Israeli envoy urges Australia to better protect its Jews: ‘Only they are forced to worship behind closed doors’

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. After Palestinian media reported a series of Israeli airstrikes in eastern...

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Toi Staff

Despite war, tech exits soared to $59 billion in 2025 thanks to Wiz deal — report

In 2025, a year of war and geopolitical uncertainty, the Israeli tech market for “exits” — mergers and acquisitions as well as initial public...

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Sharon Wrobel

Police arrest 3 suspects for attacking pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa over the weekend

Police arrested three suspects Monday evening over an attack on a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa over the weekend, which inflamed tensions in the...

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Charlie Summers

Literary Cafes Were Once Third Spaces That Bridged Divide

Personal Perspective: Conversation can bridge divides with mutual recognition.

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Stephen L Salter Psy.d

The Tyranny of Clocks and Comparison

How clock watching and comparison are indeed thieves of joy

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Dr. Charles R. Chaffin

Three Tips on Holiday Gift-Giving to Boost Couples’ Wellness

How to create more meaning in your gift-giving experience with your partner.

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Sari Cooper

Decoupling Delusions!: Green Growth Fails the Climate Test Particularly in MENA

“Based on the annual analysis from NOAA’s Global Monitoring Lab, global average atmospheric carbon dioxide was 422.8 parts per million (“ppm,” for...

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Vincent James Hooper

The Violence Did Not Start on Hanukkah — Only the Honesty Did

There is a reason the attacks during Hanukkah felt like a rupture. Not because something fundamentally new occurred — but because, for the first...

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Maccabi Lev Ari

A Mother’s Journey through Grief: A Pathway to Healing

I am a survivor of adult child loss. Thirteen years ago, in July of 2012 I first learned, in the most devastating way possible, that my son...

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Ruth Tepler Roth

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”

J’accuse…! Today, the governments of Australia, Canada, France and the UK have very little moral fibre left within their ranks. In an open letter...

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Alan Simons

They Chose Light in Edinburgh

Just a week ago, in the quiet of our kitchen, I told my husband I wanted to go into Edinburgh to witness my first Chanukah menorah lighting in my...

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Julia T. Noble

Why Australia’s Antisemitism Feels Like a Warning

An antisemitic attack targeting Jewish life in Australia just as the Jewish world was about to celebrate the first light of Hanukkah left a...

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Bonnie K. Goodman

The Japanese canary in the global debt coal mine

Earlier this month, global bond markets were rocked by remarks from Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda suggesting that the BOJ would soon weigh whether...

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Barry Eichengreen

Jewish couple tussled with Sydney terrorist before killing spree began — and were slain

New videos have emerged of unarmed bystanders who sought to thwart the gunmen in the Bondi Beach Hanukkah terror attack and paid for their heroism...

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Toi Staff

Daily Briefing Dec. 16: Day 802 – Heroism amid horror at Hanukkah Bondi terror attack

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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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Trump sues BBC for up to $10 billion in damages over misleading Jan. 6 speech edit

Reuters — US President Donald Trump sued the BBC for up to $10 billion in damages over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed...

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Jack Queen

Brought together by war, defense-tech partnerships put startups on front lines

The pairing of Israel’s tech and defense sectors seems like a match made in heaven. Yet it was not until war forced the two industries into a...

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Stav Levaton

A Mindset Shift That Will Help You Find Happiness

Constantly chasing happiness is likely the last way that you'll find it.

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Mark Travers Ph.d

Can Breathwork Help You Stay Healthy in Winter Virus Season?

What scientific studies say about breathing, inflammation, and infections.

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Jay K. Varma M.d

The Light Hanukkah Asks Us to Carry

Hanukkah has never felt like a loud holiday to me. It’s quiet. Repetitive. Almost simple. You light a candle. Then another. You say the same...

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Martine Alperstein

From Military Discourse to Security Through State Craft

On October 7th, Israeli society was significantly altered in light of the unprecedented trauma. As a direct result, the Israeli political system,...

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Nadav Tamir

2026: Trump Pushes Global Stability as Saudi Arabia Shapes the Region

The Washington-Riyadh axis, trade corridors, and a shifting world order. Signs of Growing Stability in the New World Order – Toward 2026 Over the...

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Rafi Glick

From Lab to Life: New Breakthrough vs. an Old Foe — Cancer

It took him 50 years – but cancer researcher Dr. Rakesh K. Jain, Harvard University, finally is getting oncologists to think differently about...

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Shlomo Maital

To Weep for the Troubador

Long before Aqraba by way of Jericho sat the small village of Rammun, where the Sultan liked to go and drink wine. He arrived by evening straight...

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David Rosh Pina

Featured Post

Antisemitic attacks from Boulder to Manchester to Sydney are no longer isolated incidents but part of a global pattern. While investigating terror...

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Dov Maimon

The international community, Israel’s security narrative and the two-state paradigm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might project being vindicated after the recent mass shooting at Bondi Beach, which claimed the lives of...

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Ramona Wadi

Israel's 2026 Budget Is Daylight Robbery, Not Postwar Recovery

A robbery is taking place in Israel in broad daylight. It's not being shouted about, but it's written in black on white in the state budget. At a...

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Naama Lazimi

The Post-Neoliberal Consensus Is Here

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Dani Rodrik

AFA strikes back at Bullrich, accuses government of trying to ‘intervene’ in football

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) said it “won’t give [the government] the right” to intervene in football, in a 2,500-word statement it...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Fernando Romero Nuñez

Madagascar: Another Macron’s Fiasco in Africa. Part Two: Words and Deeds of the New Authorities

The military circles that have come to power in Madagascar are facing the tasks of revitalizing the national economy, reforming state institutions,...

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Viktor Goncharov

Can Bangladesh, with an average age of 26, spur growth and social change in '26?

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Zahid Hussain And Tom Felix Joehnk

Italian PM Meloni fumes after court frees imam arrested for defending October 7

Mohamed Shahin, an Egyptian imam who heads a Muslim community in Turin, Italy, was ordered freed from custody this week by a local court following...

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Toi Staff

Only 2 cops were on duty at Sydney Hanukkah event attacked by terrorists, official says

Only two police officers were on duty at the Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, where two terrorists killed 15 people and wounded...

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Toi Staff

Levin asks court to appoint his original choice for Sde Teiman leak probe supervisor

Justice Minister Yariv Levin told the High Court of Justice on Tuesday that he had come to a “dead end” in his search for a supervisor for the Sde...

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Jeremy Sharon

In shift, Eurovision host won’t drown out boos, ban Palestinian flags as Israel performs

VIENNA — The Austrian broadcaster hosting the next Eurovision Song Contest will not ban the Palestinian flag from the audience or drown out booing...

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Reuters

US, French, Saudi officials to meet in Paris about preventing renewed war in Lebanon

Senior officials from the US, France and Saudi Arabia will meet in Paris on Wednesday amid fears that Israel could embark on a new military...

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Lazar Berman

Prisons ‘on the brink’ as Palestinians left out of hostage deals despair, top warden warns

Israel Prison Service Chief Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi warned Tuesday that detention facilities are “on the brink” as Palestinian security prisoners...

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Charlie Summers

Court extends detention of 3 suspects in attack on pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa

The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday extended the detention of three people accused of attacking a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa over the...

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Charlie Summers

‘I’ll kill you’: NYPD investigating attack on Hasidic Jews on subway

NEW YORK — The NYPD said Tuesday that officers were investigating an attack on Hasidic Jews on a New York City subway car in the US, in an incident...

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