Joshua Davidovich

An Iranian woman walks past a new mural painted on the walls of the former US embassy in the capital Tehran, on November 2, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

January 27, 2022, 2:29 pm

US and Iran ‘in ballpark’ of possible nuclear deal, White House official says

Brett McGurk also cautions that there is ‘a very real chance that these talks could collapse very soon’; Bennett uses Holocaust commemoration to slam possible deal

By Joshua Davidovich

A Likud party supporter holds a campaign poster featuring then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market on April 7, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 14, 2022, 2:20 pm

Netanyahu at the plea market: What the press says about bargain hunting with Bibi

The press is paying close attention to plea deal talks with the Likud head, seeing an agreement as a game-changer both for the opposition leader and the future of the coalition

By Joshua Davidovich

MK Yair Golan pictured during a Knesset plenum session, January 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 7, 2022, 3:29 pm

We’re going down: What the press says about the coalition’s flubs and fights

The government is sniping over Omicron, leaving the press to bewail Israel’s state and score points along the way; plus the slaying of a 4-year-old earns long-overdue attention

By Joshua Davidovich

This photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, shows the East Jerusalem Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

January 5, 2022, 2:27 pm

Jerusalem advances thousands of new homes in Jewish areas of East Jerusalem

Over 1,400 new units planned for area between Har Homa and Givat Hamatos, which critics say would block Bethlehem from capital; over 2,000 more homes okayed in French Hill

By Michael Bachner and Joshua Davidovich

Jaclyn Bernstein of New York stands in confetti, among the few to observe the Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop early Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. (AP/Craig Ruttle)

December 31, 2021, 12:42 pm

Countdown to the shoe drop: What the press is saying as it awaits the Omicroncalypse

With tens of thousands of daily coronavirus cases seemingly around the corner, prophets of doom and government critics aren’t waiting to have their say

By Joshua Davidovich

Medical staff at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital wear safety gear as they work in the hospital's newly reopened COVID ward in Jerusalem on December 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

December 28, 2021, 2:18 pm

Woman with suspected Omicron infection dies as over 600 new cases confirmed

Eight patients with variant hospitalized, including two unvaccinated people in serious condition; Pfizer pill set to arrive Wednesday, prime minister says

By Joshua Davidovich

Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital's coronavirus ward in Jerusalem on December 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

December 27, 2021, 1:49 pm

Authorities reportedly set to ease back on quarantine rules, travel bans

Bennett said to be pushing ministers to get vaccination numbers up or face harsher rules and possible lockdown in future as new infections mount

By Joshua Davidovich

A dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is prepared at Lurie Children's hospital, November 5, 2021, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

December 24, 2021, 10:27 am

Shooting blanks: What the press says about non-lockdowns, non-doses and non-threats

The somehow still-looming Omicron threat brings with it worries of fresh restrictions (and a quarantine pandemic), a fourth shot gets frozen and Israel changes its tune on Iran

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli security forces inspect the scene of a shooting attack near Homesh, in the West Bank, on December 16, 2021. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

December 17, 2021, 11:05 am

Making waves: What the press is saying about a terror spate and Omicron spite

A deadly West Bank attack is linked to a series of assaults over the past month, with the media pushing plenty of ideas of what to do or who to blame

By Joshua Davidovich

Tourism workers protest government policies outside Ben Gurion International Airport on December 13, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

December 13, 2021, 2:34 pm

Omicron spread in Israel may be wider than thought — report

Between five and nine cases, mostly concentrated in two cities, have no known source, Health Ministry officials tell Kan, indicating strain may have escaped containment efforts

By Joshua Davidovich

Lieutenant General Aviv Kohavi, Israel's army chief of general staff, pictured by the newly completed barrier above and below the border with the Gaza Strip, near Moshav Netiv HaAsara in southern Israel on December 7, 2021 (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

December 8, 2021, 12:11 pm

Divide, but don’t conquer: What the press is saying about Syria and Gaza

A strike in Latakia is seen as an Israeli attempt to wean Assad off Iran, and a new barrier is seen as a way to keep Israel from needing to go into Gaza

By Joshua Davidovich

A woman is seen speaking on her phone at Ben Gurion Airport, on November 28, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

December 3, 2021, 12:49 pm

Fight and flight: What the press says about Omicron, ill-timed trips and war on Iran

Questions about Omicron are flattened out by the media into a vaccination mantra, but the PM comes under fire for keeping curbs in place while seeming to give his family a pass

By Joshua Davidovich

Travelers wearing protective face masks arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, Nov. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

December 1, 2021, 1:37 pm

Mutating worries: What the press is saying (now) about Omicron, kid shots and Iran

After following officials into panic mode over the Omicron variant, Tehran’s nuclear program and the slow pace of kid vaccinations, news outlets pull back to a less frenzied view

By Joshua Davidovich

Travelers walk with their luggage in the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on Sunday, November 28, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

November 28, 2021, 2:20 pm

South Africa, WHO call to lift travel bans as world scrambles to unlock Omicron

Officials in Israel and elsewhere say time needed to figure out whether vaccines work against mutation and if border controls can thwart its spread

By Joshua Davidovich

A scene from the film 'Dr. Strangelove.' (Screen capture: YouTube/United Artists)

November 26, 2021, 2:18 pm

Hold me back, bru: What the press is saying about threats on Iran and from S. Africa

Israel aims its tough guy routine at Iran and the US, but as the threats trickle through domestically, some ask whether the bombast is credible

By Joshua Davidovich