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US President Joe Biden speaks to an overflow crowd at a rally hosted by the Democratic National Committee at Richard Montgomery High School, August 25, 2022, in Rockville, Maryland. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Republican National Committee calls comments 'despicable'

Stumping for midterms, Biden says Trump is leading Republicans into ‘semi-fascism’

‘This is not your father’s Republican party,’ president tells donors at backyard fundraiser, warning of dangers of ‘extreme MAGA philosophy’

Aerial view of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Heavily redacted affidavit on raid of Trump home to be published

By AFP

Illustrative: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, right, chats with fairgoers on the opening day of the Minnesota State Fair on August 25, 2022, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. (AP/Steve Karnowski)

Minnesota governor bashes rival for comparing COVID rules to Holocaust

By Steve Karnowski

Prime Minister Yair Lapid meets with the head of the Mossad David Barnea at the Defense Ministry, Tel Aviv, August 25, 2022. (Prime Minister's Office)

Mossad chief says looming Iran deal ‘based on lies,’ is ‘very bad for Israel’

Barnea warns pact allows Tehran to amass nuclear material for a bomb within a few years, says his agency ‘is preparing and knows how to remove that threat’

Defense Minister Benny Gantz talks to US Air Force personnel at the air refueling wing at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, August 25, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Visiting US, Gantz emphasizes Israel-US cooperation ‘in face of Iran’s aggression’

By Tobias Siegal and ToI Staff

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the Sorbonne University in Paris, August 25, 2022. (Mohammed Badra, pool via AP)

‘The ball is in Iran’s court,’ Macron says on prospects for revived nuclear deal

By AFP

Neta Maimon, Tel Aviv University PhD student and inventor of a prospective method for assessing cognitive decline (courtesy of Tel Aviv University)

Israeli scientists say brain analysis tool can spot cognitive decline — using music

By Nathan Jeffay

Doctors today rely on face-to-face questions and answers to diagnose cognitive decline, but new peer-reviewed research suggests music may help make EEG-based testing viable

Yosef Halper, who used the pen name J.C. Halper in a nod to his American-born name, shows off his first published book in his Tel Aviv store on July 6, 2022. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Interview'I was collecting material this whole time'

Taking a page, iconic Tel Aviv bookseller releases his 1st original story collection

By Melanie Lidman

Yosef Halper has served English readers from his rough location on Allenby Street for 30 years. Now the street and some of its regulars feature in his new book ‘The Bibliomaniacs’

From left to right: Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir, Prime Minister and Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, and Religious Zionism head MK Bezalel Smotrich, in 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu meets Ben Gvir, Smotrich in bid to press far-right merger

Opposition chief hosts the leaders of Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism at his Caesarea home, as he urges them to reunite before election

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked (R) and then Yamina MK Abir Kara present their plan to reduce the bureaucratic burden on small businesses, May 1, 2022. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Yamina’s Abir Kara parts ways with Shaked’s Zionist Spirit

Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting in Tel Aviv on August 25, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Lapid says Joint List doesn’t want to be in his coalition, urges Labor-Meretz merger

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

New report shares shocking details of 2012 massacre of 700 Syrians by Assad regime

New details of the 2012 massacre in the Syrian town of Daraya, during the early stages of the country's civil war, have emerged in a comprehensive report issued on Thursday. The investigation sponsored by the Syrian British Consortium collected evidence and testimonies from witnesses of the atrocities committed... Continue Reading

Damaged buildings in Daraya, a Damascus suburb, on August 26, 2016 (AP Photo)

A cloud of smoke rises after an alleged airstrike near the Syrian city of Masyaf, on August 25, 2022. (Social media)

Syria accuses Israel of launching airstrike, says two civilians hurt

By Emanuel Fabian

A United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) convoy patrols the southern Khiam area near the border with Israel, on August 6, 2021. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

UN Mideast envoy warns of Lebanon tensions as Israel, Hezbollah spar over gas field

Running and cycling paths are part of the plan for greening Jerusalem's Hebron Road. (Our Streets)

Could a road diet fix Jerusalem’s packed and perilous Hebron Road? Here’s the skinny

Activists want to turn the street into a pedestrian-friendly space with cafes, bike paths and more by squeezing out cars and investing heavily in public transportation

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Celebrating our marriage by preparing my divorce

My husband wasn’t incapacitated by injury or illness, but a serious brush with what-might-have-been made me revisit the terms of our marriage under Jewish law

Providence on 1360’s Black Monday

If Maimonides is right, and divine intervention depends on us being worthy of it, it’s no wonder that so few believe in it. Just ask musician Nick Cave (Re’eh)

Palestinian workers wait at the Erez crossing in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, as they wait to enter Israel for work, on March 13, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)

Israeli work permits for Gazan Palestinians: a lifeline, a leverage tool or both?

By Fares Akram and Sam McNeil

Many Palestinians earn 10 times as much in Israel as they would in Gaza: ‘One month of work there equals three years of work here,’ says one permit holder

Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad Nakhaleh speaks in a televised address, August 25, 2022. (Screengrab/Twitter)

Islamic Jihad: Israel breaking ceasefire deal, ‘must bear full responsibility’

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

A Palestinian worker prepares plastic for processing to extract fuel in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on August 23, 2022. (Mohammed Abed / AFP)

Desperate for fuel, Gazans burn plastic despite serious environmental, health risks

By Belal AL SABBAGH and Mai Yaghi

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian dissidents file lawsuit against Raisi for human rights violations

By AFP

Exiled group accuses Iranian president of torture and murder in a 1988 crackdown on Iranian dissidents, urges US to take action ahead of his arrival in New York next month for UN

A Blackhawk helicopter lands next to an Apache attack helicopter at a US military base at undisclosed location in Eastern Syria, Nov. 11, 2019. (AP/Darko Bandic)

Four Iran-backed fighters killed in US strikes in Syria, Pentagon says

By Lolita C. Baldor

Illustrative: Iranian Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, left, and Commander of the Army Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi visit an underground drone base tunnel of the Army in the heart of the country's western Zagros Mountains, May 28, 2022. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iranian drone sales to Russia underline worries for nuke deal critics

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and Matthew Lee

Lisa and Stuart Kliman pose with Olena Mironyuk, right, and daughters Masha and Alina, in front of the Kliman home in Massachusetts. (Courtesy)

'It was like having my grandparents back'

US Jews pay homage to Holocaust survivor ancestors as they aid Ukrainian refugees

Jewish organizations and volunteers step up as a new influx of people fleeing the Russian invasion reach America, while the memory of a complex shared history still lingers

The arrest of an East Jerusaalem resident who was allegedly planning to carry out a shooting attack in the capital's center, July 23, 2022. (Israel Police)

East Jerusalem resident planned shooting attack in capital, police say

Suspect was allegedly part of Hamas-affiliated Kutla Islamiya student cell, whose members have tried to carry out attacks in Israel before

File: Mourners carry the body of Ali Harb, who was allegedly stabbed to death by an Israeli settler, during his funeral in the northern West Bank village of Iskaka on June 22, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Police close case against settler suspected of killing Palestinian in June

By Emanuel Fabian

West Bank Palestinians prepare to board a flight to Turkey at Israel's Ramon Airport, August 22, 2022. (Flash90)

Jordan chafes at Israel’s move to let Palestinians fly via Eilat’s Ramon Airport

By Tobias Siegal

Billionaires Robert Kraft (left) and George Soros, who each contributed $1 million dollars to pro-Israel PACs in August 2022. (Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images & Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)

Patriots owner Kraft pours $1m into AIPAC’s super PAC; Soros gives $1m to J Street’s

By MADELINE FIXLER

Majority of candidates backed by AIPAC’s United Democracy Project have won their primaries, while Rep. Jamaal Bowman, backed by J Street Action Fund, survived challenge on Tuesday

Israeli tech worker goes viral with AI bot that churns out ‘cringe’ LinkedIn posts

By Ricky Ben-David

A synthetic mouse embryo grown at Weizmann Institute of Science, pictured dally, from day one top left, to day eight bottom right. (Courtesy Weizmann Institute of Science)

Scientists again manage to create synthetic mouse embryos using only stem cells

By AP and ToI Staff

Study by California researchers follows on from similar work by Israeli biologists at Weizmann Institute: ‘We are undoubtedly facing a new technological revolution’

Jews 'have special emotions toward the Chinese,' Rabbi Matt Trusch explains in a Douyin video aimed at the vast Chinese audience. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

'The problem in this region runs deeper than we think'

A Texas rabbi is fighting Jewish stereotypes on China’s TikTok

By Jordyn Haime

Matt Trusch lived in China for years, but it’s been tough to go back to visit during the pandemic era. Now he’s found a way to connect with Chinese speakers that has gone viral

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Steven Hoffenberg, left, is escorted by FBI agents in a Little Rock, Ark. parking garage after turning himself in, Feb. 15, 1996. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Police suspect man found dead was Ponzi schemer and Epstein mentor Hoffenberg

By Dave Collins

Parameics at the scene of a shooting in Lod in central Israel, Agusut 26, 2022. (United Hatzalah)

52-year-old man shot to death in broad daylight in Lod

Argentina President Alberto Fernandez, June 9, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Jewish groups slam Argentine president for comparing COVID deaths to Holocaust

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Protesters line the street around the front of the Nebraska State Capitol during an Abortion Rights Rally held on July 4, 2022, in Lincoln, Nebraska. (Kenneth Ferriera/AP)

Three more US states with Republican governors enact abortion ‘trigger laws’

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI

Tova Tamana, a 28-year-old Israeli woman who discusses living with schizophrenia in a new government campaign calling for more open attitudes to mental health issues (Israel Ministry of Health)

1 in 3 Israeli Jews would forgo psychological support due to stigma, poll finds

By Nathan Jeffay

A man walks on a pedestrian crossing point near the Dnipro river and Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant on the other side in Nikopol, Ukraine, August 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant cut off from power grid due to fire damage

By Frank Jordans and HANNA ARHIROVA

Maccabi Haifa's team celebrates with fans after qualifying for the UEFA Champions League by tying with Red Star at Rajko Mitic Stadium in Belgrade, Serbia, August 23, 2022. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)

Maccabi Haifa to face PSG’s Messi, Neymar in Champion’s League group stage

By ToI Staff and AP

Iraqi Security forces close the heavily fortified Green Zone as they tightened security measures hours after an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, in Baghdad, Iraq, November 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Explosion targets Australian diplomats in Baghdad’s Green Zone

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

The scene where a woman's body was found in a field close to Rehovot, August 25, 2022. (Israel Police)

Suspect in woman’s stabbing death tries to kill himself

Former Jerusalem District Commander, Niso Shaham seen his release from prison, outside Hermon prison on August 25, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Former top cop jailed for sex crimes released early despite state’s objections

Ret. Lt. Col. Josh Judah, a former police officer in the Louisville Metro Police Department, testifies in a 2020 hearing. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images via JTA)

Ex-cop connected to police killings resigns job securing Louisville Jewish community

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Turkish pop star Gulsen during a 2013 concert at the İzmir Arena in Izmir, Turkey, in 2013. (Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Turkish pop star arrested over joke about ‘perversion’ in religious schools

By AP

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