1+ day, 51+ min ago   (1007+ words) What do we mean when we wish our friends, acquaintances, and passersby a shana tova (good year)? If we are speaking on the personal level, the answer is simple: we are speaking of good health, happiness, prosperity, a good education…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (686+ words) Five polls published after the Knesset candidate lists closed show a highly fragmented political landscape, with no clear advantage for either major bloc, Maariv reported on Sunday. The bloc picture also remained unclear. Two polls showed an exact tie between…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (21+ words) The move follows Ra’am, Hadash-Ta’al, and Balad running separately in the previous election and not signing an agreement on excess votes....

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (282+ words) The test is whether, a year from now, we will still recognize one another as partners in the same extraordinary enterprise: building and defending the Jewish state....

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1105+ words) Israel's two established haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ), are two of many vying for citizens’ votes in the elections for the 26th Knesset, which will be held on October 27. Shas was founded in 1984 as a Sephardi haredi…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (483+ words) In Israel’s most consequential institutional disputes of the past year, the same three names repeatedly appeared: Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara, Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, and his deputy, Noam Sohlberg. They do not always agree or come from the same judicial…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (574+ words) My immediate curiosity was straightforward: How would Israeli Jews vote in a hypothetical 2026 US national election, and how would American Jews vote in Israel’s October 2026 Knesset election?...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (654+ words) After two years away from political life, former prime minister Naftali Bennett has returned to the political arena and emerged as a leading candidate in the upcoming elections. Bennett, who chairs the B’Yachad party, is one of the leading figures…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (589+ words) Yashar Party leader and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot has emerged over the past 12 months as the leading opposition candidate seeking to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the October 27 election. Eisenkot stepped into politics at a…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (529+ words) On September 28, the third day of Sukkot, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will mark 19 years as Israel’s prime minister. By any measure, that is an astounding figure. It means that over Israel’s 78 and a half years of existence, Netanyahu has been…...