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Israel’s election: Which parties are most likely to keep their promises? - opinion

Israel’s crowded political field leaves voters weighing party leaders, broken promises, and competing priorities.

People participate in a street poll ahead of the election, in Mahaneh Yehuda last week.
An ultra-Orthodox man blows a shofar ahead of Rosh Hashanah in Mea She’arim in Jerusalem in August

Promote Jewish diversity within unity – opinion

AN ISRAELI settler (R) and a Palestinian farmer are seen arguing during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, on October 29, 2025.

Israel's real West Bank problem is not settler violence - it is the settlement enterprise - opinion

Gadi Taub sits down with Editor-in-chief Zvika Klein to retrace the defection that took him from Peace Now demonstrations to the front line of the fight over Israel's Supreme Court, its media and its national identity.

Who is Gadi Taub , the Labor prince who became the Israeli Left’s fiercest critic?


Ideological compromises

Larger parties mean less votes that go to waste for parties that do not cross the 3.25% threshold – Zehut and the New Right are two examples from the last election.

Israel Democratic Party's Ehud Barak, MK Stav Shaffir and Meretz's Nitzan Horowitz of the Democratic Camp

Shmuli slams Shaffir, signaling he won't bolt Labor for new left-wing bloc

Blue and White invites him to join

STAV SHAFFIR: The world sees us as only Netanyahu, and his voice is the only voice they hear

Labor will not be joining left-wing bloc, sources say

The Democratic Union was formed on Thursday by Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz, former prime minister Ehud Barak and Labor MK Stav Shaffir.

Amir Peretz is joined in the Labor Party by Orly Levy-Abekasis.

BDS supporter attacked in Tel Aviv, slashed across face

Jonathan Pollak was attacked in Tel Aviv on Sunday and called a 'fu**ing Leftist' – tells 'Post' he doesn't want any 'Jewish privilege.'

Jonathan Pollak after his assault in Tel Aviv

Political polarization feeding antisemitism

Both sides are unaware of being biased. Ideological media contributes to each side, forming its own isolated (and distorted) truth.

The Knesset House Committee voting on whether to pass Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bill to cancel ministers limit

The road to replacing the right-wing government

So what can we do? We can re-divide the alternative to a right-wing government into three components.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara – who will benefit more from another round of elections?

Leftist prof. praises McDonald's for not opening in settlements

Amir Hetsroni praised McDonald's as "supporting BDS" as he munched on french fries. The Israeli franchise of the fast-food chain has refused to open in Samaria.

Signs outside a McDonald's in Tel Aviv protest the refusal of the local franchise to open in Judea and Samaria.

Environmental neglect: the big absurd of nationalist politics

Eagle migration to Israel

A judicial revolution - Shaked's answer to claims of fascism

Shaked sprays the perfume in the air, quipping: “To me, it smells like democracy.”

Ayelet Shaked at a meeting, January 17th, 2019

ACRI asks High Court to order IDF to indict Col. who killed fleeing Palestinian rock-thrower

Left-wing groups charge shooting the suspect while he was fleeing was not necessary. But rocks thrown by Palestinians have killed soldiers and civilians in the past, defenders argue.

Palestinian rock-throwers attack Israeli troops near Bethlehem