Israel

Why I don’t trust the BBC’s Trusted News Initiative

28 October 2023 9:00 am

You almost certainly haven’t heard of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), although you probably should have. It’s a BBC-led consortium…

Homer’s take on theology

28 October 2023 9:00 am

No one should trust the camera in the age of AI

28 October 2023 9:00 am

Bryan Appleyard on photographic manipulation, past and present

Europe needs to step up on Ukraine

21 October 2023 9:00 am

Vasyl, a burly, tattooed infantry commander who lost a leg to a Russian mine on the eastern front, sits swinging…

Ukraine’s fight has been eclipsed by the ‘Other War’

21 October 2023 9:00 am

The first indication that this was a literary festival like no other came with the request to provide ‘proof of…

Keep your politics à la carte

21 October 2023 9:00 am

It’s a truism that the Anglosphere has developed a ‘tribalism’ that rivals the divisions between the Kikuyu and Luhya in…

Joe Biden’s Middle East diplomacy is a wreck

19 October 2023 12:44 am

Joe Biden prides himself on his decades of foreign-policy experience, his ability to talk tough yet be kind, and his…

An Israeli ground assault would be devastating for Gaza

15 October 2023 12:03 am

On a patch of scrubland outside the Zikim kibbutz earlier this week, I came across a platoon of Merkava 4…

Portrait of the week

14 October 2023 9:00 am

What Iran gains from the conflict in Israel

14 October 2023 9:00 am

What Iran gains from provoking Israel

Five of the worst responses to the Hamas attacks on Israel

8 October 2023 10:49 pm

Tragedies are often the moment when statesmen are at their best. Unfortunately, as we’ve seen from the response to yesterday’s…

Is Israelophobia the latest form of anti-Semitism?

30 September 2023 9:00 am

The demonisation of the state of Israel is basically an anti-Semitic mutation ‘evolving out of reach’, argues Jake Wallis Simons, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle

Violence in the Valley

12 August 2023 9:00 am

When a man with a machete infiltrates a local synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, the peace of one the ‘greenest, quietest, safest’ places in America is shattered

The increasing irrelevance of Benjamin Netanyahu

5 August 2023 9:00 am

The increasing irrelevance of Israel’s PM

Netanyahu’s war on lawyers has thrown Israel into turmoil

27 March 2023 11:28 pm

Chaos reigns in Israel, a country in the throes of an ad hoc general strike called by trade unions, university…

A Third Intifada looms in Israel

31 January 2023 1:42 am

Peace has never seemed further away for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Several dreadful incidents recently have made that…

It looks like Bibi is back from the dead

2 November 2022 7:40 pm

Could it really be over? As Israeli political reporters stand before their cameras or hunch over their keyboards, their brains…

Sunak should acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

29 October 2022 2:45 am

When Liz Truss’s premiership came to an abrupt end, it appeared to spell doom for a historic policy shift raised…

The agony and frustration of reporting from the Middle East

1 October 2022 9:00 am

For 25 years, Abed Takkoush assisted foreign reporters like Jeremy Bowen when they arrived to cover the chaos and conflicts…

Can Israelis trust the UN?

18 August 2022 1:46 am

You probably think you’ve heard every story there is to hear about people getting fired over their tweets. Well, here’s…

Are the Abraham Accords working?

27 June 2022 11:25 pm

Two years ago, UAE citizens were barred from entering Israel. No longer. The inaugural Emirates flight touched down in Tel…

The odd couple: Israel and Turkey’s tentative alliance

25 June 2022 9:00 am

Israel and Turkey’s tentative alliance

Is a return to power in Netanyahu’s grasp?

11 June 2022 9:00 am

Is a return to power in Netanyahu’s grasp?