Politics

Not just 'anyone but Bibi': Israel is in election mode, but where is the ideology? - editorial

Israel's political parties should run campaigns focused on offering real ideas and alternatives. That is how political movements grow and how politics regain substance.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 19, 2026.
Election Commission officials count ballots at a polling station during Myanmar's general election in Yangon, Myanmar, December 28, 2025; illustrative.

Final phase of Myanmar's election underway, military-backed party set to win

Myanmar opened polling stations for the final phase of a junta-led election, with low turnout, ongoing fighting, and a military-backed party poised to consolidate power.

|ByREUTERS
Head of Blue and White party MK Benny Gantz speaks during press conference in Tel Aviv on August 23, 2025.

Benny Gantz is reclaiming relevance in politics because Israel wants unity - opinion

Israel needs unity and renewed common purpose. Gantz is the politician who most credibly embodies that aspiration. That is why his campaign is gaining traction.

|ByALON TAL
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett seen with Gadi Eisenkot during a march in support of the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews into the IDF, from the entrance of Jerusalem to the Knesset, January 15, 2026

With new players and old alliances, Israel’s post-October 7 political map takes shape

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Two significant political developments played out this week as Israel moves towards elections. Gadi Eisenkot and Yonatan Shamriz took the reflectors with key announcements.

|ByHERB KEINON

Ron Dermer steps out of Israel's power center, leaving a void in Jerusalem's US diplomacy

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: After years as Netanyahu’s most trusted adviser, the man who bridged Jerusalem and Washington leaves gov’t, taking with him a legacy of influence, division, and results.

NOVEMBER 14, 2025ByHERB KEINON
Here, Dermer sit alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a meeting with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon in July in Arlington, Virginia.

Next elections, Israel's politics of boycott against Netanyahu must end - opinion

Donald Trump sent a signed letter to President Herzog asking for a pardon for Prime Minister Netanyahu. Can Herzog pardon Netanyahu, and more importantly, can lawmakers work with him?

NOVEMBER 14, 2025ByYAAKOV KATZ
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset plenum on Monday. The obsession over one man has paralyzed the system, the writer asserts.

Likud MK Gotliv defies court order, leaks identity of senior police official under investigation

Senior police chief detained in PID probe for breach of trust. Likud MK Tally Gotliv openly violated a court gag order to name the officer, calling the investigation a "witch-hunt."

NOVEMBER 13, 2025BySARAH BEN-NUN
MK Tally Gotliv arrives for a court hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem on June 2, 2024

Mamdani’s win is the warning sign - opinion

It’s tempting to pin the blame on one candidate, but the reality is significantly more uncomfortable.

NOVEMBER 10, 2025ByMICHAEL J. SALAMON, LOUIS LIBIN
NEW YORK CITY Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani: What should trouble us most is how many are willing to back someone who openly mocks Jewish holidays, cheers for the Intifada, and tacitly supports antisemitic protests on university campuses, say the writers.

Prosor: Germany’s Left has crossed the red line on antisemitism

Israeli ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, warns that left-wing antisemitism is the most dangerous form of antisemitism.

NOVEMBER 9, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
Demonstrators hold banners as they take part in a May Day protest in Berlin, Germany, May 1, 2024. The banners read: "Freedom for Palestine" and "Long live the revolutionary first of May. Expropriate corporations, disarm warmongers, smash capitalism".

Liberal Zionists push back on Yesh Atid’s World Zionist Organization withdrawal

Global chair of World Zionist Organization, Kenneth Bob, criticizes Yesh Atid’s decision to quit the World Zionist Organization.

NOVEMBER 9, 2025ByMICHAEL STARR
Yesh Atid, opposition leader Yair Lapid, November 3, 2025.

Scandals in Israel’s military, politics, and judiciary raise the question: Are we sick? - opinion

Scandal has rocked the nation this week as corruption and nepotism reveal cracks in the system and further turmoil and division in Israeli society.

NOVEMBER 7, 2025ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
FAMILY AND friends of Col. Asaf Hamami during his funeral in Tel Aviv, on Tuesday, behind a flag bearing his likeness.

Is this next election cycle our last chance to save Israel’s future?

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Professor Dan Ben-David, a leading economist, warns that Israel’s future depends on urgent education reforms, with the next election potentially its last chance.

NOVEMBER 7, 2025BySARAH BEN-NUN
Israel has ‘the worst education system in the developed world,’ according to Prof. Ben-David. Here, President Isaac Herzog greets students at the opening of the school year in September at Rambam Religious School in Kiryat Shmona.

Israeli politicians sound alarm over Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral win

“New York’s Jewish community deserves leaders who protect them, not target them,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel told The Jerusalem Post.

NOVEMBER 5, 2025ByKESHET NEEV
A special plenary session marking 30 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, November 3, 2025.

Zionism's future lost in backroom deals at World Zionist Congress- opinion

What was once the beating heart of Jewish political imagination – the place where our people charted their collective destiny – has devolved into a cheap political bazaar.

NOVEMBER 5, 2025ByFLEUR HASSAN NAHOUM 
DELEGATES, OBSERVERS, staff, and others associated with Kol Israel gather at the World Zionist Congress last week. The Zionist institutions should be forums for visionary debate, says the writer.