Edward Finkelstein

On Monday, French MPs in committee approved a Socialist Party (PS) proposal to ban imports of goods from Israeli settlements and certain services linked to them. 

The Yisrael Beytenu leader says he is ready to compromise, even on military service for yeshiva students, but still rules out any deal with Arab parties.

Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed declared victory early Wednesday in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race, defeating Republican Mike Rogers and becoming the first Muslim elected to the Senate. 

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday called on political parties to do “everything possible” to form a governing coalition and spare the country another vote, as Tuesday’s election produced no clear majority.

A coalition of Mediterranean and Gulf states, backed by the European Union, has denounced the Libyan parliament’s approval of a 2019 maritime agreement with Turkey, calling the deal “null and void” and a threat to regional stability.

The Israeli and Hellenic navies have carried out a joint exercise in the Mediterranean Sea, led by the commanders of both forces.

For decades, voting in Israeli elections was off-limits for the Druze of the Golan Heights, who remained loyal to Syria. That taboo is now crumbling: 45% of the community holds Israeli citizenship today, compared with just 2% forty years ago, according to Ici Beyrouth.

A majority of Israelis would prefer a unity government to a repeat election if the October 27 vote fails to produce a clear winner, according to a poll for the daily Maariv. The same poll puts the governing and opposition blocs level, and neither is close to a majority.

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) on Monday presented HawkGuard, a new system designed to counter attack drones, at the AUSA 2026 defense exhibition in Washington.

France, one of the Palestinian Authority's main backers, on Sunday called on Palestinian leaders to "reverse their decision" to postpone legislative and presidential elections until September 2027 and to hold the votes "as soon as possible."

Benjamin Netanyahu's military secretary on October 7, 2023, has accused the prime minister of passing up chances to bring hostages home alive in order to protect his coalition. Netanyahu rejects the claim.

A reported CIA warning that Israel faces civil war or state collapse rests on anonymous briefings, an unpublished paper, and a unit whose job is to invent uncomfortable scenarios. That is a thin basis for a claim this large.