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Israeli Covert Operations against Iran’s Leadership: Objectives Achieved, but the Regime Endures

Israeli Covert Operations against Iran’s Leadership: Objectives Achieved, but the Regime Endures

Israeli Covert Operations against Iran’s Leadership: Objectives Achieved, but the Regime Endures The covert operations carried out by Israeli...

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New Eastern Outlook

Alexandr Svaranc

We Will Never Be Passed Over

We Will Never Be Passed Over

Put Upon—Plenty—But It’s Always Your Loss The story of Passover isn’t about the leaving of Egypt—it’s what happens after. Because the real...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Abe Gurko

The Medici’s lost garden of wonders

The Medici’s lost garden of wonders Recreating Donatello’s sculpture Deconstructing the Colosseum Great art explained: Bernini’s Apollo and...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

After meeting in the ICU, these bereaved mothers of IDF troops reunite via new initiative

After meeting in the ICU, these bereaved mothers of IDF troops reunite via new initiative

Hazel Brief and Taly Drori met for the second time while on their way to a health retreat provided by OneFamily, a nonprofit that supports families of...

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The Times of Israel

Deborah Danan

English mayor resigns after boosting claim Jewish ambulance arson was ‘false flag’

English mayor resigns after boosting claim Jewish ambulance arson was ‘false flag’

Bath’s Bharat Pankhania apologizes ‘unreservedly’ for engaging with posts about torching of four Hatzola vehicles in London; police treating...

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The Times of Israel

Jackie Hajdenberg

Wars Fought for Fun Cannot Be Won

Wars Fought for Fun Cannot Be Won

TORONTO – Setting aside the moral, legal, and political arguments against the United States attacking Iran, US President Donald Trump’s latest war...

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Project Syndicate

Timothy Snyder

EDITORIAL: Diplomacy along with shelters needed to fend off missile attacks

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Seder Night: The Question Mark Twain Didn’t Answer

Seder Night: The Question Mark Twain Didn’t Answer

In the spirit of Pesach — a night shaped by the number four: four questions, four children, four cups — this piece offers one question and four...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ben Lazarus

Who pays the price for Japan’s nuclear power?

Who pays the price for Japan’s nuclear power?

Covered in a layer of dust, pencils and books lie scattered across the small desks of Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma. One of these seats once...

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The Japan Times

Julia Gerster

An Open Letter to the Israeli Immigration Office

An Open Letter to the Israeli Immigration Office

An Open Letter to the Israeli Immigration Office I am writing to you from the Netherlands as a woman who has carried Israel in her heart for most of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

A State Must Not Mistake Housekeeping for Strategy

Before Passover, Jews perform a strangely delicate act. We search the house by candlelight for crumbs. Not for furniture. Not for walls. Not for the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

The spirit of Russian-Indonesian relations lies in understanding each other’s interests and in the absence of contradictions

The spirit of Russian-Indonesian relations lies in understanding each other’s interests and in the absence of contradictions

The spirit of Russian-Indonesian relations lies in understanding each other’s interests and in the absence of contradictions For the readers of the...

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New Eastern Outlook

Ksenia Muratshina

AI threatens the finance industry's perpetual profit machine

AI threatens the finance industry's perpetual profit machine

Artificial intelligence doesn’t only threaten to put herds of software businesses out to pasture. Anthropic PBC’s schooling of its Claude models...

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The Japan Times

Paul J. Davies

When “You’ll Be 80” Becomes a Clinical Answer

At the end of a recent appointment at Ichilov, after an EMG for a lumbar issue at L4–L5, I asked a straightforward question: What can be done? The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin

Say bye-bye to bitter herbs: Israeli researchers’ work aims to pass over tart tastes

Say bye-bye to bitter herbs: Israeli researchers’ work aims to pass over tart tastes

Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists’ compendium of 2,200 bitter molecules and their research on TAS2R14, a bitter receptor, can help make...

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The Times of Israel

Diana Bletter

Is Pesach 2026 the Most Authentic?

Is Pesach 2026 the Most Authentic?

This year, many Israelis find themselves in an unfamiliar and unsettling reality. Travel is restricted. Flights are limited or unavailable. The option...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Harbater

Lithuania — A Warning for Tourists

Lithuania — A Warning for Tourists

If an American tourist visits Lithuania, walks through the state’s genocide museum—a museum dedicated almost entirely to Soviet crimes against...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Cynická obluda: Matovičovská výhodná ponuka

Do volieb ďaleko, ale Matovič už si kladie podmienky. Našťastie už aspoň vieme, čo za ich splnenie ponúka.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

As US weighs putting troops in Iran, realities on ground keep Israeli boots closer to home

As US weighs putting troops in Iran, realities on ground keep Israeli boots closer to home

Some Americans question bearing the burden of war, but experts say Jerusalem’s role in setting the stage for US troops on Iranian soil has been...

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The Times of Israel

Stav Levaton

Nezávislá žurnalistika si v Maďarsku nachádza cestu

Médiá ako Direkt36, Telex či 444.hu postupne narúšajú dezinformačný systém

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SME.sk

Ákos tóth

Make Passover Celebrate Rule of Law Again

Last night, in a prerecorded message, Benjamin Netanyahu compared the war against Iran, Hizballah, Hamas, and the Houthis to the ten plagues visited...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yehuda Halper

The Uranium Is in Isfahan

The Uranium Is in Isfahan

In my previous article on this blog, I argued that the 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity are the only variable that determines who wins...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Celeo Ramirez

Baghdad: Choosing between Iran and America

Baghdad: Choosing between Iran and America

Baghdad: Choosing between Iran and America Relations between Iran, Iraq, and the United States are shaped by growing regional tensions and a complex...

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New Eastern Outlook

Samyar Rostami

Why America, Not Iran, Has a Succession Problem

Why America, Not Iran, Has a Succession Problem

BERLIN – The applause in Washington when Israeli and US airstrikes killed Iran’s senior political and military leaders was understandable. It was...

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Project Syndicate

Stephen Holmes

Will Kharg Island Decide the Future of US Alliances?

Will Kharg Island Decide the Future of US Alliances?

TORONTO – The key question about Iran’s energy-export terminal on Kharg Island is not whether the United States can seize or disable it. Of course...

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Project Syndicate

Carla Norrlöf

Crisis in the Middle-East: India a Civilizational Witness, Not a Bystander

Crisis in the Middle-East: India a Civilizational Witness, Not a Bystander

Why the world’s most plurally constituted civilization has a moral and strategic obligation to interrupt the Middle East’s amnesia, and why its...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yashwant singh

Daily Briefing April 1 – Is the war heading to a Trump no-deal ‘victory’?

Daily Briefing April 1 – Is the war heading to a Trump no-deal ‘victory’?

Ahead of American president’s address tonight, US bureau chief Jacob Magid analyzes how the war is going so far, where the US could take an off-ramp...

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Unlikely heroes

Moses was an unlikely Jewish hero. His very name evokes the Nile, the heart of Egyptian power and paganism. Even when God called upon him to lead, he...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Elana Stein Hain

Girl critically hurt by Iranian cluster bomb as repeated salvos target center

Girl critically hurt by Iranian cluster bomb as repeated salvos target center

Ahead of Passover Seder, Iranians launch 4 barrages at Israel, with cluster bomb attack causing 14 injuries; 6-year-old moderately hurt after being...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Ekoterorizmus prichádza zvnútra Bieleho domu

Desiatky ropných a plynárenských polí, potrubí, rafinérií a terminálov na Blízkom východe sú poškodené

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SME.sk

Washington Post

The Four Sons of New York

On Wednesday night, Jews worldwide sit down for the annual Seder, the festive Passover meal we have celebrated every year for about 3,000 years....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Uzi silber

What Pesach Teaches Us About Global Jewry

Last week I wrote for TOI partner paper, The Jewish News. The article was a rare moment of personal vulnerability, reflecting on the genuinely sad...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Arieh miller

Review – Black Girl from Pyongyang

Review – Black Girl from Pyongyang

Black Girl from Pyongyang offers a rare insider memoir of an elite yet isolated upbringing in North Korea, revealing contradictions, control, and a...

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E-International

Martin Duffy

My Favorite Joke

A Jewish family goes to check on their Zeidi in his new nursing home.  “How do you like it here, Sabah?”, they ask.  “Oh, it’s marvelous,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Doron Junger

UAE said pushing for military op to reopen Strait of Hormuz, is willing to take part

UAE said pushing for military op to reopen Strait of Hormuz, is willing to take part

Wall Street Journal says Abu Dhabi wants US to occupy islands held by Iran in waterway, is also pushing UN Security Council resolution to green-light...

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

Tehran’s Proxy War on Europe’s Jews

The French police thwarted a bomb attack outside the Bank of America headquarters in Paris on March 28. Officers arrested a 17-year-old suspect of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Passover: A Night of Expectation

 It is a night of safeguarding (shimurim) for God, to bring them out from the land of Egypt; this same night is God’s, a safeguarding (shimurim)...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Frederick L. Klein

A Passover Digital Plague: Mario Nawfal and the Spread of Conspiracy Theories

A Passover Digital Plague: Mario Nawfal and the Spread of Conspiracy Theories

Every year at Passover, Jews retell the story of the ten plagues — forces that spread, disrupt, and reshape reality itself. The defining feature of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Maccabi Lev Ari

Who’s running the country?

Although, it’s been quite clear for a long time who is running the country, the past days have emphasized it to the extreme. The first phone call I...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lonny Baskin

Four Palestinians said wounded by settler assailants in West Bank village of Tayasir

Four Palestinians said wounded by settler assailants in West Bank village of Tayasir

No comment by Israeli authorities on latest violence; three injured are cousins of Abdullah Daraghmeh, 75, beaten by extremist settlers last week

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

The Death Penalty and Terror

Israel’s decision to expand the death penalty, now approved by the Knesset, is already being framed by critics as a moral collapse. It is nothing of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shane Shmuel

Japanese X is now America’s favorite corner of the internet

Japanese X is now America’s favorite corner of the internet

A platform that so often seems to promote division is bringing people together for a change — and Americans are learning the joy of one of the last...

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The Japan Times

Gearoid Reidy

Interview – Nicole Bourbonnais

Interview – Nicole Bourbonnais

Nicole Bourbonnais highlights how reproduction studies draw on diverse disciplines to explore why people have children and how reproductive politics...

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E-International

E-International Relations

11-year-old girl critically wounded by Iranian cluster bomb as repeated salvos target center

11-year-old girl critically wounded by Iranian cluster bomb as repeated salvos target center

At least 13 others hurt in strike in Bnei Brak, including seriously injured boy * IDF downs Houthi projectile targeting south * White House says Trump...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Cuba in Free Fall

Cuba in Free Fall

CALI – The Cuban economy is facing a crisis more acute than the one it experienced in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the...

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Project Syndicate

Pavel vidal

Funerals held for 3 of the 4 soldiers killed fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

Funerals held for 3 of the 4 soldiers killed fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

‘My son is a hero, but I don’t want a hero for a son. I want my son at home,’ says father of Staff Sgt. Maxsim Entis, 21; Cpt. Noam Madmoni, 22,...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff