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Menachem Rosensaft

Nov 5, 2026, 10:03 PM

A flickering light in an ever-darkening darkness

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove - Park Avenue Synagogue livestream

Ever since the passing of Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel in 2016 and the death of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks four years later, world Jewry has been without a clarion moral voice in the prophetic...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Nov 5, 2026, 12:40 AM

Liberman’s Moscow Pivot: Surviving U.S. Aid Cuts

President Donald Trump’s Election Day declaration that Washington will terminate roughly $4 billion in annual military assistance to Israel by year’s end—citing an earlier understanding with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—collides directly with a congressionally appropriated memorandum running through fiscal...

Nov 4, 2026, 9:05 PM

President Netanyahu the Unifier?

Here's another hare-brained suggestion on how a new government might be formed after Israel's October 2026 election. Let's cut to the chase. There are four possible routes to a governing coalition and only one is realistic. First option - the change bloc...

Nov 1, 2026, 3:20 PM

Israel At The Crossroads

The Five Horsemen - Eisenkot, Bennet, Golan, Lapid, and Lieberman (Chatgpt generated image)

If you believe that US President Donald Trump was robbed of the Nobel Peace Prize, stop reading. This is aimed at more measured, logical thinkers. Of course, during these unstable times, my thinking could change tomorrow with a surprise attack...

Oct 31, 2026, 6:12 PM

Knesset Calculus for Poets, by an American Jew

Dear Reader, Like most of you, I have spent the past few days adding to 61 - unsuccessfully. Despairing of the arithmetic, flummoxed by the strategy, and a bit fatigued by the speculation, I figured I could at least make...

Oct 30, 2026, 11:14 PM

Arab Inclusion in an Eisenkot Government?

Beyond the numbers A recent poll reported by the Jerusalem Post found that 61% of voters for Israel's four principal opposition parties support an Eisenkot-led government that includes the Arab party Ra'am. The survey, conducted on election night by Hebrew...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 30, 2026, 6:53 AM

Israel Moving Sharply Rightwards? It’s Been There For Decades

Were you surprised by Israel’s election results? You shouldn’t have been. And if you think that the returns are a reflection of burning domestic issues (cost of living, rampant crime in the Arab sector, haredi draft exemption, Court “Reform”),...

Oct 28, 2026, 8:25 PM

What Do You Take for a Hangover

Israel's election has exposed the cost of doing business in Israeli politics The aftermath of elections in Israel feels to me like a bad hangover. Or something worse. Before deciding whether to celebrate or sink into the pit of despair,...

Oct 28, 2026, 11:47 AM

A Presidency for Netanyahu? The Extraordinary Deal To Break The Deadlock

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to cast his ballot, alongside his wife Sara, at a polling station in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Pool Photo via AP)

With neither camp commanding a majority, could an unlikely bargain offer Netanyahu a dignified exit from the premiership - and give his opponents the government they seek? Israel has voted, but Israel has not decided. Record turnout of 77.7 percent...

Aug 26, 2026, 3:18 PM

Reclaiming the right: Why I left Likud and found my home in Yisrael Beytenu

MK Dan Illouz (L) stands with Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman after joining the party following his resignation from Likud, on August 5, 2026. (Yisrael Beytenu)

The current leadership protected cartels, stifled economic competition, allowed Haredi draft evasion, and did too little to truly win the war. That's no way to run a country

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