Former Soviet Union
Israel’s global news coverage vastly disproportionate and unusually persistent, analysis finds
An analysis of nearly 14.7 million news articles found that coverage of Israel was not only disproportionately high but also unusually persistent compared with other major conflicts and global crises.
Israel needs to stop losing its people and start giving them reasons to stay - opinion
Lithuania's Jewish partisan bunkers caught between Holocaust memory and military expansion
Putin embraces the dark corners of Russia’s history – opinion
On this day: Communist Bulgaria downs El Al flight 402, killing all 58 people onboard
On this day in 1955, Bulgarian MiG fighters brought down El Al Flight 402, killing all 58 people aboard and setting off a Cold War dispute over responsibility and justice.
'Stalin’s Apostles': The Cambridge Five and the lost world of Jewish Communism - review
From elite universities to Soviet handlers, the Cambridge Five helped Stalin penetrate Britain’s security and decision-making core.
Israel needs a counter-subversion strategy - opinion
Hostile powers don’t invent a nation’s weaknesses; they find the ones it already has, fund them, give them prestige, and push them through the institutions that decide how a society sees itself.
WIZO Rishon Lezion youth village teens create fact-checking bot
For the students, many of whom remain closely connected with friends and family in their countries of origin, the issue is not abstract.
America’s ‘luck’ is running out: The lost industrial engine that powered US greatness - opinion
America’s rise was driven by production and innovation, and its decline may begin with its loss.
Iran’s IRGC turned revolution into a system of power, profit - opinion
Iran’s rulers speak of faith and resistance, but the regime’s true strength lies in control, profit and instability.
Putin says Ukraine war is ending but the global order has already shifted - opinion
Ukraine war may be winding down, but its impact on global politics is already irreversible.
In double trouble: Iran’s oil crisis – opinion
Given that the Islamic Republic’s lifeblood – oil – is being squeezed, it should learn from history that collapse always begins with a warning sign such as this one
Five Jewish couples marry in Brazil in front of 900 young Jews from former Soviet Union
The five couples were Ruslan and Esther (Anastasia), Eliezer (Evgeny) and Elena, Asher (Stanislav) and Malka (Alexandra), Meir (Mark) and Polina, and Netanel (Bogdan) and Michal (Veronica).
Ukraine marks 40 years since Chernobyl disaster amid war fears
Kyiv says Moscow has repeatedly sent missiles and drones on a flight path near the plant to attack Ukrainian cities, even damaging a critical protective shield in an attack last year.
