The next president will assume office after what will be remembered as a laughably poor voter turnout amid an economy shattered by the coronavirus and years of U.S. sanctions.
Israel Resilience Party leader and prime-ministerial hopeful Benny Gantz raised the ire of Israeli right-wingers after his first interview indicated his favorable opinion of the 2005 Gaza disengagement, in which 8,500 Jews were forcibly removed from Gaza in a unilateral bid to grant Palestinians land for a state.
With its elected leaders hamstrung by unelected lawyers, the likelihood that Israel will be capable of conceiving and carrying out a policy to block Iran's rise as a nuclear power is not high.
As long as we treat support for an anti-Semitic movement as just another legitimate point of view, Jew-hatred and delegitimization will continue to spread.
The rocket-launching site was located in a civilian area, “once again emphasizing how Hamas endangers Palestinian civilians,” says the Israeli military.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accuses E.U. foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell of leading an "antisemitic, hate-filled campaign against Israel."