The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/haviv-gur/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:53:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Haviv Rettig Gur | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/haviv-gur/ 32 32 Haviv Rettig Gur: Political footballs and politicians’ fumbles https://www.timesofisrael.com/haviv-rettig-gur-political-footballs-and-politicians-fumbles/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:53:43 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3813273&preview=true&preview_id=3813273 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

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]]> Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas is holding Gazans hostage https://www.timesofisrael.com/haviv-rettig-gur-hamas-is-holding-gazans-hostage/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:33:29 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3743794&preview=true&preview_id=3743794 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'

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]]> Lazar Focus: Haviv Rettig Gur with 6 projections for Israel in 2026 https://www.timesofisrael.com/lazar-focus-haviv-rettig-gur-with-6-projections-for-israel-in-2026/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:04:11 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3724695&preview=true&preview_id=3724695 ToI's senior analyst accepts a homework assignment and comes prepared to present likely scenarios facing the Jewish state in this new calendar year

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]]> What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The case for pardoning Netanyahu https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-the-case-for-pardoning-netanyahu/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:58:33 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3687475&preview=true&preview_id=3687475 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

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]]> What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel’s next front is its own fractures https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-israels-next-front-is-its-own-fractures/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:29:19 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3659037&preview=true&preview_id=3659037 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

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]]> What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Did Israel ‘break the rules’ in Qatar strike? https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-did-israel-break-the-rules-in-qatar-strike/ Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:02:48 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3639148&preview=true&preview_id=3639148 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

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]]> What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-when-temple-mount-prayer-is-a-call-to-settle-gaza/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:55:53 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3614031&preview=true&preview_id=3614031 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

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]]> What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war – against Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-when-israeli-extremists-go-to-war-against-israel/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:39:53 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3588867&preview=true&preview_id=3588867 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

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]]> Daily Briefing June 25: Day 628 – For Iranian regime, does survival equal victory? https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-june-25-day-628-for-iranian-regime-does-survival-equal-victory/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:47:34 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3584330&preview=true&preview_id=3584330 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

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]]> Daily Briefing June 18: Day 621 – How warfare is being rewritten in the skies of Tehran https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-june-18-day-621-how-warfare-is-being-rewritten-in-the-skies-of-tehran/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:12:49 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3577249&preview=true&preview_id=3577249 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

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]]> What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-the-existential-israel-iran-war/ Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:52:25 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3573204&preview=true&preview_id=3573204 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

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]]> What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What did Trump mean when he said… https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-haviv-rettig-gur-what-did-trump-mean-when-he-said/ Tue, 20 May 2025 20:25:47 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3553417&preview=true&preview_id=3553417 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

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]]> Daily Briefing May 1: Day 573 – Ben-Gurion’s anguish upon the founding of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-may-1-day-573-ben-gurions-anguish-upon-the-founding-of-israel/ Thu, 01 May 2025 08:58:41 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3538981&preview=true&preview_id=3538981 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

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]]> Daily Briefing Mar. 26: Day 537 – Gazans rise up against Hamas: The end of the beginning? https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-mar-26-day-537-gazans-rise-up-against-hamas-the-end-of-the-beginning/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:09:58 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3511333&preview=true&preview_id=3511333 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

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]]> Daily Briefing Mar. 8: Day 519 – Haviv Rettig Gur on Egypt’s ‘silly’ plan for postwar Gaza https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-mar-8-day-519-haviv-rettig-gur-on-egypts-silly-plan-for-postwar-gaza/ Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:46:29 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3498570&preview=true&preview_id=3498570 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

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