Senior rabbi Dov Landau told veteran lawmakers Moshe Gafni and Uri Maklev they would leave the Knesset to make way for new representatives. Gafni first entered the Knesset in 1988

Even if Hormuz reopens and U.S.-Iran tensions ease, the Houthis could sustain a second front in the Red Sea, threatening the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, disrupting routes to Saudi oil port Yanbu and increasing pressure on Riyadh

Religious and secular soldiers are asserting competing claims to freedom. The Israeli military needs a framework that protects both, without forcing either side to live by the other's beliefs

This election should reckon with October 7 and the devastation in Gaza and Lebanon. An election cycle that avoids important issues foreshadows what will happen once it's over

Cafe Basimta's Saturday closure is a warning: Netanyahu's years in power have emboldened Haredi autonomy, deepened Jerusalem's culture war, and fueled ignorance, racism and misogyny

After so many years under the leadership of a corrupt politician whose public life embodies a moral void, Israelis have stopped caring about universal moral terms

During the course of the trial, Netanyahu had gone from being an opposition leader to the country's most powerful defendant. If Netanyahu is reelected, he'll try to have the charges dropped. If not, he risks losing his biggest leverage