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MK Avigdor Liberman attends Israel Hayom security conference in Jerusalem, December 1, 2024

PM term limits, no draft exemptions: Liberman reveals five principles for next coalition

By Mathilda Heller

MK Gadi Eisenkot attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on the ultra-Orthodox draft law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 24, 2024.

MK Gadi Eisenkot reflects on war, leadership, and family tragedy

People march to the parliament in protest of the Treaty Principles Bill, in Wellington, New Zealand, November 19, 2024.

New Zealand MPs disrupt parliament with haka to protest Indigenous treaty bill

UTJ MK Yisrael Eichler points at a fellow lawmaker in the Knesset plenum.

Haredi day care bill loses majority after three RZP MKs withdraw support

By ELIAV BREUER

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend an event for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's residence in Jerusalem on April 26, 2023

Netanyahu leads Gantz as coalition gains ground in new poll

By MOSHE COHEN

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for a group photo of the new cabinet, at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2022.

Netanyahu's complex coalition: Analyzing his defense of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir

By SUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ministers and MK's attend a plenum session for Israeli Knesset's 75th birthday, in the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 24, 2024.

Why was it a tumultuous week for Israel's coalition?

By ELIAV BREUER

Yesh Atid MK Yair Lapid speaks at the Knesset plenum, in Jerusalem, on August 14, 2024

Otzma Yehudit's Knesset absence sees opposition strike down bill

By ELIAV BREUER

Protesters wave Israeli flags outside the Sde Teiman detention facility, after Israeli Military Police arrived at the site as part of an investigation into suspected abuse of a Palestinian detainee, near Beersheba in southern Israel, July 29, 2024.

Military investigators contacted released Sde Teiman prisoners regarding possible abuse

By ELIAV BREUER

ISRAELI PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference amid the ongoing war in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, last week. In recent months, Netanyahu’s vision has eroded, opines the writer.

Will Netanyahu seize his defining moment?

By NIMROD DWECK

Aryeh Deri, Benjamin Netanyahu

Ben-Gvir vs the rabbis: Commentator shares Orthodox perspective on Israeli issues

By 103FM VIA MAARIV ONLINE

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir during a discussion and a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem. March 6, 2023.

Coalition enters crisis over renewed version of 'Rabbis Law'

By ELIAV BREUER

FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist Party, and Shas party head MK Arye Deri attend a meeting in the Knesset in May on the state budget.

A coalition in trouble: Israel's government is tumbling down - editorial

By JPOST EDITORIAL

ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: The silence of our two chief rabbis is thunderously indicative of the abject state of these once meaningful and relevant positions, the writer argues.

Uproar over bill intended to increase religious party's control over rabbinical establishment

By ELIAV BREUER

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Benny Gantz, head of National Unity, and opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar look on as lawmakers gather at the Knesset plenum to vote on a bill that would limit some Supreme Court power, in Jerusalem July 24, 2023.

Gantz exit, haredi draft bill heralds end to ‘together we will win’ - analysis

MK ARYE DERI leads a parliamentary faction meeting of his Shas party, in the Knesset, last month.

Shelving contentious law on local rabbis signals unity discourse is not all talk

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Benny Gantz, head of National Unity, and opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar look on as lawmakers gather at the Knesset plenum to vote on a bill that would limit some Supreme Court power, in Jerusalem July 24, 2023.

Gantz, Sa'ar clash with rest of coalition over legislative veto power

By ELIAV BREUER

Haredi men protest outside the draft office in Jerusalem on November 28.

Israeli government silent on Gallant's IDF haredi draft ultimatum

By ELIAV BREUER