Arieh Kovler

Netanyahu’s speech to Congress won’t achieve much

25 July 2024 4:43 pm

Nearly ten months after Israel’s worst day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made history far away in Washington DC when he…

Why Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t want to serve

27 June 2024 7:03 pm

In the middle of a war, Israel’s government is wobbling. Not because of the policy failures that led to the…

Netanyahu’s strategy in Rafah isn’t working

29 May 2024 4:56 pm

On 7 April, six months after the October massacres in southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the public that…

Why Biden’s plan to sanction an IDF battalion could backfire

23 April 2024 12:26 am

The Biden administration is planning to announce sanctions against a part of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). On the one…

Netanyahu can’t ignore the scale of Iran’s attack

15 April 2024 12:40 am

Today was supposed to be the day we sent our kids back to nursery. For two weeks, my toddler and…

Israel has faced its darkest day for 50 years

8 October 2023 6:42 pm

While preparing to head out to synagogue to join the dancing and celebration for the Simchat Torah festival, the rocket…

Israel’s politics is collapsing

21 June 2022 6:40 pm

Here we go again. On Monday, Naftali Bennett, Israel’s Prime Minister, announced that he would bring a bill to dissolve…

Bye bye Bibi? The millionaire poised to be Israel’s next prime minister

5 June 2021 9:00 am

The nationalist millionaire poised to topple Netanyahu

Inside Israel's Iron Dome

15 May 2021 6:35 pm

A dramatic photo from the Gaza strip taken in the early hours of Friday morning looks like something out of a…

Don’t count Bibi out just yet

25 March 2021 4:49 am

Elections are supposed to settle things. That’s the idea, at least. Politicians argue, take decisions and pursue the policies they…