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The shock and trauma of the terrible failure of October 7 should have forced Israel's government to focus on the war and minimize the damage that the...
The government's open war on its democratic gatekeepers and its professional civil servants looks like a wrestling match aimed at transferring some...
The ultra-Orthodox community has been worried about the High Court of Justice's ruling that orders its young men to be drafted into the army and end...
National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi foretold just before taking office that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main endeavor during his present...
What did the Netanyahu government hope to achieve when, on January 4, 2023, Justice Minister Yariv Levin unveiled the "first stage" of his judicial...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a statement this week that explains everything about the current government: "In a democracy, the gatekeepers...
The statement signed by all members of the Knesset (with the exception of lawmakers from the Arab parties and the Labor Party), condemning the request...
The Israel Defense Forces conducted three separate operations against Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip during recent years in which Hamas didn't...
The U.S. administration is considering imposing sanctions on the IDF's Netzah Yehuda battalion, due to what it perceives as human rights violations by...
In his extraordinary letter to the High Court of Justice on the issue of drafting ultra-Orthodox men, requesting a one-month extension before a...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ultra-Orthodox parties have a permanent deal. He preserves the ultra-Orthodox way of life, and they, in...
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's abortive attempt to challenge the army chief of staff's power to promote colonels is meant not only to promote...
Since October 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his partners on the far right, ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, have been waging...
Even judging by the most right-wing criteria imaginable, the current Netanyahu government must end its tenure as soon as possible and call early...
Likud's strategy since the catastrophe of October 7 is just to get through this year safely. They see their plummeting ratings in opinion polls and...
Everyone knows that Benjamin Netanyahu bases his actions on one thing: the survival of his core government, the one before Benny Gantz's National...
Two conflicting tasks have left Israel at an impasse: beating Hamas in Gaza and freeing the hostages. The ground incursion pushed the group to release...
Let's say that the war cabinet were to decide to break the Israel Defense Force's pattern of operation and to advance a misleading exercise of...
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the law abolishing the reasonableness standard says more about the nature of the current government than it...
Benjamin Netanyahu's years long policy of strengthening Hamas manifested partly in the prime minister's permitting and even supporting the flow of...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already prepared for a future state commission of inquiry to investigate the terrible failures that led to the...
When asked how long he plans to remain in the current unity government, National Unity Party Chairman Benny Gantz typically responds, “Just as I...