Israeli Politics

Lapid tries to charm the world as West Bank burns

While the PM talked of a two-state solution at the UN, an Israeli raid on Jenin on Tuesday, in which at least four Palestinian militants were killed, was a reminder that Operation Breakwater is still ongoing

By Anshel Pfeffer

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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - MAY 06: Yesh Atid Party leader, Yair Lapid, speaks at a press conference on May 6, 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin asked Lapid to form a new Israeli government after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form a new government. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 22: Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid gives a speech during the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at U.N. headquarters on September 22, 2022 in New York City. After two years of holding the session virtually or in a hybrid format, 157 heads of state and representatives of government are expected to attend the General Assembly in person. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

By Dominic Green

Lapid came to America — and nobody noticed

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Head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu attends Kikar HaShabbat conference at the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** בחירות 2022 מפלגת הליכוד בנימין נתניהו ביבי נתניהו ראש מפלגת הליכוד בנימין נתניהו נואם בכנס "כיכר השבת" בוולדורף אסטוריה ירושלים

By Anshel Pfeffer

Israelis may miss their unremarkable year, with so many crises now arriving

5 min read

12th July 1967: General Chaim Herzog, the first military governor of the West Bank of Jordan, arriving at London Airport. (Photo by J. Wilds/Keystone/Getty Images)

UK-Israel relations

Clarence House changed the mood in Israel

By Anshel Pfeffer

5 min read

PORTRAIT OF PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN. פורטרט, ראש הממשלה יצחק רבין.

Books

Book review: Maror - The bitter taste of Israel’s inky heart of darkness

By Jenni Frazer

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TEHRAN, IRAN - DECEMBER 15: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a sermon at Tehran University's weekly Friday prayers 15 December 2000, with a portrait of his predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the background. Khamenei described in his sermon Israel as a "cancerous tumor" that should be eradicated, as fresh violence erupted in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, leaving five more Palestinians dead. (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran nuclear program

Is Iran happy with 'zombie' nuclear deal ?

By Anshel Pfeffer

4 min read

The winds of change are favourable to Israel

By Yoni Birnbaum

The winds of change are favourable to Israel

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Israel's president pays tribute to the Queen in British embassy in Israel

The Queen met Isaac Herzog's father Chaim in 1993

By JC Reporter

1 min read

September 12, 2022 08:44

Israel's president pays tribute to the Queen in British embassy in Israel

The Palestinian Authority is dead. Long live... what?

In a landmark essay to conclude his three-part special report, Investigations Editor David Rose asks what awaits the West Bank after Abbas

By David Rose

5 min read

September 8, 2022 14:17

The Palestinian Authority is dead. Long live... what?

By Miriam Shaviv

We must beware the modern-day Meir Kahane

Itamar Ben-Gvir is the heir to the extremist’s dark legacy, and is dangerously close to power

3 min read

September 5, 2022 10:57

We must beware the modern-day Meir Kahane

The ‘Brit Pack’ at the heart of power in Israel

Young, energetic advisers and spokespeople born in Britain are flying high at the very top of the Israeli establishment

By Felix Pope

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September 1, 2022 13:54

The ‘Brit Pack’ at the heart of power in Israel

Peer attacks BBC for 'glorifying terrorism'

Abdel Bari Atwan appeared to express sympathy for the Rushdie assailant’s extremism on the BBC News Channel

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

3 min read

September 1, 2022 13:40

Peer attacks BBC for 'glorifying terrorism'

Israel must prepare for Iranian ‘thousand cuts’ war

'Resistance' entails mobilising proxy forces such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah

By Seth J. Frantzman

3 min read

August 25, 2022 11:50

Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on July 24, 2022. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL ***POOL PICTURE, EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES, PLEASE CREDIT THE PHOTOGRAPHER AS WRITTEN - MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/POOL*** *** Local Caption *** ישיבת ממשלה ראש הממשלה יעיר לפיד פגישה קבינט

Former Mossad chief says Israel’s worst threats come from 'within'

Efraim Halevy says that the country’s policies on conversion to Judaism and immigration pose bigger dangers than Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah

By Jotam Confino

3 min read

August 25, 2022 10:55

Efraim Halevy, former director of Israeli intelligence service the "Mossad" poses for a photograph in Amsterdam on December 2, 2015. - Halevy is in the Netherlands on the invitation of th Centre of Documentary and Information of Israel (CIDI)for commemorations marking the 20th year since the death of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin. (Photo by Remko de Waal / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by REMKO DE WAAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Will new kid on the block Eisenkot rise to the top of the political tree?

Every former chief of staff is hot political property but Mr Eisenkot's also that rare candidate who can appeal to more right-leaning predominantly Mizrahi voters

By Anshel Pfeffer

5 min read

August 19, 2022 11:11

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkott speaks at a conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on January 02, 2018. Photo by FLASH90 *** Local Caption *** תמונות של הרמטכל אייזנקוט ואהרון ברק בכנס צה"ל והחברה הישראלית שהתקיים במרכז הבינתחומי בהרצליה

Iran ordered terror attacks in Israel ‘as revenge for sabotage of its nuclear sites’

Former top IDF official Brigadier General Amir Avivi says Tehran has realised that the best way it can retaliate is via militias such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and PIJ in Gaza and the West Bank

By Georgia L Gilholy

2 min read

August 18, 2022 11:07

Israeli security inspect a bus after an attack outside Jerusalem's Old City, August 14, 2022. - Israeli police said they had arrested a suspect in a pre-dawn gun attack on a bus in central Jerusalem that wounded eight people according to an updated casualty toll. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Israeli Politics

Lapid tries to charm the world as West Bank burns

Lapid came to America — and nobody noticed

Israelis may miss their unremarkable year, with so many crises now arriving

Clarence House changed the mood in Israel

Book review: Maror - The bitter taste of Israel’s inky heart of darkness

Is Iran happy with 'zombie' nuclear deal ?

The winds of change are favourable to Israel

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