Netanyahu adds radical-right politician to Security Cabinet - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Shlomi Eldar

Shlomi Eldar

Jun 20, 2019

An electoral billboard bearing portraits of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bezalel Smotrich, Jerusalem, March 29, 2019. — THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images

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A Right Wing Union election campaign banner depicting Rabbi Rafi Peretz and Betzalel Smotrich is seen near a Benny Gantz's Blue and White party election campaign banner in Jerusalem April 7, 2019. REUTERS/Ammar Awad - RC1790A47480

Israel’s United Right party not united at all

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

An Israeli man walks past an electoral billboard bearing portraits of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flanked by extreme right politicians Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich and Michael Ben Ari, with a caption in Hebrew reading "Kahana Lives" in a reference to a banned ultranationalist party in the 1994, in Jerusalem, on March 29, 2019. - Israeli general elections will be held on April 9, 2019. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP) (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

Israel's religious right thrives on political unrest

Shlomi Eldar

An Israeli border policewoman prepares to vote in national elections a day before polling stations open in the rest of Israel, at a base in Beit Horon settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Nir Elias - RC11A8A38230

Israel’s religious right plays the merger game

Danny Zaken

In Ma'ale HaHamisha, reporting on Israel

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