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Israeli Knesset members during the swearing-in ceremony for the new Israeli parliament the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. Abir Sultan/Pool via REUTERS

July 6, 2026, 4:38 pm

Israeli government set to ignore Supreme Court ruling in direct constitutional challenge

Critics describe the government as ignoring the law; government officials maintain that they will obey the law despite the Supreme Court's efforts to obfuscate it

By JN Reporter

Attendees wave flags at the Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance, 4 June, 2026. (Theia Chatelle)

June 5, 2026, 9:43 am

Jerusalem Pride march turns toward the Knesset as LGBTQ Israelis eye pivotal election

Opposition leader Yair Lapid spoke at the rally, which drew 10,000 participants and 2,000 police officers

By Theia Chatelle

November 28, 2025, 11:43 am

UK faces calls to resume Israel trade talks as Lapid meets Cooper and Powell in London

Lapid also urged the UK to lift all current restrictions on arms sales to Israel.

By Lee Harpin

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in a courtroom at the District Court in Tel Aviv, in the trial against him, Oct. 15, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/Pool/Flash90)

November 14, 2025, 12:08 pm

Trump formally requests pardon in Israeli legal system for Benjamin Netanyahu

Trump’s letter represents a once-unusual insertion of the White House in Israeli domestic politics

By Philissa Cramer (JTA)

Marching at Israel Day on Fifth, May 18th 2025, New York City. Pic: Twitter/X

September 25, 2025, 10:42 am

OPINION: Isolating Israel strengthens its current government via siege mentality

The Israeli Right has consistently used international hostility and double standards to defeat Progressive political opponents, presenting them as caving to outside pressure

By Dame Louise Ellman

September 16, 2025, 4:01 pm

Netanyahu admits Israel faces global ‘blockade’ as critics blame failed policy

PM says Qatar leading drive to isolate Israel, vows to build self-reliance in arms industry

By Annabel Sinclair

Protestors outside the home of the IDF Chief of Staff (Omdim Beyachad)

August 29, 2025, 10:31 am

Israeli police arrest protestors after paint stunt outside IDF Chief’s home

Protestors poured red paint outside the house of Brigadier General Eyal Zamir, to symbolise blood

By Daniel Sugarman

July 24, 2025, 3:33 pm

Israeli minister: ‘All of Gaza will be Jewish’ as resettlement plans resurface

Amichai Eliyahu says Gaza is being “erased” and claims Israel should not worry about hunger in the Strip

By Annabel Sinclair

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a news conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 via JTA)

April 3, 2025, 9:53 am

Naftali Bennett is back: Former Israeli prime minister signals another run at Netanyahu

Bennett, who was the last person to unseat the current prime minister, hopes to do so again.

By Ben Sales (JTA)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the media after arriving at 10 Downing Street in 2017

September 17, 2024, 9:07 am

Three-quarters of UK Jews disapprove of Netanyahu

New JPR survey gives gloomy view of situation in Israel as viewed from Britain

By Jenni Frazer

July 11, 2024, 5:12 pm

Is this the solution to ‘angry’ politics?

Centrist politics is the focus of an anthology of essays collated by British-Israeli political adviser Yair Zivan.

By Jenni Frazer

May 30, 2024, 11:07 am

Lihi Lapid’s new novel is a moving page turner about two families in crisis

The former 'first lady' of Israel started life as an outsider

By Jenni Frazer

Yair Lapid (Photo by Gili Yaari/NurPhoto/Sipa USA)

April 2, 2024, 11:28 am

Yair Lapid re-elected as Yesh Atid leader after close primary vote

Yesh Atid has been calling for new elections for months, but has dropped significantly in the polls since the outbreak of the war on October 7.

By Jotam Confino in Israel

December 20, 2023, 8:23 am

Poll: Netanyahu would lose an election by a landslide

Conducted by Channel 12, it shows Benny Gantz's party would increase from 12 to 37 seats and Likud would drop from 32 to just 18 seats.

By Jotam Confino in Israel

Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef.

October 2, 2023, 10:59 am

Israeli Chief Rabbi: Secular Jews are ‘miserable’, eating non-kosher food makes you ‘stupid’

'The only stupidity is that the secular public is financing and paying the salary of a backward person like you,' Yisrael Beitenu party leader Avigdor Lieberman fired back.

By Jotam Confino in Israel

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