Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel’s diplomatic reporterWelcome to The Times of Israel’s Lazar Focus. Each Friday, join host diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman for a…
JTA — A rejuvenated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned home to Israel Thursday from Washington, having crossed off everything on his diplomatic shopping list.Grinning photo op…
In honor of Tu Be’Av, the Jewish calendar’s version of Valentine’s Day, a bunch of us were in the office, sitting around our beautiful pine-wood table…
JTA — Cornell University is condemning viral antisemitic remarks made by an undergraduate student who appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” earlier this week, but the school’s…
JTA — Most people spend their later years looking back. Harold Grinspoon has spent his reinventing himself.The businessman became a philanthropist. The philanthropist discovered Jewish children’s…
Former hostage Evyatar David, who spent over two years in Hamas captivity in Gaza, revealed that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that brings him…
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday’s events as they unfold.Video from Jerusalem shows dozens of ultra-Orthodox males accosting several off-duty soldiers walking through the capital.The…
A first informal UN Security Council poll on Thursday showed Costa Rica’s former vice president Rebeca Grynspan as the early frontrunner in the race to be…
Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent.A senior US government official has pressured the families of victims of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror…
WASHINGTON — Palestinian authorities asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to halt for now a $656 million judgment in a long-running lawsuit filed by Americans…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is interested in participating in a new security initiative for Lebanon when the 7,500-member UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon expires…
Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondentOn most days, Sael Jabareen drives from his home in Ramallah to work at the…
A new right-wing party led by former Likud ministers Gilad Erdan and Yuli Edelstein would win five Knesset seats if elections were held today, but would…
JTA — A major fire at one of the largest kosher meat processing plants in the United States is poised to increase the price of kosher…