State

'Correct a historical injustice': Yair Lapid to table Knesset bill branding Qatar as 'enemy state'

Lapid plans to table legislation defining Qatar as an enemy state, accusing it of acting against Israel’s security interests, including by funding terror groups, such as Hamas.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaking at the Knesset, Jerusalem, January 26, 2026.
Activists hold banners, calling for a free Iran, supporting Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi (R) and comparing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (L) in New York, January 18, 2026; illustrative.

WATCH: Anti-regime activists hack Iran's national broadcaster, transmit Pahlavi's calls to protest

 International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva attends a press conference with Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly in the Cabinet at the New Administrative Capital (NAC) in the east of Cairo, Egypt, November 3, 2024.

Egypt finalizes $6 billion in state asset sales across 11 sectors

From legalizing neighborhood councils in Israeli cities to supporting Kurdish statehood


The art of advertising a country

I thought I’d write about how commercial brands take advantage of the unique selling proposition of their country to benefit their brand.

The Eurovision Coca-Cola Gold Special/Limited Edition, Tel Aviv 2019

US House passes bill to make Washington, DC, the 51st state

By a vote of 216-208, the Democratic-controlled House approved the initiative with no Republican support.

Marine One, carrying outgoing US President Donald Trump, passes the Capitol before the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington, US, January 20, 2021.

Why the US Supreme Court will not turn election for Trump - analysis

It would be Trump trying to overturn the default state count by getting the Court to overturn policies and decisions by state officials.

THE US Supreme Court

Biden edges closer to White House win as Trump mounts legal challenge

Biden: 'It's clear that we're winning enough states.' Trump campaign says it is suing in key states.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Florida, where the Jewish vote for president really counts

Even at this late stage, it seems too close to call in terms of who will win the election. When the race is broken down state-by-state, it could go either way.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump throws a face mask from the stage during a campaign rally in Sanford, Florida, on October 12.

Israel's State Archives demand all state-related documents be handed in

Ruti Abramovitch, the state archivist, threatened other archives in a letter, writing that 'any archives holding a document defined as classified may be subject to severe penalties'

Yaacov Lozowick, then director of the Israel State Archive, poses for a picture at the national archive in Jerusalem April 19, 2016

Is there a common theme in the outbreak of antisemitism in the West?

A sense that “democracies don’t control” their own countries has contributed to the rise of antisemitism.

A MAN wearing a kippa waits for the start of a demonstration against antisemitism at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in 2014

U.S., Israel work to block unilateral Palestinian statehood drive at U.N.

"We are preparing to stop the initiative,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the United Nations, February 2018

Israel’s Tango between Religion and State

The Jerusalem Post

Civil marriage now

As the 69-year-old argument about the separation of religion from state continues to unravel, matrimony in Israel bears the brunt of the status quo.

At Noam and Noa’s wedding