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الجنوب العربي.. مبادرة التمثيل المتوازي للاعتراف الدولي

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العين الإخبارية

نورا المطيري

الخليجيون بعد عام 2025

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العين الإخبارية

محمد خلفان الصوافي

السيادة التي فتكت بأهل الفاشر.. لماذا قرر العالم تجاوز بورتسودان؟

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العين الإخبارية

عبد المنعم سليمان

What Makes You Leave? Maybe It's Time to Break the Pattern

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Psychology Today

Robert Taibbi L.c.s.w

Netanyahu set to depart to US for Monday meeting with Trump in Florida

Netanyahu set to depart to US for Monday meeting with Trump in Florida

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they unfold. The leader of the Houthi terror group in Yemen warns that any Israeli presence...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Israel braces for potential floods as downpour forecast for Monday

Israel braces for potential floods as downpour forecast for Monday

Israeli authorities have issued warnings of potential flooding in vast areas of the country for Monday, with heavy rains and strong winds forecast....

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Parents and child rescued from van caught up in flood in south, as rains lash Israel

Parents and child rescued from van caught up in flood in south, as rains lash Israel

Emergency crews on Sunday rescued three members of a family whose car was caught in a flooded streambed in southern Israel as heavy rains lashed...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

“There Are No Victims”—How Cults Weaponize Accountability

“There Are No Victims”—How Cults Weaponize Accountability

Some "empowerment" teachings become tools for abuse and control.

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Psychology Today

Steven A Hassan Phd

Like Israel, South Africa Once Banned Foreign Press. It's Harder to Hide the Truth Now

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Haaretz

Dan Sagir

Islamic state isn’t back in Asia, but its ideas still endure

The deadliest domestic terror attack in Australia’s history is raising an uncomfortable question: Is there an Islamic State revival in Asia?...

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The Japan Times

Karishma Vaswani

Some Thoughts About the “Core Five” Concept

Some Thoughts About the “Core Five” Concept

In early December, media reports started assuming that there was an idea potentially circulating in the American policymaking circles to form a new...

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New Eastern Outlook

Vladimir Terehov

Ten years after the Paris agreement, let’s redouble efforts

It has been 10 years since the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), where 195 states made a historic commitment to work...

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The Japan Times

Emmanuel Macron

Rethinking the ‘Illiberal International’: Power, Fragmentation, and Institutions

Rethinking the ‘Illiberal International’: Power, Fragmentation, and Institutions

Recent arguments for global order increasingly imply that authoritarian countries around the world may be coalescing into what has come to be...

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E-International

Eko Ernada

من العولمة المطلقة إلى الأمن الجيواقتصادي: من يضبط ميزان الدولة القومية؟

من العولمة المطلقة إلى الأمن الجيواقتصادي: من يضبط ميزان الدولة القومية؟

يشير بعض الخبراء اليوم في السياسة الخارجية والعلاقات الدولية إلى تباطؤ في وتيرة العولمة مقارنة بالسنوات الماضية. فعلى الرغم من أن العولمة ما زالت...

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العين الإخبارية

حميد المنصوري

Former police chief slams Netanyahu at rainy anti-government protest in Tel Aviv

Former police chief slams Netanyahu at rainy anti-government protest in Tel Aviv

Thousands of Israelis protested against the government in the rain throughout the country on Saturday evening, with former police chief Roni...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Engaging In Rituals Can Strengthen Connection and Well-Being

Engaging In Rituals Can Strengthen Connection and Well-Being

Rituals give us greater meaning and help us feel less anxious and more present.

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Psychology Today

Dan Mager Msw

Why is it that the UK government can’t define Islamophobia?

Why is it that the UK government can’t define Islamophobia?

In February, the United Kingdom government appointed a working group to provide a definition of “anti-Muslim hatred/Islamophobia”, which should...

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Al Jazeera

James Renton

After Hanukkah attack, Australian FM says she’s ‘desperately sorry’ about antisemitism

After Hanukkah attack, Australian FM says she’s ‘desperately sorry’ about antisemitism

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Friday that she is “desperately sorry” for what Jews have experienced in the country, amid accusations...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Three Iranian satellites launched into orbit on Russian rocket, state media says

Three Iranian satellites launched into orbit on Russian rocket, state media says

Russia on Sunday sent three Iranian communications satellites into orbit, the second such launch since July, Iranian state television reported. The...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Iranian hacking group claims to seize damning info from phone of PM’s chief of staff

Iranian hacking group claims to seize damning info from phone of PM’s chief of staff

A group of Iranian hackers claimed on Sunday that it had cracked the cellphone of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

Netanyahu departs for US to meet Trump on Gaza plan, Hezbollah tensions

Netanyahu departs for US to meet Trump on Gaza plan, Hezbollah tensions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took off on Sunday from Ben Gurion Airport headed for Florida, where he is set to meet with US President Donald...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

High Court rejects petitions against Shin Bet chief’s appointment

High Court rejects petitions against Shin Bet chief’s appointment

The High Court of Justice on Sunday, in a 2-1 vote, rejected petitions filed against the appointment of David Zini as head of the Shin Bet. Zini...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

Daily Briefing Dec. 28: Day 814 – Will $35 billion gas deal with Egypt hike electricity costs?

Daily Briefing Dec. 28: Day 814 – Will $35 billion gas deal with Egypt hike electricity costs?

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world....

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

East Jerusalem man arrested after police officer lightly injured in hit-and-run

East Jerusalem man arrested after police officer lightly injured in hit-and-run

A Palestinian from East Jerusalem was arrested on Sunday after allegedly crashing into and lightly injuring a policeman while fleeing from...

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

Over 20 civil society, green, health bodies call for changes to key budget bill

Over 20 civil society, green, health bodies call for changes to key budget bill

More than 20 environmental, health and civil society groups have written to Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, asking for a list of items to be removed...

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The Times of Israel

Sue Surkes

Brigitte Bardot, sultry ’60s sex symbol-turned-militant animal rights activist, dies at 91

Brigitte Bardot, sultry ’60s sex symbol-turned-militant animal rights activist, dies at 91

PARIS (AP)  — Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant...

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The Times of Israel

Thomas Adamson

Europe’s Suicide – Part 2

Europe’s Suicide – Part 2

(As published in Part 1 of this series, Europe’s long history of negation—from papal decrees of perpetual servitude to royal expulsions and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Featured Post

Featured Post

When President Trump meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the sixth time this year on December 29, the two leaders should ask...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Robert Satloff

Israel Recognizes Somaliland, New Cooperation Era

On Friday December 2025, Israel became the first country to formally recognize Somaliland’s self-government state. Prime Minister Benjamin...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Fathi Garaad Essa

Burning Changes in Extinguishing Fires

Instead of reacting to massive wildfires, a new system developed by the Israeli company FireDome, a beneficiary of support from the Israel...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dror Bin

If Jews Vanished: A Thought Experiment About Israel and the World

Let’s imagine, as a (tremendously unsettling) thought experiment, that Jews everywhere suddenly disappeared. Not as the result of violence or...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene Brusilovskiy

From Lab to Life: High School Reject to Nobel?

From Lab to Life: High School Reject to…Nobel? Yifat Merbl Prof. Yifat Merbl of Weizmann Institute of Science. (Courtesy/Weizmann) The Times of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shlomo Maital

Married to a Catholic: What could possibly go wrong?

The furor started with a statement by America’s vice president. “Do I hope that eventually she is somehow moved by what I was moved by in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Haldane

The Brothers’ Silence & Its Timeless Lesson

At the beginning of Parshas Vayigash, Yosef dramatically ended the saga with his brothers by revealing his identity to them: “I am Yosef”...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenny Schiowitz

ISGAP and the Anatomy of Modern Antisemitism

About a year ago, I made a deliberate choice: I no longer wanted to observe the global rise of antisemitism from the sidelines. I wanted to be...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ariana Mizrahi

Iran’s ballistic bunker-busters: Smashing Israel’s rules of war?

Iran’s ballistic bunker-busters: Smashing Israel’s rules of war?

The deafening wail of the ‘Tzeva Adom’ (Colour Red) siren cuts through the air, a chilling signal that renders Israelis in every nook and cranny to...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Mohammad I. Aslam

Milei strengthened his hand in 2025. Can he hold it in 2026?

Milei strengthened his hand in 2025. Can he hold it in 2026?

Two years ago, President Javier Milei had such a tiny congressional minority that people were asking how he would govern. Today, his La Libertad...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Amy Booth

How Concerning are Iran’s Missile Transfers to Russia for U.S.?

[Nicholas Lovric] Both Iran and Russia share a common adversary in the West, and their deepening cooperation serves as a challenge to the U.S....

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Oped Column

Nicholas Lovric

NY governor steps in to prevent demolition of century-old Brooklyn synagogue

NY governor steps in to prevent demolition of century-old Brooklyn synagogue

NEW YORK — New York State Governor Kathy Hochul intervened this week to prevent the demolition of a historical synagogue in Brooklyn. Congregation...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

China and America must get serious about AI risk

In November 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping made their first substantive joint statement about the...

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The Japan Times

Jake Sullivan

Prime Suspect in Qatargate Scandal Is an Israeli Tragedy

Eli Feldstein asked Kan public television's Omri Assenheim to look at him as a human, to hear his story. Indeed, the three-part interview succeeded...

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Haaretz

Carolina Landsmann

Nominees reverse decision to boycott culture minister’s alternate film awards

Nominees reverse decision to boycott culture minister’s alternate film awards

Several leading film professionals who withdrew their films from Culture Minister Miki Zohar’s new alternative awards ceremony have agreed to...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Senior Mormon official Jeffrey Holland, who fostered ties with Jews, dies at 85

Senior Mormon official Jeffrey Holland, who fostered ties with Jews, dies at 85

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jeffrey R. Holland, a high-ranking official in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was next in line to become...

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The Times of Israel

Hannah Schoenbaum

The year that could be

Every December in recent years, I think back to the time when Jeremy Corbyn, then the leader of the opposition Labour Party in my adopted country,...

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The Japan Times

Lea Ypi

Putin’s India Visit and Russia’s Expanding Footprint in South Asia

Putin’s India Visit and Russia’s Expanding Footprint in South Asia

Amidst global competition for dominance, Russia’s influence in South Asia, along with other regions of the world, is on the rise. Russia–India...

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New Eastern Outlook

Abbas Hashemite

Tel Aviv shares break record highs despite war, outpacing global markets in 2025

Tel Aviv shares break record highs despite war, outpacing global markets in 2025

Bucking the odds, Israel’s main stock indexes this year broke through multiple record highs despite raging multifront wars, outperforming global...

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The Times of Israel

Sharon Wrobel

In the US, Netanyahu aims to convince Trump that only threat of war can bring peace

In the US, Netanyahu aims to convince Trump that only threat of war can bring peace

All five of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meetings this year with US President Donald Trump were important landmarks for Israel’s security...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

Somali president: Israel’s recognition of Somaliland ‘threat’ to regional stability

Somali president: Israel’s recognition of Somaliland ‘threat’ to regional stability

Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland as a state “is [a] threat to the security and stability of the world and the region,”...

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The Times of Israel

Stav Levaton

Defense Ministry hands IDF first combat-ready Iron Beam laser interception system

Defense Ministry hands IDF first combat-ready Iron Beam laser interception system

The Defense Ministry announced on Sunday the delivery of the first operational high-power laser interception system developed by Rafael Advanced...

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The Times of Israel

Stav Levaton

Israel said to detain Islamic Jihad operative during search for final hostage’s body

Israel said to detain Islamic Jihad operative during search for final hostage’s body

Covert Israeli forces on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line have reportedly detained a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative linked...

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The Times of Israel

Noam Lehmann