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Trump’s hostage envoy warns Iraq of consequences if Elizabeth Tsurkov not freed

Trump’s hostage envoy warns Iraq of consequences if Elizabeth Tsurkov not freed

The Trump administration’s hostage envoy on Wednesday weighed in for the first time on the captivity of Princeton University researcher Elizabeth...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

Daily Briefing Feb. 5: Day 488 – Trump thrills Netanyahu, calls Gaza a hellhole

Daily Briefing Feb. 5: Day 488 – Trump thrills Netanyahu, calls Gaza a hellhole

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

Ministers praise PM, Trump: ‘Thank God for this miracle’; Hamas says Gaza plan ‘absurd’

Ministers praise PM, Trump: ‘Thank God for this miracle’; Hamas says Gaza plan ‘absurd’

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they happen. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives the Willard Hotel after his...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Man pleads guilty to firing gun outside NY synagogue while yelling ‘free Palestine’

Man pleads guilty to firing gun outside NY synagogue while yelling ‘free Palestine’

JTA — A man who fired a gun in the air outside of an Albany, New York, synagogue while shouting “Free Palestine!” has pleaded guilty to hate...

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The Times of Israel

Ben Sales

Speechwriter fired over white nationalist ties tapped for senior State Department post

Speechwriter fired over white nationalist ties tapped for senior State Department post

JTA — The Trump administration has ignited criticism by giving a high-level State Department portfolio to a man whom Donald Trump’s White House...

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The Times of Israel

Philissa Cramer

Trump kept Gaza takeover idea secret, only discussed it with inner circle – report

Trump kept Gaza takeover idea secret, only discussed it with inner circle – report

US President Donald Trump only came up in recent days with his idea — announced in a bombshell press conference alongside Prime Minister Benjamin...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

‘He’s lost it’: Trump call to take over Gaza blasted by Democrats, boosted by loyalists

‘He’s lost it’: Trump call to take over Gaza blasted by Democrats, boosted by loyalists

US President Donald Trump’s declaration on Tuesday that the US will take over the Gaza Strip and resettle its roughly 1.8 million residents...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Iran displays Russian-made long-range air defense systems in military exercises

Iran displays Russian-made long-range air defense systems in military exercises

Iran used Russian-made long-range air defense systems in a military exercise on Wednesday, following Israeli strikes in October which Israel said...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Defense Ministry carries out tests on new anti-drone systems in development

Defense Ministry carries out tests on new anti-drone systems in development

Nine companies display technologies during ‘contest’ attended by defense minister, other officials; successful systems to be further developed

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Denying US and Israel are planning a strike, Trump says he wants a deal with Iran

Denying US and Israel are planning a strike, Trump says he wants a deal with Iran

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied the United States and Israel plan to carry out a military strike on Iran, instead saying he wants to...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Can the Liberal International Order Survive Without America?

Can the Liberal International Order Survive Without America?

LONDON – In the final months of his term, former US President Joe Biden repeatedly warned of the growing threat to liberal democracies worldwide...

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Project Syndicate

Chris Patten

IDF soldiers released from captivity were held by senior Hamas terrorist – report

IDF soldiers released from captivity were held by senior Hamas terrorist – report

The five IDF surveillance soldiers recently released from captivity in the Gaza Strip were held hostage there by a senior member of Hamas’s...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Gallant says government ‘didn’t do everything it could to bring back the hostages’

Gallant says government ‘didn’t do everything it could to bring back the hostages’

In his first interview since being sacked in November, former defense minister Yoav Gallant accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Iran welcomes Trump’s foreign aid cuts as both sides hint at nuclear negotiations

Iran welcomes Trump’s foreign aid cuts as both sides hint at nuclear negotiations

Iranian state media has lauded US President Donald Trump’s moves to freeze spending on foreign aid and overhaul, maybe even end, the US Agency for...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Trump withdraws US from UN Human Rights Council, permanently ends funding to UNRWA

Trump withdraws US from UN Human Rights Council, permanently ends funding to UNRWA

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the top UN human rights body and will not resume funding for...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

NotCo cierra oficinas en Nueva York y deja a Kraft Heinz como su vendedor en EE.UU. y Canadá

NotCo informó que decidió cerrar sus oficinas en Nueva York, junto con dejar a Kraft Heinz como firma encargada de vender sus productos en Estados...

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América Economía

América Economía

Telefónica invertirá US$ 500 millones en 4G y 5G en Venezuela

Telefónica invertirá 500 millones de dólares (casi 490 millones de euros) en el despliegue de tecnologías 5G y en fortalecer su red 4G tras...

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América Economía

América Economía

High Court orders police to investigate assistance to illegal settlement outposts

High Court orders police to investigate assistance to illegal settlement outposts

The High Court of Justice issued a ruling on Tuesday requiring police to open a criminal investigation into whether officials in the Mateh Binyamin...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

High Court orders police and IDF to again let Palestinians return to West Bank hamlet

High Court orders police and IDF to again let Palestinians return to West Bank hamlet

The High Court of Justice ordered the police and the IDF to again enable residents of the Palestinian hamlet of Khirbet Zanuta to return there,...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

Manna in a State of Superposition of All Tastes

Manna in a State of Superposition of All Tastes

And the house of Israel called the name thereof manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey (...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alexander I. Poltorak

Does the Quantity Theory of Money Hold in Israel?: Velocity of Money is Pivotal!

QTM Explained, Oxford Reference [www.oxfordreference.com] “The theory that the price level is proportional to the quantity of money. This is...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

Gaza 2035: A Beacon of Peace and Prosperity in the Flourishing Middle East

Gaza 2035: A Beacon of Peace and Prosperity in the Flourishing Middle East

Imagine it is the year 2035, and the Gaza Strip, in the mold of Neom, stands as one of the greatest success stories of the 21st century. Once a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Seth Eisenberg

VOX POPULI: Doomsday Clock puts the world at 89 seconds to self-annihilation

VOX POPULI: Doomsday Clock puts the world at 89 seconds to self-annihilation

“The End of the Whole Mess,” by Stephen King, who is renowned as the “King of Horror,” is a scary but sad short story about two brothers. Written...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

THE PALM BEACH POST GOES Der Stürmer LOW

In the January 26 Sunday edition of the Palm Beach Post, the readers were presented a cartoon reminiscent of the most heinous antisemitic images of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alan Newman

Want More Career Confidence?

Want More Career Confidence?

For more career confidence, you must flourish outside of your work.

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Psychology Today

Kurt W Ela Psy.d

Eating Disorders and Trauma: The Missing Link

Eating Disorders and Trauma: The Missing Link

What all clinicians should be asking their eating disorder clients.

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Psychology Today

Giulia Suro Ph.d

Greater Israel—Getting Serious About Settlements and Colonization. (Part 2 of 3)

  To recapitulate, we are aiming to create within Israel an advanced, scientific, research-oriented economy, an economy whose foundations and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Adrian Stein

EDITORIAL: Yashio’s sinkhole shows the urgent need to fix aging infrastructure

EDITORIAL: Yashio’s sinkhole shows the urgent need to fix aging infrastructure

A truck fell into a massive sinkhole that opened up on a busy prefectural road on Jan. 28. As the truck driver is still trapped, rescue workers...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

False equivalence and worse

Worse is framing the victims as the perpetrators ‘Very nice people—on both sides.’ (Trump comparing Neo-Nazis marchers shouting ‘Jews will not...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

How to Strengthen Your Moral Courage

How to Strengthen Your Moral Courage

“Social fitness training” can help you hold the line against harm.

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Psychology Today

Elizabeth Svoboda

Stay Away From Ingrates

It is always fascinating to see how the Talmud had such a clear understanding of human nature. There is a quote from Masechet Chullin that is both...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

INTERVIEW/ Penpa Tsering: All options open for selection of successor of 14th Dalai Lama

INTERVIEW/ Penpa Tsering: All options open for selection of successor of 14th Dalai Lama

NEW DELHI—Speculation is focusing on who will succeed the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, who turns 90 in July. The head of Tibetan...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

FBI Continues to be a Festering Sore on the Face of American Democracy!

FBI Continues to be a Festering Sore on the Face of American Democracy!

As the FBI faces mounting scrutiny over its internal corruption and lack of accountability, the challenge of reforming the agency grows more...

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New Eastern Outlook

Henry Kamens

The tariff man is making a risky bet

The tariff man is making a risky bet

In a dramatic escalation of trade tensions, U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed an across-the-board 10% tariff on goods from China, threatened,...

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The Japan Times

Carla Norrlof

Fossil fuel insurance is still way too cheap

Fossil fuel insurance is still way too cheap

The fires ravaging Los Angeles in recent weeks evoke images of hell. Having claimed at least 29 lives, forced close to 200,000 residents to...

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The Japan Times

Alexander Pui And Walter James

The U.S. must avoid isolationism — a path to nowhere

The U.S. must avoid isolationism — a path to nowhere

Robert Kaplan is a Washington-based journalist whom you don’t read first thing in the morning if you want to enjoy the rest of the day. He is a...

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The Japan Times

Max Hastings

De-Ba’athification of Syria: a glance back in history

With the fall of Bashar al-Assad and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham* (HTS*) taking over Syria, it has been announced that the Ba’ath Party, which has been...

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New Eastern Outlook

Vanessa Sevidova

Fuji TV sex scandal was not a surprise in Japan's mediascape

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Nikkei Asian Review

Igor Prusa

Inhumanitarian law

Inhumanitarian law

‘I cannot be blackmailed,” insisted the “strong premier”, while the government’s mouthpieces, scattered across the talk shows, invoked the national...

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Il Manifesto Global

Francesco Strazzari

القيم الأسرية في الثقافة الصينية

القيم الأسرية في الثقافة الصينية

تُعتبر الأسرة ركيزةً أساسيةً في المجتمع الصيني، فهي ليست مجرد وحدة اجتماعية، بل...

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العين الإخبارية

ماجد وانغ

عام المجتمع وتعزيز رأس المال الاجتماعي

عام المجتمع وتعزيز رأس المال الاجتماعي

أعلن الشيخ محمد بن زايد آل نهيان، رئيس دولة الإمارات، أن عام 2025 هو "عام المجتمع" في...

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العين الإخبارية

د. خلفان سلطان الكندي

Advantage China: Why Trump’s tariff gamble could backfire on the US

Advantage China: Why Trump’s tariff gamble could backfire on the US

The US President’s aggressive manoeuvres offer Beijing a unique opportunity: bolster its already impressive engagements with nations.

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TRT World

Jianlu Bi

Four surveillance soldiers freed from Gaza head home after week at hospital

Four surveillance soldiers freed from Gaza head home after week at hospital

Four of the five freed surveillance soldier hostages returned home from the hospital on Wednesday, 11 days after their release from Hamas captivity...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Iran’s Khamenei names Hezbollah leader as his ‘representative’ in Lebanon

Iran’s Khamenei names Hezbollah leader as his ‘representative’ in Lebanon

Supreme leader’s announcement comes 5 months after Nasrallah assassinated in Israeli airstrike, replaced by current head Naim Qassem

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Trump’s plan to relocate Gazans stuns the region, faces serious obstacles

Trump’s plan to relocate Gazans stuns the region, faces serious obstacles

US President Donald Trump’s stunning proposal to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and develop it as a...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Gazans’ future in limbo as ‘day-after’ plan remains out of reach

Gazans’ future in limbo as ‘day-after’ plan remains out of reach

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if the long-awaited hostage-ceasefire agreement...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Perú y El Salvador retoman negociaciones para lograr un TLC

El Perú y El Salvador acordaron reiniciar las negociaciones para suscribir un acuerdo de libre comercio, el cuál ampliaría las oportunidades de las...

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América Economía

América Economía

Organización de ganaderos de EE.UU. solicita a Trump prohibición a la importación de carne paraguaya

Bill Bullard, CEO de la organización de productores “R-Calf USA”, elaboró una serie de planteamientos para los primeros 100 días de la nueva...

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América Economía

América Economía

Argentina se retirará de la OMS debido a desacuerdos en la gestión del COVID-19

El Gobierno de Argentina ha anunciado la próxima salida del país de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) por las "profundas discrepancias" en...

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América Economía

América Economía

Nueva Ley Eléctrica de México reduce aún más participación del sector privado

La nueva Ley del Sector Eléctrico de México dejará fuera de la transmisión y distribución de energía a los privados (como ya ocurría, a pesar...

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América Economía

América Economía