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Palestinians inspect the damage caused during overnight attacks by Israeli settlers near Al-Arroub refugee camp in Hebron, March 30, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israeli leaders are condemning settler attacks. It’s a smokescreen

The recent wave of denunciations from ministers, army chiefs, and right-wing pundits aims to obscure the fact that settler violence is state policy.

By Oren Ziv April 2, 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ministers and MKs attend a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, November 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s pardon request is a lens into Israel’s political psyche

The prime minister’s refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing mirrors a society conditioned to interpret remorse as weakness and brute force as destiny.

By Meron Rapoport December 10, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Donald Trump and at the White House announcing the U.S. 20-point plan for ending the war in Gaza, Washington, DC, September 29, 2025. (The White House/CC BY 3.0 US)

The Israeli right’s ‘time of miracles’ is over. The Palestinians are going nowhere

While problematic for many reasons, Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza appears to spell the end of the Israeli government’s expulsion fantasies.

By Meron Rapoport October 2, 2025

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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

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 Soffer-Roth 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