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David HorovitzThe Times of Israel |
Yariv Levin appears to have learned nothing from Israel’s recent calamities. And his boss continues to recklessly encourage him
In Gaza, Netanyahu was not prepared even for a first phase of a deal, during which 20-30 living hostages could have been freed, claiming that if the...
The American public has spoken, and Donald Trump is back is office. The Israeli public hasn’t, and Netanyahu is now more powerful than ever
The prime minister has put his personal political survival above the most fundamental interests of the state
Italian defense ministry says soldiers killed at El Alamein died for ‘freedom’; opposition slams far-right government, says troops ‘were sent to...
Jerry Wartski, who was held at Auschwitz, says he ‘knows more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know’ and that she owes survivors an apology,...
The calibrated attacks aimed to expose the vulnerability of Iran’s air-defense systems, while building legitimacy, crucially with the US, for the...
Essential domestic and international components of a strategic approach
The Iranian regime, coordinating assiduously for Israel’s annihilation, has been all but untouched this past year. Israel needs to do more than...
A bitter critic’s latest political zigzag stabilizes the coalition, leaves Gallant more vulnerable, and means Netanyahu need not worry about...
The prime minister delivered a masterful address to a largely enthralled Congress, hailing our nation and scorning its critics. But his public...
Under attack from all points of the compass, Israel needs the support and practical assistance of the free world, at a time when it is more viciously...
Security chiefs were hoping hostage deal might deescalate war, including in the north. After Friday’s attack, and Israel’s inevitable...
Gaza has not miraculously receded into the geographical distance, and the IDF is still uncovering tunnels * Netanyahu’s incredible ignorance *...
The elimination of Hamas’s most potent symbol would have a major practical impact on the terror-government’s fighting; it would also mean...
It’s walking distance from Kibbutz Nahal Oz to this Gaza neighborhood. That proximity proved deadly on October 7. Soldiers are now operating...
The release of a Gaza hospital chief back into the terrorists’ embrace is, of course, anybody’s fault but that of the minister in charge...
Belatedly outlawed by the High Court, the norm under which the Haredi community is excluded from its responsibilities is an indefensible aberration...
With Hamas being routed as an organized army yet still a potent guerrilla force, it’s time for intensive work on alternative rule for Gaza....
As the US says, and the partially published terms indicate, there is an Israeli proposal on the table that would end the war for the return of all...
Saturday’s daylight IDF operation was only the third such success since the start of the war; common to all three was that the rescued hostages...
Political and security chiefs recognize the urgency of saving the hostages, and the wider potential of a deal, but Hamas’s monstrous leader is...
It seems the PM is being asked to choose between his own interests and Israel’s, while Hamas is urged to consent to its own demise. But maybe...
For the first time in more than a year, Netanyahu is again voters’ preferred PM, according to a snap survey. You can be certain that he takes it...
It is hard to recall a period when ties between the political leadership and the defense establishment were so fraught. Or when the absence of...
A deal would bolster coalition against Iran, could create viable alternative to Hamas in Gaza * Plus: Khan’s rush to injustice, Egypt’s...
If necessary, Netanyahu can simply shrug off Gantz and return to his core, 64-strong pre-war coalition. It’s only from within that it can be...
If he is not prepared to leave public life of his own volition, he should set the date to face the political judgment of the nation that entrusted him...
Israel has never had the luxury of taking its survival for granted, as Oct. 7 proved again. And yet, through millennia, it is always those who try to...
Facing intense hostility at Eurovision, Eden Golan’s every instinct might have been to turn and run. Instead she soared, and set an example many...
The president’s words and planned action were focused on a highly significant planned IDF offensive in Rafah; the diplomatic and practical...
It took the US more than a day to internalize that Hamas had not in fact accepted a hostages-for-truce proposal. But the text of its...
As Israel, the US, the hostages await Hamas’s response to an ‘extraordinarily generous’ Israeli offer, it is a sickening reality...
The aggression against Israel and Jews would not be tolerated if aimed at any other minority; its defenders are unforgivably prioritizing free speech...
Attack at Isfahan sends warning to Iran, seeks to avoid escalation, reflects US calls for strategic thinking, keeps intact the alliance that helped...
The Haggadah directs us to retell the exodus story as though we personally had been enslaved. To do that this year, there’s no need to cast the...
Giora Eiland, a former national security adviser and ex-IDF operations chief, has been bitterly critical of Israel’s response to October 7; here...
Eight insights into the momentous events of the past few hours, when Iran targeted Israel as never before, Israel defended itself with allied help,...
Iran has never previously directly attacked Israel in this way. The prime minister says the IDF is prepared for any scenario. Let’s hope so
He failed Israel with his policies on Hamas before October 7. His presence complicates the necessary defeat of Hamas now. If he won’t move...
He failed Israel with his policies on Hamas before October 7. His presence complicates the necessary defeat of Hamas now. If he won’t move...
Report by intelligence veterans on behalf of lawyers for Hamas victims’ families says US has long known the scale of Doha’s malign...
Sunday’s withdrawal of IDF ground forces from Khan Younis marks the end of so-called high-intensity conflict, though Hamas is still standing,...
IDF probe into mistaken targeting of aid workers from an NGO it respected won’t satisfy anyone; incident complicates a war Israel must win,...
A soundbite-packed interview with the visiting Democratic rising star, a Bronx congressional neighbor of AOC who rejects her ‘genocide’...
As Israel has struggled to make its case to the world since Oct. 7, Eylon Levy was a rare compelling English-speaking voice. So why was he pushed...
Security Council’s ceasefire resolution will raise international pressure on Israel, while Hamas will ignore the demand to release the hostages
Senate majority leader fears pariah status looms for Israel and urges elections, but would voters choose a less divisive leadership? * Retaining US...
Jonathan Glazer got it wrong * Israel and its essential ally, openly and untenably at odds * 10 thoughts on the war
And there’s rarely been a time when Israel’s existence, imperiled from without, and hobbled from within, has been so manifestly necessary