Israel political situation

Following petition, Elections Committee orders removal of Netanyahu video pending final ruling

The video includes an excerpt from remarks Netanyahu made during a multi-front situational assessment with the IDF’s senior command forum.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks outside his office at the Knesset, June 3, 2026.
United Torah Judaism leader MK Yitzhak Goldknopf at Knesset House Committee debating Basic Law: Torah Study, Sunday June 28, 2026.

Defense Ministry backs 90-freeze on haredi draft evader arrests as Israel faces coalition crisis

Mohammad Barakeh attends a press conference at the protest tent of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, in front of the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on November 3, 2019.

Former MK, Hadash leader Mohammad Barakeh arrested, banned from WB, police say

Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett attends a conference at the Academic College in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2026.

'New Covenant': Bennett outlines plan to 'build Israel from scratch' in every major area of life


Separation of powers: 70 years of balancing Supreme Court, Knesset

Ex-justice Elyakim Rubinstein gives his verdict to the ‘Post.’

RETIRED SUPREME Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein at his office in the High Court building in Jerusalem last month.

A ticking clock?

Journalist Gregg Carlstrom thinks Israel’s biggest threat is not Iran, but rather comes from within.

THE AUTHOR wonders how much Israel’s internal challenges threaten its survival

Ten identical questions for mayoral candidates

Meir Turgeman is running ‘because Jerusalem is part of my DNA.’

Meir Turgeman

Run as you can

Will Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat run for another term?

Tourism Minister Yariv Levin

Confidence in elected, appointed officials decreasing for Israeli public

Some 53% of all Jewish respondents agreed with the statement that “the religious population is gradually taking control of the state.”

An Israeli casts her ballot for the parliamentary election at a polling station

Barak emerges from the recycling bin

Barak quoted an unknown poll that suggested he could beat Netanyahu.

Former prime minister of Israel Ehud Barak

Revised nation-state bill deals with Jewish-democratic imbalance concerns

Some worry that in its current version, the nation-state bill could put religious law ahead of the laws passed by the Knesset.

Special committee to pass the Basic Law: Israel, the Nation-State of the Jewish People committee chairman Amir Ohana (Likud) , Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Tourism Minister Yariv Levin

Here and There: From Whence Cometh the Enemy?

Are we doing enough to equip our Jewish students for what they may face on campus? The answer is a resounding “No.”

A MAN holds two flags as demonstrators at a 2014 pro-Palestinian rally march across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City

12 ‘New Likudniks’ booted from party

According to the Likud’s administration, the 12 members booted from the party got their membership through “fraud and deception.”

Likud ballots

One-on-one with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat

'In Jerusalem' in conversation with Jerusalem's mayor.

Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat