By Israel Politics Post Staff
The images of protesters blocking a highway over draft-dodger arrests make for striking television, but the real story is what the standoff reveals about the coalition math awaiting whoever wins on October 27.
European officials are calling for arrests after a convoy carrying Belgian, French and Polish diplomats was attacked near Taybeh, the latest in a string of settler incidents during the olive harvest season.
By Israel Politics Post Staff
Days after parliament confirmed Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defense minister, he warned Washington that any renewed attack on Iran would bring serious consequences for the US and its allies in the region.
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UNIFIL's mandate expires at the end of 2026, and in the village of Ibl al-Saqi, where the force has been the single biggest employer for decades, shop and workshop owners say its exit will hollow out the local economy.
By Israel Politics Post Staff
Israel Politics Post Staff
Pro-Netanyahu commentators have drawn a direct line to a 1981 ethnic slur widely credited with tipping that race to Menachem Begin. The comparison doesn't hold up as cleanly as it sounds.
Israel Politics Post Staff
Ten arrests after a weekend of settler violence is a bigger law-enforcement response than this pattern has usually drawn, but the same reporting shows fresh incidents continuing even as the suspects were being detained.
Israel Politics Post Staff
Witnesses described a coordinated assault near Abu Falah that also saw vehicles torched near Turmus Ayya and an elderly Palestinian injured near Birzeit, as Netanyahu's office offered a starkly different account of who confronted whom.
Eliakim Stark made the comparison while discussing draft-related travel restrictions on Haredi men. Politicians across the spectrum, including fellow coalition leaders, condemned the remark.
Yoav Horowitz, who ran Netanyahu's office from 2016 to 2019 and later helped found Gadi Eisenkot's party, said on air that Netanyahu should be assumed to be a Qatari agent. Likud calls it incitement.
Marking two years since the Hamas leader's death, the military published a letter it says was recovered from his son in 2024, which it presented as evidence of how the group's ideology was passed on to its leader's own children.
A survey published via The Times of Israel's sister site Zman Yisrael put the anti-Netanyahu bloc at 54 seats and the pro-Netanyahu bloc at 49, with Yashar six seats ahead of Likud and neither camp near the 61-seat threshold.
Two months after a US company won the tender to build an outpost for 150 international troops, Israel has still not let contractors or trucks into Gaza, with the project's backers expecting a green light only after the election.
The ruling party and Religious Zionism cite unsubstantiated fraud concerns for the deployment, which the Joint List calls a racist campaign and which election officials say addresses a problem that barely exists.
A Channel 12 investigation found that most of the NIS 4.8 million raised by a nonprofit founded by Shas candidate Dror Amos for October 7 bereaved families instead went toward yeshiva student stipends.
With 38 parties registered for the October 27 vote and polls putting his new Yashar party on track to be the Knesset's largest, Eisenkot is pitching himself as a right-wing alternative free of the current coalition's baggage.
Dr. Nechumi Yaffe, a Haredi political psychology researcher who has advised the National Security Council on ultra-Orthodox poverty, joined the newly formed Charedi Public party's slate just before the filing deadline.
Founding members Meir Cohen and Mickey Levy were among those declining to run again, as weak polling numbers fueled talk that Bennett should abandon the joint run and merge with Eisenkot's rising Yashar party instead.
Fifty-six elderly petitioners argue the Knesset's decision not to renew a pandemic-era requirement for polling stations inside care facilities effectively disenfranchises tens of thousands of residents.
By Israel Politics Post Staff
By Israel Politics Post Staff
By Israel Politics Post Staff
By Israel Politics Post Staff
Ben Gvir's claim that Netanyahu privately promised Europe he'd be dropped from the next government reads less like a real coalition threat and more like a campaign maneuver aimed at his own base.
President Joseph Aoun told France's foreign minister Lebanon would prefer to simply extend UNIFIL's mandate, but is open to alternative arrangements to avoid a security vacuum once the peacekeeping force leaves.
The opposition leaders say they'd use a new government's first Knesset session to launch an October 7 inquiry and push a term-limit law and a 'defendants' law' aimed squarely at Netanyahu.
Sgt. Gur Kehati died trying to save a 71-year-old researcher ambushed by Hezbollah operatives in 2024. Nearly two years later, his family says the military's response has left them unable to find peace at home.
