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Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu during an inauguration ceremony of a new neighborhood in Beit El, in the West Bank, July 12, 2022. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

New TV poll projects 62 seats for Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc

Likud rises to 35 seats, Lapid’s Yesh Atid a distant second at 21; Ayelet Shaked’s and Eli Avidar’s parties fail to pass electoral threshold

August 4, 2022, 2:24 pm

New TV poll projects 62 seats for Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc

Likud rises to 35 seats, Lapid’s Yesh Atid a distant second at 21; Ayelet Shaked’s and Eli Avidar’s parties fail to pass electoral threshold

By Michael Bachner

Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot, Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

August 3, 2022, 2:18 pm

Iran installs new advanced centrifuge cascades at Natanz enrichment plant

Increase in uranium enrichment comes as Tehran, Washington returning to indirect talks over reviving to Iran nuclear deal

By TOI staff

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides (L) and opposiiton chairman Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Knesset on December 9, 2021. (US Embassy in Israel)

August 2, 2022, 3:41 pm

US envoy warns time running out on visa waivers amid Likud refusal to cooperate

As Tom Nides lobbies for legislation needed for Israel to join US Visa Waiver Program, Likud says it will not back the bills, claims it’s a lost cause this year anyways

By TOI staff

MK Itamar Ben Gvir, left, speaks during a press conference ahead of the upcoming elections, in Jerusalem, July 11, 2022; MK Bezalel Smotrich, right, leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

August 1, 2022, 1:59 pm

Religious Zionism, Otzma Yehudit on verge of deal for far-right alliance

Parties ran together in last election but have seen tensions ahead of coming vote, as rising popularity of Itamar Ben Gvir has led him to make greater demands

By TOI staff

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid holds a cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on July 24, 2022. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

July 31, 2022, 2:04 pm

Lapid urges UN chief to disband Gaza probe over investigator’s ‘antisemitic remarks’

In letter to Antonio Guterres, prime minister says Commission of Inquiry ‘fundamentally tainted’ after member says social media ‘controlled’ by ‘Jewish lobby’

By TOI staff

People gather outside the Basmany district court in Moscow ahead of a hearing in the Russian government's case against the Jewish Agency on July 28, 2022. (Screen capture: TASS)

July 28, 2022, 2:24 pm

Israel vows to keep Jewish Agency open in Russia, even with ‘adjustments’

Immigration minister says government is working to ‘deal with the claims’ against Jewish Agency in Russian court; former Moscow chief rabbi warns of ‘dark clouds on the horizon’

By Amy Spiro

Ayelet Shaked (Yamina) and Yoaz Hendel (Derech Eretz) merge their parties to form the Zionist Spirit party, July 27, 2022. (Ariel Zandberg)

July 27, 2022, 2:59 pm

Shaked’s Yamina joins forces with fellow conservative Hendel for Knesset run

Union comes as Yamina predicted by polls to fall below electoral threshold in November vote, while Hendel, of Derech Eretz party, left out of Blue and White-New Hope merger

By Michael Horovitz

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, on June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

July 26, 2022, 2:22 pm

EU’s top diplomat: Iran deal now on the table is the best one possible

Josep Borrell says ‘space for additional significant compromises has been exhausted’

By Amy Spiro

Left, Prime Minister Yair Lapid heads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2022. Right, Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, July 1, 2021. (Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP; Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

July 25, 2022, 2:11 pm

Russia continues to stall arrival of Israeli legal team amid Jewish Agency crisis

Prime Minister Yair Lapid said seeking to lower profile of conflict with Moscow after previous warning there will be consequences if Jewish Agency operations in Russia shut down

By TOI staff

July 24, 2022, 2:02 pm

Lapid orders to prepare responses against Russia if it shutters Jewish Agency

Potential responses include recalling ambassador, more assistance to Ukraine, TV reports; delegation to Moscow to fly at a later date

By TOI staff

Richard Moore, the Chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, in London, November 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

July 21, 2022, 2:25 pm

UK spy chief doubts Iran supreme leader will back nuclear deal

‘The deal is absolutely on the table but I don’t think the Iranians want it,’ MI6 director tells security forum

By TOI staff

Israeli police and soldiers attempt to block settlers from the Nachala Settlement Movement at the Gush Etzion Junction, July 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

July 20, 2022, 2:00 pm

Police begin evacuating illegal West Bank outposts set up by radical settler group

Thousands turn out to multiple sites in effort led by right-wing Nachala movement and backed by MKs from several parties, despite police, IDF calling such activity illegal

By Amy Spiro

Meretz chair Zehava Galon and Labor MKs Erel Margalit and Merav Michaeli vote in the Knesset's Finance Committee on June 18, 2013. (Flash90)

July 19, 2022, 3:37 pm

Fresh off announcing political comeback, Galon eyes Meretz-Labor merger

Former head of left-wing party vying to return to helm says joint slate would ‘maximize’ factions’ power day after Labor head, who aims to run independently, won leadership primary

By TOI staff

Ultra-Orthodox youths interrupt a bar mitzvah ceremony at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on June 30, 2022. (Laura Ben-David)

July 18, 2022, 2:37 pm

Exclusive: Lapid calls US boy who had Western Wall bar mitzvah disrupted by zealots

Prime Minister tells Seth Mann, of Las Vegas, that protests ‘did not represent the State of Israel, the people of Israel, or the government of Israel’

By TOI staff

IDF chief Aviv Kohavi speaks at a ceremony marking the change of the Home Front Command's chief, July 16, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

July 17, 2022, 2:45 pm

IDF chief: Israel has ‘moral obligation’ to ready military response to Iran’s nukes

Days after Biden vowed Tehran would never achieve nuclear weapons, Aviv Kohavi says military ‘continues to prepare vigorously for an attack on Iran’

By TOI staff

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