Israeli Politics

The Israeli government is expected to vote today for the re-appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as Foreign Minister. The move follows a court decision which acquitted Lieberman of corruption charges...

Haaretz newspaper has reported that many within Israel's Likud Party fear that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman seeks to gain control of the party from the inside by changing its...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is set to head the cabinet next week during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's two day visit to Russia, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported...

Israel's Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett has said that he is against the establishment of a Palestinian state, or even giving the Palestinians any land. During an interview with...

Israel's Labour and Shas parties have agreed to work together in the Knesset to help topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, according to Israeli newspaper Maariv. The new alliance...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has attacked current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his candid criticism of the recent US-brokered deal on Iran's nuclear programme. Speaking at a...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up his rhetoric in a media campaign against US President Barack Obama and his administration over the interim Geneva deal with Iran....

Transparency International, a UK-based organisation that campaigns against corruption, has ranked Israel at the lower end of the developed countries in terms of corruption. Out of the 34 countries...

Two of the most powerful right-wing parties in Israel, Yisrael Beytenu and Jewish Home, have agreed to "torpedo" the Prawer Plan, which aims to expel tens of thousands of...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has incurred harsh waves of criticism against his government's policy over the past few months, not only from Europe and the United States, who...

Israel's parliament, the Knesset, has voted by a large majority to block a bill intended to block negotiations for a political agreement over Jerusalem without first achieving the support...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has said that the current negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority aim to create a framework for more talks. They are not, he...

The Israeli media revealed on Thursday that a major corruption scandal is under investigation involving senior police officers suspected of receiving bribes from renowned Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto. Among...

Israel's Maariv newspaper quoted on Friday sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office saying that the US administration favours a recent proposal by Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor...

Arab MK Jamal Zahalqeh has called upon the Palestinian Authority to "immediately" stop peace talks with Israel in the wake of the Knesset's overwhelming vote on Monday to return...

On Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced the appointment of twice US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk as the "US Special Envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations". The...

Earlier this month The Hill, a political newspaper based in Washington DC, announced that Egypt's interim authorities had hired a lobby firm to bolster its image after the US...

The French President's cancellation of a speech to the Israeli Knesset has created a diplomatic crisis. In return, reported Yedioth Ahronoth, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein has decided to boycott...

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington two years ago, the US Congress gave him 29 standing ovations, four more than they had given to President Obama...

The peace process circus continued this week, as officials from Israel met in Jerusalem with negotiators from its Palestinian Authority puppet regime Wednesday night. Meeting in secrecy at the...

Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared in a high profile speech that "he would not support any peace agreement that does not include the exchange of...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have been to Harvard University, but his recurring gaffes suggest that he is not ready to be commander-in-chief of the world's biggest superpower....

On Friday, in Egypt's largely lawless Sinai Peninsula, a drone strike killed at least four suspected Islamic militants and destroyed a rocket launcher. The attack, which came one day...

Palestinians know that if Cairo sneezes then Palestine, especially Gaza, is first to get the flu. Indeed, Gaza often serves as a tool of regime policy, as was the...

It is no secret that the power struggle within Israeli politics has taken a sharp turn recently. The picture is not bright for the Israelis as the conflict's intensity...

Contrary to what Israel might have expected, Hamas's reaction to the latest Israeli escalation in Gaza didn't follow the normal pattern. Thus, Israeli calculations have been confused. Normally, Hamas...

This weekend saw protesters taking to the streets of Tel Aviv again to protest against the rising cost of living, austerity and what they call the "tycoon state". "We...

On Sunday, Israel's Cabinet voted in favour of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to release 104 "heavyweight" Palestinian prisoners still languishing in Israeli jails. The goodwill gesture hopes to...

Will re-launched Israeli-Palestinian negotiations lead to a sovereign Palestinian state? In this brief, Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Camille Mansour analyzes Israeli and Palestinian positions relating to key issues of sovereignty...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has worked hard on the Israel-Palestine portfolio since he came into office earlier this year. He has made six tours to the region,...

As peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials jumpstart into motion again, plenty of questions remain. "What was on the menu for last week's White House Iftar?" Fish and...

Israel's Druze and Circassian citizens have been drafted into the Israel Defence Forces since 1958. Now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to oversee the plan to draft...