Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva owes the Jewish people and the state of Israel an unreserved apology after likening Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip to Nazi Germany’s diabolical plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Silva’s flippant and blinkered comparison, steeped in appalling ignorance and boundless maliciousness, prompted Israeli Foreign Minister […]
Aleksei Navalny, the Russian dissident who died in a Siberian penal colony on February 16 at the age of 47, signed his death warrant when he returned to Russia from Germany after recovering from a botched assassination attempt. A gadfly who was a thorn in the side of Russia’s authoritarian government, he was probably the […]
Albert Einstein, the most brilliant theoretical physicist of his generation, was torn by an abiding sense of responsibility and guilt after the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945. The enormous blasts killed tens of thousands of people, but hastened Japan’s surrender and the […]
Israel is facing tremendous international pressure to cancel a pending military campaign in Rafah, a Hamas stronghold and the last city in the Gaza Strip yet to conquered and occupied by the Israeli army. Having stormed Gaza City and Khan Younis, and having bombed several Palestinian refugee camps in central Gaza, Israel appears to be […]
Viewers are treated to a marvellous culinary adventure in Tran Anh Hung’s The Taste of Things, an ode to haute cuisine. Scheduled to open in Toronto and Vancouver on February 16, this French film, with English subtitles, stars Juliette Binoche as an innovative cook and Benoit Magimel as a master chef. It is set in […]
It is questionable whether the latest U.S. retaliatory air and missile strikes against pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, Syria and Yemen will curb their aggression. Working in tandem with Iran, their wily puppet master, these surrogates remain undeterred and are hell-bent on launching fresh attacks against American military bases and ships, all in the hope of […]
Israel was irretrievably traumatized and changed by Hamas’ murderous rampage on October 7, 2023. Israelis are still grieving and taking stock, but in the meantime, they can look back in reflection. Times of War, a series of very short stand-alone documentaries by the Times of Israel about this unprecedented massacre, delves into that reflective process. It […]
The present-day borders of the Middle East were formed a century ago as Britain and France redrew its map. With the collapse of the far-flung Ottoman Empire, these colonial powers established League of Nations mandates in Palestine (Israel), Trans-Jordan (Jordan), Syria, Lebanon and Mesopotamia (Iraq), paving the way for the emergence of sovereign independent states. […]
Benjamin Netanyahu has defiantly rejected a Hamas counter-proposal to end the current war in the Gaza Strip, dismissing it as “delusional” and “ludicrous” and claiming that “total victory” is “within reach” after four months of fighting. U.S. President Joe Biden appeared to agree with Netanyahu’s dismissive appraisal, saying that Hamas’ offer “seems to be a […]
Upon arriving at Ben-Gurion Airport on the night of December 30, 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the convicted spy Jonathan Jay Pollard was greeted on the tarmac by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was wearing a long black coat and a mask. Before formally acknowledging Netanyahu, Pollard made a slight motion with […]