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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud Party event in Lod, Israel, on Feb. 11, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Netanyahu builds momentum in final days of third campaign

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After 11 years of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, many Israelis have claimed that they are tired of Benjamin Netanyahu. Or are they? Just days before a third round of national polls in less than...
View of an election campaign billboards showing Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White head Benny Gantz, in Tel Aviv on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Final polling shows Likud, Blue and White tied with slight edge to right-wing bloc

With elections mere days away the last Israel Hayom-i24 News poll before Israelis go to the ballot box projects a dead heat between ruling party Likud, and challenger Blue and White, but says that overall, the...
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz holds a press conference at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat Gan on Feb. 26, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Gantz accuses Netanyahu of ‘poisoning’ Israel, fostering ‘culture of crime’

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With Israel’s elections just days away, Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz on Wednesday slammed the door on a future unity deal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and launched a...

Stalemate continues among Netanyahu, Gantz, Lieberman

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Power and paranoia seem to go together. The more you have of the former, the more are you likely to be burdened by the latter. Biographers of Stalin, for example, when describing his ruthless...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Conference of Heads of Local Authorities, in Kiryat Anavim, near Jerusalem, on Feb. 26, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu: ‘We’re only two seats away from a strong right-wing government’

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Just days away from Israel’s third general election in under 12 months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was optimistic on Wednesday as he addressed a conference of regional council leaders. “We are only two seats...
Tevel students outside the Israeli Knesset with Alon Sternberg, far left, the program's director. Photo by Or Tsfati.

Israeli teens learn public diplomacy skills to serve as ambassadors abroad

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Itay Green, 16, wants to improve the way Israel is perceived by people outside the country. When traveling with his family to visit British relatives in London or even to the United States, the Tel...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 17th annual Jerusalem Conference of the “Besheva” group on Feb. 25, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Polls, Gaza, Netanyahu and Gantz

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During live coverage of the bombardment of southern Israel by Islamic Jihad rocket fire on Monday, a Red Alert siren sent a TV reporter—along with a local shop owner whom he was interviewing and other people...
Election campaign posters in Tel Aviv depict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, as well as the leaders of the Blue and White Party, including Benny Gantz, second from left, Sept. 2019. Photo by Adam Shuldman/Flash90.

For first time in round three of elections, Netanyahu pushes past Gantz in polls

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Were Israeli elections to be held today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party would secure 33 Knesset seats, giving the ruling party a slight edge over challenger Blue and White, projected to win...
View of an election campaign billboards showing Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White head Benny Gantz, in Tel Aviv on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

For third time in row, Netanyahu and Gantz race towards an inconclusive finish line

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Israel has entered the home stretch of its third election within a year, and with polls showing some possible shifts in public opinion, the parties have begun their last-ditch efforts to gain votes. Blue and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on Feb. 16, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Blue and White won’t follow through on Trump peace plan

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said over the weekend that his Likud Party’s main rival, Blue and White, would not follow through on the U.S. “Peace to Prosperity” plan if it wins Israel’s March...