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On 1st day, Shin Bet chief changed background pic on all agency PCs to Temple Mount – report

On 1st day, Shin Bet chief changed background pic on all agency PCs to Temple Mount – report

Source says move showed ‘messianic’ direction David Zini wants for intelligence agency; after uproar, picture was changed back to agency logo,...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The Knesset’s New Bar To Entry: No PhD, No Seat!

The Jewish state sets rigorous standards for those who teach, regulate, heal, and build. Why are the people who run ministries allowed to arrive with...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Elroie agam

What West Bloomfield Revealed About Michigan’s Interfaith Tradition

What West Bloomfield Revealed About Michigan’s Interfaith Tradition

In March, after an anti-Jewish attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a ballroom across the street became a place of refuge. The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Austin Reid Albanese

Grilling Season: Sizzling Food, Not Your Budget

Last year, I met a family who shared a story that many of us know all too well. They had hosted a massive summer cookout, fueled by the desire to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sharon Levin

The State That Refused to Fail

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel. Within hours, five Arab armies crossed its borders. The new state...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Harley Lippman

Bennett, Eisenkot and Lapid said holding contacts on forming joint party

Bennett, Eisenkot and Lapid said holding contacts on forming joint party

Proposed movement would be called ‘New Israel’ and hold primaries in 15 regions to determine who would lead combined slate in upcoming elections,...

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The Times of Israel

Ariela Karmel

What Comes Out

What Comes Out

There are places a person enters—and places he was never meant to stay. On the holiest day of the year, the Kohen Gadol steps into the Kodesh...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Cohen

Body of Kyoto Boy Found Abandoned: How Unjust That the Life of an 11-year-old Was Lost

16:43 JST, April 17, 2026 More than three weeks have passed since a child went missing. Shockingly, police have arrested his stepfather, who...

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The Japan News

Editorial

Arson attempt hits London synagogue; Iran-linked group claims attack on Jewish-tied building

Arson attempt hits London synagogue; Iran-linked group claims attack on Jewish-tied building

UK Chief Rabb Mirvis: A ‘sustained campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community;’ no injuries reported in either incident;...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Iran parliament speaker touts ‘progress’ in US talks, but Strait of Hormuz still shut

Iran parliament speaker touts ‘progress’ in US talks, but Strait of Hormuz still shut

Ghalibaf says ‘big distance’ remains and sides are ‘far’ from final discussions; confusion remains over vital waterway; Trump heaps praise on...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

This is not “Jewish paranoia.”

Trump tells Israel to hold its fire on the terrorists on their northern border, and suddenly everyone is expected to treat that as a normal act of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Paul Mendlowitz

LEGO - Style Revolution: How Iran Broke Out of an Information Blockade

LEGO – Style Revolution: How Iran Broke Out of an Information Blockade Despite US efforts to suppress Iranian perspectives since 2021, Iran has...

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New Eastern Outlook

Simon Westwood

The Thucydides Trap is a lie created to justify a US-China war

From Washington to Brussels and even Asia, policymakers have become obsessed with the “Thucydides Trap”, a concept born from Graham Allison’s...

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South China Morning Post

Chandran Nair

Quiet Power in a Loud Region: Pakistan’s Emerging Role in Crisis Management

A Ceasefire Without Peace: The Unresolved Fault Lines of the Iran–Israel Crisis The Middle East today is not at peace. It is pausing. Missiles may...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Imran igra

Regime Chic: Prof. Bajoghli Redecorates Iran’s Propaganda for NY Magazine

Regime Chic: Prof. Bajoghli Redecorates Iran’s Propaganda for NY Magazine

There’s a passage near the center of Narges Bajoghli’s recent New York Magazine piece, “In the Room With Iran’s Social Media Savants,” that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kile Jones

EU Funding and Muslim Brotherhood Debate

The relationship between European institutions and organizations allegedly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood has become an increasingly contentious...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Rami al dabbas

When Safety Becomes Silence on Campus

In my classroom, I am watching something shift. Students are not just struggling with difficult conversations. They are struggling to know whether...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Susie Hess

Iran and USA: Ceasefire, Talks, Contradictions

Iran and USA: Ceasefire, Talks, Contradictions

Iran and USA: Ceasefire, Talks, Contradictions The forty-day war between the US and Israel and Iran has been paused. Islamabad and Geneva are...

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New Eastern Outlook

Alexandr Svaranc

Confused Closures and Opaque Openings: Continuing Dramas in the Hormuz Strait

Confused Closures and Opaque Openings: Continuing Dramas in the Hormuz Strait

Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism.  It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Binoy Kampmark

Zionism is Love

Zionism is Love

On Yom HaZikaron, the Day of Remembrance, my son is coming home from the army to stand by a soldier’s grave on Mount Herzl. No fallen soldier’s...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sarah sassoon

What Trump’s ‘America First’ Would Mean to Pearl S. Buck

I was made to visit with supervising adults within my family the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Museum in Hillsboro, West Virginia, as a young boy. It was...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael mosley

When the Uniform Comes Off, Power Remains

When the Uniform Comes Off, Power Remains Three young women showed up for their final discharge day from the IDF in civilian clothes: a tank top, a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

As ceasefire deadline looms, Iran says Trump can’t deprive it of its ‘nuclear rights’

As ceasefire deadline looms, Iran says Trump can’t deprive it of its ‘nuclear rights’

Report: US president screamed at aides ‘for hours’ when jet was shot down * NW London synagogue targeted in arson attack, the 3rd Jewish site in...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

IDF reservist killed, nine wounded by explosive in southern Lebanon amid truce

IDF reservist killed, nine wounded by explosive in southern Lebanon amid truce

Sgt. First Class (res.) Lidor Porat, 31, dies as engineering vehicle rolls over bomb; military carries out strikes after incident; Lebanon reports...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

10 years since Kumamoto Earthquake: False information during disasters can be life-threatening

17:16 JST, April 15, 2026 The spread of serious cases of misinformation via social media was a major problem in the aftermath of the Kumamoto...

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The Japan News

Editorial

The Psychology Behind Israel Criticism

The Psychology Behind Israel Criticism

The Global Narrative on Israel Is Deeply Misguided Around the world, anti Israel protests have become a kind of ritual. Crowds gather, slogans are...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

Anti-Israel group files formal complaint against released IDF soldier in Sri Lanka

Anti-Israel group files formal complaint against released IDF soldier in Sri Lanka

Hind Rajab Foundation claims US-Israeli citizen engaged in war crimes while serving as combat engineer in Gaza, says Sri Lanka has ‘duty’ to...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Two water delivery contractors killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, UN says

Two water delivery contractors killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, UN says

Military says troops opened fire after ‘armed terrorists’ were seen approaching the ceasefire line in north Gaza; two others killed in separate...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Settlers reportedly beat Palestinian woman, raid several West Bank towns

Settlers reportedly beat Palestinian woman, raid several West Bank towns

Woman taken for medical treatment, her sons said detained by IDF; Turmus Ayya, home to large population of Palestinian Americans, raided twice in one...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

‘We won’t let them forget’: Ahead of Memorial Day, Tel Aviv protest demands Oct. 7 inquiry

‘We won’t let them forget’: Ahead of Memorial Day, Tel Aviv protest demands Oct. 7 inquiry

‘A second Holocaust happened to my family,’ says Ofri Bibas, vowing Netanyahu won’t ‘evade accountability’; bereaved relative accuses...

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The Times of Israel

Noam Lehmann

Spiritual Healing

The Alshich comments that we should be grateful for the make up of the human body. Death is reflected by the soul leaving the body. But while the soul...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

The Soros Network Captures Hungary Through Magyar

The Soros Network Captures Hungary Through Magyar

The Open Society Foundations began operating in Hungary in 1984 under the leadership of George Soros, a Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor. Over...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

The Altar and the Algorithm: An Experiment in Human-AI Entanglement

The Altar and the Algorithm: An Experiment in Human-AI Entanglement

I’ve been exploring how we (humans) “think” with AI. This essay is a further experiment about “thinking,” about “knowledge” and about...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Joe Nalven

When Negotiation is Only “As If” – Hamas

A striking observation by an Israeli interlocutor raises a different question: what if Hamas is not operating at the level of articulated, responsive...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin

A Rabbinical Judge Called to Raze Gaza – Israel to Honor Him on Independence Day

A Rabbinical Judge Called to Raze Gaza – Israel to Honor Him on Independence Day

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Orly Erez-Likhovski

Questions for AJC and B’nai B’rith

I write in good faith, as a member of the community these organizations serve, with questions I hope their leadership will treat seriously. The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

The U.S.-Israel Alliance is Mutually Beneficial

The U.S.-Israel Alliance is Mutually Beneficial

Scrolling through social media or listening to political debates, you’ll hear a familiar claim repeated again and again: the United States gives...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ezra greenspan

Despite Israeli firepower, Netanyahu struggles for political gains in Iran war

Despite Israeli firepower, Netanyahu struggles for political gains in Iran war

The Iran war was meant to deliver a defining victory over Tehran that would secure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's place in history....

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Japan Today

Samia nakhoul and maayan lubell