Only 15% of Israelis want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay in office after the war on Hamas in Gaza ends, though many more still support his strategy of crushing the terrorists in the Palestinian enclave, according to a poll published on Tuesday. Netanyahu promised to crush Hamas after its Oct. 7 rampage in … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu faces a new crisis, this time involving his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, and War Cabinet member, as well as one-time political rival, Benny Gantz. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org The prime minister is under increasing domestic pressure due to security and intelligence lapses on … Read more
The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a brief statement on Sunday reporting that the prime minister is in normal health and maintains a healthy lifestyle with a proper diet. The cardiac incident that Netanyahu suffered in July will be discussed separately, the statement said. The prime minister was hospitalized for heart issues and … Read more
Israel will allow ships from several European countries to deliver aid directly to war-torn Gaza, the country’s top diplomat said Sunday, as the Israeli military ramped up large-scale air attacks across central Gaza. Ships from countries including France, Greece, the Netherlands and the U.K. can “immediately” start shipping aid packages via a proposed sea corridor … Read more
The cabinet voted unanimously to sign an order to postpone the municipal elections until February 27 during a cabinet meeting on Sunday. The decision was made after a cabinet meeting last week where data from the IDF revealed that 688 candidates for 144 cities and towns were currently serving in reserves and couldn’t be … Read more
The official “readouts” describing conversations between world leaders are usually dry, information-deficient affairs, but the ones between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been telling a story of diverging views on Israel’s war in Gaza. Their most recent conversation, on Dec. 23, is an example: According to the Israeli readout, the … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Israel’s top politicians sense a possible near-term election. And in their preparation, they have started complicating Israel’s war on Hamas, making relations with the country’s key Western ally, the United States, more difficult. In fact, currently, … Read more
The Likud Party would only earn 16 seats if elections were held today, according to a poll published by Channel 13 on Thursday evening. The poll additionally found that Benny Gantz’s National Unity party would earn 38 seats and Yesh Atid would earn 15 seats. Additionally, Shas would earn nine seats, Otzma Yehudit and … Read more
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year. When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate … Read more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was shouted down as he addressed a special plenum session held at the Knesset on Monday in honor of the hostages still being held in Gaza and attended by the hostages’ families. Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana opened the special session, which was also attended by most of the government ministers, … Read more
