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Tel Aviv schools to ban smartphones starting in September

Tel Aviv schools to ban smartphones starting in September

Smartphones will be banned from schools in Tel Aviv starting in September, mayor Ron Huldai said on Thursday. “We won’t let technology control us...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza

The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza

The conclusion of the first stage of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal has many looking anxiously to the release of the remaining living hostages...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

BDS movement rejects Israeli-Palestinian Oscar winner ‘No Other Land’

BDS movement rejects Israeli-Palestinian Oscar winner ‘No Other Land’

The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on Wednesday condemned “No Other Land,” an Oscar-winning Israeli-Palestinian...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

UK journalist who blew whistle on BBC Gaza documentary: ‘I caught them in bed with Hamas’

David Collier quickly revealed the film’s narrator to be ‘Hamas royalty,’ but he also believes this episode could be a turning point for an outlet...

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The Times of Israel

Bart Schut

Malaysia’s corruption carousel: here we go again, with Ismail Sabri third ex-PM implicated

Malaysia’s corruption carousel: here we go again, with Ismail Sabri third ex-PM implicated

The uproar came not so much from Ismail Sabri being named a suspect, but the sheer amount of cash found along with 16 gold bars and luxury Hublot...

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South China Morning Post

Joseph Sipalan

Hasidic MKs tell Netanyahu they’ll oppose budget if draft-exemption law not passed

Hasidic MKs tell Netanyahu they’ll oppose budget if draft-exemption law not passed

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday’s events as they happen. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation adopts the Arab League’s...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Over 70 said killed in fighting between Syrian government forces, Assad loyalists

Over 70 said killed in fighting between Syrian government forces, Assad loyalists

DAMASCUS, Syria — More than 70 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Syria in fighting between government security forces and militants...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

We Must Hold Out as Netanyahu Goes Off the Rails, Nearing the End of His Political Career

Showing respect for Benjamin Netanyahu while harboring anxiety over his actions are both overblown. The prime minister has declared war on Israel...

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Haaretz

Uri Misgav

IDF spokesman Hagari to retire from military, in move widely seen as dismissal

IDF spokesman Hagari to retire from military, in move widely seen as dismissal

The Israel Defense Force’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, is to end his role in the coming weeks and retire from the military, the IDF...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Amid growing outcry, Trump says Musk’s cuts should be done with ‘scalpel’ not ‘hatchet’

Amid growing outcry, Trump says Musk’s cuts should be done with ‘scalpel’ not ‘hatchet’

US president reaffirms to cabinet that they are in charge of their departments, with tech billionaire and top donor authorized to recommend firings...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

PIB de Brasil creció un 3,4% interanual en 2024

El Producto Interior Bruto (PIB) de Brasil creció un 3,4% en 2024 frente al año anterior, según ha informado este viernes el Instituto Brasileño de...

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América Economía

América Economía

Hasidic MKs tell Netanyahu they’ll oppose budget if draft exemption law not passed

Hasidic MKs tell Netanyahu they’ll oppose budget if draft exemption law not passed

Members of the coalition’s Agudath Yisrael faction sent a letter on Thursday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning they will vote against...

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The Times of Israel

Sam Sokol

Ignite the Transformative Power of Reading Fiction

Ignite the Transformative Power of Reading Fiction

How reading fiction can unlock emotional and adaptive intelligence.

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Psychology Today

Craig B. Barkacs Mba

What Role for the Bond Vigilantes?

What Role for the Bond Vigilantes?

PS Quarterly regularly features predictions by experts on topics of global concern, and as we move further into 2025, the macroeconomic outlook has...

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Project Syndicate

J. Bradford Delong

About the Russian ambassador’s article in the Korea Times

On February 27, 2025 an article by Georgy Zinoviev, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Korea appeared in the Korea Times....

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New Eastern Outlook

Konstantin Asmolov

A fragile truce holds in Thailand's deep south

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Nikkei Asian Review

Don Pathan

Israel blocks aid to Gaza and people will starve

Israel blocks aid to Gaza and people will starve

“The stop to humanitarian aid means Palestinians will not eat. It's as simple as that,” were the very harsh words with which Palestinian journalist...

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Il Manifesto Global

Chiara Cruciati

The necessity of Nussbaum

The necessity of Nussbaum

I first encountered Martha C Nussbaum in 1987. She was a guest on Bryan Magee’s BBC television series The Great Philosophers. In each programme,...

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Aeon

Brandon Robshaw

من بيروت إلى عدن.. كيف يتم وأد الدولة الوطنية العربية؟

من بيروت إلى عدن.. كيف يتم وأد الدولة الوطنية العربية؟

لطالما شكلت مسألة إعادة الإعمار في العالم العربي معضلة تتجاوز البعد الاقتصادي لتصل إلى جوهر الصراع حول مفهوم الدولة الوطنية. فعلى مدار عقود، دخلت...

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العين الإخبارية

هاني سالم مسهور

المعادلة العربية: تعمير بلا تهجير وغزة بدون حماس

المعادلة العربية: تعمير بلا تهجير وغزة بدون حماس

أعلن الأمين العام للجامعة العربية أحمد أبو الغيط، أن القمة العربية الطارئة التي عقدت مؤخراً في القاهرة، اعتمدت الخطة التي أعدتها مصر بالتعاون مع...

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العين الإخبارية

د. خلفان سلطان الكندي

Netanyahu said to have promoted ‘civilian arrangement’ with Hamas days before Oct. 7

Netanyahu said to have promoted ‘civilian arrangement’ with Hamas days before Oct. 7

PM’s office calls report a ‘continuation of efforts’ to distract from Shin Bet ‘failures’, but doesn’t address his alleged orders for...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

WWII bomb found on tracks to Paris Gare du Nord train station, halting traffic

WWII bomb found on tracks to Paris Gare du Nord train station, halting traffic

Traffic at the Paris Gare du Nord train station was halted on Friday after a World War II bomb was found on tracks leading to France’s busiest...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Utilidad de Cencosud cayó 66,7% en el cuarto trimestre de 2024 por devaluación del peso chileno

Cencosud reportó hoy un aumento interanual de 15,9% en sus ingresos del 2024, que llegaron a CLP $16.493.815 millones (US$ 17.477 millones). Esta...

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América Economía

América Economía

Sofofa afirma que Chile "no está en el radar de EEUU" en materia de aranceles

Desde Sofofa señalaron que “Chile no está hoy en el radar” de Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) en materia de aranceles, por lo que conviene “buscar no serlo...

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América Economía

América Economía

After Oct. 7, Israel’s new National Library helps a resilient nation turn the page

After Oct. 7, Israel’s new National Library helps a resilient nation turn the page

In early October 2023, Tsila Hayun, director of the National Library’s culture and exhibitions department, met with her staff to discuss the dress...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Man charged with hate crimes for threatening NYC synagogue

Man charged with hate crimes for threatening NYC synagogue

NEW YORK — A suspect was arraigned in a New York court on Thursday for allegedly threatening a New York synagogue last month. Luis Ramirez, 23, was...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: During Gaza War, cold peace with Egypt gets frostier

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: During Gaza War, cold peace with Egypt gets frostier

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s newest podcast series, Friday Focus. Each Friday, join diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman and host deputy editor...

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Daily Briefing Mar. 7: Day 518 – Witkoff encourages Hamas to release US citizen as ‘goodwill’

Daily Briefing Mar. 7: Day 518 – Witkoff encourages Hamas to release US citizen as ‘goodwill’

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

Amanda Borschel-Dan

There's Always Something

There's Always Something

Learning that I will never get everything "to my liking."

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Psychology Today

Maggie Rowe

The Sacrifice Secret

The Sacrifice Secret

Why living differently today can create an extraordinary tomorrow.

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Psychology Today

Jessica Koehler Ph.d

How Systemic Racism Impacts Student Mental Health

How Systemic Racism Impacts Student Mental Health

Author Eve L. Ewing on the racial hierarchy rooted in the U.S. education system.

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Psychology Today

Heather Rose Artushin Lisw-Cp

VOX POPULI: Firefighters in Ofunato akin to something out of a divine fable

VOX POPULI: Firefighters in Ofunato akin to something out of a divine fable

Folklorist Kunio Yanagita’s (1875-1962) “Tono Monogatari Shui” (Gleanings of the legends of Tono) contains a story about a fire that broke out a...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

EDITORIAL: TEPCO remains responsible for nuclear disaster despite acquittals

EDITORIAL: TEPCO remains responsible for nuclear disaster despite acquittals

The Supreme Court has acquitted two former top executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Japan has a revenue hole. Plug it with tourists

Japan has a revenue hole. Plug it with tourists

Two different stories have played out in Japan at very distinct paces over recent months. First, a long-running debate over the amount workers must...

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The Japan Times

Gearoid Reidy

Abundance and Its Discontents

Abundance and Its Discontents

NEW YORK – The idea of abundance has a long, complicated history in this “new” part of the world. The Europeans who invaded and conquered North...

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Project Syndicate

James Livingston

Breaking down Ukraine’s true value

Breaking down Ukraine’s true value

Until the Oval Office meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went off the rails, it appeared that...

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The Japan Times

Anastassia Fedyk And Emilia Marshall

The challenges facing Eyal Zamir: The 24th commander of the occupation army

The challenges facing Eyal Zamir: The 24th commander of the occupation army

General Eyal Zamir officially assumed his new position as commander of the Israeli occupation army, succeeding the resigned commander Herzi Halevi,...

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Middle East Monitor

Aziz Mustafa

Relations between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Reducing tensions, Opportunities and Outlook

Relations between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Reducing tensions, Opportunities and Outlook

The future achievement of a full agreement is an opportunity to develop a balanced and pragmatic foreign policy, diversify international relations,...

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New Eastern Outlook

Farzad Bonesh

Nippon Steel's spotty home record may pose risks for U.S. Steel deal

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Nikkei Asian Review

Nicholas Benes

Opinion – Reflections on the Global Sex Trade and the War in Ukraine

Opinion – Reflections on the Global Sex Trade and the War in Ukraine

Rhetoric on Ukraine is at a high.  A presidential shift in policy has the left in the U.S. (and in some parts of Europe) proverbially up in arms. ...

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E-International

Patricia Sohn

IMF reports ‘good progress’ in Argentina loan talks

IMF reports ‘good progress’ in Argentina loan talks

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported that it is “continuing to make good progress toward a [new] program” with Argentina on Thursday. The...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Liliana Franco

Trump says he wrote to Khamenei offering talks on Iran’s nuclear program

Trump says he wrote to Khamenei offering talks on Iran’s nuclear program

US President Donald Trump said he wants to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran and sent a letter to its leadership this week suggesting talks with...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

IDF escorts hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews to pray at tomb straddling Lebanon border

IDF escorts hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews to pray at tomb straddling Lebanon border

Visit comes after weeks of incidents in which Hassidim crossed border barrier to try and reach apparent burial place of scholar from the Lebanese...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

US reportedly will use AI to revoke visas from students perceived to be pro-Hamas

US reportedly will use AI to revoke visas from students perceived to be pro-Hamas

The US State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian terror...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Analysts: Direct US-Hamas talks reflect ‘dysfunction’ in ceasefire negotiations

Experts predict terror group will feel legitimized by talks, which they say show Trump’s impatience and a lack of faith in Israel ‘to do what is...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Ex-PM Bennett says he wouldn’t include Arab parties, only Zionists, in next government

Ex-PM Bennett says he wouldn’t include Arab parties, only Zionists, in next government

Politician, whose 2021-2022 coalition included an Islamist faction, tells private audience in US that given makeup of Arab parties, it ‘wouldn’t...

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The Times of Israel

Leon Kraiem

جرائم الكراهية في عصر «الرقمية»

جرائم الكراهية في عصر «الرقمية»

قبل نحو عام من اليوم كتبت مقالاً كان يطرح سؤالًا إن كانت جرائم الكراهية تنتشر في...

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العين الإخبارية

د. أشرف الراعي

Inflación de Chile varió un 0,4% en febrero con alza de valor del arriendo y gasolina

El Índice de Precios al Consumidor (IPC), principal indicador para medir la inflación en Chile, subió un 0,4% en febrero de 2025. Según el...

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América Economía

América Economía

Ministro de Economía de Perú se compromete a reducir el déficit fiscal a 2,2% del PIB

El ministro de Economía y Finanzas de Perú, José Salardi, se comprometió a hacer esfuerzos desde el Ejecutivo para bajar el déficit fiscal a un...

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América Economía

América Economía

Exportadores ecuatorianos se dividen frente a la guerra comercial emprendida por Estados Unidos

El posible impacto de los aranceles impuestos por Estados Unidos a las importaciones procedentes de China (20%), Canadá y México (25%), que según...

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América Economía

América Economía