4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (471+ words) The Ra’am Party is not an obvious place to look for an experiment in Jewish-Arab political partnership. The United Arab List grew out of the southern branch of Israel’s Islamic Movement and historically represented conservative Muslim Arab voters. Its leader,…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (485+ words) Something consequential is happening to Shas, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party that has been a pillar of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition and, for decades, one of Israel’s most durable political forces. Shas won 11 Knesset seats in 2022. Recent polls put it around…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (461+ words) Israel will not withdraw from Southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed throughout the country and the danger posed by attacks from the Land of the Cedars is neutralized, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday. “Prime Minister Netanyahu and I…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (947+ words) Put it this way, and it sounds very close indeed: the election is next month. Its outcome will largely be decided this coming Tuesday, just as it was decided the last time when Balad chose to break up the Joint…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (642+ words) Sharon Udasin | JTA The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would prevent federal funds from going to academic institutions that participate in commercial boycotts of Israel. The HR 4795 bill, co-sponsored by North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (598+ words) Settlers. Colonists. By now, there is hardly any need to add the adjective “violent.” In the imagination of much of the world, it is simply taken for granted. Anti-Israel propaganda has chosen above all to showcase young hooligans with long…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (397+ words) Hasan Piker does not particularly interest us. America has never lacked people willing to say ugly things about Jews. What interests us — and increasingly alarms us — is why so many people who should know better keep inviting him into the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (251+ words) Israel has every reason to be worried about Turkey’s growing military presence in Syria. It also has every reason not to turn that concern into a war with Turkey. Israel cannot simply watch that happen without asking where Turkish involvement…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (386+ words) Sometimes political change comes through a great ideological realignment. Sometimes it comes because politicians who cannot stand one another refuse to sit in the same room. Israel may be witnessing the latter. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pleading with…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (638+ words) Israel issued tenders last week for 1,234 housing units in E1, the strategically located area between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim. The project is part of a larger plan for roughly 3,400 homes. Ma’ale Adumim is already a large Israeli city, sitting immediately east…...