Falling water levels also affect river transport and port operations. The Caspian Sea's declining levels threaten ecosystems and critical economic assets, including ports and energy facilities.
Over the past two and a half years, I’ve often turned to my pen. While so much has been rattled and shaken - writing became my way to make sense of it all, and a source of comfort.
On the eve of Pessah 1944, in Bergen-Belsen, two rabbis, Rabbi Aaron Davids and Rabbi Avraham Levison, confronted an unbearable question: What does one do when the Torah itself cannot be kept?
The lesson that lingers is that freedom is not just about leaving a place of hardship; it is about creating a reality where that hardship does not repeat itself.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer statements suggesting that a confrontation with Iran is not Britain’s concern, raise serious questions about whether the West is willing to learn from history.
For the first time in centuries, Jews are not merely subjects of history but active participants within it.
Have the US and Israel achieved their objectives? These are not trivial questions. But the deeper issue is this: In today’s information environment, they may no longer have clean, binary answers.
France failed at the one job that it had: to earn the trust of the party it claims to want to help reach peace. And now it can't get the role of brokering peace talks.
The Iranians do not know what they will hit, and they don’t care. For all their professed love of Jerusalem, rockets and shrapnel have hit the Holy City, including close to sites sacred to Muslims.
The Western alliance has lost its compass, driver, and fuel. And since this alliance is brain-dead, a new one will have to come in its place.
For too long, Israelis were sold on the wrong expectation. Politicians deceived the public into believing that everything could be achieved quickly and decisively through military force alone.
