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IDF: Tank in Gaza hit by explosive device in ‘grave’ truce breach; no soldiers hurt

IDF: Tank in Gaza hit by explosive device in ‘grave’ truce breach; no soldiers hurt

Military says troops killed pair of terrorists who crossed Yellow Line to sabotage weapons; Hamas chief Hayya set to visit Cairo amid US efforts to...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Death, Burial and Afterlife

DEATH: Torah; Do Not Murder Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:7 : “Do Not Kill” in Christian translations in accordance with Jesus’ ‘turn the other...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Allen S. Maller

Elisheva Levy, Jerusalem’s fairy godmother

Elisheva Levy, Jerusalem’s fairy godmother

On this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a woman who has made a home for...

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The Times of Israel

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Yes, James Fishback is Probably Going to Lose. Make Sure It’s Humiliating.

Yes, James Fishback is Probably Going to Lose. Make Sure It’s Humiliating.

A close loss is a proof of concept. A blowout is a dead end. Tuesday decides which one this was. Since I wrote about James Fishback a few days ago,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jaclyn S. Clark

‘Everyone lives in fear’: Yemenis dread renewed war as Houthis launch attacks

‘Everyone lives in fear’: Yemenis dread renewed war as Houthis launch attacks

Yemeni citizens express anxieties over reliving cycles of displacement and violence of brutal civil conflict after rebel attacks on government areas...

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The Times of Israel

Afp

“Eye for an eye?” A 2026 Shabbat Shof’tim Sermon Against the Death Penalty

“Eye for an eye?” A 2026 Shabbat Shof’tim Sermon Against the Death Penalty

The below text is a copy of the sermon that this writer delivered for Shabbat Shof’tim at Or Shalom Synagogue in Vancouver, BC on August 15, 2026....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Zoosman

Israel Needs a Drone Army—Before the Next War

Israel Needs a Drone Army—Before the Next War

At the Combined Resolve exercise in Germany this spring, Ukrainian drone operators faced US forces and reportedly detected and simulated strikes...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Andy Blumenthal

The Right Is Correct, There's No Jewish Terror. There's Only Israeli Terror

The Right Is Correct, There's No Jewish Terror. There's Only Israeli Terror

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Haaretz

Gideon Levy

The Privateer and the Forced Hand

The Privateer and the Forced Hand Ukraine functions as a privateer vessel launched by a greater power to impose continuous costs on Russia. The...

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New Eastern Outlook

Phil Butler

The turf wars between politicians and bureaucrats in Tokyo

The turf wars between politicians and bureaucrats in Tokyo

In early August just before Japan entered its midsummer vacation week, some drama unfolded within Tokyo’s bureaucratic apparatus. The Asahi Shimbun...

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The Japan Times

Kuni Miyake

A Name That Came Back From Exile, on Elul

A Name That Came Back From Exile, on Elul

Most of the time, saying a month’s name, we don’t think about what it carries inside it, we just say it and move on. This year, saying Elul, I...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Hande Gençünal

Ali Al-Taher: Where Is the Escalation Heading?

Ali Al-Taher: Where Is the Escalation Heading?

The battle over Ali Al-Taher Hill is no longer simply a confrontation over a strategic position in southern Lebanon. What is happening around it...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Husein Mahmoud Saleh

From Nairobi to Bab-El-Mandeb: Somaliland and the Emerging Counter-Alignment.

President Irro’s diplomatic outreach now intersects with a widening maritime-security network connecting Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Greece...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nassir Hussein Kahin

Israel's Economy Is Resilient, but the War Bill Is Due Soon

Israel's Economy Is Resilient, but the War Bill Is Due Soon

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Haaretz

Haaretz Editorial

#AccessibleTogether: A Mountain Reveals Humanity

Running base camp for two very different teams climbing Mount Kilimanjaro gave me a rare vantage point. From there, I watched a small version of the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jamie Lassner

Don’t Fall Off

Don’t Fall Off

Nearly forty years ago at summer camp, I learned a song about a bridge. This year, I learned the significance of the bridge. The song was “Gesher...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan Weinkle

Shakla ve-Tarya – We Talk and Negotiate

The street is almost absurdly small. A few steps lead from the Syriac monastery toward Rehov Chabad. Yet those few steps contain a geography that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

How the death penalty creates more victims

When Anthony Hines was executed by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution August 13, Hines’s son was there, bearing witness to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stephen A. Cooper

Israeli strikes reported in south Lebanon after Galilee residents warned to expect blasts

Israeli strikes reported in south Lebanon after Galilee residents warned to expect blasts

Footage shows settler children raiding Palestinian West Bank village * Hamas chief Hayya set to travel to Cairo, will meet Egyptian spymaster *...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Police issued gag order on Mali and Liel Yahalomi case so they wouldn’t change their plans

Police issued gag order on Mali and Liel Yahalomi case so they wouldn’t change their plans

Reports say mother and daughter asked Google’s Gemini how to leave Israel quietly, police used chatbot history to find them; two were planning on...

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

Milk from seeds: Israeli scientists produce key dairy protein from safflower plant

Milk from seeds: Israeli scientists produce key dairy protein from safflower plant

Hebrew University researchers say beta-casein, which helps cheese melt, can be found in ‘cream’ pressed from seeds, eradicating need for cows, and...

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The Times of Israel

Sue Surkes

Interview – Joyeeta Gupta

Joyeeta Gupta is Distinguished Professor of Climate Justice, Sustainability and Global Justice (University of Amsterdam), and is also Professor of...

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E-International

Joyeeta Gupta Is Distinguished Professor Of Climate Justice

How NATO is Surviving Donald J. Trump

How NATO is Surviving Donald J. Trump

By the end of the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, descriptions of systemic crisis in – or even predictions...

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E-International

Martin A. Smith

A Nation of One

We are not just a united nation. We are a nation of one, so interconnected that we are like a single person. Wait. Is that not discriminatory? Are we...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lazer Gurkow

Luiz Sayão: The aesthetics of terror and the light of the Lord

Luiz Sayão: The aesthetics of terror and the light of the Lord

Luiz Sayão — one of Brazil’s foremost theologians, Hebraists, and linguists — leads us into a profound reflection on how evil ideologies...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Silas Anastacio

The General’s Dangerous Question

Perhaps the General Has Begun Asking the Right Question Gadi Eisenkot has spent most of his adult life inside Israel’s security apparatus. He...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

When a Debate at Oxford About Islam Requires a Security Detail

When a Debate at Oxford About Islam Requires a Security Detail

Perhaps the greatest irony of the Oxford Union debate about the motion “This House Believes the West Is Right to Be Suspicious of Islam” was too...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tim Orr