A desperate Netanyahu is firing at all fronts to win the election. Even Trump has had enough
The glut of new small parties throwing their hats in the ring is increasing the chances that after the voters have their say, there will not...
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The New Yorker's David Remnick on Netanyahu, Mamdani, and Israel's 'failure to face' Gaza
Longtime editor-in-chief of The New Yorker David Remnick joins the Haaretz podcast and guest host Joshua Leifer for a wide-ranging conversat...
Israeli election update: Netanyahu's iron grip on the Likud primary
The battle over the Likud Party primaries this week was a clear example of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserting his dominance over hi...
What the hell is going on in the West Bank?
Nearly three years since Israel's war in Gaza began, and despite a lengthy case brought before the High Court of Israel, journalists remain...
'Right-wing but not Netanyahu': Will Israel's new mini-parties save Bibi or bury him?
While the polls in Israel have been relatively stagnant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's personal standing has faltered. "The minute tha...
'Trump started a war with no plan. Now he doesn't know how to end it'
Haaretz senior defense columnist Amos Harel joins the Haaretz Podcast to discuss Trump's latest U-turn on Iran, from threatening to bomb the...
Could a Jewish politician joining an Islamist party shake up Israel's elections?
Gadi Eisenkot "hasn't finished his rise" in the polls after his party, Yashar, has overtaken Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party...
This Israeli ultra-Orthodox feminist activist has a warning for U.S. Jews
On this week's Haaretz Podcast, guest host Joshua Leifer talks to Pnina Pfeuffer , a liberal, feminist ultra-Orthodox social activist. The J...
Three months to Israel's election: Why is Netanyahu really going to Washington?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence on traveling to the White House three months before the Israeli election signals his desperat...
'An extreme right-wing Israel can't just pour billions into PR and expect its U.S. image to improve'
Both Israeli leaders and the Israeli public – lulled by both President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden's backing of Israel...
‘What if there aren't free and fair elections in Israel in October? What are we going to do?’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be even more unpopular than the current polling demonstrates, Haaretz columnist Joshua Leifer said on...
Rep. Ro Khanna to Haaretz: ‘I’m more disturbed by Israel’s lies’ than being detained in West Bank
In his first interview with an Israeli media outlet since his confrontation with armed settlers and Israeli soldiers in the southern West Ba...
A digital 'forever war' on democracy: Iran and Netanyahu both sow chaos online ahead of Israeli elections
With Israeli elections set for October 27, Iran is increasingly pairing its military actions with aggressive online campaigns designed to so...
'We need allies, not just more security cameras': Reform movement head Rick Jacobs on the growing ‘isolation’ of U.S. Jews
The far-right religious Netanyahu government is doing its best to "push away" liberal non-Orthodox American Jews from Israel, said Rabbi Ric...
'Israel’s opposition must join with Arab parties to beat Netanyahu. It's the right thing to do'
Unless something dramatic changes, the upcoming Israeli election will either end in a deadlock or a bold move to "get rid of the foolish sel...
‘I promise I haven’t joined the Israel haters’: Brad Lander sits down with Haaretz
Brad Lander said on the Haaretz Podcast that his resounding victory in the race for the Democratic nomination for Congress in a New York Cit...
Haaretz Election Podcast Kickoff: How far will Netanyahu go to stay in power?
In the inaugural episode of Haaretz's new Election Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer welcomes the first weekly panel of Haaretz analysts w...
'December 14 was our October 7': How the Bondi massacre destroyed the Australian safe haven for Jews
For the Australian Jewish community, the date of December 14 carries as much gut-wrenching trauma as October 7 and September 11 does for Isr...
Haaretz investigation: The Israeli far-right’s West Bank land grab and why it's a ticking time bomb
In a special investigation on a "revolution" that has taken place over the past three years, Haaretz reporters Yarden Michaeli , Matan Golan...
Inside Israel’s other war: fighting the quiet dismantling of democracy
As Israelis focused on the life-and-death issues around conflicts with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, the Netanyahu government has slowly but st...