Netanyahu leads, no majority: Israel’s election deadlock
Likud leads, Arab parties hit a record 19 seats, and no one has 61. Jerusalem Post's Knesset correspondent Keshet Neev unpacks Israel’s post-election…
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Too late for Netanyahu's blitz? Top pollster says minds are made up
With less than a week until Israelis vote, a leading election pollster argues Netanyahu isn't trying to win, he's trying not to lose. Fresh off a…
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Can't vote in Israel? 'The main way to influence is through giving'
Giving through JGive is now more than four times its pre-October 7 level. Founder and CEO Ori Ben-Shlomo on whether Israel-diaspora solidarity can…
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Flydubai passenger: 'We all thought we were going to die'
Uri Pintov was flying home from Thailand with his wife and three children when flydubai flight FZ1073 suddenly plunged toward the desert. Jerusalem…
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Arab parties barred by Israel election panel: What's next?
Israel's Central Elections Committee voted to bar every Arab party from the October 27 election. Jerusalem Post legal affairs correspondent Sarah…
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Is this the end of Netanyahu? Inside Israel's election
Israel is heading into what Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief Zvika Klein calls one of its most consequential elections ever, and he explains why the…
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UK sanctions on Israel: real economic threat or theater?
The UK targeted imports from Israeli settlements, and a dozen countries followed. Symbolic gesture or real economic threat? The Jerusalem Post's…
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Likud/Israel's Right is bleeding seats, can Netanyahu stop it?
Days before Israel's parties lock in their final Knesset lists, most polls show Gadi Eisenkot's bloc ahead of Netanyahu's Likud, and the right is…
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The Iran story the mainstream media isn't telling you
Everyone thinks the Iran file has stalled. Ex-IDF officer Or Horvitz argues the opposite: a quiet US strategy shift is already underway. In this Deep…
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The election isn't right vs left. It's liberal vs illiberal
Host Jacob Laznik asks Prof. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, a Talmud scholar and a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), whether…
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Harounoff: Iran's greatest strength is that it's not a democracy
Iran's regime slaughtered its own people in January and the world moved on. British-Iranian journalist Jonathan Harounoff speaks on the people nobody…
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Is Israel written out of the new Middle East order?
Netanyahu got his eighth Trump meeting, but no South Portico welcome, no cameras, no one-on-one. Former Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz…
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Israel heads to elections, and no one trusts the process
Israeli elections have barely been called and already the Shin Bet is warning of threats to their integrity, AI-generated attack ads are flooding the…
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Likud's pre-election legistlation sparks public Israeli uproar
Israel's most turbulent political stretch in four years just collided with an election date. As Netanyahu's Likud rams through two of the most…
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Will Turkey box Israel out of Hamas's future role in Gaza?
As Trump meets Erdogan and F-35 sales dominate the headlines, former Israeli intelligence colonel Or Horvitz makes a contrarian case: Turkey is a…
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Trump’s Iran gamble: Victory, stalemate or a dangerous mistake?
Presidential historian Gil Troy returns to examine the aftermath of the Israel-Iran conflict, Donald Trump’s decision to end the fighting, Iran’s…
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Why this deal makes the next war with Iran more likely
The US and Iran finalized phase one of talks this week. Israel was not in the room. In this episode of The Deep Dive, Shifra Jacobs (filling in for…
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Did the US just hand Iran the worst deal in history?
The US and Iran are days away from signing a deal in Switzerland. Israel has been left out of it. And Yasmin Sayeh — an Iranian-Israeli strategic…
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'Toxic love story': inside the Trump-Bibi rupture
Israel strikes Beirut. Iran strikes Israel. Israel strikes Iran. Iran downs a US Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz. The US strikes Iran.…
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Inside the EU's 'unhealthy obsession' with Israel
Behind the scenes, the EU is Israel's largest trade partner, 32% of its merchandise trade, and the single biggest funder of Israeli science. In…
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Can Israel elections survive a two-front war?
He advised Naftali Bennett. He ran strategic engagement at AIPAC. And he now says this is the most extreme government in Israel's history. In this…
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Rising antisemitism sparks global concern, from London to New York
Antisemitism is surging across multiple continents, with incidents in Europe and the US, prompting heightened security measures and public outcry. In…
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How the media failed October 7 victims again
The week a landmark 300-page report on Hamas's systematic sexual violence against women and children was released, a New York Times opinion piece…
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Can anyone actually beat Netanyahu?
Bennett is climbing in the polls. Lapid agreed to drop to third on the list. Smotrich called partnering with an Arab party worse than October 7. Is…
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The truth behind the Middle East ceasefires: Is peace possible?
Is the situation in the Middle East on the brink of erupting, or are we seeing a new path to peace? Join us as we break down the power dynamics…
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Are we going back to war? The shocking truth behind the fragile ceasefire
The US-Iran-Israel ceasefire might be collapsing. Is war about to break out again? In this episode, we uncover the shocking reality behind the…
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What just happened? Breaking down the Iran ceasefire
In this episode of The Deep Dive, Shifra Jacobs and Lara Sukster Mosheyof break down the ceasefire between the United States and Iran (and Israel)…
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Could Israel and the US achieve victory over Iran? An expert weighs in
Shmuel Rosner, a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, shared his perspective on Israel’s current war with Iran in an interview with…
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Israel presses military campaign against Islamic Republic as diplomatic talks stall
Nearly a month into Operation Roaring Lion, Israel’s military campaign against Iran continues to escalate, even as diplomatic efforts appear…
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Week three of Roaring Lion: Iran's leadership hollowed out, Arab world reaches breaking point
In this episode, Shifra Jacobs and Ezra Taylor break down the ongoing developments in the Middle East, focusing on Iran’s escalating role in regional…
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