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Haviv Rettig Gur

Haviv Rettig Gur

Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israel's senior analyst.
Haviv Rettig Gur (courtesy) / Green Bay Packers quarterback Taylor Elgersma (19) throws during the first half of a preseason NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts, August 16, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
April 29, 2026, 11:53 pm
Haviv Rettig Gur: Political footballs and politicians’ fumbles
In this Israeli election year, ToI’s senior analyst gives the play-by-play on the newly announced joint party of two former prime ministers and flags broadening societal schisms
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur (courtesy)/Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians amid the ruins in Gaza City, January 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
January 29, 2026, 12:33 pm
Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas is holding Gazans hostage
ToI’s senior analyst on Israel’s moment of relief with the recovery of the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, and the current implausibility of the vision of ‘New Gaza’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur (courtesy) / A view of the Western Wall as the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound appears in the background in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 4, 2025. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP)
January 2, 2026, 8:04 am
Lazar Focus: Haviv Rettig Gur with 6 projections for Israel in 2026
ToI’s senior analyst accepts a homework assignment and comes prepared to present likely scenarios facing the Jewish state in this new calendar year
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur (courtesy) / President Donald Trump talks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, October 13, 2025, in Jerusalem. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)
November 12, 2025, 10:58 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The case for pardoning Netanyahu
ToI’s senior analyst reports on US President Donald Trump’s unusual request to Herzog and explains why he could support it. Plus, just back from London, Rettig Gur conveys fears among UK Jewry
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur (courtesy) / On October 7, 2025, thousands assemble in Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, to watch the broadcast of the Bereaved Families Memorial Ceremony marking two years since the October 7, 2023, massacre. (Paulina Patimer)
October 7, 2025, 11:29 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel’s next front is its own fractures
ToI’s senior analyst addresses a sobering new study by Agam Labs and Hebrew University that reveals a pessimistic shift in Israeli public sentiment two years into the Gaza war
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur (courtesy) / The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Astana, Kazakhstan, October 13, 2022. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
September 10, 2025, 11:02 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Did Israel ‘break the rules’ in Qatar strike?
ToI’s senior analyst gets philosophical about whether Israel may have lost all remaining diplomatic goodwill over an assassination attempt on top Hamas leadership in Doha
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur (courtesy) / Illustrative: Jews visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on Jerusalem Day, May 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 5, 2025, 10:55 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza
ToI’s senior analyst on National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s prayer-leading on Tisha B’Av, why World War III didn’t erupt and what the far-right politician hoped to gain
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Illustrative: Young Jewish protesters throw rocks as Israeli police forces arrive at the illegal outpost of Amona, on February 1, 2017, on the morning of the settlement's evacuation. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 1, 2025, 10:39 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war – against Israel
ToI’s senior analyst on the Labor Party-roots of early settlements and how the post-1967 vision of security and returning to the Land of Israel has been warped
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Iranians chant slogans and wave national flags as they celebrate a ceasefire between Iran and Israel at Enghlab Square in the capital Tehran on June 24, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
June 25, 2025, 1:47 pm
Daily Briefing June 25: Day 628 – For Iranian regime, does survival equal victory?
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur sifts through the debris of war to discern whether Israel and the US met their goals and why Iranians didn’t shake off their oppressive regime
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Portraits of Iranian military generals and nuclear scientists, killed in Israel's June 13 attack, are displayed above a road, as a plume of heavy smoke rises from an oil refinery in southern Tehran, after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike, on June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
June 18, 2025, 2:12 pm
Daily Briefing June 18: Day 621 – How warfare is being rewritten in the skies of Tehran
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on how Israel’s tech tweaks and integration of intelligence and IDF prowess have shifted military thinking in the region
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
June 14, 2025, 11:52 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War
ToI’s senior analyst weighs in on the prime minister’s courage for taking on Iran before it achieves a nuclear bomb and his hope that the Iranian people will overthrow the regime
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
May 20, 2025, 11:25 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What did Trump mean when he said…
To understand the US vision for the Mideast, ToI’s senior analyst takes a deep look at President Donald Trump’s address to the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh on May 13
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Cartoon illustrating Israelis' first election, January 25, 1948. (AP Photo/H. E. Munhall)
May 1, 2025, 11:58 am
Daily Briefing May 1: Day 573 – Ben-Gurion’s anguish upon the founding of Israel
In a special Independence Day episode, senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur takes us back to the first prime minister’s conflicted emotions as the nascent state fought enemies and division
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
A slogan in Arabic reading (R): 'Enough killing and destruction' and another reading (L): 'The children of Palestine: We want to live' are displayed during a rally calling for an end to the war where hundreds chanted anti-Hamas slogans, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 25, 2025. (AFP)
March 26, 2025, 2:09 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 26: Day 537 – Gazans rise up against Hamas: The end of the beginning?
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on the 2025 budget bill, ramifications for political stability and the war; reports of hundreds in Gaza protesting against the terrorist regime
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
In this photo provided by Egypt's presidency media office, Arab leaders pose during the emergency Arab summit at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, March 4, 2025. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)
March 8, 2025, 4:46 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 8: Day 519 – Haviv Rettig Gur on Egypt’s ‘silly’ plan for postwar Gaza
ToI’s senior analyst dissects the Arab leaders’ endorsement of a $53 billion Gaza plan that neither demilitarizes Hamas nor brings any security guarantees to Israel
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
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