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Relative of slain Palestinian family urges end to wave of support for perpetrator

A relative of three Palestinians slain in a firebomb attack in their home in a West Bank village in 2015 said he expects Prime Minister Benjamin...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Yom Kippur Angels

It is said that on Yom Kippur, the Jewish people are elevated to the level of angels. We do not eat or drink, we wear white as a sign of purity,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

How to be a Nice Person

“I have plans.” Never ever use this phrase. There is no phrase as vile, as obnoxious, and as vomit-inducing in the English lexicon as “I already...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Chava Berman Borowsky

"لولاك ماكنا هنا": شراكة إماراتية أمريكية قوية

بعد فترة وجيزة من الإعلان عن انضمام دولة الإمارات إلى "بريكس" كان صاحب السمو الشيخ...

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العين الإخبارية

يوسف جمعة الحداد

اليوم الوطني السعودي الـ93.. إنجازات وتطور

بداية نقدم أصدق التهاني والتبريكات لمقام خادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك سلمان بن...

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العين الإخبارية

غدير الطيار

Netanyahu lands back in Israel at largely empty airport ahead of Yom Kippur

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his delegation to the US landed back in Israel on Sunday afternoon and were received at a mainly empty Ben...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

First recorded evidence of Yom Kippur depicts day of affliction as sectarian struggle

The earliest known written record of Yom Kippur observance can be found in the Dead Sea Scroll known as “Pesher Habakkuk,” according to...

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The Times of Israel

Gavriel Fiske

Seeking balanced diplomacy

Seoul must clarify its core interests to all partners Two news items drew diplomatic watchers’ attention over the weekend. One was the meeting...

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The Korea Times

Editorial

The Quest To Find Nazi-Looted Art Continues

Nearly 25 years have elapsed since a seminal conference in Washington dealt with the greatest cultural robbery of the 20th century. Prior to and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sheldon Kirshner

Rabin’s Revenge: The Government Will Fall Before It Agrees to Concessions to Palestinians

“Mr. Prime Minister, if you don’t promise in your own voice that the reports of weapons being transferred to the terrorists of the Palestinian...

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Haaretz

Carolina Landsmann

Biden's illegal attack on gas-powered cars

  By Phil Kerpen The Biden administration's infatuation with electric vehicles is no secret, with billions in subsidies lavished on them in the...

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The Korea Times

Guest Column

Some kinds of dogs shouldn't be allowed as pets

By Tyler Cowen Over the last two years, at least five people in the U.K. have been killed by American XL bully dogs, prompting no less than the...

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The Korea Times

Tribune Service

Only a Radical Two-state Solution Will Solve the Israel-Palestine Problem

Ever since the Camp David peace talks in 2000, the two-state-solution has been losing its appeal in the public eye. In recent years, ever more...

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Haaretz

Michal Rizel

Exapanded BRICS and Korea's role for Global South

  By Kim Sang-woo At the BRICS summit in Johannesburg from Aug. 22-24, more than 20 countries formally applied to join the group. The new members...

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The Korea Times

Kim Sang-Woo

Israel seeks complete impunity at the UN

The Israeli Government Press Office reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to “change the...

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Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

The Psychology of Decision-Making

When is a coin-flip appropriate for making a decision?

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Psychology Today

Michael R Edelstein Ph.d

Be an Upstander: 7 Steps to Combat Bullying

Equip, empathize, and empower during anti-bullying month.

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Psychology Today

Pamela B. Rutledge Ph.d

The Power of Self-Acceptance

Stop the self-judgment and love that "you are human."

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Psychology Today

Alicia Del Prado Ph.d

A Fresh Eye on Sigmund Freud's Berggasse 19

His Vienna museum is transformed and a secret of the couch is confirmed.

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Psychology Today

Barry Yourgrau

أفريقيا تنتفض طلبا لحقوقها ورفضا للوصايا

بعد سلسلة انقلابات وأحداث مرت بها بعض دول القارة الأفريقية، لم تجد قبولا من...

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العين الإخبارية

أنور إبراهيم

Two Palestinians killed in exchanges of fire during IDF operation near Tulkarem

Two Palestinians were killed and an Israeli soldier was moderately hurt early Sunday morning during exchanges of fire near the West Bank city of...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Israel arrests 8 Palestinian students suspected of planning terror attack

Israeli security forces said Sunday they had arrested eight Palestinian students suspected of planning a terror attack in the immediate future. The...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Orthodox group says will hold Tel Aviv public prayer despite ban on gender divider

An Orthodox religious group has said it will hold a mass prayer event in a central Tel Aviv square for Yom Kippur even though the city, backed by...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Netanyahu wraps up US visit with protesters shouting ‘shame’ at departing convoy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrapped up his US trip late Saturday and is heading back to Israel from New York ahead of Yom Kippur, which...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

IDF reinforces troops on Gaza border as violence rises; arson balloons spark fires

The military said it was reinforcing troops along the Gaza Strip border Sunday, as tensions rise along the frontier and as incendiary balloons...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Daily Briefing Sep 24: If you will it? PM hails looming peace with Saudi Arabia at UN

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

On anniversary of war, a Golan kibbutz invites visitors for historic, cultural tours

Heli Jacobs was a year old when her father, Zvi Jacobs, was killed during the 1973 Yom Kippur War on the Sinai front. Her father died a hero, said...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

2 Arab men killed in separate shootings, taking year’s toll in community to 180

Two men were shot dead in separate incidents in the north and south of the country on Saturday night — the 179th and 180th victims this year in...

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The Times of Israel

Michael Horovitz

Israel’s Cyberstarts closes $480m fund for cybersecurity investments

Cyberstarts, a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage cybersecurity startups, raised $480 million to make follow-on investments. The...

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The Times of Israel

Sharon Wrobel

50 years after the Yom Kippur War, veterans see echoes in Israel’s current crisis

JTA — Israelis were not sure their country would survive. American Jews were not sure how to respond. Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War —...

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The Times of Israel

Ron Kampeas

Ben Gvir pans Shabtai after he claimed minister tried to politicize police — report

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir reportedly fumed after Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai gave an interview Thursday in which he...

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The Times of Israel

Michael Horovitz

Did Moshe Dayan secretly want to die on the front lines during the Yom Kippur War?

After leading his armored division across the first pontoon bridge to span the Suez Canal, Gen. Avraham Adan watched a helicopter descend close to...

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The Times of Israel

Abraham Rabinovich

German far-right candidate tipped to win mayoral race in city near former Nazi camp

NORDHAUSEN, Germany (AFP) — Joerg Prophet flashed a brilliant white grin as he greeted voters at his campaign stand in Nordhausen, a small but...

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The Times of Israel

Femke Colborne

Researchers discover bid to infect top Egyptian opposition figure with spyware

BOSTON (AP) — A leading Egyptian opposition politician was targeted with spyware after announcing a presidential bid, security researchers...

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The Times of Israel

Frank Bajak

Stop blaming and bothering homosexual men, Women, Atheist Jews, and Gentiles

Who are the ones the Torah addresses? This may hurt. Sometimes, the truth hurts. For those who seek it. Homosexual Men This Yom Kippur, Orthodox...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Temple Service

A major part of the Mussaf Davening on Yom Kippur, is known as the “Avoda” service. There is a detailed description of what took place in the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

“Force Tzvika” and the thin olive-green thread that saved Israel 50 years ago

As September draws to a close we pause to remember the fateful days fifty years ago when the Jewish State was hanging on by a thin olive-green...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tuvia Book

Shattering the Israel Taboo: Why American Jews Are Protesting Netanyahu at the UN

The stretch of land bordering the East River between 42nd and 48th streets in Midtown Manhattan contains an emotional reservoir of Jewish history....

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Haaretz

Abe Silberstein

Balancing Act: Israel between Divine and Earthly

Here I am, wandering through the labyrinth of my thoughts, willingly ensnared by my reflections. Suddenly, a question pierces my musings: Could it...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gil Mildar

Sonnet for the Day of Atonement

The scenes, sights, sounds and scents project within; Remain, as ever present for replay. The Day of Atonement brings them forward, For review, to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michel M.j. Shore

The Role of Memory in Our Lives

Dear Friends, I would like to share an essay I wrote on the subject of memory. I wrote it on the 10th anniversary of my husband’s, z”l, passing....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Marge Wise

Israel Has 50 Years of National Masochism Since the Yom Kippur War

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Haaretz

Israel Harel

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #111, A Tale on 4 Levels, 5

In this episode, the logic of conspiracy theories… The Eternal Jew’s Tale Sixteenth Era, Part 7, 1320 C.E., Chelm II. The Remez 4. Protocols of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stephen Berer

Yom Kippur War through the eyes of an Irish volunteer

In the late morning of October 6, 1973, I arrived at Greenville Hall shul in Dublin to attend Yom Kippur services with family members. Somehow the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ernest Shapero

Is there any common value this government holds sacred ?

Two weeks in the life of democracy being abducted by its government. I haven’t managed to write much lately. It takes me time to process my...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Paul Mirbach

Coyote tosses the stars and why AI can’t help us

When I swung open the back door to let the dogs out late at night, cold rushed in around my ankles. Bright stars glittered through the cottonwoods....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Diane Joy Schmidt

A More Important Checklist for Yom Kippur

As a sequel to my post last week on  Rosh Hashanah Reflections , I decided this week to write a checklist for Yom Kippur (and it’s not about...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Andy Blumenthal

The Most Powerful and Wonderful Moment of the Year

Yom Kippur is not simply another holiday. It is a revolutionary event that occurs once a year and completely reconfigures the universe and every...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Pinny Arnon

An American high school experience in Seoul

  By Choe Chong-dae For many parents and grandparents residing in Seoul, the dream of having their children and grandchildren attend an American...

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The Korea Times

Thoughts Of The Times

The Saudi deal must deliver a route to Palestinian statehood

The current negotiations between the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel on an agreement that will include mutual recognition and establishment of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Zion Evrony

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