The cult of personality around Netanyahu may soon unravel ■ Center-left party leaders are speed-dating each other - here's what will push them to tie the knot

Labor chairman Peretz 'hasn’t given green light to start negotiations' despite August 1 deadline, source says ■ Former Meretz leader Zandberg secures second spot on slate

Limiting access 'raises serious questions' on discrimination, Mendelblit argues, urging court to freeze northern municipality's decision

Defense Ministry officials apparently hope their actions will raise doubts about the conclusions and credibility of various scholars, myself included

After the air force bombed Gaza in the latest round of fighting, in May, hundreds of people who lost their homes haven’t recovered. Residents of two destroyed buildings offer new testimony of the disaster that befell them

Economic sanctions may give Trump better bargaining chips ■ An Iranian provocation may occur much closer to Israel than the Gulf ■ Why Israel's botched Gaza op was more John Le Carré than James Bond