IsraelCharedi party announces female Knesset candidate for first time in Israel’s historyDr Nechumi Yaffe, a researcher at Tel Aviv University, will stand for Moti Leitner’s new party, the Charedi PublicBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
Itamar Ben-GvirBen-Gvir pulls down video taunting female Palestinian prisoners after electoral committee appealFaced with claims that inmates had not been allowed to bathe or change their underwear, the national security minister said he was ‘proud’ to have ‘reduced the terrorists’ prison conditions to the bare minimum’By Jacob Jaffa1 min read
Israeli PoliticsEx-IDF general Ofer Winter says new party will only back Netanyahu for prime minister after electionThe People of Israel leader also reiterated his call for ‘voluntary emigration from Gaza’ and Charedi conscriptionBy Lucy Pollock2 min read
Israeli PoliticsFormer IDF general Ofer Winter launches new right-wing party for 2026 electionsWinter, who unveiled Arab-Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad and former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum as candidates, used the launch event to call for the ‘emigration’ of PalestiniansBy Melanie Swan1 min read
ShasStrictly-Orthodox Shas party ordered to remove election ad featuring IDF soldierThe party was accused of breaking rules banning the use of images of security service personnel in campaign materialsBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
Israeli PoliticsConvicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to stand in 2026 Knesset electionPollard, who passed US state secrets to Israel in the 1980s, has previously supported the ‘forcible transfer’ of people from Gaza but is running for a centre-right partyBy John Jeffay1 min read
Israeli PoliticsFormer Sephardi Chief Rabbi given greater control over Shas party after ‘reconciliation’ with leaderYitzhak Yosef and Aryeh Deri reportedly ‘ironed out their differences’ during a meeting, after which the rabbi appeared to soften his public stance on Charedi conscriptionBy Jacob Jaffa2 min read
Israeli electionsNetanyahu ‘very pleased’ as Eli Cohen, Amir Ohana and Yariv Levin top Likud Party primaryBenjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party has selected candidates to fight in the October 27 electionBy JC Reporter1 min read
Israeli PoliticsArab-Israeli Ra’am party set to field first Jewish candidate as Segalowitz departs Yesh AtidThe former senior police officer is reportedly being lined up to replace National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir should the opposition win October’s electionBy Gabrielle Apfel1 min read
IsraelFormer Likud ministers to form breakaway right-wing partyGilad Erdan and Yuli Edelstein are expected to place Charedi conscription at the centre of their policy agendaBy Gabrielle Apfel2 min read
Israeli electionsBennett-Lapid party running majority female election slate as four new candidates addedBeyachad, which was formed earlier this year by the merger of the two former prime ministers’ respective factions, is aiming to lead the next government if the opposition succeeds in unseating Benjamin Netanyahu in OctoberBy Gabrielle Apfel1 min read
IsraelBennett: Israel will label Qatar an ‘enemy state’ if I win electionsThe former prime minister also stated his intention to ‘do everything possible to force the fall of the Iranian regime’By Gabrielle Apfel1 min read
IsraelNetanyahu expands control over Likud election slateThe Democrats have also launched their campaign, while Religious Zionism has confirmed the results of its candidate primariesBy Jacob Jaffa2 min read
IsraelNetanyahu calls for ‘national unity’ ahead of elections in Tisha B’av messageThe Israeli leader invoked the festival story, saying the nation had ‘prevented the destruction of the Third Temple’ in the war against IranBy JC Reporter2 min read
October 7No October 7 inquiry before elections, Israeli government tells High CourtOpposition politicians and bereaved families have accused Prime Minister Netanyahu of trying to ‘whitewash’ state failings in the lead up to the Hamas atrocityBy Jacob Jaffa2 min read
By Ashley PerryHow the Bennett-Lapid alliance may lose the Israeli elections – and yet winPolitical pacts may weaken individual parties, blur ideological lines, and disappoint at the ballot box, yet still reshape the political map in ways that determine who governs4 min read
