This Month
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
Israel’s new government is more stable than it looks
Opposition to Netanyahu was the primary catalyst in forming the country’s unprecedented new coalition government, and it may well be the strongest glue holding it together.
- Aaron David Miller
Israel launches air strikes on Gaza
Israel has mounted air strikes in the Gaza Strip, the first since the end of 11 days of cross-border fighting last month, in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian territory.
- Melissa Cheok and Amy Teibel
- Analysis
- World elections
Netanyahu dethroned by friends turned foe
Israel’s longest-serving PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, will sit on the opposition benches, watching the government of a one-time protégé, between trips to court on corruption charges.
- Mehul Srivastava
Netanyahu’s reign over as Israel ushers in fragile coalition
The two-headed government approved by parliament on Sunday coalesced around a desire to remove Mr Netanyahu, the main defendant in a tangled corruption trial, from office.
- Yaacov Benmeleh
Israel’s new leader a bundle of contradictions
Naftali Bennett is a former ally of Netanyahu who helped unseat him, a Jew who made millions in the mostly secular hi-tech sector and a champion of the settlement movement who lives in a Tel Aviv suburb.
- Joseph Krauss
Biden welcomes new Israeli government as Netanyahu ousted
In a statement that did not mention Israel’s longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, US president Joe Biden welcomed Naftali Bennett’s new government.
- Susan Heavey
- Analysis
- Roberts-Smith case
Ben Roberts-Smith is a war hero. Can he be a killer too?
The Victoria Cross-holder’s lawyers are presenting him as a professional soldier who never would have murdered prisoners.
- Aaron Patrick
Israel security warns of violence as Netanyahu faces ouster
Some right-wing groups are angry at Naftali Bennett, head of a small ultra-nationalist party who is slated to replace the prime minister in a power-sharing pact.
- Maayan Lubell
Netanyahu attacks ‘dangerous’ coalition in fight for political life
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scorned as ‘dangerous’ a cross-partisan coalition cobbled together by his rivals to unseat him.
- Updated
- Jeffrey Heller
Drone attack might have been powered by AI, says UN
A drone warfare analyst says the report suggests, for the first time, that a weapons system with artificial intelligence operated on its own to find and attack humans.
- Updated
- Maria Cramer
Israel: What just happened, and what’s next?
Israel’s journey to a possibly post-Netanyahu government began with its fourth election in two years.
- Ari Rabinovitch
Netanyahu rivals agree coalition to end his 12-year reign
The new coalition is an unusual and awkward alliance between eight political parties with a diverse array of ideologies, from the left to the far right.
- Patrick Kingsley
- Analysis
- World politics
Israel’s Naftali Bennett: the kingmaker who is set to wear the crown
The energetic leader of the small, right-wing Yamina party has managed to leverage his modest electoral gain for a shot at the top job.
- Isabel Kershner
Netanyahu’s rivals say they’ve formed a new coalition government
Centrist Yair Lapid said he will lead with the nationalist Naftali Bennett an incongruous mix of partners.
- Yaacov Benmeleh
Israel’s Lapid moves closer to unseating Netanyahu
Israel’s opposition leader has agreed terms with several parties, including one led by Defence Minister Benny Gantz, for a proposed new government.
- Dan Williams
May
Israeli opposition parties reach agreement to oust Netanyahu
Under their agreement, former Netanyahu defence minister and ally Naftali Bennett will lead a power-sharing government.
- Shira Rubin
In Israel’s mixed towns, resentments erupted into violence
They lived side by side but after the worst communal violence in decades, it’s hard to see life ever returning to how it was.
- Miriam Berger and Loveday Morris
Australia closes its embassy in Kabul, others scale back
Several embassies contacted by The Associated Press declined to give details of their plans, but many are reported to have scaled back non-essential personnel.
- Tameem Akhgar
Blinken begins Middle East mission to bolster Gaza ceasefire
In tandem with the visit, Israeli authorities said they were allowing fuel, medicine and food earmarked for Gaza’s private sector to enter the territory for the first time since the latest violence broke out.
- Jeffrey Heller
- Opinion
- Anti-Semitism
Anti-Zionism equates with anti-Semitism
The latest Gaza conflict has allowed progressives to indulge an anti-Israel movement that keeps descending into the crudest forms of anti-Semitism.
- Bret Stephens
