For years, economist Dan Ben-David has warned that a grim future awaits Israel. Yet now, when his dark prophecies seem to be coming true earlier than expected, he finds a small opening for hope

The coalition that is holding democracy hostage and is threatening to destroy it has also taken the national ceremony and disgraced it - before a single frame has been broadcast • Reliable Netanyahu brings back his trademark speeches, combining cries of victimhood with threats against Iran

Geffen, who passed away this week at 76, was buried at the same cemetery as acclaimed novelist Meir Shalev who died earlier this month

Some 100 delegates, from Israel and abroad, protested outside a room where MK Simcha Rothman was meeting representatives of the World Likud party and other right-wing organizations

The Aliyah Ministry revoked leniencies for Israeli citizenship it introduced due to the Ukraine war, but only published the decision after the concessions had expired – leaving new arrivals stranded without residency status

'I don’t need a minister who vouched for the nation-state law and the Kaminitz Law to come and console me on the most difficult day in my life,' one grieving Druze father says

Israel approved the deployment of security guards at the home and office of Shua'a Mansour since he had been the subject of death threats