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Arab parties move to reestablish Joint List without Ra’am after disagreements with Abbas

Polls have shown that if the Arab parties were to run together, they would receive more seats than they would obtain in a separate run.

 MK Ahmad Tibi reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset on November 21, 2022
Ronen Siman Tov, fourth-generation Jerusalemite.

Painting through the ashes: Ronen Siman-Tov turns Jerusalem’s wounds into art - interview

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir in Tulkarm, in the West Bank, August 22, 2025.

At Gaza crossroads, IDF chief Zamir clashes with Israel’s political echelon - analysis

 THE WRITER attends a Knesset meeting. The Jews lived in this region, including an unbroken presence in Israel, for millennia, he notes

Right-wing MK: Outcome of Israel-Hamas war cannot be a Palestinian state - interview


Legal advisor regulation hits snag in committee, other reforms advance

Discussion of legislation regulating government legal advisors was beyond the scope of the items that a committee can address-Knesset legal advisor

Attorney Sagit Afik

Herzog: Divided Israel mustn't fall like ancient Israel over judicial reforms

Though Israel is amidst a period of trials and tribulations, Herzog urges Israelis to band together.

 Israelis protest against the current Israeli government, in Tel Aviv, on January 7, 2023

Israel's borders are oddly quiet, all the conflict is within - analysis

Are Israel's biggest threats internal, or do we still need to worry about conflicts with neighbors?

 Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, gather as they carry flags, marking the commemoration of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, in Adaisseh village near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, May 25, 2022.

Were the Likud's plans for judicial reform clear prior to the election? - analysis

There was no clear line of communication in expressing the Likud's plans for reforms prior to entering office.

 Incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Likud faction meeting following the signing of the final coalition deals, December 28, 2022.

Talk of compromise, not civil war or sedition - comment

Is there a single word to describe Israel's political crossroads?

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid sit at the center of the front row, with MK Benjamin Netanyahu behind them, in a Knesset inauguration photo earlier this month. Herzog emphasized that Israelis are exhausted from infighting.

Republican US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's dream job could become a nightmare

Though he ultimately emerged victorious, McCarthy's long battle to role as US House Speaker may foreshadow what is to come.

 US Representatives try again to elect a Speaker on the third day of the 118th Congress at US Capitol in Washington

US House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as first Black party leader

Jeffries will replace Nancy Pelosi, who has held the role since 2007.

 House Democratic leadership elections on Capitol Hill in Washington

Arab parties fail to sign surplus vote-sharing agreements

Surplus vote-sharing agreements stipulate that after being allocated their number of seats in the Knesset, two parties may bring their votes together in an attempt to win one of the seats.

 COUNTING BALLOTS after the general elections, March 25, 2020.

US philanthropist close to Netanyahu: What happened to Abraham Accords?

LA-based businessman claims diplomats from Muslim countries ask why Israel stopped investing in Abraham Accords

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu, then-US president Donald Trump, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed wave from the White House balcony after a signing ceremony for the Abraham Accords, September 2020.

Two Jewish women elected to Quebec’s National Assembly

Elisabeth Prass will be representing the Liberal Party of Quebec, while Pascale Déry, a former journalist, will be representing the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ).

The Fontaine de Tourny east of the Parliament Building in Quebec, Canada