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Eisenkot-Liberman merger would be biggest faction, could boost opposition – survey

Eisenkot-Liberman merger would be biggest faction, could boost opposition – survey

Polls essentially unchanged since last week, with Zman showing Zionist opposition with narrow majority; Reservists’ Hendel reportedly in touch with...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Why is CNN suddenly covering ‘Putin’s fear of assassinations and coups’?

On May 4, CNN published a relatively long report about the alleged “dramatic increase in personal security around President Vladimir Putin”....

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Blitz

Drago Bosnic

Trump strategy labels Europe a “terror incubator” amid deepening transatlantic rift

The administration of Donald Trump has unveiled a sweeping new national counterterrorism strategy that sharply criticizes European allies, accusing...

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Blitz

M A Hossain

(POGLED) Kolumna Marka Crnkoviča o izhodiščih za Janševo koalicijo: Človek bi jih drago plačal

(POGLED) Kolumna Marka Crnkoviča o izhodiščih za Janševo koalicijo: Človek bi jih drago plačal

Na spletni strani SDS sem si z zanimanjem in dolžno pozornostjo prebral dokument pod naslovom Izhodišča za oblikovanje Koalicije za uspešno...

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Večer

Marko Crnkovič

‘Operation Sindoor’ and the enduring logic of the India-Russia defense partnership

The terrorist massacre at Baisaran meadow near Pahalgam in April 2025 was not merely another episode in the long history of violence in Kashmir. It...

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Blitz

Damsana Ranadhiran

Turkey’s role in Operation Sindoor: New axis against India

Foreign policy is rarely a matter of single decisions. It is usually a long drift in one direction, occasionally interrupted by moments that make the...

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Blitz

Arun Anand

Democracy by lottery

John Rawls’s blueprint for utopia What would a fair society look like? Plato’s philosopher kings The truth about algorithms The ethical dilemma of...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

America suffers from highest child poverty rates

How can the United States—still the richest nation on earth—tolerate one of the highest child poverty rates in the industrialized world? This is...

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Blitz

Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

Sarnevesht (Daughter)

Sarnevesht (Daughter) Red dress. No straps. Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter! Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Bringing Tokyo and Seoul closer

Human history is full of paradoxes. The story of East Asia is no exception. A glaring paradox in the area can be discerned in the ties between Japan...

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Blitz

Jagdish N Singh

The Fall of the "King": How Netanyahu’s Reckless Politics Are Robbing Israel of Its Future

The Fall of the “King”: How Netanyahu’s Reckless Politics Are Robbing Israel of Its Future Israel has hit rock bottom—politically, morally,...

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New Eastern Outlook

Muhammad Hamid Ad-Din

1,000 years of Japanese swords

1,000 years of Japanese swords The Japanese sword as the soul of the samurai Samurai rules for peace and war The Great Wave by Hokusai I-Kiribati...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Opinion – Moldova: Between Ambitious Plans and Present-Day Challenges

Opinion – Moldova: Between Ambitious Plans and Present-Day Challenges

It is unclear whether EU governments will accept Moldovan membership if it does not have full control over its territory.

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E-International

Wilder Alejandro Sanchez

Israel’s Wars Never Truly Ended

Israel’s Wars Never Truly Ended

Israel’s Wars Never Truly Ended No other country in the modern world has lived under the constant shadow of war, terrorism, invasion, rocket fire,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

Starting Over

The Torah teaches us about the laws of the “Yovel,” the jubilee year that takes place every fifty years. The verse related to Yovel, appears on...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

OpenAI is so yesterday — even for SoftBank

OpenAI is so yesterday — even for SoftBank

SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is known for making audacious multibillion-dollar bets. Some acquisition deals, such as chip designer Arm...

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The Japan Times

Shuli Ren

The Principal Risk of Hantavirus Lies in Its Long Incubation Period

The Principal Risk of Hantavirus Lies in Its Long Incubation Period

An unprecedented outbreak at sea On April 1, 2026, the polar cruise ship MV Hondius departed Ushuaia, Argentina, bound for Antarctica and remote...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Celeo Ramirez

Shavuot – Do You Know What That Is?

Shavuot. “What’s that?” I am asked. Whether it’s an American Jew or non-Jew asking, “Never heard of that!” is the reply I get when I...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Beverly Kent Goldenberg

The Stuffed Animal a Teacher Never Forgot

This past week, I ran into my children’s preschool teacher, Stephanie Ziman at the Greater Baltimore JCC. It had probably been close to 14 years. We...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Bresler

Christian Zionism's Unholy Alliance: Biblical Mandate or Political Convenience Amid Regional Bloodshed?

Christian Zionism’s Unholy Alliance: Biblical Mandate or Political Convenience Amid Regional Bloodshed? The contradictory relationship between...

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New Eastern Outlook

Jeffrey Silverman

Lithuania confessed from the floor of Parliament

When a Member of the Seimas boasted that the Genocide Center defeated Grant Gochin in court, Lithuania’s rule-of-law defense collapsed. On April 1,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

’80s Cool, 2030 Whiz, Spandex Optional: Meet Israel’s ‘Megaforce’ Rolling Fleet

Perhaps drawing inspiration from the high-octane aesthetics of 1980s cult cinema, future-tech concepts in specialized vehicle engineering are emerging...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael mosley

Spiritual Hunger (Behar–Bechukotai)

Spiritual Hunger (Behar–Bechukotai)

“The soul is not nourished by what it takes in, but by what it gives.” — Viktor Frankl Much has been written about nourishment in its most...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Paul Finlayson compared Hamas to Nazis and his life fell apart

Paul Finlayson compared Hamas to Nazis and his life fell apart

I did not go looking for Oskar Schindler. But he found me. It was really by chance one day: I was wandering through an old cemetery near the Zion Gate...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Karin Kloosterman

VOX POPULI: Prosecutor's neglected assault case betrays the field's principles

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Whose Wings Get Clipped When Hormuz Closes

This is no longer a forecast. Since February 28, when a joint US–Israeli operation against Iran began, Indian carriers alone have cancelled more...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

The origins of Indians

The origins of Indians Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture by Kiran...

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Aeon

Kiran kumbhar

Shekel hits 33-year-peak, hammering exports, yet policymakers are worryingly silent

Shekel hits 33-year-peak, hammering exports, yet policymakers are worryingly silent

The strength of Israel’s currency is forcing exporters and startups to make tough decisions about hiring abroad and moving R&D centers out of...

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The Times of Israel

Sharon Wrobel

What I Saw Outside Park East Synagogue

What I Saw Outside Park East Synagogue

On Tuesday morning, I heard that an anti-Zionist protest was planned outside Park East Synagogue. I had never been to that synagogue before. However,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mordechai schwarz

The Missing Linchpin of European Hard Power

The Missing Linchpin of European Hard Power

MADRID—Europe is rearming, and not a moment too soon. Not only has the United States all but stopped supporting Ukraine in the face of continuing...

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Project Syndicate

Ana Palacio

Nature’s hardware store: building the future with biology

Nature’s hardware store: building the future with biology Could we have babies in space? Further: Jeffrey Hoffman Can a thousand tiny swarming...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Editor's Choice: U.S.-China summit tests fragile stability as global tensions rise

Editor's Choice: U.S.-China summit tests fragile stability as global tensions rise

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Nikkei Asian Review

Akito Tanaka

Café culture: Part of the Zionist dream

Café culture: Part of the Zionist dream

The best part of this week was Jerusalem cafés. On Monday, I met an old friend along the Mesila. For anyone who hasn’t walked there recently, the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gabriella jacobs

UK Labour dealt blow as far-right Reform surges, Greens gain in local elections

UK Labour dealt blow as far-right Reform surges, Greens gain in local elections

PM Starmer’s party loses control of at least five councils, 100 seats in total; Reform’s Farage hails ‘historic change’ in UK politics

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The ASEAN Way Under Pressure in Response to a Fractured World Order

The ASEAN Way Under Pressure in Response to a Fractured World Order

2026 functions as a test of whether ASEAN can maintain coherence and diplomatic relevance under increasingly adverse conditions.

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E-International

Rizal g. buendia

Reality emerges

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of? by Felix Flicker  ...

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Aeon

Felix flicker

The Ethiopian running secret

The Ethiopian running secret One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons by...

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Aeon

Michael crawley & geoff burns

UNHYPHENATED: Waking Up to Antizionism

UNHYPHENATED: Waking Up to Antizionism

Spellcheck has not kept up with the times, it keeps putting the hyphen in antizionism. Before 1948, “anti-Zionism” was an idea Jews of different...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Rachel Wahba

Jewish real estate mogul equates Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ with ‘from the river to the sea’

Jewish real estate mogul equates Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ with ‘from the river to the sea’

Steven Roth referecnes anti-Israel slogan while criticizing NYC mayor for video announcing ‘pied-à-terre’ tax, which singled out $238 million...

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

To be is to participate

To be is to participate For Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, a person is not self-contained, but the outcome of a lifelong process of living with others: we before...

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Aeon

João de pina-cabral

The Iran war has exposed global shipping's weakest links

The Iran war has exposed global shipping's weakest links

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Nikkei Asian Review

James David Spellman

Migration as an Instrument of Coercion: The Strategic Problem Europe Has Yet to Confront

Migration as an Instrument of Coercion: The Strategic Problem Europe Has Yet to Confront

Europe must recover the strategic initiative in its neighbourhood, and rebuild the respect and power projection that deterrence requires.

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E-International

Nicolás e. salvoni

Embrace the edge!

Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too by Charles Foster  BIO Photo...

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Aeon

Charles foster

Health officials race to find dozens who left hantavirus-stricken ship after 1st fatality

Health officials race to find dozens who left hantavirus-stricken ship after 1st fatality

No hantavirus in Israel, Health Ministry says; up to 40 people left cruise ship without contact tracing in late April; virus can spread between people

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The Times of Israel

Ap

Who invented bad guys?

Who invented bad guys? The ‘evil god challenge’ The free will defence: a good god vs the problem of evil The problem with dead women How morals...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Why I Feel Reinvigorated After Hadassah’s Inaugural Evolve Symposium in DC

Why I Feel Reinvigorated After Hadassah’s Inaugural Evolve Symposium in DC

In March of 2026, Evolve Hadassah: The Next Generation held its very first National Symposium in Washington, DC. Evolve bridges Hadassah’s proud...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Emily Shrode

French town bans May Day as ultra-right gains first taste of power

French town bans May Day as ultra-right gains first taste of power

French town bans May Day as ultra-right gains first taste of power The RN is flexing its power against all symbols. In Lievin, the mayor canceled May...

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Il Manifesto Global

Anna Maria Merlo

The Silence of the Sixth

The Silence of the Sixth

What if the most important part of Shavuot was not the thunder, lightning, or even the giving of the Torah itself? What if it was the silence? We...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Bob Barocas

«مشروع الحرية» يضبط سلوك إيران العدواني في مضيق هرمز

لم يكن إعلان الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب تعليق "مشروع الحرية" تراجعاً، بل هو...

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العين الإخبارية

علي الزوهري

Trump once again yields to pressure from the pro-war lobby

Apparently, the Trump administration’s recent pro-war shift is not limited to the Middle East. The Republican administration seems increasingly...

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Blitz

Lucas Leiroz