Storm Byron bears down on Israel as torrent expected to hit in force Wednesday

Storm Byron approached coastal Israel Monday night, bringing with it heavy rain, lightning and warnings from the Israel Meteorological Service,...

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Toi Staff

Former hostage point man says Hamas faces ‘objective’ hurdles in search for last body

Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon, who served as the military’s point man on hostage negotiations since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught, said...

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Toi Staff

Netanyahu refused to ink deal with Syria on sidelines of UN confab in September – report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to sign a security agreement reached between Israel and Syria in September on the sidelines of the UN...

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Toi Staff

Kibbutz Be’eri votes to demolish all buildings damaged on October 7, bar one

All homes damaged in the two worst-hit neighborhoods of Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gaza border will be demolished, save for a single house that will...

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Sue Surkes

Chanukah’s Forgotten War

Every year, Jews around the world light candles for eight nights and tell the same familiar story: When the Holy Temple was regained from the...

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Jonathan Lieberman

The Future of Jewish Peoplehood: Without Its Future

An event about the future of Jewish peoplehood should be full of its future. This one wasn’t. A concern that has been sitting quietly in the back...

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Karen Klein

The duty to disobey unlawful orders was America’s idea

"Stauffenberg pointed the way: if your obedience requires you to do criminal, unhuman things, you are no longer bound by your oath. A soldier’s...

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Andreas Kluth

When soft power hardens

For decades, Gaza has been viewed primarily through the language of hard power: siege, bombardment, occupation, and overwhelming military...

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Eko Ernada

AI thinks it’s smart. Chimps may beg to differ.

For something so admired, so synonymous with merit, the concept of intelligence is remarkably poorly understood. Our society operates on the...

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F.d. Flam

Why are divorce rates rising in Egypt?

Around 274,000 divorce cases were recorded in Egypt in 2024, marking a 3.1 per cent rise compared to 2023, according to government data. The...

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Mahmoud Hassan

Transactional diplomacy cannot bring peace to Ukraine

The world is holding its breath as diplomacy to end Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine intensifies. But while necessary and welcome,...

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Oleksandra Matviichuk And Michael O’Flaherty

Trump's New Strategy: A Destructive Course in the Middle East and the Collapse of Traditional Alliances

The Trump administration has released a White House document outlining the principles of U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy. The new...

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Muhammad Hamid Ad-Din

US senators openly question the Pentagon for possible war crimes

Trump’s private war has come under belated scrutiny by Congress, with a parliamentary inquiry by the Armed Services Committee summoning the leaders...

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Luca Celada

Family of Tanzanian slain on Oct. 7 said to sue Israel for posting video of murder

The family of Joshua Loitu Mollel, an agricultural intern from Tanzania, has reportedly sued the State of Israel for publishing without their...

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Toi Staff

IDF says it hit Hezbollah targets, including training site for elite Radwan Force

The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday that it carried out a wave of overnight airstrikes in southern Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah sites, including...

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Emanuel Fabian

Daily Briefing Dec. 9: Day 795 – 22,000 IDF soldiers were wounded since Oct. 7 – in body and soul

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

Left-wing Argentine lawmakers pledge allegiance to ‘free Palestine’ in oaths of office

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — As 127 newly elected Argentine lawmakers took the oath of office in Buenos Aires last week, several departed from the standard...

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Juan Melamed

Trump’s Gaza peace plan faces pitfalls in attempt to shift to its second phase

With the remains of one hostage still in Gaza, the first phase of the US-brokered ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas is nearly complete,...

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Ariela Karmel

Likud MK threatens deputy attorney general in heated Knesset panel meeting

Likud MK Moshe Saada threatened Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s deputy during a heated Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee...

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Ariela Karmel

‘Because they have money’: French nanny on trial for poisoning Jewish family

In a case seen as unprecedented in France, a nanny from Algeria is being tried for poisoning the Jewish family she worked for in a suburb of Paris,...

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Zev Stub

The Silence on Arab Colonialism

In schools, documentaries, activism, and social movements, most discussions of colonialism focus on European empires—their expansion, forced...

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Monique Dietvorst

WTF is a Keffiyeh

It must have been twenty years ago now when I first saw a young person in the West wearing a keffiyeh, the traditional headdress associated with...

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Bassem Eid

The MOOPs take the Shomron

Embed from Getty Images On December 7, a date which Frank Roosevelt said would live in infamy, 50 MOOP members set out for an excursion to the...

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Gary Epstein

Compromise as Inevitably Patronizing?

Inspired by another visit to Dubai. Another Saturday morning at synagogue in Abu Dhabi and early evening at the Sheikh Zayed Mosque – this time...

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Harriet Gimpel

Freedom, Mastery, and Joseph: Whom Do You Serve?

Thomas Mann’s magnificent retelling of the Joseph saga captures something the Torah hints at but never states explicitly. In one unforgettable...

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Todd Berman

Hitler Marriages and Happy Places

If you live in Israel right now, you are probably watching Happy Place (Makom Sameach). The show follows Vered (played by Noa Koler), a speech...

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Leigh Hartzman

Erasing roots, stealing seeds and engineering flight

The recent raid by Israeli forces on the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) in Ramallah—during which young female employees were...

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Dr Oroub El-Abed

Washington’s ‘Waiver On, Waiver Off’ Game at Chabahar

In recent months, Washington has swung from revoking to restoring India’s sanctions waiver for operating Iran’s Chabahar port. The ‘waiver on,...

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Salman Rafi Sheikh

Trump’s unapologetically ‘America First’ National Security Strategy

Normally, I would open this article with the snarky comment that I read the U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) that was issued late last week by...

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Brad Glosserman

How China achieved innovation without freedom

A decade ago, China’s government unveiled Made in China 2025 — a bold vision for transforming the country from the world’s assembly line into a...

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Jennifer Lind

The U.K. needs a new deal, without saying Brexit

Britain’s becalmed economy is bringing down yet another hapless government. Just witness the travails of Rachel Reeves, the nation’s first ever...

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John Authers

Asia's Orbital Lattice: Strategic Steps to the Future

Asia is strengthening the continent’s strategic autonomy by shaping an orbital ecosystem and creating the technological foundation for a long-term...

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Rebecca Chan

Wave of IDF strikes on Lebanon hits Hezbollah targets, including elite force’s training site

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold. The US ambassador to Turkey says Washington and Ankara are holding talks on...

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Toi Staff

Paramount challenges Netflix bid to buy Warner Bros., with help from Jared Kushner

US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is teaming up with fellow Trump ally Larry Ellison and sovereign companies from Saudi Arabia,...

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Agencies

Media freedom group says Israel killed highest number of journalists again this year

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday that Israel was responsible for nearly half of all journalists killed this year worldwide, with 29...

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Sue Surkes

Deri: Shas won’t support 2026 budget until Haredi kids get food-stamp funds

MK Aryeh Deri has said his Shas party will not support the government’s 2026 budget over the Finance Ministry’s failure to fund a food-stamp...

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Ariela Karmel

Israel announces it will renew ties with Bolivia, two years after Gaza war rupture

Israel and Bolivia are restoring diplomatic relations, two years after the South American country severed ties with Jerusalem over the war in Gaza,...

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