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Joint List Party leader Ayman Odeh attends a meeting on April 5, 2021 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Interview

Ayman Odeh says Arab parties could back Bennett or Eisenkot to block Netanyahu

In an interview with Al-Monitor, head of the Arab-Israeli Hadash-Ta'al Knesset faction, Ayman Odeh, said his party is prepared to make difficult decisions to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

Ayman Odeh

Head of the Knesset's Hadash-Ta'al faction

Motorists drive past a billboard bearing a picture of Iran's slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei, ahead of his funeral in Tehran on July 3, 2026. Iranian leaders began paying their respects on July 3 before the coffin of the country's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, killed in the US-Israeli strikes that triggered the Middle East war, as Tehran prepared for a vast funeral. Khamenei's body arrived at Tehran's Grand Mosalla on July 3 ahead of ceremonies which are expected to draw millions. (Photo by AFP via Ge

Analysis

As US-Iran talks falter, Israel views war outcome as 'total strategic failure’

Israeli officials believe the US failure to attain the kind of agreement with Iran that it originally sought stems from the strategic mistakes made during and after the recent war.

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

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Who is Melat Kiros, the pro-Palestinian who unseated a longtime Democrat?

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Analysis

For Israel, Lebanon deal 'historic' despite fears Hezbollah will rebuild

Shia Muslim devotees gather for a mourning ritual near the shrine of Hassan Nasrallah, the slain leader of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah who was killed in a 2024 Israeli-airstrike, in Beirut's southern suburbs on June 26, 2026 at the peak of Ashura, a 10-day period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP via Getty Images)

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Turkey, Azerbaijan slam Israel’s Armenian genocide recognition as Yerevan mum

KAREN MINASYAN / AFP via Getty Images

Samuel Wendel

Senior Market Research Analyst

In Washington, DC, reporting on regional business and tech

Adam Lucente

News and Business Correspondent

In New York City, reporting on regional news, militancy, climate change

Jack Dutton

Chief Business Correspondent

In Bristol, reporting on regional business, climate change, AI, tech

Ben Caspit

Israel Columnist

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Francesco Schiavi

In Bologna, reporting on security, defense, economy, governance

Rina Bassist

Associate Editor (Israel)

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

The interior of Maghen Abraham, Beirut's oldest synagogue, is seen in Wadi abu-Jmil district August 3, 2010. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON) - RTR2H033

Lebanon's last synagogue

A small community of around 200 Jews remain in Lebanon but feel increasingly isolated.

A Palestinian girl holds a cut-out of a key during a rally ahead of the Nakba day in the West Bank city of Bethlehem May 14, 2015. Palestinians mark "Nakba" (Catastrophe) on May 15 to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. The Arabic writing reads, "we will not forget our right of return." REUTERS/Ammar Awad - RTX1CYI7

Palestinian state would solve right of return

After 67 years, the best way to deal with the Palestinian refugee issue is to allow Palestinians to have their own independent state.

A Palestinian protester throws a stone towards Israeli troops during clashes following a rally marking Nakba Day near Israel's Ofer Prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah May 15, 2015. Palestinians mark "Nakba" (Catastrophe) on Friday to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
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Palestinian youths speak out on occupation, corruption

Palestinian university students express their despair over a life of humiliation at checkpoints and a lack of credible leadership at home, warning that many of their colleagues are already preparing for an uprising.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Isaac Herzog, co-leader of the Zionist Union party after he was sworn to office in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, following the mid-March general elections, in Jerusalem May 14, 2015. Netanyahu's new rightist coalition government, hobbled from the outset by its razor-thin parliamentary majority, was sworn in late on Thursday amid wrangling within his Likud party over cabinet posts. REUETRS/Jim Hollander/Pool - RTX1D0Z3

Herzog's opposition strong, but headstrong

Zionist Camp leader Isaac Herzog is confronted with an opposition that is larger, stronger and more complex than it has been for years, but his position as its head could be challenged.

Palestinians walk past the ruins of houses that witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, where Palestinian boy al-Hassan, who was born in January 2014 after being conceived with his jailed father's sperm smuggled out of an Israeli prison, lives May 10, 2015. Hana, the Gaza wife of al-Za'an, a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail, gave birth to a baby boy in January 2014 in the first successful smuggling of sperm to lead t

Israeli soldier testimonials stoke Gazans' claims of war crimes

Palestinians believe a report of firsthand accounts by Israeli soldiers and officers who fought in the 2014 Gaza war prove that Israel committed war crimes in its conduct of the conflict.

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Secular Jews launch Sabbath bus service in Jerusalem

Young residents of Jerusalem have created a solution to the lack of public transportation in the city on Saturdays by establishing a private cooperative bus system.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem May 10, 2015. REUTERS/Sebastian Scheiner/Pool TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX1CAT6

Is Israel in cahoots with Saudi Arabia?

Israel and Saudi Arabia feel that the United States is playing a bad hand in its negotiating with Iran, trying to offer more and more compromises while Iran isn't budging.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz attend a Likud party meeting at parliament in Jerusalem May 11, 2015. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun - RTX1CG4C

Netanyahu neutralizes rivals with Cabinet appointments

In distributing ministerial portfolios, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is employing his well-worn strategy of eliminating the possibility of any Likud member having a chance to increase their popularity.

Office chairs sit abandoned in front of shuttered store fronts along a normally bustling commercial street in central Gaza City, July 19, 2014. Israel's month-long war against Hamas, with Israel carrying out air strikes, artillery bombardments and ground operations in response to constant militant rocket fire and attacks via tunnels, left more than 2,000 Palestinians dead, most of them civilians, as well as 64 Israeli soldiers and three civilians. It was the deadliest war in Gaza since Israel unilaterally w

Investors remain wary of Gaza

A recent conference of investors landed six projects for the West Bank, but none for Gaza because of the risk involved.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - APRIL 16: (ISRAEL OUT) In this handout from the Israeli GPO, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during a ceremony to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Museum on April 16, 2015 in Jerusalem, Israel. Traffic stopped and people stood to attention as a two minutes silence was observed in Israel, with sirens sounding across the country to mark the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO via Getty Images)

Holocaust's use as political tool divides Israelis

Alongside a serious discourse in Israel on the Holocaust, there also exists a populist discourse that makes use of the Holocaust to the point of seeming contempt.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MAY 28: (ISRAEL OUT) Israelis during a march marking Jerusalem Day on May 28, 2014 outside Jerusalem's old city, Israel. Israel is celebrating the anniversary of the 'unification' of Jerusalem, marking 47 years since it captured mainly Arab east Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East war. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)

Israeli High Court authorizes Jerusalem Day march

Despite objections, the Israeli High Court has authorized right-wing activists to hold the annual Jerusalem Day Flag Parade.

$Israeli Prime Minister and leader of the ruling rightwing Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and party's members gather on stage during a campaign meeting ahead of the early elections for the 20th Knesset on January 5, 2014 in the coastal Israeli city of Tel Aviv. The general elections, to be held on March 17, 2015 had been due in late 2017, but Netanyahu brought the polls forward after the collapse of his fractious coalition in early December. Primary elections of Likud party took place on December 31 ahe$

Netanyahu has self to blame for 'extortion' in Israeli politics

Having formed a coalition government with only one seat to spare, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have to devote much of his time to keeping his government intact.