Open Search form

Benny Gantz

Apply for a Blog

Nov 4, 2026, 9:37 PM

Most Israelis Vote for Someone Else, but Netanyahu Still Rules

Israel is rightly celebrated as a democracy. It is messy, contentious, and frequently dysfunctional, but in some respects, it offers voters more choices than the United States, where two parties monopolize political power. In Israel’s 2026 election, 34 parties...

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...

Oct 23, 2026, 8:28 AM

Our Constitutional Moment: From Crisis to Opportunity

Israeli governments have spent 78 years delaying difficult decisions about how power should be divided between the branches of government. After the judicial reform crisis of 2023, Naftali Bennett wants to finally settle those questions through a constitution. He...

Menachem Rosensaft

Sep 27, 2026, 4:20 AM

Netanyahu’s isolation at the UN: A wake-up call

Hold the presses. If you thought Benjamin Netanyahu's schizophrenically hyperactive cameo appearance at the UN General Assembly this past Thursday was nothing more than a desperate last-ditch attempt on his part to convince Israeli voters in the forthcoming Oct....

Joseph P. Rhinewine

Aug 26, 2026, 4:55 AM

Israel Won the Battles and Lost the Gaza War

Israel did not lose the Gaza war on the battlefield. The IDF killed much of Hamas’s senior command, dismantled organized military formations, destroyed large parts of the tunnel network, and seized strategically important ground. It made another October 7-style invasion...

Jonathan Shavit

Feb 16, 2026, 6:14 AM

Election year and the importance of the Arab Israeli vote

The opportunity for Israelis to exercise their democratic right is once again upon them. While Israeli society has shown in the past two years that it succeeds in coming together in the most wonderful ways, at the ballot box...

Jan 19, 2026, 2:58 PM

Benny Gantz and the fraternity of the nerds

'Sulking elevated to political strategy.' National Unity party leader Benny Gantz attends a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem, June 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

This kind of nerd seeks not dominance, but affection and approval – not in order to gain ideological representation, but to survive politically

Mihran Kalaydjian

Oct 25, 2025, 11:12 AM

Israel’s Future on the Ballot

Israel is approaching a defining election. The next Knesset vote will not simply determine who sits in the Prime Minister’s Office — it will decide whether Israel remains a cohesive, democratic, and forward-looking society, or continues to fracture under the...

Oct 13, 2025, 11:04 PM

Israel at a Crossroads?!

For decades, Israel has been accused of rejecting precisely planned for Gaza. Critics call it stubbornness. Supporters call it self-defense. The truth lies between those poles: Israel did not reject precisely plan because it feared coexistence; it rejected precisely...

Aug 25, 2025, 7:55 AM

Wouldn’t it be nice? The politics of consensus

Benny Gantz’s speech on Saturday evening — proposing a government of national agreement to expedite a hostage deal and pass a military draft law that would end exemptions for Haredim — was met with the predictable tsunami of political...

Load more