Israel’s election campaign may produce a new centrist party. Can Netanyahu win a majority this time?
With one exception, the campaign for the Nov. 1 vote kicked off this week with the same two embattled blocs
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Naftali Bennett
PM Bennet quits politics, passes Yamina party lead to Shaked
After exactly one year and 17 days as prime minister, Naftali Bennett on Wednesday, June 29, announced he was retiring
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Israel’s government falls over internal defections. National election on Oct. 25
In a farewell speech, PM Naftali Bennett handed over the caretaker premiership to his partner. Alternate PM Yair Lapid on
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Arab Raam party seizes on reporter’s death to commandeer Israel’s war on terror
Minutes after the shooting death in Jenin of Al Jazeera correspondent Shirin Abu Aqleh, 51, on Wednesday, May 11, the
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Zelensky’s Knesset speech offered no clear endgame. Could Ukraine conflict trigger World War III?
The speech Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered by Zoom to Israel’s parliament on Sunday, March 3, left the impression that
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Bennett: Mandatory quarantine cut to 7 days amid surging Covid figures
Nearly 40,000 tested positive for Covid-19 in Israel on Tuesday, Jan. 11 although the real figure is closer to 100,000.
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Bennett: Israel not bound by any new nuclear deal with Iran
With Iran barely months away from “breakout,” PM Naftali Bennett stated on Monday, Nov. 22, that “Israel won’t be bound”
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Israel hampered in its Iran policy by bitter top-level wrangling
The dissonance among Israel’s leaders, alongside their bombastic solemn pledges against Iran gaining a nuclear weapon, is obstructing clear decisions
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EXCLUSIVE: Israel may accept Iran as nuclear-threshold power on condition of US-Russian guarantees
Israel, Iran, the US and Russia are engaged in secret talks for Israel’s acceptance of Iran as a nuclear threshold
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With Gen. Bar as new IAF chief, 3 top IDF officers favor pre-empting nuclear-armed Iran. Bennett at UN: “We can prevail.”
Gen. Tomer Bar, 52, was named Israel’s new Air Force Chief on Monday, Sept. 28, just hours before Naftali Bennett’s
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