The Times of Israel

A polarizing paper that launched online in 1996 — and the digital news network that followed it.

Three years after October 7, a quiet question — "do we still need this?" — collides with shame, stigma, and a coming election.

Realists beat optimists and pessimists on long-term well-being. Here's what the research says about keeping expectations accurate.

Israelis say housing and cost of living decide their vote — but the campaign is about everything else. Can the pragmatic center break the pattern?

Netanyahu's quick UN trip sparks a bigger question: how do you actually measure a country's isolation? We build seven heuristics.

Armies built spy agencies first — half a century before Mossad. How military and civilian intelligence divide the work, and who enforces the line.

What "peripheria" really means in Israel — and why a $10B Intel fab sits in a town that still tops unemployment.

A planned neighborhood on Kiryat Gat's edge is pulling in Anglo olim with prices that undercut Beit Shemesh and Modiin.

Motorcades, megaphones at 5:30 a.m., and a three-meter wall — what neighbors of heads of state actually endure.

Tribal police, rabbinic courts, and consensual arbitration all operate under one state — here's the legal plumbing that keeps it from fragmenting.

10,340 unsold apartments, 15,000 ghost homes, and luxury towers pre-sold to buyers who visit twice a year. What is Jerusalem becoming?