Israeli Politics

New Jewish-Arab party set up ahead of Israeli elections

Likud confirms Netanyahu will run for re-election after Trump voices doubts

Israelis must head to the polls by October 27, with a tight race expected between the incumbent prime minister and the joint ticket of his predecessors, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid

Netanyahu condemns Charedi rioters over attack on Supreme Court justice's home

Striclty-Orthodox men smashed the windows of Judge Noam Sohlberg’s West Bank home while he and his wife and children were inside amid violent protests about the enforcement of conscription on yeshiva students

‘Trials of the modern Nazis’: Knesset establishes tribunal to prosecute October 7 terrorists

The law details how judges are to be selected, how trials are to be conducted and provides for an appeals process

Spiritual leader of Charedi faction orders MKs to take steps to dissolve Knesset

Rabbi Dov Lando indicated a final split with the Netanyahu coalition as he called on lawmakers to force early elections amid the long-running row over yeshiva conscription

Lag B’Omer chaos as Charedim break police blockade at Mount Meron

The latest unrest among the strictly-Orthodox community came after a disappointing IDF recruitment drive and continuing disputes over conscription from yeshivot

Smotrich claims forming government with Arab party was ‘greater calamity’ than October 7 failings

The finance minister suggested that politicians who went into coalition with the Ra’am party ‘sold the State of Israel to its enemies’

In a fast-changing political landscape, will this new party force Benjamin Netanyahu from office?

Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett join forces – but even after cancer treatment, premier who’s dominated Israel for decades pledges he is determined to stay in power

Bennett and Lapid join forces for upcoming elections

Two of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s leading rivals will unite under the banner of a new party, dubbed ‘Together’