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Belgium refuses to renew passport of Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem area beyond Green Line

Belgium refuses to renew passport of Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem area beyond Green Line

Annabelle Herciger-Tenzer, a Pisgat Zeev resident who immigrated to Israel in 1980, says Belgian consulate’s rejection of her request ‘was simply...

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The Times of Israel

Nava Freiberg

Trump’s superpower, unpredictability, has given way to unreliability

Trump’s superpower, unpredictability, has given way to unreliability

When U.S. President Donald Trump served Chinese leader Xi Jinping chocolate cake at Mar-a-Lago in 2017 while casually informing his guest that the...

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The Japan Times

Stephen R. Nagy

Cannes-winning writer claims actors ‘blacklisted’ for opposing Israel amid Gaza war

Cannes-winning writer claims actors ‘blacklisted’ for opposing Israel amid Gaza war

‘Shame on Hollywood:’ Paul Laverty lashes out at studios as he defends Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Passengers Taken to Hospital After Spraying Incident on JR East Train

Passengers Taken to Hospital After Spraying Incident on JR East Train

18:48 JST, May 10, 2026 About 10 passengers were taken to hospital after an emergency report of something being sprayed in a train car on the...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Showtime for Daruma: Dodgers’ Ohtani-featured Daruma Dolls Created in Takasaki, Gunma Pref.

Showtime for Daruma: Dodgers’ Ohtani-featured Daruma Dolls Created in Takasaki, Gunma Pref.

16:22 JST, May 13, 2026 Daruma dolls featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani have been created by Daimonya, a traditional daruma maker in...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

The Slow Crumble of Netanyahu's Eternal Rule Was on Full Display

The Slow Crumble of Netanyahu's Eternal Rule Was on Full Display

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Haaretz

Yoana Gonen

Modi’s India is looking like a one-party state

Modi’s India is looking like a one-party state

It took him 12 years, but Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has finally brought the world’s most-populous nation to the precipice of an...

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The Japan Times

Andy Mukherjee

VOX POPULI: War drains the color from daily life, be it clothes or a bag of chips

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Antarctic Meeting in Hiroshima to Discuss Emperor Penguin Protection, Tourism Surge

Antarctic Meeting in Hiroshima to Discuss Emperor Penguin Protection, Tourism Surge

6:00 JST, May 13, 2026 Active discussions on the future of scientific research and environmental conservation are anticipated at the Antarctic...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Little Progress Seen in Mending Japan-China Ties

Little Progress Seen in Mending Japan-China Ties

17:48 JST, May 7, 2026 Japan-China relations remain mired in a stalemate six months after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remark about a Taiwan...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Tokyo Junior High School Still Nurtures ‘Anne Frank’ Roses After Half A Century; Students Received Original Plants from Famed Diarist’s Father

Tokyo Junior High School Still Nurtures ‘Anne Frank’ Roses After Half A Century; Students Received Original Plants from Famed Diarist’s Father

12:28 JST, May 13, 2026 About 200 rose plants of a variety named in honor of a young diarist who died in the holocaust have bloomed at Takaido...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Iran executes man accused of spying on behalf of Israel’s Mossad

Iran executes man accused of spying on behalf of Israel’s Mossad

Judiciary says Ehsan Afrashteh, 32, confessed to being paid to carry out tasks for the intelligence agency; rights group says confession ‘fabricated’

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

World’s 1st iPS-Derived Medicine to Treat Parkinson’s Disease Approved for Coverage under Public Insurance Scheme

World’s 1st iPS-Derived Medicine to Treat Parkinson’s Disease Approved for Coverage under Public Insurance Scheme

13:15 JST, May 13, 2026 The Central Social Insurance Medical Council, an advisory panel to the Health, Labor and Welfare minister, approved on...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Four authors named as finalists for Sami Rohr Prize

Four authors named as finalists for Sami Rohr Prize

Jewish literature awards ceremony, held in association with National Library, to take place in Jerusalem this July

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Taiwan: setbacks in “autonomous” international positioning

Taiwan: setbacks in “autonomous” international positioning

Taiwan: setbacks in “autonomous” international positioning Serious setbacks have marked the latest attempts by Taiwan’s current leadership to...

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New Eastern Outlook

Vladimir Terehov

Engel’s Coefficient in Japan Reaches Highest Level in 45 Years in Fiscal 2025, Shows More Spending by Households on Food

Engel’s Coefficient in Japan Reaches Highest Level in 45 Years in Fiscal 2025, Shows More Spending by Households on Food

15:34 JST, May 13, 2026 Japan’s Engel’s coefficient in fiscal 2025 was 28.8%, the highest rate in 45 years, according to a household expenditure...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Marine survey spots rare bird and thriving dolphins

Marine survey spots rare bird and thriving dolphins

Carried out by Israel Nature and Parks Authority, two-day survey along Mediterranean coast is first of its kind since 2022

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The Times of Israel

Sue Surkes

‘Lupin the Third’ Theme Song Composer, Yuji Ohno, Dies at 84

‘Lupin the Third’ Theme Song Composer, Yuji Ohno, Dies at 84

14:37 JST, May 13, 2026 Composer and jazz pianist Yuji Ohno, known for the theme song to the popular anime ‘Lupin the Third,’ died on May 4 at...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Real Zionists Recognize the Nakba

Why an honest reckoning with the circumstances of Israel’s birth is critical for Israel’s future Israel was not born by immaculate conception....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ariel Beery

Ultra-Orthodox parties break with Netanyahu but know they have nowhere else to go

Ultra-Orthodox parties break with Netanyahu but know they have nowhere else to go

Despite Rabbi Lando’s ultimatum and anger over the draft law, any talk of a historic alliance with the center-left is baseless, as the Haredi...

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The Times of Israel

Shalom Yerushalmi

The Philippines emerges as an Indo-Pacific security pivot

The Philippines emerges as an Indo-Pacific security pivot

Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Philippines alliance has been the sick man of the U.S. regional security architecture. (The alliance with...

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The Japan Times

Brad Glosserman

Crude Oil from Azerbaijan Arrives in Yokohama

Crude Oil from Azerbaijan Arrives in Yokohama

14:02 JST, May 13, 2026 A tanker carrying crude oil from Azerbaijan — an alternative supply source in Central Asia — arrived in Yokohama on...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Bear Sighting Reported Near School, Residential Area in Tokyo’s Hachioji

Bear Sighting Reported Near School, Residential Area in Tokyo’s Hachioji

11:38 JST, May 13, 2026 Hachioji municipal government confirmed on Tuesday that a bear had been sighted in the city last month. The sighting...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

298 Pages of Evidence. The New York Times Ran the Other Story.

On the night before the most comprehensive evidentiary reckoning with Hamas’s documented, command-directed sexual terrorism, the New York Times ran...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gerard Filitti

Cherry Blossoms Bloom at Easternmost Point in Japan for 2nd Earliest Time Since 1960

Cherry Blossoms Bloom at Easternmost Point in Japan for 2nd Earliest Time Since 1960

18:46 JST, May 7, 2026 Chishima cherry blossoms were confirmed to have bloomed in Nemuro, Hokkaido, on Wednesday. Nemuro city government and Nemuro...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

EDITORIAL: Full checks of transport safety measures needed for school trips

The precious life of a student was lost when a bus carrying him and 19 others from a high school in Niigata city for club activities crashed into a...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

(POGLED) Hočemo Evrovizijo. Tudi tisti, ki držimo s Palestinci. RTV ni organ vlade. Dovolj političnega patronata!

(POGLED) Hočemo Evrovizijo. Tudi tisti, ki držimo s Palestinci. RTV ni organ vlade. Dovolj političnega patronata!

Obsojam izraelsko politiko do Palestine. Solidariziram se s Palestinci. Mislim, da Izrael nad njimi izvaja genocid. Cenim prizadevanja Francesce...

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Večer

Marko Crnkovič

Pope Leo, Robert Jeffress, Protestant Realism, & Iran

Pope Leo, Robert Jeffress, Protestant Realism, & Iran

The growing divide between Pope Leo and many conservative Protestants over Iran, Israel, and war is about much more than politics. Underneath the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tim Orr

NATO’s Holocaust Problem

A NATO member state has criminalized a Jewish citizen for Facebook speech and invokes the Alliance as cover. The Alliance text remains operative....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

Flotilla activists Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Keshek released from Israeli prison

Flotilla activists Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Keshek released from Israeli prison

Flotilla activists Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Keshek released from Israeli prison The arrest of the Brazilian Ávila and the Spanish-Palestinian Abu...

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Il Manifesto Global

Mario di Vito

Romania Overthrows the Western-Backed Regime: The Collapse of Brussels’ Puppet Government in Bucharest

Romania Overthrows the Western-Backed Regime: The Collapse of Brussels’ Puppet Government in Bucharest

Romania Overthrows the Western-Backed Regime: The Collapse of Brussels’ Puppet Government in Bucharest On 5 May 2026, the pro-EU government of Prime...

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New Eastern Outlook

Adrian Korczyński

The Return of Jewish Power

The Return of Jewish Power

Nearly a decade ago, a Christian friend told me something that has stayed with me ever since. After converting to Christianity, he apologized to me...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Matthew Robin

Korea’s risk-free schools

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The Korea Times

Yoon ja-young

The Waqf and the Fund: Islamic Endowments, the English Trust and the PE Parallel

When Blackstone or KKR locks up capital for a decade, structures illiquid holdings around a perpetuity thesis, and appoints stewards answerable to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

Israel & Trinidad and Tobago: Mirrors & Parallels – Part 2

PART 2 of 3: Israel-Trinidad and Tobago Mirrors and Parallels. America and Israel; America and Trinidad and Tobago; America-Israel-Trinidad and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nicholas Jagdeo

Tokyo Air Raid Museum Popular with Intl Tourists Amid Global Tensions, Sees Record Visitor Numbers

Tokyo Air Raid Museum Popular with Intl Tourists Amid Global Tensions, Sees Record Visitor Numbers

By Keito Ehara / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer 12:45 JST, May 13, 2026 A private facility documenting the 1945 Tokyo air raids has been attracting...

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The Japan News

Keito ehara yomiuri shimbun staff writer

Japan Uses Bessent Visit to Send China a Message on Japan-U.S. Solidarity

Japan Uses Bessent Visit to Send China a Message on Japan-U.S. Solidarity

By Yujiro Okabe / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer 14:49 JST, May 13, 2026 The government tried to demonstrate Japan-U.S. solidarity ahead of the May 14...

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The Japan News

Yujiro okabe yomiuri shimbun staff writer

Netanyahu Must Be Stopped From Appointing His Proxy as Israel's Top Watchdog

Netanyahu Must Be Stopped From Appointing His Proxy as Israel's Top Watchdog

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Haaretz

Haaretz Editorial

Gov't Oversight in PM's Pocket: Netanyahu Set to Appoint Lawyer as Comptroller

Gov't Oversight in PM's Pocket: Netanyahu Set to Appoint Lawyer as Comptroller

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Haaretz

Haaretz

War overshadows BRICS forum bringing together Iran and UAE in India

War overshadows BRICS forum bringing together Iran and UAE in India

Tehran urges hosts to use platform to build consensus condemning US-Israeli strikes, but its attacks on Emirates and reports that Gulf countries...

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The Times of Israel

Aftab ahmed

الإمارات بعد الحرب.. دبلوماسية ما بعد الصراع

في بيئة إقليمية تتسم بتزايد الأزمات وتراجع فاعلية آليات إدارتها التقليدية، تتجه...

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العين الإخبارية

د. خلفان سلطان الكندي

Kaori Sakamoto, Milano Cortina Silver Medalist Figure Skater, Announces Marriage

13:22 JST, May 13, 2026 Kaori Sakamoto, who won silver in the women’s singles figure skating at the Milano Cortina Olympics, revealed she tied the...

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The Japan News

The Yomiuri Shimbun

The risk of the Iran war restarting is irrationally high

The risk of the Iran war restarting is irrationally high

The ancient Athenians didn’t really have a word for sin. They had one for error, hamartia and they of course coined hubris — an offense of pride...

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The Japan Times

Marc Champion

State bodies, NGOs up in arms over oil company’s plan to move into fiber optics

Opponents say law limits Europe Asia Pipeline Company to transporting, storing crude oil; EAPC insists project will make Israel a regional...

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The Times of Israel

Sue Surkes

Great Promises

Twice a year, the Torah gives us the תוכחה, or rebuke. The first comes before Shavuot, and the second one before Rosh Hashanah. It is a very...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

NYT pushes back on Israeli criticism of column alleging rape of Palestinian inmates

NYT pushes back on Israeli criticism of column alleging rape of Palestinian inmates

Jewish groups announce protest against ‘libels’ outside newspaper’s Manhattan offices; ex-PM Olmert says column misrepresented his words so they...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

AI won’t replace humans, it will expose weak systems

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The Korea Times

Charles Chang

‘Indiana Trump’ Barks Again; No Bite Yet

‘Indiana Trump’ Barks Again; No Bite Yet

In the brutal chessboard of Middle Eastern geopolitics, the Spanish proverb perro que ladra no muerde—a dog that barks does not bite—now defines...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

In the Łódź Ghetto, Jews defied Nazis through art. Now it is exhibited in Jerusalem

In the Łódź Ghetto, Jews defied Nazis through art. Now it is exhibited in Jerusalem

The second-largest city in Poland had a thriving Jewish cultural scene before The Third Reich incarcerated 164,000 Jews for slave labor. A Yad Vashem...

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

Trump says US will ‘finish the job’ against Iran, ‘peacefully or otherwise’

Trump says US will ‘finish the job’ against Iran, ‘peacefully or otherwise’

‘I don’t think we need any help with Iran,’ US president insists as he heads to China; Islamic Republic remains defiant, claims US must accept...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman