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Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid in 2017. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90

What does a Bennett-Lapid government mean?

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Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid and Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett announced on Wednesday that they have secured an agreement to form Israel’s next government, thereby likely ending the 12-year consecutive term of...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman on May 26, 2021. Credit: U.S. State Department photo by Ron Przysucha.

Jordan is ‘the eastern security zone against Iran’

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As the fallout from the latest Israeli conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip continues, Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz has spoken repeatedly in recent days of the need to strengthen a “coalition of...
Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid in the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem during voting in the presidential elections, June 2, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Lapid, Bennett announce agreement to form new government, likely ending Netanyahu’s 12-year tenure

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Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid has informed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin that he has succeeded in an agreement to form a new government, likely ending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year tenure as...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with newly appointed Mossad Director David Barnea (center) and outgoing Mossad chief Yossi Cohen (right). Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

New Mossad chief vows to stop Iran’s ‘dream’ of nuclear arms

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“Our security challenges are very great, and at the top of the list is Iran,” said incoming Mossad director David Barnea at his swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday. “We need to say it loudly and clearly:...

Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492-1900. By Simon Schama

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“SOMETIME, somewhere, between Africa and Hindustan, lay a river so Jewish it observed the Sabbath.” “Belonging”, the second volume of Simon Schama’s story of the Jews, begins with this pious waterway, and continues with...