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Byline: Shira Rubin, Lior Soroka TEL AVIV - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, one of the most vocal and prominent critics of his [...]

A better Israeli prime minister than Benjamin Netanyahu would immediately hold an election. Israelis deserve a government they believe can bring them out of crisis, not one that got them [...]

Byline: Adela Suliman, Susannah George, Bryan Pietsch A television interview followed by a sharp government response is the latest evidence of a deepening rift between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [...]

Byline: Steve Hendrix JERUSALEM - In the pandemonium that followed Hamas's surprise attack on Oct. 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved quickly to unify Israel's many combative factions. He invited [...]

Byline: Shira Rubin TEL AVIV - Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot, centrist members of Israel's war cabinet, announced on Sunday night they would resign from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency [...]

Byline: Kelsey Ables and Victoria Bisset As Israel presses its bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, some global leaders are returning [...]

Israel's government passed a bill in July limiting judicial influence. The Supreme Court began meeting on Tuesday to decide whether to strike down the bill, potentially setting up a constitutional [...]

Republicans rushed to schedule a vote on the measure after a leading progressive Democrat condemned Israel as racist ahead of an address to Congress by the country's president. The House [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang President Biden on Monday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a meeting in the United States before the year's end, marking the first such invitation [...]

Byline: John Wagner A group of Democrats are circulating a draft letter among their colleagues in which they express deep concern about 'unacceptable' comments made over the weekend by Rep. [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger Israel is on the verge of a constitutional crisis - in part because it doesn't actually have a constitution. For months Jewish Israelis have been taking to [...]

Byline: Gordon F. Sander Seventy-five years ago Sunday, precisely on schedule at midnight, the first Jewish state in nearly 2,000 years was declared in Jerusalem. Exactly 11 minutes later, the [...]

Years ago, Aharon Barak helped shape Israel's judicial system. Now the government wants to unravel his legacy, thrusting the retiree back into the spotlight. Aharon Barak's one-bedroom apartment in central [...]

Byline: Neri Zilber Contributor Abstract: For months, Israelis have protested proposed judicial reforms. But as events around Israel's 75th anniversary made clear, the divisions roiling its society are even more [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles JERUSALEM - As a congressman, Ron DeSantis traveled here to scout U.S. Embassy sites, encouraging then-President Donald Trump to buck diplomatic tradition and recognize the contested holy [...]

Byline: Shira Rubin TEL AVIV - Israeli families gathered at military cemeteries and memorial sites across the country Tuesday to recite prayers and lay wreaths for the fallen, only to [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck JERUSALEM - Cross-border rocket fire. A nationwide manhunt. Police raids on one of Islam's holiest sites. With Israel's crises stacking up, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a [...]

Byline: Yasmeen Abutaleb President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call on Sunday that democratic values - including 'genuine checks and balances' - had to remain [...]

Israeli society is locked in a deep dispute over the future of its judiciary and democracy. The conflict is rooted in shifts of the last three decades. When Israeli lawmakers [...]

Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to restrict judicial independence have divided Israel. But a small group of academics has met privately with lawmakers in a search for middle ground. The Israeli government's [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor Throughout his long political career, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invoked a popular turn of phrase. Israel, he has often said, is an 'oasis of democracy' [...]

Israel's new right-wing government is moving quickly to transform the country. Israel's government, the most right-wing in its history, is barely three weeks old and already leaving its mark, quickly [...]

Byline: Shira Rubin JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inaugurated the most right-wing government in Israel's history on Thursday, launching a divisive chapter of national politics that pits newly influential [...]

After weeks of talks, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had formed a new governing coalition. Once ratified by Parliament, the deal will return him to power at the head of a [...]

Byline: Shira Rubin TEL AVIV - Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu announced the formation of the most far-right government in the country's history Wednesday night, marking the imminent return of its longest-serving [...]

Byline: Shira Rubin TEL AVIV - Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu announced the formation of the most far-right government in the country's history Wednesday night, marking the return of its longest-serving leader [...]

This article has been updated to reflect news developments. A week of reporting from Israel and the West Bank has left me feeling that the prospect for a two-state solution [...]

Byline: Shira Rubin HEBRON, West Bank - Last month, as tens of thousands of right-wing Jewish pilgrims paraded through Hebron's old city under the protection of the Israeli army, 18-year-old [...]

The extreme wing of the nationalist religious community has prevailed. At the same time, religious Zionists are increasingly part of the Israeli mainstream. HEBRON, West Bank -- The Jewish settlement [...]

JERUSALEM -- Anshel Pfeffer, a columnist for the left-wing newspaper Haaretz, was appalled last week after the Israeli electorate gave a far-right alliance nearly 11 percent of the vote, making [...]

Late Tuesday night in Jerusalem, Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the far-right Jewish Power Party, stood onstage triumphant before a raucous, ecstatic crowd. His supporters chanted, ''Look who it is, [...]