Israel Politics

‘2025 must be a year of decision’

Former MK Yoni Chetboun says that Israel must make difficult choices in the coming months

 YONI CHETBOUN addresses the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York last month

Opposition leaders announce they will go through with Knesset dispersal vote

 (L-R) Opposition party heads Yair Golan, Avigdor Liberman, Benny Gantz, and Yair Lapid at the Knesset after the firing of former defense minister Yoav Gallant, November 6, 2024.

High Court: Gov't to respond within five days to interim orders in case against A-G

 ATTORNEY-GENERAL Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, in Jerusalem, last month. The attorney-general ‘hinders’ the prime minister from implementing policies as he wishes, the writer maintains.

MK Gilad Kariv claims Itamar Ben-Gvir provides backing to Temple Mount 'extremists'

 MK Gilad Kariv attending a Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, June 9, 2025.

Legal experts decry minister's illegal move in summoning A-G for arraignment

Baharav-Miara has been blamed for intentionally issuing restrictive legal opinions in order to trip up and eventually topple the government.

 Amichai Chikli, Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism seen after a court hearing of the Shin Bet official arrested in suspicion of leaking classified information to a journalist and a Minister at the court in Lod, April 15, 2025.

Road to elections? Shas, Degel Hatorah will vote to dissolve Knesset, parties say

"The ultra-Orthodox public feels persecuted by the Likud and [MK Yuli] Edelstein," the Shas spokesperson said.

Shas faction leader MK Arye Deri seen outside the party offices in Jerusalem, June 4, 2025

Netanyahu, Liberman test the line between wartime strategy, political ambition - analysis

Liberman positions himself for a post-Netanyahu era, but his leak of sensitive wartime policy reveals he’s playing the same political game he criticizes.

 L to R: Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against backdrop of terrorists. (illustration)

Benny Gantz's faction to hold leadership primaries as Israeli election looms

Gantz’s party will hold leadership elections and open public registration amid falling polls and rising support for Eisenkot.

 Leader of the National Unity Party MK Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2025.

Dismissal of A-G illegal, unfounded, and sets dangerous precedent, deputy says

Limon submitted an advisory opinion just a few hours before the government decided to proceed with the A-G's dismissal.

 Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon attends a conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, on April 3, 2025.

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen may run if Israeli elections are announced

Former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen plans to launch an independent political party amid changing Israeli public sentiment post-war.

 Yossi Cohen, former head of the Mossad and President of the IDF Widows & Orphans Organization’s Friends Association, speaking at the Yom HaZikaron Memorial  at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem.

Israel at a crossroads: Is Netanyahu's government on the brink of collapse?

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Netanyahu’s current coalition, despite the colossal failure of October 7, has already outlasted about 75% of its predecessors.

 BILLS HAVE already been introduced to dissolve the Knesset, though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with the key actors in this drama to try to avert that outcome. Here, Netanyahu arrives in the courtroom at the Tel Aviv District Court, before the start of his testimony on Tuesday.

Netanyahu falls short of forming gov't in latest voting projections - survey

According to the survey, current opposition parties would secure 61 seats, excluding Arab parties, or 65 seats, including a party led by Naftali Bennett.

 (L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, August 4, 2024, Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, September 11 2023, Opposition Leader and Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid, August 14 2024.

Levin: The people are demanding judicial reform - we will deliver

The comments come at the pinnacle of the tensions between the judiciary and the rest of the government.

 Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem. January 21, 2025.

Israeli gov't pushing through dismissal of A-G Gali Baharav-Miara

The move comes amid what Levin described as an "unprecedented crisis of trust" between the attorney-general and the government.

 Attorney-General Gali Baharav Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem in February 2025.