Politics

Israel’s Likud party announced Thursday evening that MK Tali Gottlieb will be permitted to leave the party and join Otzma Yehudit, headed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

In one of the most dramatic political shake-ups in Israel's ultra-Orthodox community in years, the leadership of Degel HaTorah, the Lithuanian faction within United Torah Judaism, has decided to remove two of its most senior politicians, MK Moshe Gafni and MK Uri Maklev, from the party's Knesset list ahead of the upcoming elections.

Israel's State Attorney's Office has filed an indictment against Meir David Shmueli, a Jerusalem resident who delivers Torah lessons in synagogues, accusing him of incitement to racism following statements in which he allegedly accused Arab medical professionals of deliberately harming Jewish patients and Israel Defense Forces soldiers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu filed a NIS 2.6 million defamation lawsuit Monday at the Jerusalem District Court against a group of Israeli media organizations and journalists over reports concerning alleged warnings he received before Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack

A classified U.S. intelligence assessment attributed to the CIA warns that Israel could face a serious internal crisis, including the possibility of “civil conflict” and even state breakdown, as political, economic and social tensions intensify after years of war

Israel on Wednesday marked three years since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack with ceremonies, memorial events and moments of silence across the country, as bereaved families returned to the communities and sites where hundreds of people were killed or abducted

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Tuesday night that Abbas Kamel, then head of Egypt’s General Intelligence Service, arrived in Israel shortly before the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack