The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/edwin-black/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Edwin Black | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/edwin-black/ 32 32 Iran may still have 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium. How worried should we be? https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-may-still-have-400-kilograms-of-highly-enriched-uranium-how-worried-should-we-be/ Sun, 20 Jul 2025 04:33:15 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3600357 Despite Israeli and US strikes on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, material for a bomb could have been towed to another location, or even another country, by pickup truck

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]]> This is how we replace the UN https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/replacing-the-un-with-the-covenant-of-democratic-nations/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:09:30 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1552213 On a new plan that's in the works to defund the global body and create a 'Covenant of Democratic Nations'

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]]> The case of the Passover punishment https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/passover-punishment-case-continues-to-wander-through-the-courts/ Sat, 17 Dec 2016 13:54:29 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1521060 An Orthodox Jewish woman punished for work absence during a religious holiday has been seeking justice for 3 years

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]]> The expulsion that backfired: When Iraq kicked out its Jews https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-expulsion-that-backfired-when-iraq-kicked-out-its-jews/ Tue, 31 May 2016 11:39:09 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1398308 Bent on destroying Israel, and gripped by anti-Semitism, Baghdad 'pauperized' its Jews and forced them to leave for nascent Jewish state in 1951-2. It was Iraq that suffered

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]]> In Germany’s extermination program for black Africans, a template for the Holocaust https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-germanys-extermination-program-for-black-africans-a-template-for-the-holocaust/ Thu, 05 May 2016 09:05:41 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1386064 Decades before the Nazis turned to the Jews, German colonialists in Southwest Africa - now Namibia - dehumanized, built death camps for, and slaughtered tens of thousands of tribespeople in a systematic genocide. Here, Edwin Black reveals the full horrors of an eerie and odious precursor of the Shoah, and its legacy in the US

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]]> Inside Canary Mission https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/inside-canary-mission/ Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:57:04 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1235200 The secretive 'name and shame' website is run as a tight ship with just one goal: fighting anti-Semitism

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]]> Why Jonathan Pollard spent 30 years in prison https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-jonathan-pollard-spent-30-years-in-prison/ Sun, 02 Aug 2015 09:14:30 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1225959 13 years ago, an investigative journalist met with Pollard in jail, spoke to his attorneys, interviewed key players such as Netanyahu and Caspar Weinberger, and reviewed the evidence. With Pollard now finally to be paroled, here's a definitive explanation for how 'a tragedy devolved into a disgrace'

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]]> Want to stop Iran’s nukes? Use less oil https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/want-to-stop-irans-nukes-use-less-oil/ Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:51:26 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1163843 Petrodollars have been financing Teheran’s nuclear program for almost two decades

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]]> PA studies details of each terrorist act before issuing salaries https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-studies-details-of-each-terrorist-act-before-issuing-salaries/ Fri, 06 Feb 2015 02:49:26 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1133928 Newly obtained documents show meticulous process by which martyrdom status, payment levels, honorary ranks are determined

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]]> Remembering Robert Wolfe, guardian of Nazi-era archives https://www.timesofisrael.com/remembering-robert-wolfe-guardian-of-nazi-era-archives/ Wed, 24 Dec 2014 02:08:15 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1110666 The man who galvanized a generation of Holocaust historians died earlier this month

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]]> The inside story of J Street’s rejection by the Conference of Presidents https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-inside-story-of-j-streets-rejection-by-the-conference-of-presidents/ Fri, 30 May 2014 15:47:07 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=995654 The vote to exclude the lobby group from US Jewish leadership umbrella group wasn't all about ‘Lefties or Righties,' says one source; J Street: It has prompted a debate on the community’s 'ability or lack thereof' to hear and reflect diverse views

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]]> How American taxpayers are funding Palestinian terrorism https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-american-taxpayers-are-funding-palestinian-terrorism/ Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:33:57 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=743556 An investigative journalist details the Palestinian Authority's routine diversion of financial aid to pay generous salaries to murderers

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]]> Financing the flames from a mobile home in Florida https://www.timesofisrael.com/financing-the-flames-from-a-mobile-home-in-florida/ Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:10:37 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=730624 A shadowy volunteer organization of non-Israelis working 'against the brutal occupation of Palestine' is tracked from the West Bank to the woods near Tampa

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]]> The Iranians are almost there. This is how they did it https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-iranians-are-almost-there-this-is-how-they-did-it/ Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:55:14 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=214366 Enrichment is accelerating, the warhead is taking shape, a nuclear trigger is deep in development, and the Shahab-3 missile has Israel in range and can detonate in an airburst 600 meters above ground -- just like the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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]]> Bigio vs. Coca-Cola https://www.timesofisrael.com/bigio-vs-coca-cola/ Wed, 30 May 2012 08:20:23 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=115172 Is the multi-billion dollar beverage company party to a Nazi-esque land grab from an Egyptian Jewish family?

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