Left wing israel

Israel’s biggest threats demand unity, not partisan warfare - opinion

Israelis must decide whether politics exists to strengthen the country – or whether the country itself will surrender its fate to partisan warfare.

Israelis attend a protest march against the decision of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire head of Shin Bat Ronen Bar, at the entrance to Jerusalem, March 19, 2025.
THE MAIN rehearsal of the 78th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem.

Independence Day and the new reality - opinion

 Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, central Israel, April 28, 2025

As political pressure mounts, Netanyahu delays controversial haredi draft law - opinion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Communications Minister Shlomo Kahri in the Knesset. Kahri advocates opening up the media market in Israel.

Dangerous game: Netanyahu risks Israel’s security to save coalition with draft deal - editorial


The revolutionary who changed Israel more than Aharon Barak

The truth is that former Supreme Court President Meir Shamgar in many ways started the judicial activist revolution long before Barak.

Meir Shamgar, former Supreme Court president

Likud: Left-wing activists provide rides for Bedouin voters against law

The Likud Party requested that the head of the Central Elections Committee order the organization and activists to disperse.

A Bedouin man casts his ballot in Knesset elections on April 9, 2019

Bibi, Right for Israel or Left for disaster

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu votes Tuesday in Jerusalem

Democratic Union leader Nitzan Horowitz, champion of the Left

Sitting in the Democratic Union campaign offices in Tel Aviv this week, Horowitz sought to explain why the left-wing has been so bereft of power and influence for so long.

Democratic Union leader Nitzan Horowitz

The House gets it right on BDS

"A powerful statement demonstrating that an overwhelming bipartisan majority rejects BDS."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) administers the oath of office to House members and delegates of the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 116th Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019

Ideological compromises

Larger parties mean less votes that go to waste for parties that do not cross the 3.25% threshold – Zehut and the New Right are two examples from the last election.

Israel Democratic Party's Ehud Barak, MK Stav Shaffir and Meretz's Nitzan Horowitz of the Democratic Camp

Shmuli slams Shaffir, signaling he won't bolt Labor for new left-wing bloc

Blue and White invites him to join

STAV SHAFFIR: The world sees us as only Netanyahu, and his voice is the only voice they hear

Labor will not be joining left-wing bloc, sources say

The Democratic Union was formed on Thursday by Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz, former prime minister Ehud Barak and Labor MK Stav Shaffir.

Amir Peretz is joined in the Labor Party by Orly Levy-Abekasis.

BDS supporter attacked in Tel Aviv, slashed across face

Jonathan Pollak was attacked in Tel Aviv on Sunday and called a 'fu**ing Leftist' – tells 'Post' he doesn't want any 'Jewish privilege.'

Jonathan Pollak after his assault in Tel Aviv

Political polarization feeding antisemitism

Both sides are unaware of being biased. Ideological media contributes to each side, forming its own isolated (and distorted) truth.

The Knesset House Committee voting on whether to pass Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bill to cancel ministers limit