The 27 October elections in Israel—the first since the October 7 2023 attacks—could very well end in a disappointing impasse. Many observers (and…
Pete Reynolds
It has become a cliché in Israel to say the country is “stuck on October 7”: unable to move on to 8 October; unable to return to 6 October. Moving…
Yaniv Hayon arrived in Israel with blood on his white shirt and an incredible explanation for how he had helped steady a passenger jet: he watched…
Israeli politics are littered with the unaccomplished ambitions of former generals who thought they could turn military gravitas into political…
Israel’s Bar Lev Line was supposed to be unbreakable. The chain of fortified strongpoints running the length of the Suez Canal was built after the…
Israel’s political history is littered with the unaccomplished ambitions of former generals. In a country where the armed forces are held in the…
On 22 July 2026, the US Department of Energy announced that Washington and Riyadh had signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. It took the…
In late June, Israel’s government moved to formally recognise the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottomans, ending decades of official…
US President Donald Trump has now said out loud what had previously sounded like a trial balloon: he thinks Syria should take on Hezbollah in Lebanon…
The electronic ink was barely dry, and Israel already knew what it thought about the emerging agreement. "Bad deal," read the main headline of Yediot…
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No clear winner in Israeli polls
