Israel’s triumphant prime minister has always made a habit of testing alliances to breaking point. Has he gone too far this time?
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“Oy givalt, don’t scare me like that!” But that’s exactly what candidate Benjamin Netanyahu did in the last five days of the campaign. And it worked.
The Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has won a dramatic victory in the Israeli election that few had predicted.
Today’s elections in Israel could be one of the most significant in the country’s recent history.
If Israel’s right-wing government hadn’t tried to shut Arab parties out of the Knesset, it might be doing better in the election now.
Why the 2015 Israeli elections are witness to big shifts in how minorities vote and why that’s bad news for Benjamin Netanyahu.
Campaign has been fought largely on security issues when the most pressing needs are socio-economic.
On the eve of elections in Israel, a snapshot of the divisions in American Jewish opinion toward the Jewish state and what lies behind them.
The crucial ballot will take place against a rapidly moving international situation.
Scholars weigh in on the Israeli Prime Minister’s warning that current negotiations are “paving the way” to an Iranian bomb.
For many Israelis, the potential danger of a bad deal with Iran pales in comparison to the damage caused to US-Israeli relations by Benjamin Netanyahu’s trickery.
Newly leaked documents show that Mossad has long been briefing against Netanyahu – and that the military has stood in his way.
Israel will hold an early general election on March 17. The campaign is already in full swing – and it is not confined to Israel’s borders. In the wake of anti-Semitic attacks in Copenhagen. This has infuriated…
The New Year always provides an opportunity for both introspection and speculation. So it seems a good time to consider what the big stories are likely to be this year. Some of the five major stories I…
Israel’s Knesset has voted to dissolve itself, and a general election is due to be held on March 17 2015. Binyamin Netanyahu’s third government was a fractious one from the start, with many coalition members…
Israel’s assault on Gaza has drawn international condemnation, sparked outraged protests around the world, and even roused talk of war crimes from the United Nations. But despite the onslaught of death…
Anyone reading the news from Israel and the Gaza Strip could be forgiven for thinking it’s November 2012 rather than July 2014. Back then, Operation Pillar of Defence was conducted in the Gaza Strip over…
The discovery of the bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers – Eyal Yifrah, 19, Naftali Frenkel, 16, and Gilad Shaar, 16 – in the West Bank town of Halhul has left relations between Israel and the…
In the wake of his conviction for corruption, some have called former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert the Israeli version of House of Cards’s Frank Underwood. The comparison is somewhat miselading…
Addressing the Israeli Knesset recently, David Cameron proclaimed himself “a British prime minister whose belief in Israel is unbreakable, and whose commitment to Israel’s security will always be rock…
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
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