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How a Netanyahu-less Israel might play here
By Jonathan S. Tobin
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, center, at the beginning of his meeting this week with Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. Haim Zach (GPO)
Next steps in the Israeli vote, explained
By Michele Chabin
Joint List leader Ayman Odeh. A Joint List voter said, “It’s important to have representation, less for specific policies but more to be able to determine agendas.” Getty Images
Arab voters flex their new muscle
By Nathan Jeffay
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, center, at the beginning of his meeting this week with Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. Haim Zach (GPO)
September 25, 2019, 2:04 pm
Next steps in the Israeli vote, explained
We asked some experts to help cut through the electoral fog
By Michele Chabin
Joint List leader Ayman Odeh. A Joint List voter said, “It’s important to have representation, less for specific policies but more to be able to determine agendas.” Getty Images
September 25, 2019, 1:56 pm
Arab voters flex their new muscle
Opposition role for Joint List possible as coalition talks proceed
By Nathan Jeffay
Jonathan S. Tobin
September 25, 2019, 1:43 pm
How a Netanyahu-less Israel might play here
By Jonathan S. Tobin
Illustrative image: Israelis celebrate the 71st Independence Day on Tel Aviv beach. Getty Images
September 18, 2019, 12:14 pm
Asking for a healthy debate on Israel, without the slings and arrows
By Martin J. Raffel
Stephen M. Flatow
September 11, 2019, 12:51 pm
Dear Israeli voters: a counterpoint
NJ attorney responds to column on U.S. Jews on eve of Israeli elections
By Stephen M. Flatow
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sept. 8. ABIR SULTAN/AFP/Getty Images
September 11, 2019, 12:37 pm
Will Israel’s do-over election change anything?
By NJJN Editors
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a news conference Tuesday as he vowed to annex the Jordan Valley should he win the Sept. 17 election. Getty Images
September 11, 2019, 12:25 pm
Cost of living, cost of annexation
For Israeli voters, pocketbook issues collide with security, questions about democracy
By Michele Chabin
Campaign billboards show President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu with the slogan “Netanyahu — another league,” suggesting that only Bibi has the access to world leaders that will help keep Israelis safe. Getty Images
September 11, 2019, 11:09 am
Bibi-Trump ties too close for comfort?
Prime minister’s access to world leaders as a selling point put to the test
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image: Israelis celebrate the 71st Independence Day on Tel Aviv beach. Getty Images
September 4, 2019, 1:01 pm
A go-between gets political fatigue
By Orli Santo
“I would expect my prime minister to give more thought to Jewish opinion in the U.S.,” said World Zionist Organization diaspora affairs chief Gusti Yehoshua-Braverman. Photo Courtesy WZO
August 21, 2019, 12:15 pm
On ban, criticism from an unlikely source
WZO’s diaspora affairs chief fears serious damage as Israel becomes polarizing issue in Congress
By Nathan Jeffay
Bedouin youth gather at A New Dawn in the Negev, which is helping to integrate Bedouins into Israeli society. Photo courtesy A New Dawn in the Negev
August 12, 2019, 11:26 am
Organization creates ‘a new dawn’ for Bedouins in Israel
Jamal Alkirnawi tells of creating initiative to aid integration
By Debra Rubin
Ethiopian Israelis and white allies gathered for a demonstration to protest the killing of an Ethiopian-Israeli teen by an off-duty police officer. Michele Chabin/JW
July 31, 2019, 11:20 am
Ethiopian Jews, once hailed, now cast aside
By NJJN Editors
Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and former Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the formation of their new party, The New Right, during a press conference in Tel Aviv. Getty Images
July 31, 2019, 11:11 am
Merger mania is political order of the day
By Joshua Mitnick
Bernie Sanders: questioned on Israel’s West Bank occupation. Photos by Scott Olson/Getty Images
July 10, 2019, 11:29 am
From Iowa to New Hampshire, Israel policy in play
Interest groups dig into early Democratic primary states
By Shira Hanau
Presidential advisors Jason Greenblatt, at left, speaks with Jared Kushner at a press conference in Jerusalem in 2017. Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images
June 26, 2019, 11:20 am
Missed opportunities, missing diplomacy
By NJJN Editors
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