Israeli right

Ministers and MKs dance during the 'Victory Conference' for the resettlement of Gaza at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

The Israeli public is dispirited. So why is the right euphoric?

The mantra of national unity has abetted the Israeli right’s sense of historic victory. But much of the public appears to be realizing some hard truths.

By Meron Rapoport March 20, 2024

Israeli soldiers from the 646 Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade operating in Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza, during an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, January 2, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

‘Change in Israel will only happen when there are costs that force our eyes open’

Oct. 7 has ‘broken a contract’ between the army and gov’t, but has yet to shake key parts of Israeli society into a different paradigm, says scholar Yagil Levy.

By Meron Rapoport February 13, 2024

Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

The settlers wanted supreme power. They got a rebellion instead

The religious-Zionist movement has made vast inroads in Israeli state and society for two decades. The judicial overhaul may bring it all crashing down.

By Meron Rapoport August 15, 2023

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Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Haifa, March 27, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

The Israeli right once fought for a strong judiciary. What changed?

Scholar Dahlia Scheindlin discusses the history of Israel's struggles over a constitution, and why political camps reversed their positions on the courts.

By Nate Orbach April 24, 2023

Far-right Israeli activists from the Im Tirzu movement at Tel Aviv University hold book showing Palestinian leader Amin al-Husseini with a swastika, during a protest against the annual Nakba ceremony, May 11, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The Israeli right’s most dangerous anti-Palestinian smear

The Jewish far right has been calling Palestinians 'Nazis' for almost 80 years, casting them as an irredeemable enemy in an eternal war.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland April 20, 2023

MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Knesset's Constitution Committee, poses for a picture at the Knesset, Jerusalem, January 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Welcome to Simcha Rothman’s vengeful coup

Embodying the rage that drives the Israeli right’s judicial assault, the chair of the Knesset’s Law and Justice Committee is poised to bring his once-fringe ideas to fruition. And, he tells +972, he is just getting started.

By Nate Orbach March 9, 2023

Israeli and Palestinian flags are seen at an anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2022. (Ahmad Al-Bazz)

The struggle brewing inside Israel’s anti-government movement

The far-right coalition has already provoked broad resistance from within Israeli society — but Palestine remains the elephant in the room.

By Haggai Matar January 12, 2023

Four Israeli conscientious objectors (left to right) Evyatar Moshe Rubin, Einat Gerlitz, Nave Shabtay Levin, and Shahar Schwartz, are seen outside the Tel Hashomer induction base before their planned announcement to refuse to enlist in the Israeli army, September 4, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Israel is on the cusp of a wave of army refusal under far right rule

The incoming government has prompted a new crop of teens to question their upcoming role in one of Israel society’s central tenets.

By Oren Ziv December 11, 2022

Young Orthodox Israelis wave flags during the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, May 15, 2021. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

The radicalizing rebellion of Israel’s Haredi youth

Once staunch anti-Zionists, Haredi parties have become ensconced in the Israeli right. Now, a generation of disenfranchised Haredi youth is defying its elders and seeking meaning in the most extreme forms of supremacism.

By Pnina Pfeuffer October 31, 2022

Amiad Cohen, the director general of the Tikvah Fund in Israel, delivers a speech during the Israeli Conservatism Conference, Jerusalem, May 26, 2022. (Fabian Koldorff)

An Israeli home for America’s New Right

A recent conference in Jerusalem showcases the Israeli right's embrace of American-style culture wars, nationalist populism, and cults of personality.

By Noam Sheizaf July 18, 2022

Israeli Jewish extremists dance during the Flag March on Jerusalem Day, May 29, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

How threats of a second Nakba went mainstream

With the death of the Green Line and the growing political influence of Palestinian citizens of Israel, prominent right-wing figures are now openly advocating mass expulsion to preserve Jewish supremacy.

By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury June 23, 2022

Palestinian Bedouin in the Naqab/Negev, protest on Road 31 near the village of Sawe al-Atrash, against an afforestation plan carried out by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), January 13, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

What’s behind the Israeli right’s renewed war on Palestinian citizens?

Having moved on from its failed bid to formally annex the West Bank, the Israeli right has trained its sights back on an old target.

By Meron Rapoport February 10, 2022

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I spent a week watching the Israeli Fox News. Here’s what I learned

Now 14 is a look into the right’s paranoid stream of consciousness, which loathes progressives, loves settlements, and remains loyal to King Bibi.

By Noam Sheizaf January 18, 2022