Benjamin Netanyahu

Permanent stalemate in Gaza suits Netanyahu

2 March 2024 9:00 am

Jerusalem After midnight on Thursday is dead-time for the Israeli media. The weekend editions have gone to print (newspapers don’t…

Benjamin Netanyahu is increasingly seen as Israel’s curse

11 November 2023 9:00 am

  Jerusalem   On Tuesday, I was driving down to an Israeli army headquarters on the border with Gaza as…

The increasing irrelevance of Benjamin Netanyahu

5 August 2023 9:00 am

The increasing irrelevance of Israel’s PM

Netanyahu’s war on lawyers has thrown Israel into turmoil

27 March 2023 11:28 pm

Chaos reigns in Israel, a country in the throes of an ad hoc general strike called by trade unions, university…

It looks like Bibi is back from the dead

2 November 2022 7:40 pm

Could it really be over? As Israeli political reporters stand before their cameras or hunch over their keyboards, their brains…

Can Naftali Bennett’s anti-Bibi coalition survive?

15 June 2021 7:14 am

Sunday saw a watershed moment in Israeli politics: Bibi Netanyahu was removed from power after 12 years, and his government…

Don’t count Bibi out just yet

25 March 2021 4:49 am

Elections are supposed to settle things. That’s the idea, at least. Politicians argue, take decisions and pursue the policies they…

jared kushner

Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Jared Kushner. Seriously!

3 September 2020 3:30 am

In these pages last year, I suggested that while the President’s son-in-law may not be a great geo-strategic mind, we…

Why Benjamin Netanyahu has outlasted all his political rivals

13 May 2020 2:10 am

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signed a coalition agreement, after a year of uncertainty and three elections, to create…

Islam, reform and the battle of narratives

31 December 2019 10:57 pm

Is a wind of change blowing in the Arab world and bringing Muslims and Jews closer together? Ed Husain made…

Jeremy Corbyn’s bumbling has silenced legitimate criticism of Israel

1 September 2018 9:00 am

If I were Benjamin Netanyahu (and I’m not) I would be thanking whatever gods there be for sending me, at…

What does friendship with Israel really mean?

19 May 2018 9:00 am

Harold Macmillan once remarked that: ‘There are three bodies no sensible man ever directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the…

Harry Mount’s diary: Class war with classicists and wisdom from Brian Sewell

28 March 2015 9:00 am

I never knew classicists could be so scary! Last week I wrote a Telegraph article saying classics exams had been…

The Conservatives should be the party of immigrants — and here’s how they can be

21 March 2015 9:00 am

For a long while, the Conservatives have been puzzled about their lack of popularity among immigrants. In theory, the Conservative…

Forget Geneva: the real US-Iran carve-up is happening in Iraq

21 March 2015 9:00 am

While Obama talks centrifuges in Geneva, Iranian-backed militia are redrawing the map of Iraq