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Spain permanently withdraws ambassador to Israel as rift deepens

Spain permanently withdraws ambassador to Israel as rift deepens

Madrid announces envoy’s position has been terminated; foreign ministry says embassy in Tel Aviv will be led by charge d’affaires for foreseeable...

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

Files show UK’s Starmer was warned of ‘reputational risk’ to Epstein-linked US envoy

Files show UK’s Starmer was warned of ‘reputational risk’ to Epstein-linked US envoy

British prime minister received document in 2024, before appointing Peter Mandelson as Washington ambassador, in which officials worried about his...

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The Times of Israel

Jill Lawless

Middle power nonsense: Australia, Canada and capitulating to the Iran War

Middle power nonsense: Australia, Canada and capitulating to the Iran War
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Middle East Monitor

Dr Binoy Kampmark

Featured Post

Featured Post

This last Shabbat I spent Seudah Shelisheet sitting around an expansive table, singing z’mirot, our songs as Shabbat was coming to a close. We...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Karen Reiss Medwed

As AIPAC targets candidates who want to condition Israel aid, who is crossing its red line?

As AIPAC targets candidates who want to condition Israel aid, who is crossing its red line?

Embattled pro-Israel lobby weighs races across the US as an increasing number of politicians pledge not to accept endorsements or funds from it or its...

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The Times of Israel

Joseph Strauss

IDF targets Hezbollah command centers, weapons sites in strikes on Beirut suburbs

IDF targets Hezbollah command centers, weapons sites in strikes on Beirut suburbs

Death toll in Lebanon at 570, authorities say; IDF boosts troop presence in north, more reinforcement may come amid terror group’s rocket and drone...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Assembling the Entire Community: Va-Yakhel/Pekudei

The irony of this week’s double parsha is not lost on me. I am writing these words from the mamak—the merhav mugan komati, the safe room on my...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Naomi Graetz

Looks like the EU might have to pay Zelensky just to shut up

Looks like the EU might have to pay Zelensky just to shut up

Brussels looks set to bypass Hungary’s block on the €90 million “aid” package via accounting shenanigans

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RT.com

Rachel Marsden

Moški, ki naj bi umoril mamo in babico, napadel štiri policiste

Moški, ki naj bi umoril mamo in babico, napadel štiri policiste

Osumljeni dvojnega umora v Gospiću je danes zjutraj napadel štiri policiste, ki bi ga morali odpeljati na zaslišanje. Namesto na tožilstvo so ga...

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Dnevnik

Tak

The Next Cuban Revolution Could Be Peaceful

The Next Cuban Revolution Could Be Peaceful

MEXICO CITY – Ever since Fidel Castro’s forces overthrew Fulgencio Batista’s regime in 1959, Cuba has served as a revolutionary paradigm for...

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Project Syndicate

Roberta lajous

Trump: War to end soon, ‘practically nothing left to target’; Israel: No ‘time limit’

Trump: War to end soon, ‘practically nothing left to target’; Israel: No ‘time limit’

At least four salvos of Iranian missiles target Israel Wednesday, with no injuries reported; IDF chief says thousands of Iranian soldiers have been...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

Justice Ministry unit not recommending pardon for Netanyahu – report

Justice Ministry unit not recommending pardon for Netanyahu – report

Pardons department completes position paper on the prime minister’s request in his corruption case, reportedly finding that it does not meet the...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

In biggest exit in Israeli history, Google completes $32 billion deal to buy Wiz

In biggest exit in Israeli history, Google completes $32 billion deal to buy Wiz

With the Wiz purchase, Google wants to bolster its AI cyber offerings to compete in the cloud race against global tech giants; deal to inject an...

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The Times of Israel

Sharon Wrobel

Tehran 's approach to war with Israel and the US

Tehran 's approach to war with Israel and the US

Tehran ‘s approach to war with Israel and the US In view of many in Tehran, the West is trying to fight Iran to fulfill its goals and objectives...

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New Eastern Outlook

Samyar Rostami

Iran war becomes a contest of who can take the most pain

Iran war becomes a contest of who can take the most pain

Vulnerabilities appear to be oil prices for US and disruption of everyday life by missile and drone attacks in Israel and Gulf, as Islamic Republic...

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The Times of Israel

Jon Gambrell

Iraq’s militias: From guns for hire to checkbooks of power

Iraq’s militias: From guns for hire to checkbooks of power
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Middle East Monitor

Karam Nama

Forensic anthropologists identify 12 bodies found in dictatorship detention center

Forensic anthropologists identify 12 bodies found in dictatorship detention center

The Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF, for its Spanish initials) has identified 12 bodies that were found during an excavation at the site...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Martina Jaureguy

(POGLED) Kam greš, nogomet? Namesto igre - rokoborba!

(POGLED) Kam greš, nogomet? Namesto igre - rokoborba!

V nadaljevanju preberite: - Nogomet je postal prenasičen z dogodki in močno podrejen kapitalu; namesto pričakovanja velikih tekem gledalci...

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Večer

Vlado Paveo

Choosing an Ayatollah: Lessons from Hasidism

Much is being made these days about the fact that the Iranian Assembly of Experts chose Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father as the Supreme Leader....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Samuel Heilman

New drama tells true story of Holocaust survivor who helps scores of troubled teens

New drama tells true story of Holocaust survivor who helps scores of troubled teens

In US theaters March 11, ‘The Optimist’ portrays how big-hearted toy store owner Herbert Heller came to open up about his experiences – and how...

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The Times of Israel

Rich Tenorio

V Tivoliju potrdili zmago v Bolzanu

V Tivoliju potrdili zmago v Bolzanu

Hokejisti Olimpije so na prvi četrtfinalni tekmi lige IceHL po preobratu v prvi minuti podaljška s 3:2 (0:0, 1:2, 1:0; 1:0) premagali Bolzano. Druga...

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Dnevnik

Miha A. Štamcar

400 million barrels to be released from oil reserves as Iran effectively blocks Strait of Hormuz

400 million barrels to be released from oil reserves as Iran effectively blocks Strait of Hormuz

Release is largest in history of International Energy Agency, which touts ‘major action aiming to alleviate the immediate impacts,’ as Tehran...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Opinion – Integration as State-Building: Syria’s Postwar Gamble and the Kurdish Question

Opinion – Integration as State-Building: Syria’s Postwar Gamble and the Kurdish Question

Sympathy for Rojava, is not an exercise in ideological romanticism. It reflects recognition of a political project forged under conditions of...

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E-International

Elliot goodell ugalde

Sudan’s devastating war rages on as regional rivalries deepen

Sudan’s devastating war rages on as regional rivalries deepen

Sudan’s civil war will soon enter its fourth year, with no end in sight. The conflict has drawn in other regional actors, who support and sustain...

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Al Jazeera

Shewit woldemichael

The objective of the Iran war is not regime change but complete dismantling of the Iranian state

The objective of the Iran war is not regime change but complete dismantling of the Iranian state
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Middle East Monitor

Jawad Khalid

Rusi besni po napadu na Brjansk: To je britansko maslo

Rusi besni po napadu na Brjansk: To je britansko maslo

Kremelj je v sredo britanske strokovnjake obtožil sodelovanja pri ukrajinskem raketnem napadu na rusko mesto Brjansk. V napadu so bili uporabljeni...

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Dnevnik

Rr

Romuna naj bi v ukraden kombi naložila ukradena motocikla, kolesa, orodje …

Romuna naj bi v ukraden kombi naložila ukradena motocikla, kolesa, orodje …

Policisti policijske postaje za izravnalne ukrepe Nova Gorica so v nadaljevanju preiskave po najdbi ukradenega vozila in več drugih predmetov...

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Dnevnik

Jk

Gitke z MDŽ (píše Michal Havran)

Chodil s košíkom s pagáčikmi a ponúkal, ani jeden si sám nezobral

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SME.sk

Michal Havran

Our Children, the Heroes of our Generation

What a time to be alive. Ballistic missiles flying from all directions, Iron Dome interceptions at a near-perfect rate, chayalim—our ovdei...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sara katz

Fico na konci ruskej rúry

Premiér nepochopil, že sa tam ocitol už dávno

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SME.sk

Matúš Ritomský

How Will This Energy Shock Play Out?

How Will This Energy Shock Play Out?

LONDON – After the first week of the US-Israeli war against Iran, I have been looking back to my career in finance for hints about how the situation...

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Project Syndicate

Jim O&039Neill

Janša poziva k proti udeležbi na predčasnem glasovanju

Janša poziva k proti udeležbi na predčasnem glasovanju

Predsednik SDS Janez Janša je v videu na družbenih omrežjih pozval, da se volivci ne udeležijo predčasnega glasovanja, saj je 24 volišč za...

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Dnevnik

Sta

Vojna, mier a neideálny svet (píše Boris Zala)

Páčilo by sa mi, keby si Iránci vytvorili občiansky, sekulárny režim.

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SME.sk

Boris Zala

Pellegrini chváli Fica. Ten vidí obludy

Ficova pupočná šnúra je prestrihnutá.

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SME.sk

Beata Balogová

Jurij Zrnec ponovno zaljubljen? Srečo naj bi našel v objemu nekdanje izbranke Luke Mesca

Jurij Zrnec ponovno zaljubljen? Srečo naj bi našel v objemu nekdanje izbranke Luke Mesca

V slovenskem svetu zabave odmeva novica o novi romanci priljubljenega igralca. Po poročanju revije Lady se je Jurij Zrnec po desetletju razšel s...

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Dnevnik

Rr

Nech vláda s palivami nerobí nič

V KDH výnimočne hovoria všetko správne.

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SME.sk

Peter Tkačenko

Cynická obluda: Fico obviňuje systém

Vraj systém za to môže, že jeho preťažujú koaličné spory.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

I’m a Gap Year parent – when my son gets a siren, so do I

I’m a Gap Year parent – when my son gets a siren, so do I

Our young people are being well looked after – but don’t abandon them over Pesach Like most Jewish people in the Diaspora, I have always had an...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sandi mann

Na ministrstvu zagovarjajo pripravo državnega prostorskega načrta za Jek 2

Na ministrstvu zagovarjajo pripravo državnega prostorskega načrta za Jek 2

Na ministrstvu za naravne vire in prostor zanikajo trditve geografa in sociologa Zorana Kusa, da se državni prostorski načrt za drugi blok jedrske...

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Dnevnik

Sta

NYC Jewish communal groups sound alarm over Mamdani’s latest controversies

NYC Jewish communal groups sound alarm over Mamdani’s latest controversies

2 leading organizations voice ‘deep concern,’ suggest hypocrisy by mayor after he fetes anti-Israel activist, shares stage with speaker who called...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

Seeking clarity, and safety, in a war marked by incoherent leadership and a momentous goal

Seeking clarity, and safety, in a war marked by incoherent leadership and a momentous goal

Work and worry under missile attack * Searching for truth in a sea of misinformation * Intellectual problems for Israel-haters * Is Trump all-in?

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The Times of Israel

David Horovitz

Backlash against Hezbollah grows as still-reeling Lebanon again battered by war

Backlash against Hezbollah grows as still-reeling Lebanon again battered by war

With hundreds of thousands displaced by latest fighting, many are more openly blaming terror group for their misery: ‘People haven’t recovered...

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The Times of Israel

Ap

I Will Answer the Call

The following was written this week by a lone soldier who recently served over 250 days in reserve duty, and is currently living in Colorado who must...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Amy golding

Netanyahu’s lifelong obsession with striking Iran and his looming spectacular defeat

Netanyahu’s lifelong obsession with striking Iran and his looming spectacular defeat
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Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

(REKLI SO) Boris Vezjak: (De)janšizacija, golobizacija ...

(REKLI SO) Boris Vezjak: (De)janšizacija, golobizacija ...

"Prvi in največji uspeh je gotovo, da je vlada ustavila zdrs države v avtoritarnost, ki ga je pospešeno izvajal Janez Janša v mandatu...

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Večer

Dr

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire was built to fail

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire was built to fail

The resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah has surprised few who have been watching closely. The question was never whether conflict...

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Al Jazeera

Andrea tenenti

Africa Is Reimagining Climate Finance

Africa Is Reimagining Climate Finance

CAPE TOWN – Africa is taking control of its climate future. Unable to count on foreign aid and traditional development finance to meet its needs,...

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Project Syndicate

Saliem Fakir

Iran at a Historic Turning Point

Iran at a Historic Turning Point

The Future of the Middle East in the Shadow of Developments in Tehran After more than four decades of rule by the Islamic Republic, Iran faces...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Fred Saberi