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Oct 28, 2026, 11:36 AM

My Two Shekels: Israel Needs to Move Beyond Bibi

Recently, I watched the animated film David⁠ with my daughter. She is two and a half, and we watched it in Hebrew to help strengthen her Hebrew. Some parts scared her. She had questions, and we took our time, finally...

Oct 27, 2026, 9:57 PM

Netanyahu wishes he were Israel’s Mahmoud Abbas

An AI-generated political illustration depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looking into a mirror and seeing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, with the Israeli and Palestinian flags displayed behind them, respectively.

There is a quiet irony buried in the politics of this region, and it surfaced again this week. As Israelis cast their ballots in the Knesset elections still underway, Benjamin Netanyahu is doing the one thing the most powerful...

Ryan Aviv Fagan

Oct 27, 2026, 7:49 PM

Hey Likud… if you lose that doesn’t mean it is fraud

Apparently, asking voters for another term is no longer enough. According to reporting published here in The Times of Israel today (Tuesday), senior Likud figures have discussed preparing a “stolen election” campaign if Benjamin Netanyahu loses. Because why bother...

Oct 25, 2026, 11:43 PM

Dan Illouz Interview: ‘About a million Israelis carry Morocco in their names’

Former Israeli Knesset member Dan Illouz, of Moroccan Jewish descent, pictured against a background featuring the flags of Morocco and Israel. (AI-edited image based on an original photograph by Sharon Hasson/Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.)

When Dan Illouz stood before an international gathering of parliamentarians in Marrakech in June 2023, his presence carried a significance that extended beyond the diplomatic rapprochement between Israel and Morocco. The Israeli lawmaker, born in Montreal to Moroccan Jewish...

Stephen M. Flatow

Oct 25, 2026, 10:41 AM

Who Says My Vote Is Wasted?

An oleh chadash discovers that casting an Israeli ballot requires political convictions—and a little electoral mathematics. I am about to vote in another Israeli election, and I have a confession to make. I still don’t completely understand how I am supposed...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 23, 2026, 8:18 AM

In a few days Israel holds its elections. I’m not one for hyperbole, but this promises/threatens to be the most fateful election in the country’s history. That’s not just me saying this: my academic colleagues (and numerous non-academic individuals...

Oct 20, 2026, 3:59 PM

It’s the final countdown

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Remember the days when the results of elections were a complete surprise? Remember waking up to find the polls had got it wrong and the results changed between midnight and 6:00 am the next day? Oh yeah. The last elections,...

Oct 20, 2026, 5:50 AM

Magal’s ‘Moroccan monkey’ is Netanyahu’s Israel speaking

AI-generated illustration of Israeli politician Gadi Eisenkot wearing a traditional Moroccan fez and djellaba, highlighting his Moroccan heritage.

On Saturday night, on the flagship panel show of the network that has spent years serving as Benjamin Netanyahu’s in-house megaphone, Yinon Magal looked into the camera and called Gadi Eisenkot a monkey. He did not misspeak. He repeated...

Richard H. Schwartz

Oct 15, 2026, 12:24 PM

A Win for Bibi – a Disaster for Israel

Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer contributed to this article. Another political victory for Benjamin Netanyahu would be a strategic defeat for Israel. By preserving his coalition with secular and religious parties on the far-right, Netanyahu risks further weakening Israeli democracy, undermining national...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 9, 2026, 1:31 AM

Israel’s Election Decision: Continue With Its Populist Paradox?

Although many people think that Israel is an unusual democracy, its evolution over the past few years has shown it following a path pioneered by several others. In a word (actually two), moving towards “illiberal democracy” in which formal...

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