Oren Levi

Five months ago, Naftali Bennett looked like the man to beat Benjamin Netanyahu. On October 27, he enters Israel's election as the leader of a shrinking list, overtaken in the opposition camp by a former army chief with no political baggage.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday at a ceremony marking the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, that the group would never again hold "any power" in the Gaza Strip, where the question of future governance remains unresolved.

Air Canada is joining a growing list of North American carriers heading back to Tel Aviv.

Qatar on Tuesday denounced "Israeli statements regarding the annexation of areas in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip," calling them "a flagrant challenge to international law and legitimate international resolutions,".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent six hours on the ground in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, in a visit dominated by talks on Iran with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (MBZ), sources told The Jerusalem Post. 

Israel's army radio (GLZ) announced Thursday a "significant" reduction in the number of brigades deployed in the occupied "buffer zone" in southern Lebanon.

For 24 hours, Israel will live in slow motion. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, begins Sunday evening. 

About 1,370 Israeli doctors spent at least a year outside the country between 2023 and 2025, a Tel Aviv University study published Sunday found, a 94% jump from the same three-year window a decade earlier.

Israel's political scene keeps splintering ahead of the October 27 vote, with retired Brigadier General Ofer Winter becoming the latest figure to enter the race, launching a new party, Amcha Israel.

Israel’s foreign minister on Monday accused Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of telling a “brazen lie” after Sánchez said Russian and Israeli-linked networks had spread disinformation around last month’s mass migrant crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

Last week's chaos at Ben Gurion Airport -mass delays, stranded luggage, a near-total shutdown - was more than a one-off crisis, according to an analysis published Monday by the Times of Israel. 

Israel's main left-wing party, Hademocratim (The Democrats), launched its campaign for the October 27 legislative elections on Monday evening, after selecting its list of candidates through primaries.