“I was blinded by my own style and habit and thus late to see that this government is different, this coalition is different, this opposition is different, and this crisis is very different.”
History will likely list 2023 as transformative in Israeli politics.
Against the backdrop of increased settlement expansion and extremist violence in the West Bank, the already strained Biden-Netanyahu relationship is under pressure.
Jacob Forman
In the wake of the killing of the Yaniv brothers and the razing of Huwara, one MK hailed the “pogrom” as a success for Israeli security.
Itamar Ben-Gvir heads an Israeli political party called Jewish Power.
Moment’s Nathan Guttman provides in-depth analysis of American politicians’ reactions to the reelection of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s Prime Minister.
Moment
Moment reached out to three of our regular contributors to learn what the latest Israeli election results can teach us.
Netanyahu has long been the center of Israeli politics. But last week, Lapid finally changed the narrative.
When 41-year-old American novelist Joshua Cohen won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction last week for his semi-roman à clef, The Netanyahus, the first question occurring to close observers of Israeli culture and politics wasn’t “Is it good for the Jews?” but “How bad is it for Bibi and the family brand?”
Naftali Bennett, Israel’s new prime minister, has little international experience. Like Netanyahu, he opposes the Iranian nuclear deal.
Modern Hebrew, especially military and political jargon, tends to reflect the state of the nation.
