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
It appears as static as the Dead Sea....
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
The announcement by the Australian Government that it...
Israel's Knesset in Jerusalem (Image: Shutterstock)
Government’s reversal on Jerusalem a bizarre own-goal
Herald Sun - 19 October 2022   The...
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AIJAC expresses deep disappointment over government’s reversal on Jerusalem
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has...
The complex Israel-Lebanon maritime boundary dispute appears to have been settled after many years of negotiations, with Israel accepting the green line in the above diagram, except within five kilometres of the coast (This map was originally published on the MEES website).
Israel-Lebanon maritime border agreement
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IDF: No Israeli involvement in Palestinian boy’s death
On October 7, the IDF announced the outcome...
A Russian-operated Iranian Mohajer-6 drone, recently downed and captured intact by Ukraine
Western Silence on Iran’s Material Support for Russia is Deafening
On July 14, three days after US National...
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Deconstruction Zone: The Joy of Concrete 
There are two broad dimensions to life –...
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?
The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir...
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
After decades of disconnection, denial, and distrust, two...
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Essay: A Clash of Worldviews
From Rushdie to the Temple Mount   The...
Far-right provocateur and Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir (Image: Twitter)
Mergers, splits and deals in Israel’s poll run-up
The dice – six of them – have...
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