Call it karma, as critics do, but Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched a war meant to bring down Iran’s government, and in the last two weeks voters in both countries have taken away the political room they had to keep fighting it. “The Iran war caused Republicans to lose Midterm after Democrats took both […]
JERUSALEM: Hours before Israelis vote, Benjamin Netanyahu is making an argument that sits awkwardly beside his most valuable campaign prop. “The strongest reason to re-elect him is his ability to resist American pressure, whoever occupies the White House,” the Israeli prime minister told The Jerusalem Post. Netanyahu spoke to the Post’s Zvika Klein and Amichai […]
TEL AVIV: Tens of thousands of Israelis packed Hostages Square on Saturday night and put one demand to Benjamin Netanyahu, which he has refused for three years: to set up an independent inquiry into October 7. The rally came three days before a general election that many view as a referendum on the prime minister. […]
Days before Israel votes on October 27, traders on Polymarket give Gadi Eisenkot a 50 per cent chance of becoming the next prime minister, while Benjamin Netanyahu is at 27 per cent and Naftali Bennett at 16 per cent. Indian users cannot follow those prices at the source as New Delhi blocked Polymarket in May, […]
When Israel is about to vote ahead of its parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced his commitment to “bringing down the terrorist regime in Iran” in a statement released by the office. A regime change has been discussed with US President Donald Trump more than once, but his response to it has not […]
Three years after the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, 2023, the human toll in Gaza continues to mount. The Palestinian death toll has reached 74,000, with 175,000 people wounded, according to the latest figures reported by the WAFA news agency. An estimated 1.7 million to 1.9 million people remain displaced from their homes, nearly […]
After a United Nations walkout and now a cockpit incident are shaping the final weeks ahead of voting in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party is once again placing national security at the heart of its campaign. On September 24 at the United Nations General Assembly, dozens of delegates walked out of the […]
A new documentary by Oscar-winning Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor exposing Israeli soldiers’ systematic killing in Gaza received a 25-minute ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere, surpassing the previous record set by The Voice of Hind Rajab, as Palestinian flags were unfurled at the venue. Yuval and Rachel directed the film, which […]
Israel has ordered the closure of the British consulate in East Jerusalem and barred 12 British nationals, mostly MPs, from entering the country, in retaliation for a sweeping new UK ban on goods imported from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. On 8th of September, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said in Parliament that […]
Two regions are grappling with a contaminated sea, and the price they’re paying is shaped by their governments’ choices. This week, that contamination reached Israel’s taps. The crisis that got Israel’s attention According to CNN’s reporting, five of Israel’s six major Mediterranean desalination plants together supply at least 65 per cent of the country’s drinking […]
