Israel Politics & Policy News: Foreign Relations, Current Affairs, & Issues

As Israel ups the ante of covert warfare, Iran scrambles to respond.

Targeting senior leaders critical to an enemy program makes strategic sense from Israel’s perspective.

But a fifth election in less than four years is more likely to produce deadlock—again.

The right-wing Israeli leader’s fragile coalition is vastly preferable to a return of Netanyahu.

Egypt and Israel are undermining their peace treaty—and it needs to be stopped.

A recent book examines the origins and end of an affair between the film industry and the Jewish state.

Shireen Abu Akleh was neither a terrorist nor a dissident. But Israeli authorities treated the journalist’s funeral as a threat to their security.

Settlement growth in the West Bank is a product of population pressure, not policy.

The plan would satisfy concerns across the political spectrum by tackling the thorniest issues in new ways.

Where it counts—in the halls of government and boardrooms—the effort to boycott Israel doesn’t even register.

A revived nuclear pact could benefit Washington and Tehran but is proving a hard sell.

The status quo of military occupation is working well for those at the top of the PLO.

Israel says it’s well positioned to mediate a truce between Russia and Ukraine. It also has interests to protect.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said it’s “inconceivable” that Israel doesn’t stand by its allies and clearly denounce Russia’s invasion.

The Israeli government is feigning neutrality—but its long-term national interests mean it has no choice but to side with the West.

Israel hones invasive surveillance technology on Palestinians before it is exported abroad.

Rekindling the nuclear deal with Tehran will solve one regional problem—and cause others.

The ground in the Middle East is shifting yet again.

A little over a year after the Abraham Accords, Israel and its new Arab partners are seeing dividends.