Jews and Arabs start to push back against violence, rallying nationwide

Shocked by the unprecedented scenes of violence between Jews and Arabs over recent days, Israelis took to the streets on Thursday to push back and...

More support for chip makers

Government needs to offer tax favors, deregulation President Moon Jae-in came with an ambitious plan to set up the world's best semiconductor...

European Jews brace, yet again, for antisemitic attacks spurred by Gaza unrest

JTA — As the body count in hostilities between Israelis and Palestinian rises, so do fears that European Jews will be targeted in a phenomenon...

This Must End

I am writing this letter looking at my terrified 6-year-old son, who keeps putting his hands over his ears trying block the sounds of Israel's...

Father Abraham is Weeping

There are two peoples, three religions, with one common father in our sacred land. Today, the soil of that holy earth is soaked wet by the tears of...

Setting out in search of a heart for humanity

Parashat Bemidbar 3 Sivan 5781/ May 14, 2021 47th day of the Omer This Shabbat we read the opening of the Book of Bemidbar. The parasha sets the...

Now for Some Good News: Giving Birth to the Future

Given the week that Israel has undergone, we can use some good news. So here goes – from a completely different perspective. Doomsday pundits about...

Dana and Shai: It Isn’t All About Us

Yesterday was the first time that I ever watched Amit Segal live in the Channel 12 News studio panel discussion. Segal is an extremely popular...

Our synagogue does not want your old books

Attention: Our synagogue does not want any more of your old books for our library. I promise that it does not matter what synagogue you attend: I...

Political Musings

I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent bouts of Arab and Jewish violence. As a left-wing person, it’s very easy for me to point out the...

Historian Dominique Vidal on 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis: ‘All That… for This?!’

Dominique Vidal, journalist for the Monde diplomatique and historian, author of numerous books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, published with...

Is it Possible to Avoid Armed Hostilites in the Middle East?

A number of days have passed since tensions have boiled over in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem,   which came under the Israeli rule following...

Responding to BBC and other “Summaries” on Israel

There is a recent BBC article entitled “Israel-Gaza violence: The conflict explained.” The article attempts to sum up what is currently happening...

For the Love of Ruth

Ruth is a love story no less compelling or passionate that Shir Hashirim. Their expressions of love are different:  Shir Hashirim is a love of...

Nevihte ter zmes globalnega in lokalnega

V meteorologiji se je že od vsega začetka razmišljalo globalno. Čeprav so si ljudje skušali vreme napovedovati po krajevnih znakih. Ti nam sicer...

VOX POPULI: Today marks 30 years since the Shigaraki train disaster

On May 14 exactly 30 years ago, a Shigaraki Kogen Railway Co. (SKR) train and a West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) train collided head-on, killing 42...

El talento directivo en Latinoamérica requiere de las virtudes de Penélope y Odiseo

¿Cómo está resultando la “Odisea” del viaje hacia la Nueva Normalidad? ¿Cómo viven esta particular situación los dirigentes de las...

Deadly duel: Photos capture battle between Iron Dome and Hamas rockets

A stunning series of images captured early Friday depicts the intense, otherworldly battles being raged in the skies above Israel and Gaza between...

Netanyahu Is Leading Israel Into Civil War Between Jews and Palestinians

There’s been plenty of talk in the Israeli media recently about whether to eulogize Benjamin Netanyahu as a political genius or a failure who won...

Deserting anti-Netanyahu Coalition Talks, Bennett Gave in to Pressure

The horrific sights of the last few days in Acre, Bat Yam and Or Akiva – mob attacks on Arabs and Jews, businesses vandalized and thugs...

Human Beings Are Able to Talk, Not Only to Carry a Club

One of the myths being disseminated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s PR people – with unparalleled PR – is that he is a cautious leader,...

(POGLED) Slovenski gradovi čakajoč na princa

Kakor je bila Trnuljčica zaradi uroka obsojena na stoletni spanec, njeno domovanje pa se je medtem zaraščalo, so v neprehodno trnje vse bolj...

Rihanna draws praise, criticism after solidarity with both Israel and Gaza

JTA — Grammy-winning pop star Rihanna has called for an end to the Israel-Gaza violence, saying her “heart is breaking” in a rare show of...

The Right Way to Worry

Is China serious about credit tightening?

Beijing can move the punch bowl away from the edge but it can't take it off the table

EDITORIAL: Immigration law revision must not be ramrodded through the Diet

The ruling coalition is rushing a bill to revise the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law through the Diet. Its hastiness raises doubts...

Newlywed officers will give honeymoon away to couple from the south

It’s a uniquely Israeli fairy godmother tale. Yarona and Liron Weinberg got married on Thursday, May 6. By Tuesday night, rockets were flying and...

The UK’s absurd ban on ‘junk food’ adverts will outlaw products that have lots of fat and sugars. Watch out, breast milk…

We need to talk about the absurdity of a state taking measures that won’t work to solve a problem that is widely over-exaggerated.  Among the...

The fable of the Palestinian ‘right of return’

While more than 1200 rockets rained down on southern Israeli towns during the latest violence from Gaza’s Hamas, the terrorist organization’s...

Living with God in our midst

What does it mean to live with God in our midst? God commanded the Israelites in the wilderness to build the Tabernacle, “And let them make Me a...

Where did the sons of Moshe go?

“This is the lineage of Aaron and Moshe at the time that the Lord spoke with Moshe on Mount Sinai” (Bamidbar 3,1). As we open the Book of...

Israel in crisis: A view from Jerusalem

JERUSALEM — The State of Israel and Israeli society are currently in the throes of a major crisis, one of the gravest ever. For several weeks, we...

Israel Must Tell the World: Hamas is Different

As the one week mark of hostility between Israel and the Palestinians passes, many in the US and the West have quickly aligned themselves with the...

Brez jasne fiskalne strategije

Izkušnje dveh svetovnih ekonomskih kriz v zadnjem desetletju so pokazale, da je prevladujoča ekonomsko-politična mantra o obvladovanju...

The Gazan Zero Sum Game

I served in Gaza as an IDF soldier. I remember it well. Rafah. Khan Yunus. Gaza City. I know these cities in my bones. Gaza was, then, small,...

Saying ‘I do’ to the Torah on Shavuot

We learn about the Jewish people’s commitment to the Torah at Mount Sinai in Exodus, 19:17. The Torah says, “And Moses brought forth the people...

INTERVIEW/ Ex-adviser: Trump prepared U.S. to square off against China

A former senior policy adviser to former President Donald Trump said he believes Trump's great legacy is that he "prepared the U.S. government for...

US issues travel advisory for Israel, West Bank and Gaza

The US State Department raised its travel advisory for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday due to ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas...

Parenting under fire: As rockets rain, a bomb shelter guide for Israeli parents

As rockets rain down, sirens blare, and families repeatedly race to shelters, millions of Israeli parents are struggling to find the right words...

IDF: Overnight bombardment targeted Hamas’s tunnel network under Gaza City

Some 160 aircraft flying simultaneously conducted a massive attack on a network of tunnels dug by the Hamas terror group under the northern Gaza...

Biden says he doesn’t think Israel overreacting in response to Gaza rockets

NEW YORK — US President Joe Biden on Thursday said he did not think Israel has overreacted in its response to rocket fire from Gaza as Washington...

Israeli air, ground forces bombard northern Gaza in heaviest strike yet

The Israel Defense Forces launched a massive bombardment on a large number of targets in the northern Gaza Strip shortly around midnight on...

Rockets continue to pummel Israel’s south after night of intense fighting

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday’s events as they unfold. For a recap of Thursday’s events, click here. Some 160 aircraft flying...

Blinken dismisses Republican calls to cease nuclear talks due to Hamas rockets

NEW YORK — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday dismissed calls by Republicans for the Biden administration to walk out of its talks...

Police chief said to blame far-right lawmaker Ben Gvir for ‘internal intifada’

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that extreme-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir is responsible for ongoing riots...

Hong Kong’s ‘wait and see’ vaccine sceptics should look at the struggles of Asia’s Covid-19 success stories

Various reasons have been given for the slow uptake of Covid-19 vaccines in Hong Kong, where only about 15 per cent of residents have taken at...

Podcast: A proposed cure for conversion ‘perversion’ in the State of Israel

Welcome to Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. The holiday of Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks, is here and one of the...

In nights of Arab-Jewish violence, memories of October 2000

Jews and Arabs fighting in the streets. Arab Israelis decrying Israeli provocations at Al-Aqsa mosque, against the backdrop of escalating armed...

In war-weary Ashkelon, resilience, experience and concern over one fresh twist

It was a scene Ashkelon has been through too many times to count. And no one is counting, since everyone knows this isn’t the last time Hamas...

The Heart Speaks Truth

The medieval poet Yehudah HaLevi writes: “L’bi b’mizrach v’anochi b’sof maarav—my heart is in the East and I am in the depths of the...