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Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, addresses the Knesset.

How a 'thin constitution' can help bring Israel some stability

By ELYAKIM RUBINSTEIN

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, June 13, 2024

Itamar Ben-Gvir: 'Positive progress' in talks over new small security cabinet

By ELIAV BREUER

US President Joe Biden withdraws from the 2024 presidential race and endorses VP Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate

Biden drops out of presidential race: Everything you need to know

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at the IDF Widows and Orphans new headquarters' opening, June 24, 2023.

Ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen not entering politics for now

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Labor and Meretz parties reach a merger agreement, June 30, 2024.

Labor, Meretz delegates to approve merger in Tel Aviv convention

By ELIAV BREUER

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.

Knesset begins prep of controversial bill on oversight of judicial system

By ELIAV BREUER

Amichai Eliyahu

Minister Amichai Eliyahu calls out Attorney General: 'There is paralysis within the system'

By 103FM

Likud MK Eliyahu Ravivo at a hearing with the Special Committee for Foreign Workers last month.

Likud MK Eliyahu Ravivo to sue state over lack of foreign worker documentation

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem , March 13, 2023

Likud MKs given survey to see how many are in favor of a ceasefire-hostage release deal

Likud MK Tally Gotliv speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 18, 2024

Likud MKs demand replacements for Defense Minister Gallant, security establishment heads

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.

Israel no longer has chief rabbis after ministry fails to hold timely elections

By ELIAV BREUER

Behind the private residence of Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea calling for the resignation of the government.

Prosecutor's office approves investigating protest leader on incitement against Netanyahu

By Yoav Itiel , BINI ASHKENAZI

HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER Viktor Orbán attends a news conference in Budapest, earlier this month.

Israeli gov't ties to European far-right gov'ts is unsettling

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett shakes hands with Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas in the Knesset plenum, in 2021.

It's time for Israel to have an Arab co-president

By ZACH D. HUFF

ACTOR BEN Stiller attends the 75th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards in Beverly Hills in 2023.

Ben Stiller fails to realize in his Gaza war op-ed that Israel's security must come first

By HAYIM LEITER

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, June 8, 2024.

'The End of Israel': Building a case against Netanyahu

By NEVILLE TELLER

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

What comes next in haredi IDF service?

By ELIAV BREUER

Chief of police Kobi Shabtai with Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir at the scene of a terror attack in the Jewish settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim, outside of Jerusalem, August 1, 2023.

'Police are not a militia': Israel Police's Kobi Shabtai blasts Ben-Gvir

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF