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Joint List Party leader Ayman Odeh attends a meeting on April 5, 2021 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Interview

Ayman Odeh says Arab parties could back Bennett or Eisenkot to block Netanyahu

In an interview with Al-Monitor, head of the Arab-Israeli Hadash-Ta'al Knesset faction, Ayman Odeh, said his party is prepared to make difficult decisions to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

Ayman Odeh

Head of the Knesset's Hadash-Ta'al faction

Motorists drive past a billboard bearing a picture of Iran's slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei, ahead of his funeral in Tehran on July 3, 2026. Iranian leaders began paying their respects on July 3 before the coffin of the country's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, killed in the US-Israeli strikes that triggered the Middle East war, as Tehran prepared for a vast funeral. Khamenei's body arrived at Tehran's Grand Mosalla on July 3 ahead of ceremonies which are expected to draw millions. (Photo by AFP via Ge

Analysis

As US-Iran talks falter, Israel views war outcome as 'total strategic failure’

Israeli officials believe the US failure to attain the kind of agreement with Iran that it originally sought stems from the strategic mistakes made during and after the recent war.

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Latest News

Who is Melat Kiros, the pro-Palestinian who unseated a longtime Democrat?

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Analysis

For Israel, Lebanon deal 'historic' despite fears Hezbollah will rebuild

Shia Muslim devotees gather for a mourning ritual near the shrine of Hassan Nasrallah, the slain leader of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah who was killed in a 2024 Israeli-airstrike, in Beirut's southern suburbs on June 26, 2026 at the peak of Ashura, a 10-day period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP via Getty Images)

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Turkey, Azerbaijan slam Israel’s Armenian genocide recognition as Yerevan mum

KAREN MINASYAN / AFP via Getty Images

Samuel Wendel

Senior Market Research Analyst

In Washington, DC, reporting on regional business and tech

Adam Lucente

News and Business Correspondent

In New York City, reporting on regional news, militancy, climate change

Jack Dutton

Chief Business Correspondent

In Bristol, reporting on regional business, climate change, AI, tech

Ben Caspit

Israel Columnist

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

Francesco Schiavi

In Bologna, reporting on security, defense, economy, governance

Rina Bassist

Associate Editor (Israel)

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

Israeli Energy Minister Uzi Landau speaks during an investment energy summit in Athens, March 28, 2012. REUTERS/John Kolesidis(GREECE - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS ENERGY) - RTR3000V

Israeli Minister: 'A Palestinian State Is not the Solution'

For Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Landau: “One thing must be clear: A Palestinian state is not the solution."

Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (R) hugs a woman living in a shelter for battered women in Jerusalem November 25, 2008. Tuesday marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (JERUSALEM) - RTXAYH7

Arab Israeli Women Fight Domestic Violence

“Violence against women is not the whole of the problem, but just a symptom,” says Arab feminist activist Aida Tuma-Suliman.

Smoke rises after shells exploded in the Syrian village of Al Rafeed, close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, as seen from the Israeli occupied Golan Heights May 7, 2013. Israel played down weekend air strikes close to Damascus reported to have killed dozens of Syrian soldiers, saying they were not aimed at influencing its neighbour's civil war but only at stopping Iranian missiles reaching Lebanese Hezbollah militants. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) - RTXZDAV

Syrians in Israeli-Occupied Golan Remain Divided on Assad

While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad enjoys considerable support from Golan Syrians under Israeli occupation, many are speaking up against his rule.

A Palestinian refugee knocks on the closed gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters with his walking stick, during a protest demanding UNRWA to resume aid for refugees in Gaza City April 8, 2013. The main U.N. humanitarian agency for Palestinians closed all of its relief and distribution centres in Gaza after protesters stormed its headquarters on Thursday demanding it to reverse a decision to cut annual cash handouts of $40 for the poorest beneficiaries. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

Palestinian Activists Seek New Strategies to Confront Israel

Palestinian activists look for alternatives to international law to hold Israel accountable for its settlement policies.

Musical Bridges Between Israel and Turkey

Israeli musician Yinon Muallem, who has been living in Istanbul for more than a decade, succeeds in using his music to bring Israelis and Turks closer.

Palestinian women walk by the walls of the destroyed Hamas headquarters compound in Gaza January 24, 2009. The Hamas headquarters was repeatedly bombed during Israel's devastating three-week war. On the background are portraits of (L-R) Khalil Al Wazir (second in command in Fatah movement, Yassir Arafat (Late Palestinian President) and Salah Khalaf (co-founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organization), all deceased. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (GAZA) - RTR23TCK

The Consequences of 'Bogie' Killing Abu Jihad

“Show of Force” was a successful Israeli operation killing Fatah Military Chief Abu Jihad, but did it not also kill a potential peace partner?

Marwan Barghouthi, head of the Palestinian Fatah Tanzim and al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, gestures as Israeli police bring him into the District Court for his judgment hearing in Tel Aviv May 20, 2004. An Israeli court on Thursday convicted Barghouthi, a leader of the Palestinian uprising, on murder charges over the killing of five Israelis by militants. REUTERS/Pool/David Silverman - RTRJYWL

Barghouti: Arab peace plan damages Palestinian cause

In an exclusive written interview, jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti warns that the alternative to a two-state solution is a conflict "with no middle ground."

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Paris, May 27, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Young (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX103D0

The Missing Syrian Peace

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are still working on the invitation list for Geneva II.

Eviatar, a new makeshift settlement named after Eviatar Borovsky, the Israeli settler killed by Palestinian Salam Zaghal in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, is seen on a hilltop about 1km from the fatal attack, near the West Bank city of Nablus May 2, 2013. While the family of the dead settler mourned their loss, the Zaghal family, living in poverty in the north of the Palestinian territory, defended Salam's action as justified. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTXZ7L1

Is the Two-State Solution Bankrupt? (Take Two)

The current political climate in Israel favors continuation of the settlement enterprise in the West Bank, pushing away any chance of a "two-state solution."

Jewish settlers, one of them wearing a garment printed with a map showing the borders of Biblical Israel, pray during a protest at the site of a stabbing attack by a Palestinian, at Tapuach junction, near the West Bank city of Nablus April 30, 2013. A Palestinian man stabbed and shot dead an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli ambulance service and police said. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTXZ5CZ

Even $4 Billion Can't Buy Love Or Peace

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains committed to Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s approach: “Everything we don't grab will go to them."

Israel's former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (C) prays during a visit to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron January 14, 2013. Entrenched in what they view as their Biblical heartland, the hardline Jewish settlers of Hebron look forward with delight to next week's Israeli election. To match ISRAEL-ELECTION/SETTLERS REUTERS/Baz Ratner (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS RELIGION) - RTR3CG2V

Liberman Bill To Draft Israeli Arabs Just a Cheap Trick

Former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s demand to include Israel’s Arabs in the new universal national service plan is no more than a desperate attempt to show that he is still relevant.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby (R) attends a meeting with former chief of Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency Jacob Perry and the delegation from "Israeli Peace Initiative" group, lobbying its government to concede land to Palestinians for peace, in Cairo May 19, 2011. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR2MMIG

Most Israelis Back Arab Peace Initiative

A new poll indicates that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adopts the principles of the Arab Peace Initiative, 69% of the Israeli public would support him.