Analysis Netanyahu's Right Wing Rivals Could Band Together to Bring Him Down
If the two wannabe prime ministers had forged a common slate for the March 23 election, Bibi would be in real trouble right now
Yossi Verter
Analysis On the Israeli Left, Tussling Twins Are Locked in a Death Match
When Labor and Meretz compete over which one is more leftist, one of them is liable to find itself alone in Israel's March election
Analysis Kahane Won: Netanyahu Would Rather Team Up With Racists Than Risk One Seat
A party head with even a shred of shame, principles and self-respect would have announced that he’d rather risk losing a Knesset seat than cooperate with a gang of dangerous extremists
Analysis While His Consigliere Takes Aim at Court, Netanyahu Incites Supporters Ahead of Corruption Trial
For the last two years, Israel has been on hold, going through a long election campaign interrupted by temporary governments unpalatable to Netanyahu's taste for corruption with impunity
Analysis Israel's Election Campaign Begins With Netanyahu in Prime Position
We're used to seeing President Rivlin hand the mandate to Netanyahu to form a government, but this time we may encounter a scenario we've never experienced before
Analysis Former Justice Minister Leaves Tel Aviv Mayor's Sinking Ship at a Crucial Moment
Ron Huldai's party seems to self-destruct in a month's time, due to a few bad decisions and calculations. Might he eke out a couple of Knesset seats just the same, enough to pay back those expensive loans?
Analysis Israel's Center-left Has One Last Week to Come Together
Unless its small parties unite, their wasted votes will reelect Netanyahu
Analysis New Year, New Netanyahu: PM Aims for the Political Center in Latest Rebranding
With a crowded right, the PM is rediscovering decency, and silencing and sidelining the embarrassing members of his coterie. The maneuver, of course, is an illusion
AG Blocked Netanyahu's Attempt to Legalize Outposts Behind Gantz’s Back
The plan would have retroactively legalized 46 outposts, but Attorney General Mendelblit refused to consider it without a directive from Defense Minister Gantz
Analysis Peace Deals, Vaccinations and the Arab Vote: In First for Netanyahu, a Positive Campaign
In his frantic search for immunity, the premier puts incitement and fear-mongering aside ■ Meanwhile, he plays the puppet master with Bennett and Smotrich, but Yamina leader could yet prove the kingmaker
Analysis Netanyahu’s Overtures to Israel's Arabs Are Also Aimed at His Right-wing Voters
The premier's strategy - smart, it must be said - is not merely intended to scrounge up another vote, and leftists will certainly not be able to complain
Analysis First They Take the Capitol, Then We Take the Knesset
Israelis watch Trump insurrection aghast: Netanyahu supporters could do that here ■ In time of coronavirus, petty politics kills ■ Lapid deals blow to Netanyahu and Gantz
Analysis Gantz's Party May Not Make It to the Ballot Box Intact
At the moment, the main assets of Benny Gantz's party are its significant funding and a bit of kindly sympathy for its battered leader
Pollard's Post-prison Top-secret Photo-op: Personal PM Propaganda?
Government Press Office photographers were conspicuously missing from the spy Jonathan Pollard's reception in Israel. Who does it benefit to leave the event out of the official record?
Analysis The Slow Fraying of Gantz's Party Has Turned Into a Panicked Flight
Former TLV Mayor Huldai's new party steals Gantz's justice minister, and his thunder, as it aims to consolidate its position as a serious left-wing alternative to Netanyahu
Former IDF Chief Eisenkot Decides to Sit Out Upcoming Israeli Election
Meanwhile, justice minister who defected from Gantz's party to new slate with Tel Aviv mayor, resigns from government
Analysis Netanyahu, Gantz, Sa'ar and Bennett Battle It Out to Mark Their Territory
Sa'ar succeeds in disrupting Bennett's plans while cunningly dismantling Likud ■ Gantz and Kahol Lavan have totally lost their value ■ Netanyahu's pawn Elkin effectively demolishes the PM
Analysis Netanyahu Loyalist Indicts PM as Effectively as He Used to Defend Him
The seepage from Netanyahu's Likud to Gideon Sa’ar’s party is starting to look a lot like a split. For now, Bennett is pushed to the sidelines
Analysis Israel Is Being Dragged Into Elections Again, but This Time It's a Whole New Ballgame
Facing rivals who will be hard to paint as left-wing, Netanyahu looks to be heading into an election campaign with his worst starting numbers in months
Analysis Deal or No Deal, Gantz’s Surrender to Netanyahu Guarantees His Political Demise
Kahol Lavan members have felt that their leader is starting to deteriorate, and on Sunday they understood the dimensions of the humiliation and disgrace that Gantz has wrought upon them
'Odds of Averting Another Israeli Election Are 50/50, Will Be Decided on Sunday'
Negotiations to stop Knesset from dissolving are centered around the powers of the Justice Ministry and whether to grant Netanyahu's party veto on its decisions
Analysis The Sa'ar Effect: Netanyahu and Bennett Left Scrambling for New-old Strategies
Gantz will be delighted to see Netanyahu suffer defeat at the hands of the former Likudnik ■ Sa’ar throwing his hat into the ring left Naftali Bennett stripped of a strategy
Analysis Gideon Sa'ar Just Paid a High Price to Beat Netanyahu. It'll Be Worth It
Netanyahu's Residence tried to divert attention from lawmaker Yifat Shasha-Biton joining Gideon Sa'ar's party by naming a new police commissioner. It didn't work
Analysis The Master Plan: Clone Likud Without Bibi and His Sycophants
For several months the prime minister's rival has been secretly spinning his web. Each week more advisers, lawmakers, mayors, key activists joined the secret circle
Analysis Gideon Sa'ar Isn’t Looking to Join Netanyahu. He Aims to Succeed Him
In contrast to Bibi's sycophants, Sa’ar is a true Likudnik, perhaps the last one
Analysis Heading Into Another Election, Israeli Center-left Looks for a New Savior
As Kahol Lavan crumbles and Gantz rules out renewed partnership with Lapid, Netanyahu’s opponents are looking for another avenue for investment
Analysis Almost Everything He Said Was a Lie: Netanyahu's Speech Would Shatter a Lie Detector
Netanyahu and the alternate PM Gantz made an effort to hide their mutual loathing as they take another turn on the Israeli election merry-go-round, and they can't blame the coronavirus crisis anymore
The Israeli Left 'Has No Hunger for Power': General Turned Lawmaker Wants to Reinvent 'Small, Purist' Meretz
Yair Golan vows to 'silence and suppress' voices pushing to turn his party in a Jewish-Arab alliance: 'This could be the Israeli left’s big opportunity'
Analysis How Gantz Fell Victim to Netanyahu's Most Sophisticated Political Sting Operation Ever
The Knesset will dissolve, the budget won’t pass, and the country will sink into an economic abyss, because Netanyahu never meant to give Gantz his rotation
Analysis In His Darkest Hour, Netanyahu Is on the Road to His Greatest Victory
And he’s getting there with the help of Arab politician Mansour Abbas, who with his fondness for religious law has something in common with the Jewish far right