Joshua Davidovich

Israel Resilience party chief Benny Gantz speaks at a party gathering in Tel Aviv on February 19, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

February 20, 2019, 12:57 pm

Low and lower: 8 things to know for February 20

After being pummeled, Gantz hits back at Netanyahu, only to be met with self-righteous cries of ‘shame on you’ from a Likud busy officiating a racist political wedding

By Joshua Davidovich

Then-opposition leader Tzipi Livni speaks during the plenary session of the opening day of the winter session at the Knesset, on October 15, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

February 19, 2019, 12:33 pm

No more lives left to Livni: 8 things to know for February 19

The Hatnua leader’s political death is blamed on her own intransigence or her lack of allies, as well as her dramatic journey from right wing to center-left

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters on the plane home from Poland in the early hours of February 15, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

February 17, 2019, 12:54 pm

United we stand, united we fall: 7 things to know for February 17

Parties are racing to wrap up unity deals before a Thursday deadline, and Netanyahu is rebuked for trying to stay friendly with Poland even if it means selling out truth

By Joshua Davidovich

US Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, his wife Iwona and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife Sara are pictured during a wreath laying ceremony at the Ghetto Heroes Monument in Warsaw, Poland, on February 14, 2019. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)

February 15, 2019, 11:31 am

Dancing around Poles: 7 things to know for February 15

Netanyahu finds himself drawn into another mess after being wrongly quoted blaming ‘the Poles’ for cooperating with Nazis, putting a sour cherry in an elongated, strange trip

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives for a session at the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

February 14, 2019, 1:10 pm

No love in Warsaw: 10 things to know for February 14

Netanyahu’s bid to show the Gulf rallying behind him against Iran seems to have gone a little awry, with translation blunders, harsh words from a secret ‘ally’ and more

By Joshua Davidovich

Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz, US Vice President Mike Pence, Poland's President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pose for a family photo at the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle east in Warsaw, on February 13, 2019. (Janek SKARZYNSKI/AFP)

February 13, 2019, 2:05 pm

In Warsaw, Netanyahu criticized after appearing to push for war against Iran

In Hebrew, prime minister says nations at Mideast conference ‘sitting with Israel to advance the common interest of combating Iran,’ but in English, his office translates it as war

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz watch a military exercise of the army's Golani Brigade on the Golan Heights, September 11, 2012. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

February 13, 2019, 1:41 pm

The no-security election: 9 things to know for February 13

Netanyahu and Gantz both go negative, accusing the other of being weak on defense; meanwhile Mr. Security is accused of imperiling the country and peace hopes, in 2014 and now

By Joshua Davidovich

Avi Gabbay, leader of the Labor Party, speaks with the media before the release of the results in the Labor party primaries in Tel Aviv on February 11, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

February 12, 2019, 3:26 pm

A political funeral and some sham marriages: 9 things to know for February 12

Eitan Cabel is gunned down by Labor’s Avi Gabbay; Netanyahu tries to match up rightists and ‘his’ paper tries to make a leftist union; plus a fake marriage courtesy of the Shin Bet

By Joshua Davidovich

The entrance the Labor party primary polling station in the Tel Aviv Convention Center, February 11, 2019. (Raanan Cohen)

February 11, 2019, 3:47 pm

Stumping with a slump: 9 things to know for February 11

A sad-sack Labor heads to the polls to pick its handful of members projected to enter the Knesset, and politicians make a pilgrimage to a mourning family

By Joshua Davidovich

Israelis light candles in memory of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, in Zion Square in Jerusalem, on February 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 10, 2019, 12:29 pm

Trying to make sense of senselessness: 10 things to know for February 10

The Shin Bet is waiting to call the killing of Ori Ansbacher a terror murder, but others – possibly including the suspected killer – aren’t, for various reasons

By Joshua Davidovich

Former chief of staff Benny Gantz (R) delivers his first electoral speech as he stands alongside his electoral ally, former defense minister Moshe Yaalon, in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

February 8, 2019, 4:13 pm

Safety Gantz: 8 things to know for February 8

Gantz can talk if he wants to, but he can’t leave his friends on the right and left behind, meaning it’s still impossible to get a non-safe answer out of the party

By Joshua Davidovich

Likud supporters campaign for party members and candidates at the Tel Aviv Likud polling station on February 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

February 6, 2019, 2:24 pm

Likud’s win is Netanyahu’s loss: 9 things to know for February 6

Voters in the ruling party’s primary rejected Netanyahu’s attacks on Sa’ar, threw out loudmouths, and put together a list that many see as an improvement over 2015’s

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and then interior minister Gideon Sa'ar (L) seen at the Knesset on July 9, 2013. (Flash 90)

February 5, 2019, 11:31 am

Sa’ar, not Sa’ar: 8 things to know for February 5

Likud members vote in their party primaries Tuesday, with the prime minister being put to the test, especially regarding his open battle against former minister Gideon Sa’ar

By Joshua Davidovich

A bourekas. (chameleonseye/Istock by Getty Images)

February 4, 2019, 4:16 pm

Factional friction and fictional fakery: 7 things to know for February 4

Netanyahu, now with his own TV ‘channel,’ steps up attacks on Gideon Sa’ar ahead of Likud’s bourekas-fueled primary, and Gantz takes heat from several directions

By Joshua Davidovich

A Likud member cast shis vote in Jerusalem in the party's primary elections, December 31, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

February 3, 2019, 11:24 am

Playing the slots: 7 things to know for February 3

Parties are negotiating to join forces or trying to outmaneuver rivals with 2.5 weeks to go until faction slates must be finalized

By Joshua Davidovich