2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (212+ words) The Oct. 27 Israeli election will be a referendum on the record of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But according to JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum, voters will also be registering their verdict on whether they believe the promises of his…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (309+ words) Israel’s temporary chargé d’affaires for relations with Turkey presented his credentials at the Foreign Ministry in Ankara on Wednesday. The visit by Ambassador to Moldova and Armenia Joel Lion, which the Israeli Foreign announced laconically on Thursday, was the first…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (959+ words) Senior officials in the Fatah movement say that, at this stage, the most likely scenario is that Palestinian Authority (P.A.) leader Mahmoud Abbas will opt to postpone the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council. The elections matter to him, but he…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (734+ words) A Place Among the Nations, the landmark book published by Benjamin Netanyahu in 1993, opens with something deeply characteristic of its author: a historical story. The first chapter begins with Theodor Herzl’s pivotal 1895 meeting in Paris with his friend Max Nordau....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (520+ words) Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and other P.A. officials have exerted pressure on three Arab-Israeli political parties to unite in a technical bloc ahead of the upcoming Knesset elections to prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming the next government, Israel’s…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (654+ words) In the elections for the 13th Knesset in 1992, there was a feeling on the Israeli right that the Likud Party needed shoring up and there were surely more than enough voters who agreed with this view. To a certain extent, this…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (990+ words) I had the privilege of making aliyah about two years ago, my decision largely prompted by the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Like so many Jews in the Diaspora, I watched what was happening and felt that whatever…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (531+ words) In six weeks, Israelis will go to the polls to elect a new government. They will be doing so for the first time since the Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7, 2023, brutally transformed the political landscape for both Israelis and the increasingly…...