Netanyahu thinks he’s Churchill, Israelis see Chamberlain
Aleading member of Israel’s wartime cabinet has threatened to resign should Benjamin Netanyahu fail to present a strategy for ending…
The Israeli-Hamas negotiations are fraught with complexity
Jerusalem For weeks the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had been preparing for an assault on Rafah. Yet when the order…
Joe Biden is running out of time in the Middle East
Jerusalem The idea of a Saudi-Israel rapprochement would have been unthinkable not so long ago, and yet, shortly before the…
Permanent stalemate in Gaza suits Netanyahu
Jerusalem After midnight on Thursday is dead-time for the Israeli media. The weekend editions have gone to print (newspapers don’t…
Can Israel keep the West on side?
Jerusalem On 7 October, Israeli security officials were already questioning how long they would be allowed to fight in Gaza.…
Benjamin Netanyahu is increasingly seen as Israel’s curse
Jerusalem On Tuesday, I was driving down to an Israeli army headquarters on the border with Gaza as…
Netanyahu has failed Israel
Jerusalem Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza is rapidly evolving into a war with all of Iran’s proxies…
War at close quarters: a report from the Kfar Aza kibbutz
A report from the Kfar Aza kibbutz
The increasing irrelevance of Benjamin Netanyahu
The increasing irrelevance of Israel’s PM
Bibi’s big mistake
Jerusalem As 100,000 Israelis gathered outside Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, on Monday, to protest against Binyamin Netanyahu’s government’s…
It looks like Bibi is back from the dead
Could it really be over? As Israeli political reporters stand before their cameras or hunch over their keyboards, their brains…
The odd couple: Israel and Turkey’s tentative alliance
Israel and Turkey’s tentative alliance
Is a return to power in Netanyahu’s grasp?
Is a return to power in Netanyahu’s grasp?
How Israel's Prime Minister got burnt by bread
Jerusalem For nearly ten months now, ever since his surprising elevation to the Israeli prime minister’s office, Naftali Bennett has…
Israel’s Arab-Sunni alliance is piling pressure on Iran
The world’s eyes are, naturally, all on Ukraine. But elsewhere in Europe, diplomats are locked in a series of talks…
Can a third dose of vaccine stave off Israel’s fourth wave?
Is Israel facing a fourth wave?
Palestinians in Jerusalem live in a strange limbo
Jerusalem Thomas Friedman has a lot to answer for. The New York Times’s oracle has ruined, through overuse in his…
In Israel, vaccine passports are already redundant
Vaccine passports are already redundant in Israel
How Netanyahu exploits Israel’s vaccine success
The vaccine has arrived at just the right time for the Israeli PM
