S. prepare for 2024

Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to...

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Japan Today

Japan Today

Pozabljiva, nepoučena, v nov razpis?

Poskusimo se problema »ministrica Sanja Ajanović Hovnik« lotiti pri temeljih: njena dolgoletna sodelavka in prijateljica Kaja Primorac je prek...

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Dnevnik

Tanja Lesničar Pučko

OECD calls on Israel to cut subsidies for yeshiva students, boost employment

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has recommended that Israel cut government subsidies to yeshiva students in order to...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Israel blocked 3 European foreign ministers from visiting Palestinian towns in Area C

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. Three people are killed and four wounded in a shooting at a Bangkok shopping...

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The Times of Israel

Amy Spiro

Second quake in days shakes Italy’s volcanic Campi Flegrei, causing no damage

ROME, Italy — A 4.0-magnitude earthquake shook Italy’s volcanic region of Campi Flegrei west of Naples Monday, the latest in a series of tremors...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

National Library reverts to former logo, after new one sparks uproar

While the new National Library is reopening its new, NIS 860 million ($225 million) building this month, its latest, matching logo was summarily...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Growing NK nuclear threat

ROK-US alliance should be strengthened steadfastly North Korea has recently revised its constitution to expand and boost its nuclear capabilities....

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The Korea Times

Editorial

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