Israel political situation

Former MK, Hadash leader Mohammad Barakeh arrested, banned from WB, police say

According to the police spokesperson, Barakeh gave a speech in 2022 where he said "words of praise and identification with terrorists and terrorist organizations."

Mohammad Barakeh attends a press conference at the protest tent of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, in front of the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on November 3, 2019.
Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett attends a conference at the Academic College in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2026.

'New Covenant': Bennett outlines plan to 'build Israel from scratch' in every major area of life

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters demonstrate against the arrest of ultra orthodox jewish men who took part in a protest outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg and were later handed over to the military police, outside the Abu Kabir detention facility in Tel Aviv, June 10, 2026.

Most Israelis believe internal conflicts, polarization are biggest threats to Israel, study reveals

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu is seen walking past haredi lawmaker Yitzhak Goldknopf, at the Prime Minister’s Office in 2023.

End the haredi kingmaker era or watch the state unravel - opinion


Netanyahu and Gabbay: Eclipsing expectations?

Netanyahu is laboring despite his probes, while Gabbay labors despite Labor.

Netanyahu and Gabbay

Middle Israel: The Nixonization of Bibi Netanyahu

Netanyahu is following in Nixon’s footsteps, for better and worse.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a rally.

JPost Poll: 67% say Netanyahu should suspend himself if charged

Sa’ar, Lapid, Bennett and Gabbay about tied as best post-Netanyahu PM candidate – but Likud voters like Bennett best.

Prime Minister Netanyahu enters a meeting of the security cabinet, August 2017

Jewish democratic Kulanu and the vision of the liberal Right

The coalition is quiet on many core social and political issues. I think that the role of the sensible Right is to make this distinction.

Moshe Kahlon

Israeli Police ‘Polygraph Law’ passes 2nd and 3rd Knesset readings

Erdan: We took a big step today to strengthen public confidence in the police.

Israeli Police

Netanyahu passes spin-detector test

What kind of political pressure is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The Bedouin village that went to the Knesset

The Jerusalem Post

That is not the Western Wall crisis – that is a crisis of Jewish identity

The Jerusalem Post

Grapevine: An added dimension

For many Maccabiah athletes coming to Israel for the first time seeing the real Israel is an experience like that of people in Birthright groups.

FROM LEFT: Cosmetics queen Pnina Rosenbloom, fashion designer Inbal Or and singer Rita photographed at Beauty City

Olmert not retiring, but not returning to politics

While in prison, Olmert completed writing an autobiography that was confiscated two weeks ago from his publisher by the state prosecution.

FORMER PRIME MINISTER Ehud Olmert waits for the judges at the Supreme Court in 2015