There may soon be peace in Lebanon
If the leaks and briefings are to be believed, Israel is getting ready to end its war in Lebanon. With…
Why Israel didn’t hit Iran where it would really hurt
In Christian countries, it’s typical to put things off until ‘after Christmas’ when the new year begins. In Israel, the…
Can Israel ‘win’ its war against Hezbollah?
Israelis awoke today to the unsurprising news that the IDF had crossed the border into Lebanon. The incursions, which had…
Israel wants a war with Lebanon
The war that neither side wanted began this week in earnest. After last week’s exploding pagers and walkie-talkies reportedly injured…
The Hezbollah pager bomb plot has Israel’s fingerprints all over it
At the end of the 2014 film Kingsman: the Secret Service, the plucky spy hero is in trouble deep in an…
America’s Russian influence media scandal is unlikely to be the last
Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin and Lauren Southern aren’t household names, but they each have enormous, dedicated followings online.…
Netanyahu’s speech to Congress won’t achieve much
Nearly ten months after Israel’s worst day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made history far away in Washington DC when he…
Why Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t want to serve
In the middle of a war, Israel’s government is wobbling. Not because of the policy failures that led to the…
Netanyahu’s strategy in Rafah isn’t working
On 7 April, six months after the October massacres in southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the public that…
Why Biden’s plan to sanction an IDF battalion could backfire
The Biden administration is planning to announce sanctions against a part of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). On the one…
Netanyahu can’t ignore the scale of Iran’s attack
Today was supposed to be the day we sent our kids back to nursery. For two weeks, my toddler and…
Israel has faced its darkest day for 50 years
While preparing to head out to synagogue to join the dancing and celebration for the Simchat Torah festival, the rocket…
Israel’s politics is collapsing
Here we go again. On Monday, Naftali Bennett, Israel’s Prime Minister, announced that he would bring a bill to dissolve…
Bye bye Bibi? The millionaire poised to be Israel’s next prime minister
The nationalist millionaire poised to topple Netanyahu
Inside Israel's Iron Dome
A dramatic photo from the Gaza strip taken in the early hours of Friday morning looks like something out of a…
Don’t count Bibi out just yet
Elections are supposed to settle things. That’s the idea, at least. Politicians argue, take decisions and pursue the policies they…