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Netanyahu best suited as next prime minister, likely to form new government, new poll suggests

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "best suited" to serve as prime minister, according to a poll released on...

Bye-bye Bibi: May it happen speedily and in our times

In a profanity-filled telephone conversation last September, according to New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in their...

Israeli leaders across coalition and opposition reject emerging U.S.-Iran agreement

Israeli political leaders across both the governing coalition and the opposition on Monday voiced sharp criticism of an emerging...

Bennett and Lapid join together to challenge Netanyahu

Former Israeli prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have announced they will contest the next Knesset election on...

Poll: Netanyahu’s approval ratings at all-time high

According to the latest Direct Polls survey, conducted by Shlomo Filber in the wake of the release on Monday...

Blood libel’: Yair Golan under fire for Gaza comments

Israeli officials across the political divides lashed out at opposition Knesset member Yair Golan on Tuesday after he said...

Israeli laser defense set for 2025 deployment after $815 million expansion

An Israeli laser-based air defence system under development is expected to become operational in mid-2025, the Israeli Defence Ministry...

Back to school

Former Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett has visited Jewish day schools in Sydney and Melbourne meeting students and...

For the People of Israel at UIA NSW 2023 Gala Event & Celebration for Israel’s 75th

UIA NSW hosted over 1200 Sydney supporters at its 2023 General Division Gala Event and celebration for Israel’s 75th...

Israel’s Prime Ministership changes hands

Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and incoming Prime Minister Yair Lapid held a modest handover ceremony at the Prime...

Naftali Bennett explains decision to dissolve the Knesset

Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett held a press conference on Monday evening that was carried on all of...

Lapid to be Israeli PM ahead of election

Israeli parliamentarians will vote to dissolve parliament, opening the way for the country's fifth election in three years, following...

‘This year we took fight to our enemies’: Bennett extols own security successes

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday to summarize his government’s first...

Bennett: ‘Iran is lying to the world again right now’

Ahead of the backdrop of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) pending report on Iran’s nuclear development, Prime Minister...

Bennett criticised, heckled while visiting family of fallen Special Forces operator

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett faced harsh criticism and heckling on his visit to the family of Special Forces operator...

Putin ignores recent tensions over Ukraine in Independence Day greetings to Israel

Some in Israel are speculating that the Russian government may be looking to put the past week’s tensions aside...

Naftali Bennett condemns inflammatory graphic of 11 terrorist victims to attack his government

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has responded to an inflammatory graphic about him that was distributed on social media...

‘We cannot be broken!’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett issued a recorded statement Wednesday evening to the Israeli public reassuring them as to the...

Must Bennett wave the white flag on a new Iran deal?

As far as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is concerned, there’s no point in getting into a fight you...

Report: Bennett considers Ukraine visit to promote negotiations with Russia

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that he would accept Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s invitation to visit the country...