Israel Election: Polls Show Steep Labor Fall After Livni's Unceremonious Dismissal

According to new polls, Likud stays firm while center-left block takes a dive ■ Lawmakers divided after Labor leader Avi Gabbay's shocking move

Opinion The Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Why are secular Jews in Israel prepared to believe in Benny Gantz, but not in God, and why are religious Jews prepared to position him alongside the original God?

Editorial Zionist Union Split Can Only Hurt the Israeli Opposition

Avi Gabbay and the rest of the center-left must eschew self-promotion and focus on replacing Netanyahu, united behind whoever is most likely to win

Israeli Labor Party Sets ‘Late’ February 12 Primary, Drawing Criticism From Ranks

Critics say party chief Avi Gabbay hopes to keep candidates busy so they won't criticize him

Former Israeli Army Chief Shuns Center-left in Plan to Form Own Party for Elections

Benny Gantz rules out the brand 'left' in any guise, eschewing both Zionist Union and Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid, but not rejecting notion of running with people outside established parties, such as fellow former IDF chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon

Zionist Union Backtracks, to Support Scrapping Contentious Nation-state Law

The move comes hours after the party said it would back an amended version of law

Opinion Israel’s Opposition Is So Depressing

The opposition had the opportunity to create a formative moment that would lead to change. Instead, it backed down and continues to disintegrate

Opinion Israel’s Leaderless Left Turns to Netanyahu

Dear friends, if you’re bored, start building your own leadership and gather round it instead of stealing other leaders. Bibi is not a friend. He’s already taken

Bill Limiting Displays of Tobacco Products Passes First Hurdle

The next conflict is expected to be over cigarette packaging. The bill calls for uniform packaging without logos or pictures

Activists Put Up Protest Statue After Police Recommend Charging Netanyahu Confidant, Former Officials

A message written on the submarine statue reads 'With Bibi - the state is sinking' ■ Police recommend indicting six people for alleged involvement in the so-called submarine affair

Israeli Justice Minister Muzzles Official in Clash Over ‘Cultural-loyalty Bill’

Ayelet Shaked says Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber will no longer be able to represent the ministry in the Knesset, where she should be 'running for political office'

Israeli Left-wing Party Meretz Fumes as It’s Left Off Initial List of Rabin Rally Speakers

'Memory can’t be bought with money. Neither can peace,' the party said in a statement

Analysis Netanyahu Makes Rare Campaign Blunder – in the Heart of Likud Country

Netanyahu picked on a ‘Likud from birth’ catcaller, who complained about the closing of an emergency room in her town, which he continued to harp on even after

Israeli Labor Leader Discusses Two-state Solution With Jordanian King

Avi Gabbay told King Abdullah that two-state solution is 'the best way to bring peace and long-term security to Israel'

Opinion Ehud Barak Is Not Good Enough

Ehud Barak would not be welcomed as a leader of the left, which demands perfection of its leaders and likes them unblemished or dead

Opinion Left, Right - What’s the Difference?

Arab MKs have always sat in the opposition, but theirs is a simulated opposition, and will never be a real part of Israel’s democracy. This is an ostracized opposition – even the 'left' isn’t ready to count it

Letters to the Editor: Likud 2.0, Ireland, and Corbyn

Opinion Israel Needs a New Jewish-Arab Party

When Hadash joined Joint List, many voters were left 'politically homeless.' And Meretz, which has just one Arab MK and whose head is willing to join a coalition with Lieberman, isn't the answer

Opinion Israel’s Left Has Only Itself to Blame

It needs to emulate Emile Zola, Jean Jaurès and Georges Clemenceau, without whom Dreyfus would have rotted away on Devil’s Island to the cheers of the great majority of France

Opinion There's a Reason the Opposition Didn't Attend the Nation-state Protest

We believe Israel must be both a Jewish and a democratic state, and I cannot support any formulation that gives priority to either of these values at the expense of the other

Opinion What Sort of Equality Do You Mean?

Would Livni and Gabbay agree to change the national anthem or the flag in the name of equality?

Tzipi Livni to Haaretz: Next Israeli Election Will Be Referendum on the Declaration of Independence

The Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly in Israel should be broken, Diaspora Jews should speak out about the Western Wall deal and Jewish activists should not be turned away from the country’s borders, says Israel's new opposition leader

Israeli Politicians Explain Why They Shunned Nation-state Protest

Few Jewish lawmakers attend Arab-led demonstration, while culture minister says march proves 'cooperation between left and Israeli Arabs who want another country'

Activists Removed From Knesset for Waving Declaration of Independence in Nation-state Law Debate

Knesset speaker calls opposition leader Livni's speech 'a disgrace'

Editorial The Left Stops Apologizing

In new opposition leader Tzipi Livni, the left has someone who stresses how the right is making Israel a state based on Jewish law, annexing the territories, silencing people and detaining activists

Opinion Israel's Resigning Arab Legislator Is Right and Wrong at the Same Time

Zouheir Bahloul should retract his resignation and keep making life difficult for the rightists in Zionist Union

Opinion To Counter Netanyahu’s Jewish Chauvinism, Zionist Union Should Change Its Name to Israeli Union

The party must fight for Israeliness, not because it is hostile to the Jewish State but in an emergency effort to save it

New Polls Show This Former General Could Be Netanyahu's Biggest Threat

If former-IDF chief Gantz was to take over Israel's main left-wing party it would boost its support, poll says

Opinion Livni Is Bibi in a Dress

If the Labor movement is at a stage where it’s at the mercy of a Jabotinsky heiress, maybe it would be better to cut her loose