Politics

Israel-Qatar stance still uncertain following Doha strike

Has Qatar shifted from a ‘complex’ state to a hostile one?

QATARI EMIR Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani meets Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian at the emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Doha this week. Leaders were quick to respond to Qatar’s call for a summit, says the writer.
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference in Jerusalem this week. He seems to have miscalculated the exasperation that has seeped into every corner of this country, the writer maintains.

Netanyahu's vision of Sparta is not what Israel needs - opinion

MK Gadi Eisenkot holds a press conference after announcing his resignation in Tel Aviv, July 1, 2025.

Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar! party announcement is a well-worn tale - editorial

Cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman seen at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on December 18, 2016.

Netanyahu's chief of staff to replace Hotovely as Israel's ambassador to UK


The Charlie Kirk assassination is a warning we cannot ignore - opinion

Too often, people abandon debate over ideas or policies and go straight to demonizing opponents - this is not leadership. This is poison.

Jordyn Hackner, president of Turning Point USA's University of Houston chapter,and Lizbeth Aguilar stand behind a poster of conservative activist Charlie Kirk as people mourn following his fatal shooting, at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, U.S., September 11, 2025.

British envoy to US Peter Mandelson dismissed over friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

British Minister for Europe and North America, Stephen Doughty, announced on Thursday that Lord Mandelson has been sacked "in light of additional information in the emails."

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Britain's ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 8, 2025

Netanyahu's criminal trial to switch to four days a week, judges rule

The framework switch will begin in November, the judges ruled after appeals by the defense attorneys of Netanyahu and other defendants in the cases.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to the courtroom at the Distrcit court in Tel Aviv, September 10, 2025

Unity that goes beyond ego: The needed change in Israel's political sphere - opinion

Israelis cannot afford to be fooled again by familiar faces offering the same old policies just with different authors.

FORMER PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett visits the Western Wall earlier this year. He deserves genuine credit for his behind-the-scenes efforts to bring Israel’s centrist leaders together, says the writer.

'A lion-hearted friend': Israeli officials mourn Charlie Kirk's death

Netanyahu revealed that he had spoken to Kirk two weeks ago and invited him to Israel, describing him as a "lion-hearted friend" of the Jewish state.

Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder, puts on a MAGA hat during the AmericaFest 2024 conference sponsored by conservative group Turning Point in Phoenix, Arizona, US December 19, 2024.

Israel in intense war on terror, Netanyahu says at scene of deadly Jerusalem attack

Speaking alongside Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir appeared to blame a High Court ruling for the deadly attack, drawing condemnations from opposition leader Lapid.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Secuirty Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the scene of a terror shooting attack in Jerusalem, Septermber 8, 2025.

'Certainly not a Zionist': New leader of UK Greens is vocally pro-Palestine Jew

Polanski views being called Zionist as a criticism, tweeting on Jan 29, 2024, that it was "s*****" for someone to "see someone Jewish and prefer to tweet Zionist at them."

The UK's Green Party has voted in its first Jewish leader, the vocally anti-Israel and pro-Palestine northerner Zack Polanski.

Education Ministry denies report claiming chapters on liberal democracy removed from curriculum

"We are undergoing a crisis over the character of the state and democracy. It's unreasonable that precisely the topics related to this would be removed from the civics matriculation."

 EDUCATION MINISTER Yoav Kisch hold a press conference on the new AI program in the education system at the Education Ministry in Tel Aviv, last month. A founder should be able to rely on AI to run a seamless, end-to-end business operation, the writer believes.

32 Liberal MPs call for action against antisemitism in Canada, but some Jewish orgs skeptical

The MPs said that the situation demanded a "call to action for all Canadians, all levels of government, law enforcement, schools, public institutions, and places of work."

 Protesters march out of Kings College Circle after leaving a pro-Palestinian student encampment at the University of Toronto following an Ontario judge order for pro-Palestinian protesters to leave their two-month-old encampment, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 3, 2024.

Netanyahu to hold talks over West Bank annexation in response to Palestinian state recognition

Prime minister convenes high-level talks on extending Israeli sovereignty in West Bank after France and others recognize a Palestinian state, officials say.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Newsmax event in Jerusalem in August 2025.

France replicates its failure on antisemitism and rewards terror - opinion

While Macron promises unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, MK Yosef Tayeb warns that the message to the world is dangerous: Terrorism pays.

 France's President Emmanuel Macron, July 10, 2025.