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Nov 4, 2026, 1:01 PM

Netanyahu May Lose, But Not Power

Benjamin Netanyahu has defied expectations before, and Israel’s latest election may offer another opportunity for the veteran prime minister to outmaneuver his rivals. With the opposition seeking power, Arab parties gaining unprecedented influence, and President Donald Trump firmly in...

Nov 3, 2026, 2:17 AM

Don’t Boo. Vote.

An Election Day manifesto to My Black and Jewish brothers and sisters in America There comes a time in the life of a nation when its citizens must decide whether their convictions are worth more than their complaints, whether their...

Oct 31, 2026, 5:04 PM

What Just Happened and What Could Happen Next

It is 4 days after the Israeli elections and my head is still spinning at what turned out to be truly disappointing results of what seemed to have been an incredibly well executed campaign by the opposition vs. a...

Oct 28, 2026, 10:10 PM

Israel’s Ethnonationalist Crisis

A careful examination of the election results, which are now beginning to emerge, and of how they are interpreted can teach us not only about the nature of political discourse and the character of Israeli society, but above all...

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...

Stephen M. Flatow

Oct 28, 2026, 7:48 AM

They Flew Home to Vote. Now Comes the Harder Question

Whether expatriate Israelis changed the election may never be known. But their remarkable return exposed a question about citizenship that Israel should not forget once the votes are counted. Last week, as tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad prepared...

Oct 28, 2026, 2:48 AM

Israel Votes, Part III: The ballots are in. The answers aren’t

Israel's first election since October 7 has produced remarkable turnout, a divided Knesset, and an extraordinary question: Could Arab voters help determine who leads the Jewish state? Election-night reporting cutoff: Tuesday, October 27, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. New York time...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Oct 27, 2026, 1:18 AM

In Netanyahu’s Israel, Everyone Else Is the Left

Less than 24 hours before the polls opened, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a last-minute panic video aimed at residents of Judea and Samaria: “We are in danger, because the left is flying in its thousands from thousands of...

Oct 27, 2026, 12:04 AM

What Israel Just Learned About AI and Voting

Israel's Central Elections Committee put an exact number on honesty. Under rules published on July 26, any campaign material generated or materially altered by artificial intelligence that could pass for something genuinely recorded must carry a label covering at...

Oct 25, 2026, 11:24 PM

Radical Egalitarians Unite

"Come to your senses." Abdalla at Jaffa 2014. Photo courtesy of the author.

Dear reader, Unless you are Rumpelstiltskin in hibernation phase, you may have noticed lately that the political cybersphere is saturated with many varieties of disheartening rhetoric ahead of the elections in Israel/Palestine (where I live) and coming soon in the...

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