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| Oct 7, 2026 | Scars from Oct. 7 fuel deep divisions over Netanyahu ahead of Israeli election | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOSEF FEDERMAN
JERUSALEM (AP) — As Israel gears up for its first elections since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponents are putting it at the hear... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | In rejecting Trump’s Gaza plan, Netanyahu reprises a balancing act he has mastered | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOSEPH KRAUSS
It’s possibly the most important job of any Israeli prime minister: maintain good relations with the United States while pushing back on demands seen as undermining Israel’s securi... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Israelis worry about weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis across political and religious lines are worried about the weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans — who, according to a recent AP-NORC po... |
| Jul 17, 2026 | A former prime minister who led Israel out of Lebanon fears mistakes are being repeated | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MELANIE LIDMAN
JERUSALEM (AP) — It was just before sunrise when the last columns of Israeli tanks crossed from Lebanon back into Israel and then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who ordered the withdr... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Gaza faces uncertain future as Palestinians and Israelis mark 1,000 days of war | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CARA ANNA
It’s the 1,000th day since a Hamas-led attack on Israel sparked the war in Gaza. Other conflicts have emerged in the region, and fragile ceasefires show scars of persistent attacks. Bo... |
| Jun 1, 2026 | 1 in 3 Israelis faces lower income as Iran war deepens financial strain | About a third of employees in Israel are battling lower monthly income and a worsening financial situation as they struggle to recover from the economic fallout of more than two and a half years of hostilities sparked by the October 7, 2023... |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Israeli parliament approves the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JULIA FRANKEL
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament on Monday passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, a measure that has been harshly condemned ... |
| Mar 29, 2026 | Hundreds of Israelis protest against war, clash with police | TEL AVIV: Hundreds of Israeli protesters gathered in Tel Aviv and some other cities on Saturday to protest the war in the Middle East, in unauthorised demonstrations that security forces sought to disperse.
Weekly protests against the war l... |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Workers in Israel were reeling from financial toll of Hamas conflict even before Iran war | Almost one-third of employees in Israel were already battling lower monthly incomes as they struggled to recover from the financial fallout of more than two years of war sparked by the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, according to a survey ... |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Netanyahu wants Trump to demand more from Iran. The leaders will meet this week | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MELANIE LIDMAN
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Washington on Tuesday to encourage President Donald Trump to expand the scope of high-stakes nuclear talks ... |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Netanyahu government moves to shut down Israel’s Army Radio | JERUSALEM: Israel’s cabinet on Monday (Dec 22) approved a plan to shut down Army Radio, a popular national broadcaster, in a move that critics say is part of a wider campaign by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition to cu... |
| Nov 12, 2025 | Trump urges Israel to pardon Netanyahu, sparking concerns over US influence | By MELANIE LIDMAN, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday sent a letter to Israel’s president asking him to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a long-running corruption trial that has bitterly di... |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Israel rocked by scandal as top military lawyer resigns, goes missing, is found and thrown into jail | By MELANIE LIDMAN and JULIA FRANKEL, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Until last week, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was the Israeli army’s top lawyer. Now she is behind bars and at the center of a scandal rocking the country after a bi... |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Vance calls Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation an ‘insult’ | By RENATA BRITO and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticized on Thursday a symbolic vote in Israel’s parliament the previous day about annexing the occupied West Bank, saying it amounted to an “... |
| Jan 20, 2025 | A Fragile Peace: The Complex Reality of the Gaza Ceasefire | In the heart of Israel, emotions run high as the nation grapples with the aftermath of a long and brutal conflict. The recent ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has sparked a mix of hope and skepticism. For many, the return of hos... |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Cheers and weeping as Israelis watch Gaza hostages return | SDEROT, Israel: Hundreds of Israelis gathered in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, some cheering and some in tears, as a giant television screen broadcast the first glimpse of the first three hostages to be released under the Gaza ceasefire deal... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | The Global Ripple of Trump's Return: Reactions from China and Israel | The world holds its breath as Donald Trump ascends to the presidency once more. His victory sends shockwaves across continents, igniting varied reactions. In China, the mood is a mix of indifference and cautious concern. In Israel, it’s a c... |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Israeli government celebrates Trump's election triumph | JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters celebrated Donald Trump's election as president, hailing what a leader of the Israeli settler movement called an ally who would support them "unconditionally&... |
| Oct 30, 2024 | Israel short on soldiers after year of war | JERUSALEM: More than a year into the Gaza war, the Israeli army's reservists are exhausted and it is struggling to recruit soldiers just as it opens a new front in Lebanon.
Some 300,000 reservists have been called up since the Hamas at... |
| Oct 22, 2024 | The Cost of Conflict: Israel's Economic Dilemma Amid Ongoing War | The echoes of war resonate deeply within Israel's economy. The recent conflict has been a double-edged sword, slicing through growth and labor supply. In the wake of Hamas's attacks, Israel's economic output plummeted by 5.6%... |
| Oct 21, 2024 | Israel’s wars are expensive. Paying the bill could force tough choices | The war hurt growth and the labor supply
In the three months after Hamas attacked, Israel’s economic output shrank 5.6%, the worst performance of any of the 38 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group ... |
| May 11, 2023 | Gender-Blind Hiring: How To Assess (And Retain) The Best Candidates | Pini Yakuel, Founder & CEO of Optimove, is one of the leading experts in technologies that drive customer retention and loyalty. |
| Apr 23, 2023 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says judicial system overhaul is an "internal matter" | In an interview for "Face the Nation," Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Margaret Brennan that the backlash sparked by the controversial judicial reforms proposed by his government is an "internal matter th... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Murabitat: The Palestinian women defending Al-Aqsa | Occupied East Jerusalem – Shouts of “Allahu Akbar! [God is greatest!]” reverberate from the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. One voice travels farther than the rest; bellowing across the centuries-old stone homes and the narrow, cobble... |
| Apr 11, 2023 | The corruption and autocracy nexus: The case of “King Bibi” | Some commentators felt that the appearance of Benjamin Netanyahu was an embarrassing exception to the many successes of the recently concluded Summit for Democracy. We disagree. To be sure, Netanyahu’s remarks in praise of democracy were di... |
| Apr 5, 2023 | Op/ed: What’s Happened and What’s Next After Israel’s Protests? | Last Monday, protests in Israel crested over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition’s plan to pass a judicial overhaul that would weaken the country’s court system. Labor strikes shut down Ben Gurion Airport, the coun... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | The Israeli President’s Plan to End the Constitutional Crisis | The current political crisis in Israel started on Jan. 4, when Minister of Justice Yariv Levin presented the government’s radical plans to overhaul Israel’s judicial system. (We have discussed notable aspects of the proposal in a series for... |
| Mar 22, 2023 | Persistent Violence in Israel-Palestine Could Escalate Further | Persistent violence in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank could escalate ahead of major Muslim and Jewish holidays – Ramadan and Passover – which will coincide in 2023 as they did the two preceding years. Tensions have been rising fo... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | The Current State of Play in Israel’s Constitutional Showdown | Since Jan. 11, the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee has held, almost on a daily basis, hearings dedicated to the judicial reform package under the provocative heading, “Zion shall be redeemed by justice: restoring justice to ... |
| Feb 21, 2023 | No More Legal ‘Gatekeepers’? Plans to Downgrade the Status of Government Legal Advisors in Israel | Downgrading the independence of government legal advisers is not among the highest-profile proposals to reform the Israeli legal system being advanced by Israel’s new right-wing government. Next to limiting the power of the Supreme Court to... |
| Feb 16, 2023 | The Fight Over Judicial Appointments in Israel | Editor's note: click here for part one in this series on the sweeping legal and judicial reforms proposed by Israel's new government, and here for part two.
Since 1953, judicial appointments in Israel have been made through a Judi... |
| Feb 15, 2023 | Reversing the ‘Constitutional Revolution’: The Israeli Government’s Plan to Undermine the Supreme Court’s Judicial Review of Legislation | Editor’s note: The first article in this series described Israel’s “constitutional revolution” of the 1990s, which resulted in the Supreme Court exercising powers of judicial review over Knesset legislation. This article describes in more d... |
| Feb 14, 2023 | The New Israeli Government’s ‘Constitutional Law Reforms’: Why now? What do they mean? And what will happen next? | Following the Nov. 1, 2022, Israeli elections, the right-wing bloc of parties headed by the Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu—which won, jointly, 64 out of 120 seats in the Knesset—was able to form a government, and on Dec. 29, 2022, Israel’s 37... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | Позабытый конфликт | Число жертв палестино-израильского конфликта растет с каждым днем. Только во вторник палестинский Минздрав сообщил о трех молодых людях, погибших в ходе столкновений с израильскими силами безопасности. В свою очередь, в Израиле в результате... |
| Dec 28, 2021 | Proposed online censorship bill more intrusive than in any other democracy — expert | The Israel Democracy Institute and the Israel Internet Association filed an urgent request on Tuesday with the Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation to review a bill seeking to curtail “incitement” online that, they say, goes far ... |
| Nov 4, 2021 | Israel’s tech sector is on the wrong track | Dan Perry Contributor
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| Jun 5, 2020 | Regulating Offensive Online Speech—Are the Times Finally A-Changin’? | The fast-moving escalation in the conflict between President Trump and Twitter in the last week of May may prove in hindsight to be a watershed development for the legal architecture of online social media.
The flurry of activity included T... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | The Near Disqualification of Heba Yazbak: Defensive Democracy in a Divided Society? | On Feb. 9, the Israeli Supreme Court handed down its judgement in Katz v. Heba Yazbak, narrowly overturning a decision by the Central Elections Committee (CEC) to disqualify Palestinian-Israeli Member of Knesset (MK) Heba Yazbak from runnin... |
| Jan 18, 2020 | Netanyahu and the Anatomy of a Constitutional Crisis | Amidst a flurry of constant political maneuvering, intense legal debate and multiple Supreme Court cases, Israel has been stuck in political and constitutional deadlock for nearly a year. For the first time in its history, Israel will hold ... |
| Sep 26, 2019 | Privacy in a digital world | Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler Contributor
Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a Senior Fellow and head of the Democracy in the Information Age Project at The Israel Democracy Institute’s.
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| Aug 6, 2019 | The crossroads between ethics and technology | Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler Contributor
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| Jul 10, 2019 | Is Limiting the Gaza Fishing Zone Collective Punishment? | Escalations in the armed conflict between Israel, Hamas and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip tend to follow a familiar pattern. Often, following the shooting of rockets or the launching of incendiary balloons from Gaza to Israel, the Is... |
| Feb 12, 2019 | In healthcare, better data demands better privacy protections | Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler Contributor
Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a Senior Fellow and head of the Democracy in the Information Age Project at The Israel Democracy Institute’s.
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| Dec 20, 2018 | Cybersecurity and human rights | Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler Contributor
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| Jul 2, 2018 | In Israeli Residency Case, Individual Responsibility vs. Collective Punishment | At the peak of a wave of stabbing attacks by Palestinian youth, mainly in Jerusalem, in October 2015, 17-year-old Mustafa al-Khatib stabbed a member of the Israeli Border Police. The officer was slightly wounded, and security forces killed ... |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Indicting a Sitting Prime Minister: The Israeli Constitutional Framework | The recent weeks have seen a flurry of developments in a number of criminal investigations involving Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. These developments fueled debates as to whether Netanyahu should continue serving as prime min... |
| Dec 22, 2017 | ‘Pressure Techniques’ and Oversight of Shin Bet Interrogations: Abu Gosh v. Attorney General | Last week, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a decision concerning one of the most sensitive areas of counterterrorism policy and practice. The decision considered so-called “pressure techniques” the Israeli Security Agency (the ISA, known... |
| Jul 7, 2017 | New Developments in Israeli Counterterrorism Law: Discrimination in Home Demolitions, Civil Lawsuits, and Material Support | The past few weeks have seen several significant legal developments concerning Israeli counterterrorism policy. First, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that as a matter of principle, the Israeli authorities may not discriminate between Pal... |
| Mar 22, 2017 | The Mobileye acquisition is proof that AI needs guidelines | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The sale of Mobileye to Intel is not surprising w... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | Innovation was the epic fail of 2016 | Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler Contributor
Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a Senior Fellow and head of the Democracy in the Information Age Project at The Israel Democracy Institute’s.
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| Aug 8, 2016 | As brain drain looms, new rules create roadblocks for ultra-orthodox to enter Israel’s tech sector | Dennis Mitzner Contributor
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| Aug 18, 2014 | Israeli Left Finds Itself Isolated After Gaza War | The past month has not been an easy one for left-leaning organizations in Israel. A July poll by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), a non-partisan Israeli think-tank, found that 95% of Israelis believed Operation Protective Edge was just... |
| More Israelis satisfied with their economic situation than before pandemic — survey | Israelis are slightly more satisfied with their personal economic situation than they were before the pandemic, a new survey has found.
The survey released Tuesday by the Israel Democracy Institute also showed that Israelis were more satisf... |
| Socioeconomic mobility between generations is relatively low in Israel — study | Israel has a relatively low rate of intergenerational mobility, meaning it’s generally uncommon for children born into lower income categories to climb up the socioeconomic ladder, according to a new study.
Only 14% of children born into Is... |
| Israel's Netanyahu may have some cards 'up his sleeve' as opponents close in to unseat him | Naftali Bennett of the right-wing Yamina party announced late Sunday his intention to team up with the centrist Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, to form what aims to be a unity coalition.
This would be a diverse collection of part... |
| These countries have the most at stake as the U.S. heads to the polls | The whole world is watching the U.S. presidential election as voters go to the polls Tuesday, but for some countries the vote is more consequential than for others.
The stability of foreign governments, economies and even territorial integr... |
