Israeli Politics

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

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

We must beware the modern-day Meir Kahane

By Miriam Shaviv

We must beware the modern-day Meir Kahane

3 min read

Israeli Politics

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

By Felix Pope

3 min read

BBC

Peer attacks BBC for 'glorifying terrorism'

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

3 min read

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

Iran

Israel must prepare for Iranian ‘thousand cuts’ war

By Seth J. Frantzman

3 min read

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)

Israeli Politics

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

By Jotam Confino

3 min read

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

Israeli Politics

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

By Anshel Pfeffer

5 min read

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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)

By Anshel Pfeffer

Islamic Jihad is decapitated... but wider war with Iran and its allies goes on

As a text was being sent to thousands of reservists on Saturday night, a guided missile was launched at a secret safe-house in Gaza City, killing PIJ leader Kahled Mansour and two of his deputies

6 min read

August 11, 2022 12:03

**FILE PHOTO** Portrait of Khaled Mansour pictured on December 12. 2021 , the senior commander in Saraya al-Quds, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** דיוקנו של חאלד מנצור , המפקד הבכיר בסראיה אל-קודס, הזרוע הצבאית של הג'יהאד האסלאמי, שנהרג בתקיפה אווירית ישראלית בעיר רפיח שבדרום רצועת עזה.

Liz Truss pledges to review moving UK embassy to Jerusalem if elected PM

Her promise comes in a letter issued today to members of Conservative Friends of Israel

By David Rose

2 min read

August 5, 2022 15:05

CARDIFF, WALES - AUGUST 03: UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss speaks during a Conservative party membership hustings at the All Nations Centre on August 3, 2022 in Cardiff, Wales. Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are holding hustings around the UK for Conservative party members as they vie to become their leader and the next UK Prime Minister. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

By Anshel Pfeffer

Russian roulette and the fight to be next PM: Sniping and Jewish Agency crisis

There was an interesting divergence of explanations on offer this week as to why the Russians are suddenly trying to shut down the Agency

5 min read

July 28, 2022 10:42

Israeli president Isaac Herzog at a conference at the President's House to mark Awareness Day for the Disappearance of Yemeni Children on June 21, 2022 in Jerusalem. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90

Israeli hero: How I saved Briton from terrorist

It was the second time in seven years that Meshi Ben Ami, 49, had confronted a terrorist

By Noga Tarnapolsky

4 min read

July 28, 2022 10:05

Israeli hero: How I saved Briton from terrorist

Hope is a Woman’s Name by Amal Elsana Alh’Jooj book review: A feminist’s battle for peace

This autobiography by the Israeli-born human rights activist powerfully conveys the inner life fuelling her achievements

By Amanda Hopkinson

1 min read

July 21, 2022 14:42

Hope is a Woman’s Name by Amal Elsana Alh’Jooj book review: A feminist’s battle for peace

Never Stop Dreaming TV review: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres - A starry homage to an Israeli political giant

With its outdated style this documentary could have been made decades ago but with a subject this fascinating - and interviews with Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Barbra Streisand - this is unmissable television

By Josh Howie

2 min read

July 21, 2022 14:33