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Professor Yehuda Bauer at an award ceremony in Jerusalem, December 4, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

World War II was caused by hatred of Jews, preeminent Holocaust scholar says

By Raphael Ahren

Yehuda Bauer says it’s ‘unfortunate’ Poland’s Duda will skip Auschwitz memorial, argues current rise in anti-Semitism is due to ‘nationalist revival’ following mass immigration

John Demjanjuk in a Munich courtroom, March 2012. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

Photos surface showing convicted Nazi criminal John Demjanjuk at Sobibor camp

By JTA and ToI Staff

Fencing and magnetometers are set up around Capitol Square for the anticipated pro-gun rally Sunday, January 19, 2020, in Richmond, Virginia. (AP/Steve Helber)

Fears of violence as white supremacists, others to rally for guns in Virginia

By Sarah Rankin

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, interviewed by The Times of Israel in his office in Kyiv, on January 18, 2020 (Press service of the Office of the President of Ukraine)

Exclusive'I have Jewish blood. And I'm president. Nobody cares'

A serious man: Zelensky bids to address Ukraine’s dark past, brighten its future

By David Horovitz

Ahead of this week’s visit to Israel, comedian who became a corruption-battling president discusses everything from Babi Yar, the Holocaust and the Holodomor, to Putin… and Trump

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, interviewed by The Times of Israel in his office in Kyiv, on January 18, 2020 (Press service of the Office of the President of Ukraine)

Ukraine’s Zelensky confirms he’ll attend Holocaust forum in Jerusalem

By David Horovitz

A T-shirt advertised in January 2020 by a Ukrainian online store with the writing "Holy shit, are you a Yid?" (NU SHO/Instagram)

Ukraine Jewish community outraged as online store sells anti-Semitic T-shirt

Illustrative: The Be'chol Lashon organization summer camp fosters community and Jewish education to kids from diverse backgrounds. (Courtesy Be'chol Lashon)

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, dreams of a better conversation about race

By Melanie Lidman

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, June 10, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Iran threatens to quit global nuclear pact if Europeans turn to Security Council

By AFP and ToI Staff

FM Zarif says his country may abandon the Non-Proliferation Treaty if 3 EU member states pursue further measures over its alleged violations of 2015 nuclear deal

Technicians work at the Arak heavy water reactor's secondary circuit, as officials and media visit the site, near Arak, 250 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, December 23, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran says it still respects nuclear deal despite decreasing commitments to it

By ToI Staff and AFP

Iranian police officers take position while protesters gather in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Iran, January 11, 2020.(AP Photo)

Iranian stars bolster downed jet protests amid spate of high-profile defections

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow on April 4, 2019. (Koby Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Israel, Russia agree in principle on Issachar pardon, finalizing details

By Michael Bachner

TV channels indicate significant progress in case of jailed backpacker; Netanyahu said to promise series of moves in return, including settling matter of Jerusalem compound

7:29 pm

Father, daughter injured as Palestinians throw rocks at their car -- report
7:25 pm

US Jewish group blasts call in PA daily to disrupt Jerusalem Holocaust event
7:11 pm

Gantz slams Netanyahu after Kahanist claims he was offered to become ambassador

Suspected incendiary balloons discovered in community close to the Gaza border, December 28, 2018 (Police spokesperson's unit)

Suspected incendiary balloons found near Beit Shemesh

Police say sappers called to central moshav of Mesilat Zion; Hebrew media reports explosives and a small Palestinian flag attached to balloons

Israeli-American Naama Issachar, jailed for drug smuggling, attends her appeal hearing at the Moscow Regional Court on December 19, 2019. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)

Russia says visiting Putin likely to discuss jailed backpacker with Netanyahu

Kremlin spokesman says Moscow aware of Israeli concern over Naama Issachar amid Israeli hopes that Russian leader in Jerusalem Thursday will offer her a pardon

Screen capture from video of Yaffa Issachar, whose daughter Naama was jailed in Russia for tax offenses, seen arriving at Ben Gurion Airport, Israel, January 19, 2020. (Channel 12 news)

Mother of US-Israeli backpacker jailed in Russia predicts Putin pardon

Itamar Ben Gvir of the Otzma Yehudit party speaks during a ceremony in Jerusalem marking the 27th anniversary of the killing of extremist rabbi Meir Kahane, November 7, 2017. The sign behind him reads, 'Kahane was right!' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK says including Kahanist Ben Gvir in government would be ‘welcome step’

Miki Zohar defends idea of Likud arranging a cabinet post for Otzma Yehudit leader in exchange for his party leaving election race, saying right-wing majority otherwise impossible

Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir at the entrance to the Central Elections Committee in the Knesset, January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox said offering extremist Otzma Yehudit a ministry if it quits race

Tzipi Hotovely (L) and Tzachi Hanegbi (R) at a Foreign Affairs and Security Committee meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on July 21, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In reshuffle, PM names Hanegbi agriculture minister, taps Akunis for welfare

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein speaks to new lawmakers ahead of the swearing-in ceremony for the 21st Knesset on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Knesset speaker faces fierce Likud backlash for allowing Netanyahu immunity vote

By Raoul Wootliff

Edelstein caught between his own party’s ire, the demands of the law and opposition’s threat of ouster; ‘Now we won’t support him for president,’ vows one Likud official

President Reuven Rivlin (L) and Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein at the opening of the Knesset winter sitting, October 15, 2018. (Knesset)

Israel media reviewTurn the speaker down: 7 things to know for January 20

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein seen at a state ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12, 2018. (Noam Moskowitz/POOL)

Netanyahu aides fume at Edelstein for announcing immunity panel vote

Joint List members present their party slate to the Central Elections Committee in the Knesset, January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

The Joint List aims for 15 seats in the March elections, and could pull it off

Expert says Gantz reaching out to Arab public would significantly affect voter turnout; MK says Joint List can win more votes by focusing on community’s ‘burning issues’

Otzma Yehudit candidates (From L-R) Tiran Zeituni, Meir Ben Hayun, Adva Biton, chairman Itamar Ben Gvir, Itshak Waserlauf and Yehuda Epstein pose for a photo after the party announces its slate from January 5, 2019. (Courtesy)

Left in the lurch by the religious right, Otzma Yehudit party set to go it alone

Why intersectionality fails the Jews

Relating to Jews as white is a perversion of Jewish history; it also blinds too many to the pernicious impact of anti-Semitism

Martin Luther King and Israel, then and now

Would the civil rights leader have taken up the Palestinian cause?

We need a real conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The elections promise to be personal and ugly unless the debate shifts to truly addressing Israel’s place in an increasingly volatile Middle East

International Holocaust Remembrance Day almost didn’t happen

The European UN rep said they wouldn’t support the initiative because of Arab opposition. I felt a sense of fury washing over me

Illustration (above and top) by Avi Katz

Necessary stories

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By Haim Watzman

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Andre Azoulay, adviser to the Moroccan king, poses for a picture at the 'Bayt Dakira' (House of Memory) Jewish museum, in Morocco's Atlantic coastal city of Essaouira on December 14, 2019 (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Morocco’s House of Memory spotlights Jewish-Muslim coexistence

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Project showcases objects donated by local families alongside stories of members of the Jewish community; King Mohammed VI visits center to examine artifacts and hear of the work

A Jewish man and a child stand on a street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, April 24, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)

Proposed NY law would force Orthodox yeshivas to teach basic secular subjects

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

Illustrative: Ethiopian religious leaders, in the Israeli town of Yavne, prepare for a large demonstration against their mistreatment in Israeli society, June 22, 2015. (FLASH90)

Top state rabbinical body reinforces ruling that Ethiopian Jews are Jewish

Old Town Hall in Munich, Germany. (Wikipedia/Pierre André/CC BY-SA)

Munich confab nixed after pro-Israel Jewish speaker rejected

By Toby Axelrod

Screen capture from video of high school student Ariana Hoblin, left, telling US President Donald Trump about anti-Semitic bullying she suffered in her school, during a meeting in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, January 16, 2020. (YouTube)

Jewish high school student tells Trump how classmates drew swastikas on her arm

Luxury apartment towers are seen in the Tel Aviv neighborhood of Park Tzameret on August 24, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tel Aviv climbs cost of living index to become world’s 20th most expensive city

Ofer Golan, Likud campaign manager and Netanyahu family spokesman, arrives at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court rejects 3 of 4 search warrant requests for Netanyahu aides’ phones

Jewish girls walk by a police car stationed in the Crown Heights neighborhood, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Police have increased patrols in the area following anti-Semitic attacks in the city and on an attack of a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Man charged with hate crime for yelling slurs at Jewish couple in New York

By JTA

Riot police fire rubber bullets against the anti-government protesters, during ongoing protests against the political elites who have ruled the country for decades, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Violence escalates in Beirut as protesters clash with police; more than 100 hurt

By Sarah El Deeb and Andrea Rosa

Silver medalist Aly Raisman celebrates on the podium at the medal ceremony for the Women's Floor on Day 11 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Rio Olympic Arena on August 16, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images via JTA)

Aly Raisman won’t compete in 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Paramedics at the scene of an incident where the bodies of two young women were found in Jerusalem after an apparent fall from a tall building on January 20, 2020. (Magen David Adom)

Two women found dead in Jerusalem after apparent fall from building

The audience at Koolulam Unplugged on January 16, 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Vox populiKoolulam goes unplugged with love song in Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

This combination photo shows Jennifer Aniston with the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series for 'The Morning Show,' left, and Brad Pitt with the award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role for 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' at the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on Jan. 19, 2020, in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

‘Parasite’ wins at SAG Awards, along with Pitt and Aniston

Illustrative: Palestinian men inspect a car that was burnt in a suspected hate crime in the northern West Bank village of Beit Dajan on November 22, 2019. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Far-right activist indicted for attempting to carry out anti-Arab attack

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