International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister
The warrants are based on allegations that Prime Minister Netanyahu starved Palestinian civilians in Gaza
The warrants are based on allegations that Prime Minister Netanyahu starved Palestinian civilians in Gaza
Political calculations guided a decision that will now endanger the country
Israel’s defense minister gets the boot as Israel faces war and a diplomatic showdown with the US
Netanyahu's government is in jeopardy over the military exemption for yeshiva students
As Israel’s March 17 snap election date approaches, the electoral map continues to change faster than Taylor Swift’s outfits. The ink hasn’t even dried on the merger between Tzipi Livni and Labor’s Yitzhak Herzog that vaults them to first place in the polls, but the Likud’s reply is already in the works. According to a…
If the pre-election polls out of Israel teach us anything, it’s about the strength and weakness of pre-election polls. The strength is that they’re a pretty accurate reflection of what people are thinking. The proof of this is that the flood of polls coming every day from just about every media outlet, right, left and…
More mystery and intrigue in the senior ranks of the Israel Defense Forces: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reported (Maariv, Haaretz) to be stalling the nomination of Israel’s next military chief of staff. His reasons are a topic of hot speculation, though the facts seem to speak for themselves. By law the nomination of a…
Fresh from the long war with Hamas in Gaza, tensely facing down simmering unrest in the West Bank and chaos on the Syrian border, Israel’s defense establishment is now bracing for what’s shaping up to be the most bruising confrontation of all: the choosing of the next chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces….
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