There can no longer be any doubt: The conduct of Israel's president is a national disgrace ■ Does anyone really believe that after a pardon, Netanyahu will roll back his assault on democracy? ■ Galit Distel Atbaryan, a modern-day Joseph McCarthy
Comptroller Matanyahu Englman said, 'Significant defects have been found in Israel's preparedness for foreign influence on next November's elections.' He added, 'The threat is intensifying and could undermine public trust, create chaos on election day and distort results'
Perhaps the more accurate reflection of Israel's relations with Europe is captured not by the Eurovision boycott, but by the billions in defense contracts for Israel's arms industry
In Benjamin Netanyahu's increasingly authoritarian government, clashing with the military elite is the easiest way to curry favor with the Likud party base. His inconsequential defense minister is taking full advantage of his position, remaking one of the last independent bastions in Israel's embattled public sector
The Saudi Foreign Ministry published the joint statement on X, claiming that Israel's policy aims to push Palestinians toward displacement into Egypt via the Israeli-controlled border crossing, urging adherence to the U.S. cease-fire plan
In a rare public rebuke, IDF chief Eyal Zamir said Israel's policy of containing Hamas since 2008 allowed the group to grow stronger and criticized previous Israeli military operations in Gaza for being 'concerned with weakening the enemy and restoring deterrence – not with defeating it'
The lie that a Palestinian state would be a terrorist state – even as Israel wreaks destruction in Gaza and the West Bank – ignores the Palestinian Authority's repeated pursuit of diplomacy. And while this month's UN Security Council resolution mirrors one from 2016, Netanyahu continues to ignore Israel's interests and its obligations to the people it occupies
Three recent rulings show how the court's more conservative jurisprudence since Netanyahu retook office and amid the Gaza war has given the government greater leeway, even for legally questionable actions. 'Israel's factionalism and polarization also seep into the Supreme Court,' said one legal expert
Former Shin Bet directors and legal advisers warned that a bill meant to curb terrorism would cause backlash and harm national security. 'The death penalty is unacceptable in terms of legal norms, therefore, unconstitutional,' an open letter read, noting it would change Israel's international status
Israel's Defense and Security Forum, a group of ex-IDF officers also advocates for Israel to annex the West Bank. In 2024, it got 13.3M shekels ($3.95M) from the Central Fund for Israel, a right-wing U.S.-based foundation
Defense Minister Israel Katz isn't the first to try and shutter Israel's Army Radio. Even though public opinion surveys overwhelmingly demonstrate that Israelis don't support closing the station, former commanders say this time, the threat seems more serious than ever
Israel Police's representative told the court that most of the Qatargate investigation has been completed, adding that the remaining steps include the Shin Bet security service putting together an opinion on the threat posed to Israel's national security by the Qatargate affair
Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar thinks it's a dangerous film. But 'The Sea,' centered on a Palestinian boy who longs to see the sea, is exactly the kind of film that could have helped mend Israel's battered international image
Initially defined by euphoria, Israel's settlement enterprise faces a decline, with violence and a lack of interest marking a stark contrast to the past's pioneering spirit
Politically, it is much easier for Netanyahu to end Israel's military dominance in the Middle East and give the Americans his blessing to sell F-35 jets to an Arab country than to say the words 'Palestinian state'
The bill for capital punishment progressing in Israel's Knesset would be used exclusively to target Arabs, and would mark another departure from Western international norms. Israel has only executed two men in its history: an IDF officer wrongly charged with treason in 1948, and Adolf Eichmann
Even as Haredi leaders secure a generous military service exemption, unprecedented rivalries within Degel HaTorah and Shas reveal deep fractures across Israel's ultra-Orthodox public