Benjamin Netanyahu came first. He did not win. Final results from Tuesday’s election hand his camp a lead but no majority, deliver a historic breakthrough for Arab parties and leave Israel facing weeks, perhaps months, of political uncertainty.
Qatar on Thursday flatly denied interfering in Israel’s legislative elections, after several Israeli officials and media outlets accused Arab parties of receiving funds from the Gulf emirate. Doha’s denial, however, has done little to quiet suspicions, given its history of buying influence abroad.
The count is nearly over. The verdict has not changed: no majority, no clear winner, and little chance of either.
As Israelis vote today in a closely fought general election, Jacques Lemoisson, head of the economic intelligence firm Gate Advisory, believes Benjamin Netanyahu’s fate will hinge less on his own party’s score than on his ability to build a coalition.
Tomorrow, Israelis head to the polls for the first time since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. For months, Benjamin Netanyahu looked set to lose.
Senior Emirati diplomat Lana Nusseibeh has thrown her hat into the ring to become the next United Nations secretary-general, injecting a prominent Middle Eastern candidate into a contest that has so far failed to produce a consensus among the Security Council’s most powerful members.
Four days. That’s all that separates Israel from an election billed as the most consequential in its history. And yet, if the polls are right, Israelis may wake up on October 28 to the most familiar result of all: no winner.
Foreign ministers from seven major European and Middle Eastern countries will meet in Istanbul on Friday to discuss key regional security issues, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Thursday.
French President Emmanuel Macron went to the Gulf to find diesel. He came back, or will, with promises.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed that he phoned Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in July 2025 to demand an end to the killing of Druze in Syria's Sweida province.
King Mohammed VI on Friday named the members of Morocco's new government, led by Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, the first woman to head a government in the country's history.
Avigdor Liberman does not do ambiguity, and with twelve days to go before Israel's October 27 election he has made his position plainer still.
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