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Australia/Israel Review

PM Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party looks set to pick up seats, but only from parties already part of his bloc – not from the pro-Netanyahu bloc (Image: IGPO/Flickr); while Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu, despite trying to refocus this campaign on economics and the outgoing Government’s foreign policy performance, has again found his legal situation the main focus of this election (Image: Eddie Gerald/ Alamy Stock Photo)

To Bibi or Not to Bibi

October 26, 2022 | Amotz Asa-El

Posters for leading party candidates Yair Lapid and Binyamin Netanyahu on display as Israel nears its national election (Images: Oded Balilty/AAP)

Editorial: Canberra missteps as Israel goes to the polls

October 26, 2022 | Colin Rubenstein

Image: Isranet

Deconstruction Zone: The Joy of Concrete

October 3, 2022 | David Suissa

President in waiting? Mahmoud Abbas’ designated successor Hussein al-Sheikh (Image: Twitter)

A successor to Abbas?

October 3, 2022 | Yoni Ben Menachem

Golda Meir: A complex woman who succeeded in Israeli politics at a time when it was grossly sexist, but refused to term herself a feminist (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Biblio File: Gold Meir, Feminist?

October 3, 2022 | Amy Spiro

Then Israeli PM Naftali Bennett with Bahraini leaders: Who could have predicted how far relations would progress in security and economic terms in two short years (Image: Flickr)

Two years of transformation

October 3, 2022 | Jason Isaacson

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Essay: A Clash of Worldviews

October 3, 2022 | Sheree Trotter

Image: Shutterstock

AIR New Zealand: Activist ire over IHRA

October 3, 2022 | Miriam Bell

Far-right provocateur and Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir (Image: Twitter)

Mergers, splits and deals in Israel’s poll run-up

September 30, 2022 | Amotz Asa-El

Preacher Abu Bakr Zaoud: Legalising homosexuality is “the hands of the Sheitan [Devil] at work” (YouTube screenshot)

An Australian preacher’s homophobic rant

September 30, 2022 | Ran Porat

Image: Shutterstock

Noted and Quoted – October 2022

September 30, 2022 | AIJAC staff

Israeli President Isaac Herzog re-enacts a famous pose by Theodor Herzl from the Congress at which he founded the Zionist movement in Basel in 1897 (Image: IGPO)

The 125 year struggle over “Zionism”

September 30, 2022 | Jonathan Tobin