Military Police will not open probe into Al Jazeera reporter’s killing – report

Military Police will not open an investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin last week, despite suspicions...

The 'Great Replacement Theory' Is Going to Get More American Jews Killed

Buffalo. Ten dead. A young white man targeting Black people in a Black neighborhood. Military gear. Racist and antisemitic rantings. The "n word."...

Daily Briefing May 19: Likud battles over IDF bill; change in Haredi community?

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,...

Likud hails Meretz MK’s resignation from coalition: ‘Gov’t has no right to exist’

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they happen. Lawmakers from opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party cheer...

Hamas supporters celebrate student election win at top West Bank university

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Hamas supporters celebrated Thursday a landslide student election win at a top West Bank university, results experts said...

Meretz MK Rinawie Zoabi quits coalition, putting it in minority

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi resigned from the coalition on Thursday afternoon, putting the coalition into a minority in the Knesset and bringing...

What’s the Endgame in Ukraine?

The Global Hunger Crisis Is Here

The Indian government and its COVID-19 con

NEW DELHI – India is no stranger to political controversies. At least a half-dozen rage in its fractious public life at any time. But perhaps the...

McDonald’s exit from Russia ends a hopeful era

When the first golden arches appeared in Moscow’s Pushkin Square in 1990, it didn’t matter that it was mid-winter. It was as if the snow in Narnia...

Does your country really need digital cash?

Nine out of 10 central banks are exploring electronic versions of physical cash, according to the Bank for International Settlements’ 2021 survey...

Forensic technical analysis of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh

In relation to the death of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, the following evidence was examined and analysed: The results of the initial...

Hospital staff attacked in northern Israel ahead of strike over mounting violence

Staff at a hospital in northern Israel were attacked Wednesday by angry family members of a deceased patient, the latest in a string of incidents...

Defying Netanyahu, Likud MKs want to back coalition bill on funding for IDF vets

Likud party leader and opposition chief Benjamin Netanyahu is facing rare, open rebellion from within his party over his decision not to support a...

Sirens blare in north as Israeli military accidentally fires at own drone

Rocket alert sirens were activated Thursday morning in Israel’s Upper Galilee region along the border with Lebanon, after troops accidentally...

Massive bust of illegal antiquities trade seizes 1,800 coins and ancient artifacts

In one of the biggest busts in Israeli history, the Israel Antiquities Authority’s theft prevention unit has recovered over 1,800 ancient...

When Israeli Families' Bereavement Is Politicized

At the funeral of Noam Raz of blessed memory, an officer in the Yamam police counterterrorism unit who was killed in the Jenin area, his son spoke...

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High Court slams state’s handling of construction at PM’s residences

The High Court of Justice on Wednesday criticized the state’s conduct regarding construction work being carried out on the Prime Minister’s...

Mount Meron festivities pass peacefully, but pilgrims gripe at new safety measures

The success of this year’s Lag B’Omer festivities is in the eye of the beholder: To the government and the organizers, Wednesday night was a...

Local elections, our superintendents

By Sho Chang-young June 1 is the eighth Nationwide Simultaneous Local Elections Day of South Korea. According to the National Election Commission...

Nakba Day: Why Israel did not allow refugees to ‘return’ after the 1948 war

Social and other media was busy blaming Israel for wrongdoing this past May 15th, the so-called “Nakba Day,” which commemorates and laments the...

WHO Stealth Coup to Dictate Global Health Agenda of Gates, Big Pharma

Acting on an initiative from the Biden Administration, by November 2022, conveniently at the onset of the next flu season in the northern...

Hezbollah leader declares ‘big victory’ despite losing parliamentary majority

Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, said Wednesday that no political party could claim victory in the...

In blunder, Bush pans ‘brutal invasion of Iraq’

Former US president George W. Bush raised eyebrows Wednesday, and no doubt pleased many of his detractors, when he condemned during a speech the...

Eradicating financial crimes

Revived probe team should deal with fund scandal first The prosecution has reinstated the Financial and Securities Crime Joint Investigation Team...

New era of alliance

From security to economy, technology President Yoon Suk-yeol will hold his first summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in Seoul on Saturday, raising...

Amnesty: Swedish citizen facing execution in Iran is being held ‘hostage’

PARIS, France — An Iranian-Swedish citizen facing imminent execution in Iran is being held as a hostage by Tehran in a bid to force Belgium and...

Germany school shooting injures one, suspect arrested

FRANKFURT, Germany — Shots were fired in a school in Germany on Thursday, injuring one person in the northern city of Bremerhaven, police said,...

Red Cross says it has registered hundreds of Ukrainian POWs from Mariupol

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The International Red Cross said Thursday it has registered “hundreds” of Ukrainian prisoners of war who left the Azovstal...

Israel wants to be recognized as Jerusalem’s responsible sovereign. Tell the cops

This Editor’s Note was sent out Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s...

The Changing World of Books

After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Jerusalem International Book Forum was held once more this year. The opening ceremony included a (...

Intelligent Design Answers What Atheism Cannot

Intelligent design is the theory that God created the universe. It is based on scientific evidence, such as the laws of physics and bringing about...

Equality now!

The release of the name of the Druze officer Lt. Col. Mahmoud Kheir a-Din, who was killed in Gaza and received a posthumous commendation for valor,...

A world without Roe

When, in early May, someone leaked the draft Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Mississippi – the decision that will likely overturn Roe v. Wade –...

God for Atheists: Belief in God and the Human Brain

God for Atheists (2): Belief in God & the Human Brain As expected, several of my readers had difficulties with my previous essay on belief in God,...

Do We Want G-d On Our Side?

Toward the end of the book of Leviticus, the Torah gives us the bottom line: “If you follow My statutes and observe My commandments and perform...

Roe Rage

Embed from Getty Images The pro-life movement’s efforts to save babies from death by abortion may finally result in Roe v. Wade being...

Restoring Deterrence

The El Sal­vador di­aries: My days as a ‘ter­ror­ist’

When I arrived in El Salvador on April 12 – a bit more than two weeks into the national state of emergency imposed by President Nayib Bukele,...

Do international positions ease or complicate the Saharan issue?

Officially, there is no sign of an international coalition against the Polisario Front being formed like the alliance established by the Americans...

The over­turn­ing of Roe v Wade could harm women across the world

A leaked draft of a United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) opinion that would overturn Roe v Wade, a landmark 1973 decision that gave women the...

James Wines: nature’s revenge

How the US architect and artist James Wines ‘put art where you least expect to find it’ – in big-box stores design - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

‘A powerful, visible message’: 40,000 expected to march in New York’s Israel parade

NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of people, including top Israeli and American politicians, will march in Sunday’s Celebrate Israel Parade in New...

After 2-year delay, Shuly Rubin Schwartz inaugurated as JTS’ first woman chancellor

JTA — Shuly Rubin Schwartz began her work as the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary nearly two years ago. But it wasn’t until this...

Veteran dancer Rena Schenfeld performs with 2 partners in ‘Date’

Veteran dancer Rina Schenfeld takes to the stage again Thursday night for “Date,” a dance piece with Avi Kaiser and Sergio Antonino at the...

Pallbearer beaten at Abu Akleh’s funeral arrested, lawyer says

A pallbearer beaten by police during the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last week has been arrested, according to his lawyer. Khaldoon...

Female Jewish leaders sue Haredi news site for blurring their faces

A branch of the Reform Movement in Israel is suing a popular ultra-Orthodox news website in Jerusalem over its policy of blurring the faces of...

Man who threatened Netanyahu and his son on Twitter sentenced to 13 months in jail

A Beersheba resident has been sentenced on appeal to 13 months in prison for tweets threatening to kill former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

US official: Israel ‘enthusiastic’ about Biden’s restoration of aid to Palestinians

Israeli officials have expressed “enthusiasm” to their American counterparts over the Biden administration’s restoring of aid to the...