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October 23, 2025 | |

‘Days of Destiny’: In Israel, Rubio Expresses Optimism Around Gaza Deal as U.S. Warns Against West Bank Annexation

Visit From Rubio: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Israel on October 23 for a three-day trip “to support the successful implementation of President Trump’s Comprehensive...

April 11, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

Against racism, for antisemitism: The message of a march in Paris

The most egregious aspect of the demonstration was its contemptuous approach to Jew-hatred, which has risen precipitously in France, as elsewhere in Europe, since the atrocities in Israel 18 months ago.

October 25, 2024 | Enia Krivine |

Despite Pressure From Washington, Israel Considers Curtailing UNRWA

Benny Gantz, a leading opposition member of the Israeli Knesset, advocated on October 22 for a vote on two pieces of legislation that would significantly curtail the activities of the United Nations Relief...

October 16, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

One Day in October

A year after Hamas invaded Israel, anti-Zionists bay for more massacres

June 11, 2024 | |

Knesset Advances Contested Conscription Law

Israel’s parliament approved moving ahead on a contested conscription law on June 11. In a vote of 63 lawmakers in favor and 57 opposed, the Knesset plenum approved applying continuity...

November 2, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

The key figures leading Israel’s military campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza

Here are the masterminds directing each aspect of the IDF operation

October 12, 2023 | |

Secretary of State Blinken Arrives in Israel

Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on October 12, the first leg of a tour of the region in the wake of Hamas’ attack on Israel, which killed 22 Americans. Blinken...

December 5, 2022 | Shany Mor, Einat Wilf

Will Bibi Make the Left’s Nightmares Come True? It’s Never Happened Before

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June 27, 2022 | Shany Mor |

Chaos has consumed Israel

Disaster merchants are holding the country hostage

April 21, 2022 | Shany Mor |

How Israel’s Minority Government Can Stay in Power

The loss of a majority in the parliament is a damaging setback for both Bennett and Lapid. However, it is still too soon to count either of them out.

April 13, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

‘Caught Between a Hammer and an Anvil’

Israel’s in a difficult position when it comes to the war in Ukraine

September 30, 2020 | Varsha Koduvayur, David Daoud

Welcome to a Brand-New Middle East

Israel’s pacts with the UAE and Bahrain go far beyond the tenuous “cold peace” with Egypt and Jordan. They could even help end the conflict with the Palestinians.

January 27, 2020 | Svante Cornell, Dr. Brenda Shaffer

Occupied Elsewhere

Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes

July 3, 2017 | Grant Rumley |

The Political Education of Mahmoud Abbas

Co-written by Amir Tibon. When Israeli tanks besieged Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah in 2002, the Palestinian leader famously declared, “Oh God, grant...

March 8, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Don’t rush the peace process

This palm-fringed oasis in the Jordan Valley has been continuously inhabited for 10,000 years. That justifies it billing itself as the “oldest city in the world.” Officers of...

January 14, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

How to Fight Homophobia in the Middle East

January began with more horrific news for LGBTs in the Middle East. The Islamic State executed a 15-year-old Syrian boy suspected of being gay by tossing him off a rooftop in the eastern Syrian c...

March 18, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Why the Media Always Gets Israeli Elections Wrong

The era of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [is] coming to an end,” read one ...

March 16, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

A House Undivided: Israel’s New Consensus Politics

Israelis go to the polls on March 17, and in a time-honored tradition, international pundits are hopin...

February 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Denmark Terror: Making Sense of the Continuation of European Lethal Anti-Semitism

BERLIN - The specter of lethal anti-Semitism has once again engulfed Europe, with the latest murder of the Danish Jew Dan Uzan who was guarding the Copenhagen synagogue. His death along with anot...

November 10, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Jerusalem, on a Knife’s Edge

Stabbing attacks and random acts of Palestinian terror have brought the violence in Gaza and the West Bank into the heart of Israel. This is not the Third Intifada. At l...