Left wing israel

Israel’s election: Which parties are most likely to keep their promises? - opinion

Israel’s crowded political field leaves voters weighing party leaders, broken promises, and competing priorities.

People participate in a street poll ahead of the election, in Mahaneh Yehuda last week.
An ultra-Orthodox man blows a shofar ahead of Rosh Hashanah in Mea She’arim in Jerusalem in August

Promote Jewish diversity within unity – opinion

AN ISRAELI settler (R) and a Palestinian farmer are seen arguing during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, on October 29, 2025.

Israel's real West Bank problem is not settler violence - it is the settlement enterprise - opinion

Gadi Taub sits down with Editor-in-chief Zvika Klein to retrace the defection that took him from Peace Now demonstrations to the front line of the fight over Israel's Supreme Court, its media and its national identity.

Who is Gadi Taub , the Labor prince who became the Israeli Left’s fiercest critic?


Six Day War: What's left of Israel's Left, 55 years later?

The Six Day War that initially led the Labor Party to its biggest victory ever, actually caused its demise.

GOLDA MEIR on the dais at the Mapai-Labor Party conference with (from L) Zalman Shazar, David Ben-Gurion and Giora Yoseftal, Tel Aviv, 1959.

Six Day War: Israel’s Left is alive and kicking, 55 years later

Topics such as gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights and the Arab community have moved into the first few slots, whereas topics like ending the occupation and achieving peace have become less of a priority.

 IN THE 1980s, over 400,000 Israelis protested against the Lebanon War: IDF soldiers who returned from fighting in the First Lebanon War demonstrate in front of prime minister Menachem Begin’s residence in Jerusalem, 1983.

Golan calls right-wing high school student a threat to Israel's security

The student's comments were made during a discussion between grade 12 students and Golan on Zionism and religion.

 Deputy Economy Minister Yair Golan at the Knesset plenum

Israeli building in E1 will thwart Palestinian state, NGOs tell IDF

'Israeli construction on E1 harms Palestine’s future growth potential and therefore closes the door to the possibility of a peace agreement,' architect Uri Reicher told the Civil Administration.

The E1 territory, located outside of Jerusalem and within the jurisdiction of the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement

IDF to hold hearing on contentious E1 settler building project

Left wing organizations, as well as the international community, see the project as harmful to Palestinians, while the right sees it as a security insurance policy.

 View of the desert near Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, January 26, 2021.

Changing ideologies: Three people who changed their worldview

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: It could be a former socialist hippie who became a venture capitalist, a haredi woman who became a fashion mogul, or the son of a Hamas terrorist who became a Zionist.

AN ARMED MAN looks at the Israeli flag in the settlement of Rehelim in 2002, whose founders included now-Peace Now activist Shabtay Bendet.

Politics of guilt: Why does the Left oppose 'occupation' - opinion

Although many in the international community promote a two-state-solution and ending the occupation, they are oblivious to the danger this poses to Israel.

ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN demonstrators argue during a protest in Al-Thaalaba village in 2020.

Bennett, Shaked security levels raised to 2nd highest amid death threats

Labor Party chairwoman Merav Michaeli: "[Netanyahu's] hatred is the main reason why I have always refused to sit with him and why I am so committed to replacing him."

Pro-Netanyahu protesters hold up a sign which says "Leftist traitors" outside the home of Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked in Tel Aviv, May 30, 2021.

The Left, Hamas are boosting Netanyahu - opinion

In a perverse way, the whole scenario boosts Netanyahu and his the-whole-world-hates-us enablers – from Hamas’s bombing to the Left’s bashing to the antisemites’ bullying.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu briefs ambassadors to Israel at a military base in Tel Aviv last week.

When did a left-wing government become a danger? - opinion

Today, the demonization and bad-mouthing of the leftists/liberals/socialists is undoubtedly much more widespread than several decades ago.

Would a government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid really be a potential leftist disaster?