10+ hour, 30+ min ago   (21+ words) The move follows Ra’am, Hadash-Ta’al, and Balad running separately in the previous election and not signing an agreement on excess votes....

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (574+ words) My immediate curiosity was straightforward: How would Israeli Jews vote in a hypothetical 2026 US national election, and how would American Jews vote in Israel’s October 2026 Knesset election?...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (353+ words) Fatah Reform Democratic faction leader Mohammed Dahlan rejected allegations made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday night that the exiled Palestinian politician was behind a Haaretz report accusing Netanyahu of ignoring a warning from the United Arab Emirates ahead…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (266+ words) WASHINGTON -- Former strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer firmly denied on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed before the October 7 attack, dismissing reports of such a conversation as “fiction.” “Did a conversation take place?...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (442+ words) Eyal Giler, a defendant in the 2025 Jerusalem garbage bin fire case, has sent Sara Netanyahu a pre-suit warning demanding an apology and NIS 100,000 over remarks in which she said those responsible for the fires intended to kill her family. The…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (875+ words) Talik Gvili, mother of fallen soldier Ran Gvili, will receive a reserved place on the Likud list, the party announced on Tuesday, as an internal battle continued over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remaining reserved slots and the process for approving…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1137+ words) You think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in power for a long time? Consider Degel Hatorah’s Moshe Gafni. Gafni, the Knesset’s longest-serving MK, was unceremoniously dropped from the party’s Knesset slate on Saturday night, along with Uri Maklev, on…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1059+ words) In Israel, the qualifying threshold (the minimal percentage of votes a list running in elections must get to enter the Knesset) started at 1% and rose to 3.25% in the elections to the 20th Knesset in March 2015. This was done in an effort…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (984+ words) A recent Jerusalem Post report carried an intriguing finding: A majority of “connected” American Jews surveyed by the Jewish People Policy Institute would prefer to see Israel’s opposition defeat the current governing coalition in the upcoming election. My first reaction…...