On paper, it’s a disaster. Israel’s newly inaugurated Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, is a right-leaning, pro-settlement legislator who has generally appeared more conservative politically than his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu. United States President Joe Biden, meanwhile, is a leftist being urged…
The coronavirus pandemic impacted 2020 in unprecedented ways, and the COVID-19 virus will continue to be a major issue in 2021 as a vaccine rolls out and countries seek to return to the pre-COVID “normal”. But 2021 will be about…
The United States’ election day is Tuesday, but Israel has good reasons to watch from an ocean away to find out who the next US president will be. From Iran policy to relations with peace process partners, there are real…
It has been 11 months since the first Israeli election in this current cycle, and despite the third election in a year concluding on Monday, not much has changed from the first. The April 2019 election saw the Center-Right Bloc…
The United States recently flexed its diplomatic muscle in the United Nations arena, and Israel on Sunday threatened “devastating action” against Gaza terrorists, as Washington and Jerusalem pushed back against Palestinian diplomatic and rocket attacks following the unveiling of the…
Israel’s second round of elections have been a complex but ultimately straightforward math problem: the ruling Likud party plus their allies equals less than a majority. The opposition Blue and White party plus their allies equals less than a majority.…