Exit polls following Israel’s second general election in five months suggest the result is too close to call. The centrist Blue and White alliance of former military chief Benny Gantz is projected to win between 32 and 34 seats, and
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to annex part of the occupied West Bank if he is returned to office next week. He would apply “Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea”, a policy certain to be
Fires blaze in a field on the Lebanese side of the border near the northern Israeli town of Avivim following an exchange of fire on Sunday. (CNN)The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has attacked an Israeli army base and a
(CNN)Israel announced Thursday it was barring the entry of two US congresswomen after Donald Trump encouraged the move, a remarkable step both by the US President and his ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to punish political opponents. Israel decided to ban
Jerusalem (CNN)Israel will hold new national elections in late summer after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to put together a coalition government from the parties elected to parliament on April 9th. It’s the first time in Israel’s history that a
(CNN) In February, as a Middle East meeting hosted by the Poles and orchestrated by the Trump administration kicked off, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted an ominous tweet, saying that the gathering was to “advance the common interest of war with
Jerusalem (CNN)Israelis are voting in a closely watched general election on Tuesday, seen here as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu. On March 31, Netanyahu marked ten uninterrupted years as Israel’s Prime Minister, in addition to the three years he led
Jerusalem (CNN)One of the more striking campaign ads preceding Israel’s upcoming elections featured footage from 2011 of Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House telling Barack Obama that the President’s wish to see a restarted peace process between Israelis and Palestinians