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Eisenkot’s move that could enable a minority government

Yashar! party chairman is formulating a mechanism to prevent MKs from leaving his faction if he decides to establish a minority government relying on Arab parties’…

Bereaved families demand Ra’am be disqualified

The Choosing Life Forum of bereaved families and terror victims has petitioned the Central Elections Committee, demanding that the Ra’am party be barred from running in…

Belgian universities slam Brussels for waffling on evacuating Gaza students

Rectors of country's top 10 universities accuse government of using 13 students as 'bargaining chips' amid division on issue within ruling coalition

Lapid-Netanyahu meeting said to ‘blow up’ over clash on increasing IDF’s budget

Opposition leader says he'll only support move if coalition diverts funds from 'Haredi draft evasion'; Likud accuses him of 'abandoning Israel's security' to play politics

Netanyahu to travel to New York for UN General Assembly, to give address on September 24

The Prime Minister's Office said in a statement that Netanyahu will be traveling to New York from September 23 to 25 to attend the UN's leaders'…

As parties lock in, Eisenkot plots path to power through heart of old Likud

With political landscape static, Netanyahu's way to victory uncertain, while his chief rival is leaning right with a new party that looks a lot like what…

Israel unlikely to improve Saudi ties despite Houthi threat, expert tells 'Post' – interview

“If there was a new governing coalition that seemed more committed to discretion, then perhaps there would be an opening for greater cooperation,” Dr. Brandon Friedman…

Ex-security chiefs warn political actors could stoke war to disrupt Israel election

Ehud Barak, Moshe Ya’alon, Tamir Pardo and Moshe Karadi warn that mounting tensions in the West Bank and with Turkey could be exploited to create a…

Turkey arrests dozens in sweeping LGBTQ crackdown as Erdogan targets ‘perverts’

Police raided LGBTQ homes, gay bars, a men’s bathhouse and advocacy groups in five cities under the ‘My Family is Safe’ operation; critics accuse Erdogan of…

Why Israel opened its first Slovenia embassy in just three months: ‘Czechia couldn’t stand alone’

Israel fast-tracked its first embassy in Ljubljana after Slovenia’s new government reversed a series of anti-Israel measures; officials say its support became especially important as Jerusalem…

Likud seeks to bar two Arab lists from Israel’s next Knesset election

'Civil partnership': Naftali Bennett’s reversal and plan for LGBTQ equality

More than a decade after opposing same-sex marriage recognition, Bennett now pledges full LGBTQ equality, including bans on discrimination and conversion therapy and a Basic Law…

Norway weighs up to 3 years in prison for trade with Israeli settlers in West Bank

Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says parliament could approve the measure this fall, covering individuals and companies trading with settlements, including in East Jerusalem; an Israeli…