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News editor Ben Sales appears on the Daily Briefing podcast with host Jessica Steinberg (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
June 30, 2026, 2:41 pm
Daily Briefing June 30: Why Netanyahu won’t publicly take on Trump over Iran
News editor Ben Sales reviews PM’s status during 2015 Iran deal and now, Israel-opposition as a unifying factor in NYC primaries, and new details about the 1976 raid on Entebbe
By Jessica Steinberg and Ben Sales
From left, Democratic congressional candidates Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier on stage during a rally ahead of New York's primary election, June 18, 2026, in Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)
June 23, 2026, 4:16 pm
Israel, AIPAC and Zohran Mamdani take center stage in Tuesday’s NY primaries
From country’s most Jewish congressional district to left-wing challenges against incumbents, contests will test where Democrats stand on Jewish state
By Joseph Strauss
Candidates running in the upcoming Hadash party primaries, May 14, 2026. (Hadash)
May 14, 2026, 8:17 pm
Arab party Hadash to pick new leaders, hopes to energize efforts for Joint List revival
Former MK Yousef Jabareen expected to win race to replace Ayman Odeh as party head in internal Saturday vote, with faction shifting focus toward crime-plagued Triangle region and eyeing foray into Negev
By Ariela Karmel
L: MK Gadi Eisenkot attends a National Unity faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90); R: National Unity Party Leader MK Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 8, 2025, 7:20 pm
Gantz’s National Unity to hold primaries in coming months, as support down in polls
Announcement comes days ahead of possible preliminary vote to dissolve the Knesset, and as surveys show support for Gantz’s number two, Gadi Eisenkot, to take party helm
By Sam Sokol
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) greets US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at Ben Gurion Airport, March 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
October 4, 2023, 2:19 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 4: Does Israel need a defense treaty with the United States?
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur and Zman Israel editor Biranit Goren discuss pros, cons, and likelihood of the Israel-US Mutual Defense treaty, as well as Yesh Atid’s new primaries
By ToI Staff
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid introduces Ram Ben Barak (L) as a new party member during a faction meeting at the Knesset on January 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 2, 2023, 6:30 pm
In first, Yesh Atid to hold leadership election; MK Ram Ben Barak to challenge Lapid
Primaries during party convention in December will require candidates to have not been charged with crimes carrying moral turpitude, in reference to PM
By ToI Staff
Meretz MKs celebrate the party's primary results at an event in Tel Aviv on August 23, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 24, 2022, 1:59 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 24: Speed round of political inside baseball; managing monkeypox
Following the primaries, senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur gives us the current lay of the political landscape; health reporter Nathan Jeffay on innovative back surgery and imaging
By ToI Staff
Zehava Galon seen in Tel Aviv after winning the Meretz party leadership race, August 23, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 23, 2022, 11:44 pm
Galon wins Meretz leadership race, returning to head left-wing party after 3 years
Stepping out of retirement to run, Zehava Galon easily defeats Yair Golan, while outgoing party chief Nitzan Horowitz slips to unrealistic spot on Knesset list
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich casts his primary vote at a polling station in Jerusalem, August 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 23, 2022, 10:44 pm
Religious Zionism primary keeps sitting MKs at top of Knesset slate
Current Knesset members grab the four realistic spots behind Smotrich, who is reportedly negotiating to unify with rebel former Yamina MK Amichai Chikli
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Inca Jew Iosef Sánchez and his family, Los Olivos, Lima, Peru, 2004 (Courtesy of Graciela Mochkofsky)
August 22, 2022, 1:46 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 22: ‘Prophet’ who brought Inca Jews to Israel; primaries preview
Political correspondent Tal Schneider on Shas rabbi Shalom Cohen and Tuesday’s hot races; feature writer Renee Ghert-Zand brings tale of lost Holocaust cabaret, ‘The Last Cyclist’
By ToI Staff
Iron dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets fired from the Gaza Strip to Israel, in Sderot, on August 7, 2022. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
August 8, 2022, 2:00 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 8: As sun sets on Operation Breaking Dawn, some rays of hope
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins us with war stories from Ukraine; political correspondent Tal Schneider updates us on a busy week of primaries
By ToI Staff
Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on October 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 8, 2021, 9:56 am
Lapid’s Yesh Atid to hold leadership election in coming months — report
1,000 party members and lawmakers will reportedly be eligible to vote for a chairperson; unclear if anyone will challenge incumbent; no vote to be held for party’s Knesset slate
By ToI Staff
Labor MK Merav Michaeli votes in the party primaries, January 24, 2020. (Courtesy)
January 24, 2021, 9:25 am
Labor to pick new leader as frontrunner Michaeli looks to renew struggling party
37,104 party members will choose between 7 candidates seeking leadership of the once-venerable political force that faces oblivion in March election
By Raoul Wootliff
Likud party member Gideon Sa'ar launches his campaign for the upcoming primaries for the Likud chairman, ahead of the Knesset elections, in Or Yehuda, on December 16, 2019. (Courtesy)
December 16, 2019, 9:31 pm
Launching challenge to Netanyahu, Likud’s Sa’ar casts himself as savior of right
10 days before leadership primary, dark horse candidate greets some 1,000 supporters, argues Netanyahu helming party will mean victory for the left
By Raoul Wootliff and Michael Bachner
Meretz party chairman Nitzan Horowitz, center, attends a protest of the LGBTQ community in Tel Aviv, July 14, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 16, 2019, 1:20 pm
Meretz nixes primaries going into year’s third national election
Party leaders are reported to have decided that a new vote would be unnecessary and costly
By ToI Staff
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