How Benjamin Netanyahu won Israel’s election by not losing – and what comes next
Oops, he did it again. For seemingly the umpteenth time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defied the polls, the…
Israel’s last chance – Democracy and society
One of the most revealing controversies in the Israeli election campaign did not take place in a television…
Israelis are heading to the polls in their most seismic election in decades
Israel’s general election is being held on Tuesday, October 27, with the nation’s longest serving prime minister trying…
Israelis are angry, resilient, and ready to reject the West’s Oct. 7 narrative
This was, of course, a somber, heavy week in Israel, filled with agonizing and loving remembrances of the…
Israel Election 2026: Winter emerges as key right-wing spoiler for Benjamin Netanyahu
Senior figures in the opposition say that, according to the data available to them, there has still been…
Israel’s Right has judged everyone else. Now it must judge itself
Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Jews are supposed to conduct an accounting of the soul. The Israeli…
Slowly but surely, Israel’s right-wing is becoming the religious bloc
Something strange has been happening to the Israeli Right for decades. It keeps losing people and somehow stays…
Israel’s next political upheaval will come from the Right
Israel’s Right is conducting an experiment in political self-sabotage. On August 20, I argued that the Israeli Right…
Ofer Winter shakes up Israel’s Right, fueling Netanyahu’s election concerns
In the stunned aftermath of October 7, as the dimensions of the horror and the failure became known,…
Ofer Winter: I will only recommend Benjamin Netanyahu for PM
People of Israel party chairman Brig.-Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter said on Thursday that he would only recommend Benjamin…
Major right-wing shakeup: Winter enters race and Bezalel Smotrich falls below threshold
A Walla poll published Wednesday showed Ofer Winter’s newly formed Amcha Yisrael Party potentially securing six seats in…
What does ‘right-wing’ actually mean in Israeli politics anymore?
Something peculiar has happened to Israeli politics: almost everyone’s supposedly “right-wing.” Politicians who fervently oppose Prime Minister Benjamin…