10+ hour, 17+ min ago   (836+ words) Hardly a day goes by without a major news item on either BBC, CNN, or The New York Times media sites condemning Israel for what they perceive as its destructive actions either in Gaza, Lebanon, or in Judea and Samaria....

12+ hour, 33+ min ago   (622+ words) Israel enters the Hebrew year with the past refusing to stay in the past. In less than a month, the country will mark three years since the October 7 massacre. A few weeks later, on October 27, Israelis will elect their next…...

1+ day, 4+ hour 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, 12+ 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, 8+ 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, 20+ 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…...

4+ day, 6+ min ago   (455+ words) In 5786, Israel Ganz fused fluent English advocacy in the United States with on-the-ground governance in Binyamin to keep sovereignty over Israeli-held parts of the West Bank squarely on the agenda. As head of Israel’s largest regional municipality and the movement’s…...

3+ day, 19+ 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?...

4+ day, 1+ min ago   (275+ words) There is no real job description for the president of Israel. It’s not a 9-5 profession. Nor can it be fully planned on a daily or weekly basis. There are always surprises that were not anticipated in advance. “I meet thousands of…...

3+ day, 23+ 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…...