Third Elections in One Year: Netanyahu versus the Knesset
We are not having a bad dream and we will not soon wake up and find ourselves living in a normal country. This nightmare, in which we’re heading into elections once again, the third within the space of a single More...
Netanyahu’s short-lived victory
As soon as the exit polls were released on Tuesday night, Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce a Likud victory. A win may have been, a victory it is not. Certainly it was no victory for the person More...
PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s delusions
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided not to announce early elections after it had come to his knowledge that President Reuven Rivlin is plotting with a former Likud official to prevent him from forming More...
Former IDF chief Benny Gantz might change power balance in Israel
The commentators and politicians who had a hard time on Tuesday to decipher the motives behind Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid‘s decision to support the new IDF draft bill instead of joining the opposition More...
Something is rotten in the Prime Minister’s Residence
Isn’t it ironic that while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was fighting to pass the supermarkets bill, which vows to protect the sanctity of Shabbat, Channel 2 News aired a recording of his son’s More...
It’s time for Netanyahu to understands that He isn’t Putin
If Breaking the Silence didn’t exist, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have had to invent it. Otherwise, who would be his ultimate punching bag, his alibi, his excuse? Those young leftists, the bleeding More...
It’s time for self-examination, Mr. Prime Minister
He has been serving as prime minister for eight consecutive years. He has been a key player in the political system for more than 20 years. His influence on many facets of our lives cannot be overestimated. More...
Netanyahu’s cynical tactic Erdoğan-style
Likud members know how to close ranks when they have too, and that includes the ministers, some of whom bit the bullet on Wednesday evening and sat at the front row at the Likud rally, opposite the stage. More...
What was Netanyahu’s real reason for snubbing German FM?
What made Israel’s prime minister declare that he would not meet with the German foreign minister if the latter insisted on meeting with representatives of Breaking the Silence, B’Tselem, Peace Now and maybe More...
Who is an Israeli? One who succeeds
From time to time, we wonder who is an Israeli, who is a Jew, what is a nation. For example, people often say that the State of Israel is one of the leading countries in the number of Nobel Prize laureates. More...