Naftali Bennett

Pollard, who had spent 30 years in prison for spying and providing Israel with top-secret classified information, has has since become a strong critic of Netanyahu.

Bennett argued that failure to manage the threat posed by radical Islam in the Middle East will lead to loss of innocent lives in the West.

Shifra Jacobs reports on Smotrich's recent comments, in which he argues that forming a coalition government with Mansour Abbas was worse than Oct. 7.

History teaches that nations often fracture not because their enemies overpower them, but because their own internal divisions weaken the moral and political foundations that sustain them.

The Bennett-Lapid merger aims to unify the opposition, but could push some right-wing voters back toward Netanyahu.

Can Naftali Bennett break Netanyahu’s bloc and lead Israel, or is the hope of a Magyar-style political reset in Israel still an illusion?

While the government imposes severe restrictions on its troops, Hezbollah’s terrorists are “sitting comfortably in places they know the IDF has been forbidden to strike."

The alliance that Bennett and Lapid unveiled this week is young and might well fail the way so many others have before it. But two things can already be said in its favor.

The Bennett–Lapid alliance highlights Israel’s fixation on politics over policy, and the need for a reset.

New party, old reality: Israel’s elections still revolve around blocs and the question of Netanyahu.