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News Trump’s Mideast peace envoy sees his fingerprints on Israel’s improved ties with Arab countries
Jason Greenblatt, a former longtime lawyer to Donald Trump, said he’s pleased to see Biden 'acting more cautiously' on the Palestinian issue and focusing on expanding the Abraham Accords
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Opinion The fall of Israel’s government empowers dangerous conspiracies on the right
There has been a marked rise in poisonous rhetoric against Israeli Arabs by right-wing politicians over the past 12 months
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ANALYSIS Israel’s ‘change’ government promised political stability, but that didn’t hold: The guide to a fifth election
Yair Lapid will become interim prime minister and face Benjamin Netanyahu in a head-to-head matchup
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Culture A Pulitzer-winning novel drops the Netanyahus in an American college town
Joshua Cohen's 2021 novel won the 2022 Pulitzer for Fiction.
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News Netanyahu asked about Trump’s chances before congratulating Biden after the election, new book claims
‘I don't think it's going to turn,’ Trump’s pollster told Netanyahu’s aide as Biden’s lead grew in states Trump won in 2016
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News Why is Israel’s governing coalition falling apart? The players, the ironies and the possible outcomes explained
Ten months into a so-called “change government” that ousted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after 12 years and four elections, Israel is facing another political crisis, triggered not by a security crisis or budget woes, but by a spat over rules for Passover food in hospitals. On Wednesday, the coalition government led by Prime Minister Naftali…
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Opinion American Jews — on the left and the right — got Trump’s Israel legacy all wrong
The release of former President Donald Trump’s explosive interviews with Israeli journalist Barak Ravid and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s visit to the United Arab Emirates should comprise a wake-up call to American Jews: both Trump’s stalwart admirers and implacable foes are getting the story wrong. Trump’s achievements in the Middle East are far greater…
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News ‘The president doesn’t like you guys now’: The inside story of Trump’s rage against Netanyahu
A new Hebrew book published on Sunday by Israeli journalist Barak Ravid gives a behind-the-scenes look at what is now being revealed as a rocky U.S.-Israel relationship during the Trump administration, but one that led to normalization deals between Israel and the Arab world. “F**k him,” former President Donald Trump said about former Israeli Prime…
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Fast Forward Suspect arrested in U of Michigan rabbi’s home robbery, with no evidence of antisemitic intent
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