Elections

Joe Biden's wife Jill thought he was 'having a stroke' during 2024 presidential debate

Joe Biden, 81 years old at the time of the debate, dropped out of the US presidential race on July 21, 2024.

Former US First Lady Dr. Jill Biden speaks during the 29th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on May 5, 2026.
Yair Golan saying he does not rule out forming a coalition with the haredi parties, as long as the Religious Zionist Party, Otzma Yehudit, and the Likud are not there – a position that surprised many. Here, the party leader leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on Monday.

As Israel enters election season, Netanyahu's opponents face a math problem

Israeli current opposition leader Yair Lapid (L) and former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett stand together in Tel Aviv on May 12, as they hold their inaugural conference of their ‘Together – Under Bennett’s Leadership’ party for the upcoming national election.

Bennett-Lapid's Together drops seats as Eisenkot makes gains, Likud becomes largest party - poll

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits with his arm around his wife Sara as she accompanies her husband on the podium during Netanyahu's election victory ceremony, on June 2, 1996.

30 years after Netanyahu’s victory in 1996: How the comeback marvel changed Israel - opinion


Operation Roaring Lion has little effect in Israel's political arena, poll finds

The war does not appear to have substantially altered Israeli voting patterns, with Netanyahu's Likud only gaining one seat.

A PLENUM session at the Knesset.

Election crisis or manufactured chaos? Trump’s dangerous path to voter suppression - opinion

He is using all his power, with the collusion of a spineless Republican-led Congress, to make it more difficult for millions of Americans to cast their votes this fall and into the future.

 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance point to the stage during Day 1 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 15, 2024.

A new path after Khamenei: West must embrace Pahlavi's roadmap to a democratic Iran - opinion

Reza Pahlavi’s realistic democratic roadmap deserves the support of Western countries and Israel.

PROTESTERS HOLD ‘Lion and Sun’ pre-Iranian Revolution national flags, near an image of Reza Pahlavi.

Iran, Israel and Hitler’s gun are all on the ballot in key primaries in Texas and NC on Tuesday

Tuesday’s primaries in NC and Texas will test the power of a new anti-Israel PAC and the viability of "The AK Guy." The results come as the Iran war leaves American Jews feeling politically adrift.

Brandon Herrera, a firearms YouTuber and congressional candidate, poses with a bust of Hitler in a March 2025 video. Herrera is running in the GOP primary against Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales on March 3, 2026.

Voices from the Arab press: Netanyahu pardon debate and Israel's political tensions

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a 40-signatures debate at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 23, 2026

Can Naftali Bennett be trusted after betraying his promises? - opinion

Bennett asks us to support him once again to implement better leadership, but when he had the chance, he did nothing substantial.

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett attends a Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, February 17, 2026

Amit Segal claims Netanyahu offered him fourth spot on Likud list, 'any ministerial role' in 2022

Segal shared in the video that rather than a ministerial position, he had suggested to Netanyahu that Israel “needs to make some kind of judicial reform.”

Israeli journalist Amit Segal speaks during the Jabotinsky conference in Jerusalem, December 23, 2024.

New right-wing parties keep failing to unseat Likud - opinion

Many have tried unsuccessfully to challenge Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud from the Right, but a more realistic goal would be to take votes away from Naftali Bennett.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the government meeting on January 4, 2026.

Israel is sliding into tribal politics, and we’re letting it happen - opinion

In an election year defined by contempt, I saw in a Gesher retreat in Paphos how dialogue can still hold Israeli society together.

Participants at the Gesher Syms Leadership Institute retreat in Paphos, Cyprus.

Former MK Kahana says Iranian missile threat is equivalent to nuclear threat, 'like Hiroshima'

According to Kahana, the Iranian missiles have a warhead of about half a ton of explosives, and "if you take 30,000 such missiles, it is equivalent to the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima."

MK Matan Kahana attends a National Unity faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2025.