Author: David Leibermann

Hungary will withdraw from the International Criminal Court, the body that issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant last year. The announcement preceded Netanyahu’s arrival in Budapest for a state visit, which comes as he faces multiple scandals at home and as Israel ramps up fighting in […]

The United States will impose 17% tariffs on goods imported from Israel under a sweeping new tariffs system that President Donald Trump unveiled on Wednesday. The tariffs on Israeli goods are less than some Trump rolled out but greater than the 10% baseline that he is assessing on all imported products. They fall into the […]

Not one but many interconnected scandals involving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are roiling the country right now. They span everything from Israel’s courts to its intelligence agencies to suspicions of a Qatari plot. Police have questioned Netanyahu, two of his aides have been arrested and protests against him are still filling the streets. This […]

Israel launched an offensive late Tuesday to seize “broad areas” of the Gaza Strip, signaling a prolonged military presence there. The announcement by Defense Minister Israel Katz came as international outrage is mounting over the war. This week, United Nations officials said they discovered a “mass grave” with the bodies of 15 aid workers killed […]

Four years ago, Naftali Bennett was the first person in more than a decade to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Now, he looks like he’ll try to do it again. Bennett, who served as prime minister for about a year from mid-2021 to mid-2022, ended his three-year hiatus from public office by registering a […]

Just weeks after Yarden Bibas learned of the murder of his wife and children, Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas, plunging Gaza and Israel back into war. Bibas, who was released from captivity in February, has spent the last two weeks campaigning for the war to end and for his fellow hostages to come home. […]

Earlier this month, a pro-Palestinian activist named Helyeh Doutaghi was suspended from her job at Yale University and banned from campus over alleged links to a fundraising group that supports a Palestinian terrorist organization. The trigger, according to the New York Times, was a report in an ostensible news site called Jewish Onliner. The name […]

TEL AVIV — As an American immigrant to Israel, Lital Friedman knows a thing or two about pancakes — including that Israel’s crepe-style versions don’t often stack up favorably against the fluffy style popular in the United States. But she didn’t make the trip from Jerusalem to the American-style pancake pop-up in Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market for […]

With war raging in Gaza and protests rocking the streets of Jerusalem, the Israeli government is set to pass a key piece of a plan that once sparked turmoil across Israel: the judicial overhaul.  The protests against the overhaul, which dominated Israelis’ attention prior to Oct. 7, 2023, have also resumed. On Wednesday, thousands massed […]

The Nova music festival, where more than 350 people were murdered on Oct. 7, 2023, has quickly become one of the most visited tourist destinations in Israel. More than 200,000 people per month visited the site, at Kibbutz Reim near the Gaza border, on average over the last six months, according to Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael–Jewish […]