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Daily Briefing July 21 – IDF begins trial pullout from Lebanon buffer zone

Daily Briefing July 21 – IDF begins trial pullout from Lebanon buffer zone

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on Israeli assessments of Iran’s capabilities and a visit to an underground Hezbollah base, a stone’s throw...

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Japan’s next economic challenge: bringing yen home

Japan’s next economic challenge: bringing yen home

In 2011, Japan’s Ministry of Finance unveiled Kokusai-sensei, a mascot whose smiling face is made from the first kanji character in the Japanese...

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The Japan Times

Gearoid Reidy

Israeli intel said to show Iran has moved centrifuges to Natanz’s Pickaxe Mountain

Israeli intel said to show Iran has moved centrifuges to Natanz’s Pickaxe Mountain

Iranians estimated to have transported thousands of devices in months of activity at underground nuclear site; unclear where the centrifuges came...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

US mulls cutting ties with UN refugee agency, prompting diplomatic flurry — sources

US mulls cutting ties with UN refugee agency, prompting diplomatic flurry — sources

UNHCR said to have urged supporters to press its top donor not to disengage, after Trump-backed candidate urging reforms missed out on deputy high...

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

From AI to ideology, scholars look for answers to post-Oct. 7 antisemitism surge

From AI to ideology, scholars look for answers to post-Oct. 7 antisemitism surge

Researchers gather in Haifa to offer insights into the fight against Jew-hatred, including how it’s financed, the role of technology in its...

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

IDF strikes kill 2 Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on Oct. 7, held hostages

IDF strikes kill 2 Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on Oct. 7, held hostages

Saturday strike said to have killed Nukhba commander who held captives, including Emily Damari, who says ‘monster’ is now burning in hell; Sunday...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

The Netanyahu Family Knows How Yoni Died. Why Revive the Blood Libel?

The Netanyahu Family Knows How Yoni Died. Why Revive the Blood Libel?

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Haaretz

Amir Oren

Over a dozen Western embassies call for changes to Israel’s incarceration policies

Over a dozen Western embassies call for changes to Israel’s incarceration policies

Embassies pan ‘systematic abuse’ of Palestinians in prisons, call for Israel to reinstate Red Cross visits, and express concern for detained Gaza...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

From Filing Cabinet to A Powerful Growth Engine

The Evolution of Technology Transfer Software and Why TTG (Technology Transfer Growth) is the Next Step For two decades, the software that runs the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tamir Huberman

Mamdani’s American dream

Mamdani’s American dream

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – Francis Fukuyama’s 1990s end-of-history thesis was the last big narrative that united the liberal-democratic West. Western...

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The Japan Times

Slavoj Žižek

El-Sisi pushes ahead with Egypt’s militarisation

El-Sisi pushes ahead with Egypt’s militarisation

The militarisation of the Egyptian state has accelerated significantly under President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who came to power through a military coup...

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Middle East Monitor

Mahmoud Hassan

Hajj and Hag as Centers of Our Spiritual World

“What need have I of all your sacrifices?” says YHWH. “Devote yourselves to justice; aid the wronged, uphold the rights of orphans; defend the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Allen S. Maller

Zahoďme konečne ružové okuliare, zmierenie nepríde

Zvrchovanosť nad vami ostatnými

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SME.sk

Ismael P. Májovský

Zákazy sociálnych sietí podľa veku deti neochránia. Toto áno

Keď som nastúpila do Facebooku, verila som poslaniu, ktoré hlásal Zuckerberg. Vieme ako to dopadlo.

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SME.sk

Kelly Stonelake

Party Leaders’ Debate in Diet: Prime Minister Avoids Substantive Explanations

15:24 JST, July 16, 2026 Ahead of the end of the Diet session, a debate was held between Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and the leaders of the...

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The Japan News

Editorial

I am an October 7 Zionist

As an oleh chadash, one of the questions I get asked most frequently is why I made Aliyah. The answer is simple. I am an October 7 Zionist. Prior to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alan Rosenfeld

The Nile’s New Frontline: Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Somaliland Question

The dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has increasingly extended beyond the Nile Basin into the Horn...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mohamed Osman

In first, Lebanese army deploys in southern ‘pilot zone’ after Israeli withdrawal

In first, Lebanese army deploys in southern ‘pilot zone’ after Israeli withdrawal

Deployment in Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh is a test of the US-brokered plan for IDF pullout; Lebanese Armed Forces urges displaced residents to not return to...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Critical Terrorism Studies: Discourse and Discourse Analysis

Critical Terrorism Studies: Discourse and Discourse Analysis

Much critical terrorism studies work deals explicitly with the concept of discourse and the methods for studying the use of language in politics.

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E-International

Lee Jarvis And Alice Martini

Report: Cabinet quietly okayed plan to curb settler violence; PM called phenomenon ‘cancer’

Report: Cabinet quietly okayed plan to curb settler violence; PM called phenomenon ‘cancer’

Ministers said to have kept March decision — and Netanyahu’s harsh criticism — secret for political reasons; security chiefs wanted it made public

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

I Expected to see the Big Bad Settler Terrorists – I saw Boys on Donkeys

I Expected to see the Big Bad Settler Terrorists – I saw Boys on Donkeys

Last Sunday was my third day of Protective Presence. I drove up to Tayibe from Tel Aviv with Eyal, a teacher of Bible and Jewish studies at a small...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tom Livny

Critical Terrorism Studies: Hamas and 7 October 2023

Critical Terrorism Studies: Hamas and 7 October 2023

Scholars have argued that Hamas’ humanitarian aid, social welfare, and governance structures complicate reductive portrayals of the group as a...

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E-International

Lee Jarvis And Alice Martini

Tumbling U.S. status in the world should be no surprise

Tumbling U.S. status in the world should be no surprise

“The United States is respected as never before.” U.S. President Donald Trump has confidently repeated that assertion since his first term in...

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The Japan Times

Brad Glosserman

Cynická obluda: Plán výmeny Fica za Orbána stále žije

Toľko naivity, čo dokážu v PS položiť na stôl, sa len tak nevidí.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap on Space Launch Capabilities

China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap on Space Launch Capabilities

China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap on Space Launch Capabilities On July 10, 2026, China successfully launched a payload to orbit and recovered...

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New Eastern Outlook

Brian Berletic

J Street defends co-sponsoring college Democrats event featuring Hasan Piker

J Street defends co-sponsoring college Democrats event featuring Hasan Piker

Liberal pro-Israel group says it funded exhibit table and had no say in who spoke at conference in Washington, DC, amid blowback over presence of...

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

Showing So as Not to See

On July 4, 1946, forty-two Jews were murdered in Kielce, and dozens more were wounded. The eightieth anniversary of the pogrom should be more than...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Getting Angry at God as an Act of Faith

“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” Imagine the spiritual torture that led a man to etch these words into a prison cell wall...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Joshua Berman

Iran’s War of Strategic Exhaustion

Iran’s War of Strategic Exhaustion

The conflict between the United States and Iran is entering a new phase in which military operations are increasingly focused on weakening the Islamic...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Saurav Dutt

How Michigan’s Senate race is testing pro-Israel Jews’ loyalty to the Democratic Party

How Michigan’s Senate race is testing pro-Israel Jews’ loyalty to the Democratic Party

Some Jewish communal leaders in the state say they would support a Republican candidate if a strident Israel critic beats centrist Haley Stevens in...

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The Times of Israel

Andrew Lapin

The people’s atheist

Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey The Angelus (1857-59) by...

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Aeon

Nidal Taibi

Don’t Overestimate America and China’s Importance

Don’t Overestimate America and China’s Importance

LONDON—I recently launched a new policy platform (with Gemma Cheng’er Deng) to promote closer cooperation between the West and the BRICS group...

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Project Syndicate

Jim O';Neill

Photos show Israel building miles-long earthen barrier inside area it holds in Gaza

Photos show Israel building miles-long earthen barrier inside area it holds in Gaza

23 kilometers of barrier built so far, according to satellite images; IDF says it aims to protect troops and border communities but declines to say...

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The Times of Israel

Ap

Od Nigerije do Evrope: zahodnoafriški plinovod dobil politično podporo

Od Nigerije do Evrope: zahodnoafriški plinovod dobil politično podporo

Projekt, vreden približno 22 milijard evrov, bo iz Nigerije čez 13 držav pripeljal zemeljski plin do Maroka, od tam pa bi lahko oskrboval tudi...

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Dnevnik

Jk

Prihajajo pametne cestne kamere: prepoznajo vse prekrške, tudi to, kdaj vam je poteklo zavarovanje

Prihajajo pametne cestne kamere: prepoznajo vse prekrške, tudi to, kdaj vam je poteklo zavarovanje

Na eni od hitrih cest v Italiji je začela delovati pametna kamera z umetno inteligenco, ki je zmožna prepoznati uporabo pametnih telefonov in...

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Dnevnik

Rr

Kapsule za kavo se poslavljajo, v modo se vračajo zrnca

Kapsule za kavo se poslavljajo, v modo se vračajo zrnca

Vodilni mož družbe Lavazza je v pogovoru za Financial Times razkril, da so visoke cene surovin potrošnike prisilile v varčevanje pri nakupih, pri...

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Dnevnik

Mp

Featured Post

Featured Post

For most of my life, I thought a “bad Jew” was someone like me. I wasn’t Orthodox. I didn’t keep kosher. I’ve eaten more shrimp, lobster,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dory Benami

Featured Post

Featured Post

Senator Lindsey Graham owed me nothing when we first met, in October 2023, as part of a delegation meeting with the families of American hostages. Yet...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ruby Chen

Púšť za našimi oknami? Zázrak sa stal normou. Slovensko vstúpilo do novej éry

Keď 20. júla v roku 2007 namerali na meteorologickej stanici v Hurbanove 40,3 °C, bola to veľká udalosť. Médiá vtedy obliehali Hurbanovo a...

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Pravda.sk

Pavel Matejovič

The North Sea Mirage

When Donald Trump declared that the people of Aberdeen were “dancing in the streets” following reports that incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

Execution is the new scarcity in the age of AI

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The Korea Times

Charles Chang

Europe’s Atlantic Mediocracy: Why Its Establishment Is Afraid of Realism

Europe’s Atlantic Mediocracy: Why Its Establishment Is Afraid of Realism

Europe’s Atlantic Mediocracy: Why Its Establishment Is Afraid of Realism The symbolic departure of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not end...

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New Eastern Outlook

Adrian Korczyński

Strach, hnev a bezmocnosť: Ako Taiwanci prežívajú vzťah s Čínou

O budúcnosti Taiwanu nerozhodujú len rakety. Rozhodujú aj emócie

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SME.sk

Richard Turcsanyi

How to Manage Your Inner Posse of Lawyers When It Pipes Up

How to Manage Your Inner Posse of Lawyers When It Pipes Up

Personal Perspective: My inner lawyers are trying to keep me safe.

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Psychology Today

Victoria Maxwell