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Sep 17, 2026, 11:01 AM

Collateral Benefit

The real test raised by NAZA - the Hebrew military acronym for collateral damage - is not whether its filmmakers are right. It is whether a state confident in its force is equally confident in evidence, law and institutions...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 15, 2026, 10:27 AM

Tough Love for Elected Leaders – USPI Index.

Tough Love for World Leaders Your job is to serve us, not lord over us Dear presidents, prime ministers, kings, generals, ministers, central bankers, consultants, judges and mandarins: Who made you Pharaoh? Who gave you the right to decide which neighbourhood gets bombed,...

Richard H. Schwartz

Sep 14, 2026, 12:18 PM

Israel at a Dangerous Crossroads — and Its Best Possible Future

Israel is confronting a deeply troubling reality. Hatred of Israel has intensified in much of the world. Antisemitism has become frighteningly widespread. More Israelis are leaving the country, creating a troubling negative migration balance. And the once-promising prospect of...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 13, 2026, 4:57 AM

On Healing and Cure.

The Cure 1. Al-Fātiḥah: Ruqyah, Not Metaphor The clearest place to begin is not with a herb but with revelation. In Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, a group of the Prophet’s Companions encountered a tribal chief who had been bitten by a snake or stung...

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Sep 9, 2026, 3:43 PM

Israel Election: Who are the Major Players?

Gadi Eizenkot , former Israeli minister without portfolio and the 21st Chief of General Staff of the Israeli army, speaks during the Herzliya Conference at Reichman University in Herzliya on June 24, 2024. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP via Getty Images)

The lists for the upcoming Knesset elections are closed now. Thirty-eight political parties have submitted candidate lists to the Central Elections Committee. Many of those parties have little realistic chance of passing Israel’s 3.25 percent electoral threshold. The most...

Andy Blumenthal

Sep 6, 2026, 7:18 AM

Israel Must Act. G-d Determines the Outcome.

Even after all these years, Israel’s ability to meet danger with courage, intelligence, and resolve still inspire awe. +1 These were not routine achievements. They required intelligence, meticulous planning, technological skill, courage, and the resolve of soldiers and commanders who shoulder...

Sep 3, 2026, 2:24 PM

Israelis Abroad Want to Vote. We Should Have Been Ready.

For Israelis living abroad, voting begins with getting home. (AI-generated illustration)

When Israel’s election date was officially announced, I immediately felt called to return and vote. This election could alter the course of the country in profound ways, with consequences for Israelis and the global Jewish diaspora. Voting is my...

William Goloboy

Sep 2, 2026, 11:53 PM

Prophets not Diplomats: Ahad Ha’am and the Vision of Cultural Zionism

How would you define Zionism? If I polled the average Times of Israel reader on this question I’m sure I would get a huge variety of responses. Zionism is support for Israel. Zionism is the nationalist movement for Jewish...

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 30, 2026, 7:04 AM

There Is No “Other Jew”

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“Of course antisemitism is getting worse,” a Jewish friend told me recently. “But it’s not really happening to us.” I’ve heard variations of that sentence constantly since October 7. Sometimes it’s masked: “Our neighborhood is different.” “My office is fine.”...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 27, 2026, 12:06 PM

Mossad Must Stop Collaborating with MI5 and MI6

Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government is currently drafting legislation to ban British trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. Whitehall officials still softly whisper that commerce with Israel “inside the 1967 lines” will remain unaffected. But this distinction...

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