Bennett expands Green Classroom plan as COVID numbers continue to drop

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday authorized the expansion of the Green Classroom pilot program that reduces quarantine times for students...

3 more arrested over cold case murders from ’80s, ’90s tied to Hasidic cult

Police said Tuesday that they arrested three more suspects in connection with the unsolved suspected murder of a teenage boy and the murder of a...

Shaked slams coalition partners after Rabin memorial: ‘Stop the wild incitement’

A day after a fractious parliamentary session in memory of the assassinated former premier Yitzhak Rabin, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked took an...

In Denying Healthcare to Asylum Seekers, Shaked Hits a New Low

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked believes her nationalist moves will make rightist voters forget that she formed a government together with the left...

Ex-Nazi death camp secretary, 96, who fled trial, to finally face court

FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) — A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who absconded before her trial was set to begin is due to appear...

At 95, Mel Brooks to finally deliver ‘History of the World: Part II’

JTA — You couldn’t Torquemada it: Mel Brooks is making a sequel to “History of the World: Part I,” the 1981 revue that delighted and/or...

Trump files lawsuit to keep Jan. 6 documents from Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former US president Donald Trump on Monday sought to block the release of documents related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to...

Battling injustice, Gal Gadot takes Elle front cover

Israel movie star Gal Gadot has been given a place of honor on the front cover of the November issue of Elle Magazine, which is dedicated to “Women...

An Interview With Jan-Werner Mueller

Singapore’s ‘foreign interference’ law will weaken people power

When the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Bill, or Fica, was tabled in Singapore’s Parliament on September 13, local activists were...

UK building safety crisis: ‘We are at breaking point’

Finally, after years of hard work and saving, I had done it. In late 2017, I purchased a one-bed flat, and it was a dream come true. But this dream...

Saturation CCTV coverage further marginalizes India's Muslims

Imperfect technology tramples upon citizens' rights

Nazi secretary in German court after trying to flee trial

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s developments as they unfold. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to allow “mix...

(POGLED) Oprostite, grešila sem

Oprostite mi, grešila sem. Bi najbrž morala povedati, če bi podpornikom pohoda za življenje v nameri prepovedati splav uspelo. Pred tremi leti...

The man who’s seen almost every Holocaust movie ever made has some takeaways

JTA — At least 440 narrative films have been made about the Holocaust — and Rich Brownstein has seen just about every single one of them. As a...

The cultural genocide in Palestine: On Sally Rooney's decision to boycott Israel

The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared that she had...

Duty to our ideas calls for unity and governance, not just putting up a logo

Commentary. Electoral dispersion is the greatest gift one could give to the Democratic Party: thanks to these ‘lost’ votes at the polls, the PD...

Haaretz Cartoon

Failure to reveal truth

National Assembly audit turns into political battle The National Assembly's audit of the Gyeonggi provincial government turned into a political...

Washington going too far

Demands for semiconductor info could harm Korea The Moon Jae-in administration has announced its position regarding the controversial U.S. demands...

Prosecution at trial of Nazi camp secretary: Gas chamber cries ‘clearly audible’

ITZEHOE, Germany (AFP) — A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who absconded before her trial appeared in court in Germany on...

What makes us happy and healthy

By Shin Freedman The sixties' adage, loneliness in a crowd, has reappeared during the COVID-19 pandemic and spread of the subsequent Delta Variant....

How many missile tests will it take before Biden gets his head out of the sand on North Korea?

On Tuesday morning, North Korea tested what was described by South Korea as a “submarine-launched ballistic missile” (SLBM) that was analysed...

Ethnic Studies at your school

Dear teacher: The San Mateo Unified School District adopted the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (LESMC). The LESMC is antisemitic,...

Extinction is forever

Mr. Chair, Member of Knesset, Extinction is forever. When we annihilate entire populations of animals and plant species, they leave this world,...

EDITORIAL: Lower House poll can help cure political woes caused by LDP

The official campaign period for the first Lower House election in four years started on Oct. 19. This general election is about choosing either...

German coalition talks have a long way to go

The road to a new German government has become clearer: The SPD, Greens and FDP have agreed to coalition talks. So far, things may have gone well,...

Against longtermism

It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous - by Phil Torres Read at...

Stoudemire adds ‘farmer’ to list of post-NBA careers

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — On an unusually hot day in mid-October, Amar’e Stoudemire stopped by the Union Square Greenmarket to meet New...

Pod okupacijo primitivcev

‘Razumemo ljudi, razumemo njihovo jezo, razumemo, da smo vsi skupaj v času vseh koronskih ukrepov siti, utrujeni, naveličani. A za tovrstne ukrepe...

Israeli startup Ibex Medical aims to transform cancer diagnostics with AI tech

Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have been reshaping the healthcare landscape, introducing new...

3 years after Tree of Life shooting, Pittsburgh hosts summit on eradicating hate

Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA — As Pittsburgh approaches the three-year anniversary of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, the city will...

Settler violence and Israel's impenetrable web of impunity

As happens each year during the Palestinian olive harvest, Israel's illegal settlers are destroying olive trees and attacking Palestinian farmers....

The G20 and the Means to Climate Safety

NEW YORK – The philosopher Immanuel Kant famously said that, “Whoever wills the end also wills…the indispensably necessary means to it that is...

Israel's colonial objectives are behind its membership of regional blocs

Israel is making every effort to join regional blocs, even if this means observer status, such as it has at the African Union, and its associated...

Middle Eastern Water Crisis and Where Various Actors Stand

A report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) highlights the increasingly grave threat posed by the...

NATO-Russia rift is next level in Putin's escalation

Officially freezing relations with the alliance gives the Kremlin a new chance to raise tensions on NATO's eastern flank and with Ukraine, writes...

Is Britain Finally Confronting Its Fascist Past?

Britain has a complicated relationship with its fascist past, in that it barely acknowledges it.  It’s a source of national pride that the country...

Paris massacre: 60 years on, France must face its colonial past

“The most violent contemporary state repression ever applied to a street protest in Western Europe.” This is how British historians Jim House and...

CCTV footage shows suspect in slaying of British MP Amess hours before stabbing

Security camera footage emerged Monday showing the man suspected of killing a British lawmaker strolling down a London street hours before he...

Turkey's new alliance with Latin America is of strategic importance

Turkey has been given observer status in the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament, known as Parlatino. The move was confirmed in a tweet on...

Spain’s proposed anti-Francoist law faces an uphill battle

Analysis. The new text aims to prohibit exaltations of Francoism, including the Francisco Franco Foundation, which exists for that purpose. But it...

UK Jewish toddler Alta Fixsler, 2, dies after being removed from life support

A two-year-old Jewish toddler Alta Fixsler died Monday after her life support was turned off following an extensive, but ultimately futile, legal...

6.0 magnitude quake hits under Mediterranean, rattling Israeli coast

An earthquake underneath the eastern Mediterranean Sea close to the island of Crete on Tuesday morning was felt in parts of central Israel and the...

Blinken hosts 4-way Zoom call with Israeli, Indian and UAE foreign ministers

US Secretary of State State Antony Blinken held a Zoom meeting late Monday with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam...

Man dies in fall from hot air balloon onto moving car

A man in his 20s died on Tuesday morning when he fell from a hot air balloon and landed on top of a moving car. The incident occurred on Route 60...

Enough of MLK and Heschel: Israel outreach in Chicago aims to form new narrative

CHICAGO — The Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago is not exactly where one would expect to see an Israeli ambassador to the...

Israel Is Approaching the Next Nakba

“You’re here by mistake, because [Israel’s first Prime Minister David] Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job and throw you out in 1948,” lawmaker...

Speculating on 'Squid Game'

This undated photo released by Netflix shows cast members, from left, Park Hae-soo, Lee Jung-jae and Anupam Tripathi in a scene from "Squid Game."...

On rich, famous ‘cockroaches’ and tax evasion

Rich, famous and infamous people who evade paying taxes are a lot like cockroaches – they can be lightning-quick and prefer to move about in the...