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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Yaniv Hayun, one of the Israelis who helped subdue a flydubai copilot who allegedly sought to crash a plane full of Israelis, on the passengers' return to Ben Gurion Airport on September 30, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
October 1, 2026, 8:11 pm
Netanyahu turns the flydubai near-disaster into a perfect campaign prop
As the PM spins a thwarted attack to project strength and potentially boost his poll ratings, the prospect arises of a rotation agreement with Eisenkot to break the looming electoral deadlock
By Tal Schneider
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen in the Knesset on July 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 28, 2026, 4:05 pm
Ben Gvir refuses Netanyahu’s demand to merge with Smotrich; Likud: He’s crowning Eisenkot
PM’s party accuses the Otzma Yehudit leader of ‘burning votes’ for sake of his ego after he turns down PM’s invite to so much as meet with Smotrich ‘to save the right-wing bloc’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich to unite in a video posted to his Telegram channel, August 27, 2026. (Screenshot/Telegram)
August 27, 2026, 9:59 pm
Netanyahu urges Ben Gvir, Smotrich to unite as poll shows Winter’s new party surging
Times of Israel poll gives Winter 6 seats, pushing Religious Zionism below the threshold; PM warns fractured right could sink the whole bloc, but Ben Gvir accuses him of planning to double-cross them
By ToI Staff
Ofer Winter at the launch of his new People of Israel party in Jerusalem, August 25, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 26, 2026, 4:43 pm
Ofer Winter’s disciplined political launch threatens to upend the right-wing bloc
The former IDF general’s new People of Israel party unveiled a surprisingly diverse slate on Tuesday, openly challenging Netanyahu and refusing to back down under fire
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu votes in Jerusalem in the Likud primary election on August 17, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 25, 2026, 12:52 am
Lagging in polls, Netanyahu warns small right-wing parties could hand election to ‘fascist’ left
Fuming that a rash of new parties led by disaffected nationalists will waste vital votes, PM, whose coalition seeks oversight of media, claims opposition would restrict free speech, shutter his supportive Channel 14
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) together with fellow Likud ministers Yariv Levin (left) and Shlomo Karhi (right) attend a Knesset plenum session at which a law boosting government authority over media was passed, July 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 17, 2026, 9:50 am
Coalition’s ‘legislative blitz’ is designed to shore-up, unshackle right-wing power
Raft of contentious laws passed this week increases power of right-wing media, throws off attorney general’s legal restraints, and keeps the Haredim inside Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc
By Jeremy Sharon
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu waves to his supporters at his party's headquarters in Jerusalem, November 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
January 11, 2026, 7:32 pm
As dueling political camps harden, electoral deadlock heaves back into view
Polls show neither the pro-Netanyahu bloc nor parties allied against him have a clear path to forming the next government, with little chance of wooing support from the other side
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Former US president Donald Trump addresses the Zionist Organization of America in New York City, November 13, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 16, 2025, 3:09 pm
They love Trump, but many on the right loathe the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal he demanded
In both Israel and the United States, some of those who strongly back the incoming president deeply oppose the Gaza agreement he is enthusing over
By Ben Sales
Yisrael Beytenu party chief Avigdor Liberman meets former prime minister Naftali Bennett in Tel Aviv, July 17, 2024. (Yisrael Beytenu via X)
July 17, 2024, 1:00 pm
Liberman and Bennett meet in bid to forge new right-wing bloc, but who would lead it?
After former Mossad chief Cohen said to decide not to enter politics, Hebrew media abuzz over possible formation of conservative mega-party to oppose current government
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a press conference on the planned construction of a new railway line from the northern city of Kiryat Shmona to the city of Eilat, in Jerusalem, July 30, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 10, 2023, 2:39 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 10: What the face-off between Netanyahu and Smotrich really shows
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur in an in-depth conversation about the politicians’ public difference of opinion over funding for Arab Israelis
By ToI Staff
Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
April 29, 2023, 4:14 pm
Pro-overhaul protest showed the right’s strengths — and the government’s weakness
Likud voters want gov’t to focus on declining economy, Haredi parties want draft exemption law, religious Zionist voters want continued judicial reform. Can PM satisfy them all?
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett arrives at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 23, 2022. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)
November 5, 2022, 1:38 pm
Bennett: Results are ‘not the end of the country’; urges Right not ‘to trample’ Left
Alternate PM calls on supporters of outgoing coalition not to despair over election win by Netanyahu’s right-religious bloc
By ToI Staff
Givat Shmuel on February 10, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
October 28, 2022, 11:57 am
Furious at Bennett’s betrayal, these national religious voters won’t allow a repeat
After backing Yamina in 2021, Givat Shmuel residents feel burned that their votes were used to oust Netanyahu; many plan to hold their noses and vote for Likud or Religious Zionism
By Jacob Magid
The production line of the 'Menbo,' the Feldman's Icecream factory's name for the sweet snack better known as 'Krembo' at the factory in Rehovot on October 27, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 13, 2022, 1:59 pm
Daily Briefing Sept 13: The way the right’s Krembo crumbles and a new ToI docuseries
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur predicts who’s the politician to watch, plus filmmakers Eiv Kristal and Natan Odenheimer on why they’re hopeful after filming in Ramle-Lod
By ToI Staff
Opposition and Likud party leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu casts his vote in Likud primaries, at a polling station in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2022,. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 29, 2022, 5:47 pm
Jewish Israeli voters have moved significantly rightward in recent years, data shows
Percentage of those who identify as right-wing has grown from 46% in 2019 to 62% now, with both center and left shrinking
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
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