1+ hour, 30+ min ago  (1785+ words) After two years away from political life, former prime minister Naftali Bennett has emerged as a leading candidate in the upcoming elections, presenting a strategy for Israel he says he carefully built during his time away. Speaking to over 1,000 English-speakers…...

12+ hour, 44+ min ago  (303+ words) Senior officials in Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties have accused Miri Frenkel-Shor, the legal adviser to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, of blocking progress on the long-delayed conscription bill, Maariv reported on Friday. The criticism came amid continued delays in…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (733+ words) Former prime minister Naftali Bennett was heard in leaked recordings released on Thursday saying that he "would not boycott" National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (Otzma Yehudit) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party)." The comments have sparked speculation that…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (421+ words) Amid years of legal wrangling over digital privacy and police powers, two close aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have asked a court to throw out an indictment against them, arguing that the investigation was so tainted by unlawful phone…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (378+ words) The United States is closer to military conflict with Iran than most Americans realize, and a massive weeks-long campaign could "begin very soon," Axios reported on Wednesday. Such a conflict would likely involve an operation more like a war than…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (435+ words) Kibbutz Nir Oz slammed the Prime Minister's Office's request to remove the word "massacre" from the proposed October 7 remembrance bill in favor of "events" or "incidents." "We condemn attempts by elements of the government to erase the massacre that took…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (768+ words) Opposition leader Yair Lapid on Tuesday called for a criminal investigation into figures within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's inner circle, accusing them of falsifying official security protocols and manipulating intelligence materials in the lead-up to the October 7 Hamas attacks. "The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (532+ words) Yisrael Beytenu chairperson Avigdor Liberman visited the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Monday, where he said Israel was funding Hamas and allowing the terror group to rebuild by sending humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. "I look around and see…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (360+ words) Two opposition lawmakers have asked Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara to urgently examine what they describe as a serious conflict of interest surrounding the proposed sale of Channel 13 to a businessman identified in media reports as a close associate of Prime Minister…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (568+ words) Netanyahu's remarks should therefore be taken seriously, as this is not an empty statement but a direct continuation of a consistent and well'developed doctrine. As early as 1996, in his first address to the US Congress, Netanyahu pledged to bring about…...