Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/
-
71 million people have fallen below poverty line since Ukraine war, UN says
As prices soar in wake of Russian invasion, a total of nearly 70% of the world's population are in poverty or vulnerable to it... Read more
-
UNRWA textbooks still include hate, antisemitism despite pledge to remove — watchdog
Israeli organization says that rather than taking the material out of the 2022 curriculum, the UN Palestinian refugee agency has merely taken it off its public education portal... Read more
-
Student harnesses fungi to create sustainable building material
Ben-Gurion University student produces prototype insulation material with negative carbon footprint out of fungal threads and rapeseed straw... Read more
-
UK’s Johnson agrees to step down, will give statement in coming hours — reports
Beleaguered British PM reportedly says he will resign party leadership Thursday, after mass cabinet resignations; no obvious successor yet... Read more
-
Israel’s Unique Role in Global Justice - Sponsored Content
What is Israel’s responsibility to other nations experiencing crisis or injustice?... Read more
-
In 2010, Johnson compared PM who didn’t quit to ‘illegal settler lashed to radiator’
British premier wrote column likening Gordon Brown 'holed up in Downing Street' to Israeli refusing to leave Sinai in 1982; Cabinet resignations mount as UK leader clings to power... Read more
-
Toyota partners with Israel’s Quantum Machines for quantum computing solutions
Through its trading arm, Toyota hopes to offer quantum tech to Japanese customers, leveraging capabilities developed by Israeli startup... Read more
-
Housing snapshot: 9 apartments and houses recently sold across Israel
Our regular behind-the-scenes look at properties purchased nationwide... Read more
-
Abu Akleh killing ‘casting shadow’ over Biden’s upcoming trip, Israeli official says
Senior official takes issue with US-drawn 'symmetry' between 'thorough' Israeli probe and PA's lackluster one; says progress on boosting Israeli-Saudi ties would be 'game-changer'... Read more
-
US working to get WNBA player Brittney Griner home from Russia, Biden tells her wife
US president's conversation with Cherelle Griner follows detained basketball player's personal appeal to White House; spouse 'grateful' for outreach, but will maintain pressure... Read more
-
Primatologist Jane Goodall to set up conservation organization in Israel
Branch of global Jane Goodall Institute will focus on ecological corridors, wetland restoration and use of Bedouin knowledge to replant native species... Read more
-
New York man says precious family Torah stolen from Las Vegas hotel
Jack Abraham brought the scroll for Shabbat services at trade show, was told the room where he left it was secured; says police told him suspect tried to sell the artifact... Read more
-
‘Scary to be queer’: Activists harassed, events scrapped in Lebanon LGBTQ crackdown
Country's interior ministry instructs security forces to clamp down on events 'promoting sexual perversion'; community lost many of its spaces in Beirut port explosion... Read more
-
Ahead of the 21st Maccabiah Games, photos from the archives of the ‘Jewish Olympics’
Since 1932, every four years 10,000 or so athletes converge in Israel for the world’s largest Jewish athletic competition; here is a trip down the Jewish sports memory lane... Read more
-
Amid the chaos of the Highland Park massacre, two strangers saved an orphaned boy
2-year-old found smeared with blood after 4th of July Illinois shooting and brought to stranger's home; will be raised by his grandparents, Jewish immigrants from Russia... Read more