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אירוע הדגל השנתי של מועצת בנימין בירושלים

Likud backs Shas demand to pass draft law before forming next government

Likud spokesman Guy Levy says the party hopes to approve the controversial ultra-Orthodox draft law immediately after the election, before a new coalition is formally established

Shilo Freid, Moran Azulay | 08.27.26

Yair Netanyahu warns divided right could cost his father’s bloc the election

Yair Netanyahu enters election fray, pressing right-wing parties to unite behind his father

Prime minister’s son has spent days pressing Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and Ofer Winter’s party to unite, warning that votes lost below Israel’s electoral threshold could deny the right a parliamentary majority

Moran Azulay | 08.27.26

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

Gantz and Erdan discuss merger as both parties struggle below electoral threshold

Party leaders meet over a possible joint ticket, while Gantz is also in talks with former justice minister Ayelet Shaked; insiders say even a merger may not be enough to secure representation in the Knesset

Yuval Karni | 08.26.26

Down to the wire: Knesset election slates take shape as deadline nears

With less than two weeks to file candidate lists, parties are still juggling reserved slots, mergers, new recruits and survival around the electoral threshold

Moran Azulay, Yuval Karni, Einav Halabi | 08.26.26

Mansour Abbas says Israel’s Jewish identity was ‘imposed on us,’ accepted to run in elections

Ra’am leader says Arab parties accepted Israel’s Jewish character as a political reality, while reaffirming support for Palestinian statehood and the Nakba narrative

Einav Halabi | 08.26.26

Ex-IDF general Ofer Winter launches right-wing party: 'There is one solution in Gaza: migration'

Retired brigadier general unveils Amcha Israel party slate with Arab-Israeli advocate Yoseph Haddad as No. 2, pledges no Palestinian state and says he will seek a broad Zionist right-wing government

Amir Ettinger | 08.25.26

Israel’s leading PM contender Eisenkot forced to carry gun as Shin Bet denies full protection

Former IDF chief's camp says repeated requests for protection stalled despite specific threats; Shin Bet says intelligence does not justify assigning elite Unit 730

Nahum Barnea | 08.24.26

יהונתן פולארד הודיע בירושלים על תמיכתו והצטרפותו למפלגת “ישראל תחילה” בראשות ח”כ שרן השכל

Former spy Jonathan Pollard enters Israeli politics, joins Sharren Haskel’s Israel First party

Former US intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel says October 7 showed the country was ‘abandoned and betrayed’ and calls for new leadership

Moran Azulay | 08.23.26

And now Turkey: Netanyahu risks an eighth front in Israel’s forever war

Opinion: Public threats and political posturing are replacing quiet diplomacy, as Netanyahu’s government turns another manageable dispute into a dangerous confrontation and risks adding yet another crisis to Israel’s seemingly endless cycle of war

Shimon Shiffer | 08.23.26

‘We cannot be naive’: Yair Golan warns Netanyahu may exploit security crisis to disrupt election

Democrats chairman rules out a coalition with Likud or Haredi parties, says Arab party could help form next government and predicts Eisenkot is most likely next prime minister, with his party holding decisive role in choosing winner

Yuval Karni | 08.23.26

Trump’s coalition fractures as midterm reckoning looms

Approval falls to 33% as independents, Hispanics and moderate Republicans drift away, while the Iran war and cost of living threaten GOP control of Congress

Tal Amoday | 08.22.26

ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו מצביע בפריימריז לליכוד

Netanyahu’s survival politics risk turning Syria and Turkey into Israel’s next crisis

Opinion: Israelis deserve to know why a Turkish presence in Syria suddenly justified a major strike, and whether Netanyahu is managing a genuine strategic threat or once again turning national security into an election campaign

Sima Kadmon | 08.22.26

Trump envoy: Israel may have baited Turkey into clash that could 'play well' in election

Tom Barrack said US intelligence found no Turkish forces moving into the targeted base in Syria and warned that an Israel-Turkey miscalculation could spiral into a wider regional conflict

ynet | 08.22.26

Bennett, Lapid unveil election blueprint to overhaul Israel’s security and diplomacy

Bennett vows to strike Iran for Hezbollah fire and rewrite Gaza policy, while Lapid pledges to restore US ties and rebuild relations with Europe and Diaspora Jewry

Moran Azulay | 08.19.26

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