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Israel weighs new fuel discount as gas hits yet another record

Smotrich seeks another 50-agorot cut after prices hit record 8.27 shekels per liter; officials warn tax relief could deepen fiscal strain

Calcalist, Gad Lior | 10.01.26

בצלאל סמוטריץ' מתארח בפודקאסט 120 ואחת של מורן אזולאי

Smotrich: Israel should ‘go to war’ in West Bank, ‘do what we did in Gaza’

Religious Zionist Party leader calls for dismantling Palestinian Authority and eliminating terror infrastructure; accepts ‘collective responsibility’ for Oct. 7, defends government’s wartime record and vows crackdown on illegal weapons and crime

Moran Azulay | 09.27.26

Eisenkot backs election ban for Arab party head who called Oct. 7 an ‘important historic event’

Yashar! says Sami Abu Shehadeh crossed the legal threshold by describing the Hamas attack as a ‘historic event’; Balad leader says he never supported the massacre, as Eisenkot also prepares to meet Avigdor Lieberman and challenges Smotrich’s AI campaign

Yuval Karni | 09.22.26

יובל אברהם ורחל שור במעמד הזכיה בפסטיבל ונציה

NAZA may be propaganda, but Israeli leaders helped sell its genocide narrative

Opinion: The documentary’s anonymous testimony and genocide framing deserve scrutiny, but Israel cannot ignore the damage caused by its own leaders, whose inflammatory rhetoric helped strengthen the very narrative the film now amplifies worldwide

Ben-Dror Yemini | 09.22.26

‘Coffers are empty’: Netanyahu seeks Lapid's backing as IDF budget crisis deepens

Opposition leader says he will back the spending increase only if Netanyahu scraps coalition allocations rather than raising taxes, as military officials warn delayed funds have already stalled procurement, cut reserve duty and threatened operational readiness

Moran Azulay | 09.14.26

Smotrich, Feiglin agree on joint election run in bid to clear Knesset threshold

Zehut leader Moshe Feiglin is set for No. 2 on Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism slate, though former general Ofer Winter could still be brought in above him

Moran Azulay | 09.01.26

Israel election 2026: the 8 battles still shaping party lists before deadline

With candidate lists closing in about 10 days, parties are still weighing mergers, defections and surprise recruits, from a possible Smotrich-Likud deal to Gantz’s future and whether Yoav Segalovitz joins Ra’am

Moran Azulay | 08.30.26

סמוטריץ' נואם לאחר קבלת תוצאות הרשימה לפריימריז

Smotrich hardens election rhetoric, vows to ‘Judaize’ Negev and Galilee and override officials

Finance minister proposes 40 new communities and 1 million additional Jewish residents, saying his party would take control of key land agencies and remove officials he calls ‘anti-Zionist’

Ilana Curiel, Yair Kraus | 08.27.26

How politicians keep dragging Israel from one diplomatic disaster to another

From calls to ‘erase’ Huwara and starve Gaza to Temple Mount visits, settlement expansion and incendiary videos, coalition figures have repeatedly drawn condemnation, sanctions and legal scrutiny as Israel’s standing abroad hits historic lows

Ron Crissy | 08.25.26

Israel is being pushed toward another intifada

Opinion: Smotrich’s E1 construction drive is less about expanding settlements than provoking an international clash and inflaming the West Bank ahead of Israel’s election

Ben-Dror Yemini | 08.23.26

מתוך הסרטון של בנימין נתניהו ובצלאל סמוטריץ'

Netanyahu’s spending spree leaves the next government facing austerity

Years of war spending, budget overruns and vast new defense commitments leave the next government facing tax hikes, canceled exemptions and billions more needed for health, education, welfare and infrastructure

Gad Lior | 08.23.26

Europe threatens action against Israel over E1 settlement plan

Britain, France, Germany and Italy demand Israel withdraw the 1,234-home tender; Smotrich rejects ‘dictates’ and sanctions threats

Itamar Eichner | 08.20.26

Kadim settlement reestablished as Israel rolls back 2005 northern West Bank disengagement

The move completes settlers’ return to Kadim, Ganim, Sa-Nur and Homesh as Smotrich warns a future government could reverse the expansion

Elisha Ben Kimon | 08.20.26

Families return to the evacuated West Bank settlement of Ganim 21 years later

Families from the original community moved into the northern Samaria settlement evacuated during the disengagement; Smotrich, who led efforts to legalize the return, hailed the move as 'erasing the disgrace of expulsion'

Idan Bloemhof | 08.13.26

כוחות צה"ל לצד מתנחלים מול בתי פלסטינים בכפר קוסרה

Jewish rioters in Qusra aim to deter future evacuations, no matter who runs next government

Opinion: As in the 2017 Amona evacuation, extremists are seeking to make enforcement so politically and operationally costly that future governments hesitate to reverse West Bank policy; the IDF’s delayed response appears to have convinced them the authorities would look the other way

Ron Ben-Yishai | 08.12.26

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