Israel's president has tasked opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot with forming the next government, a setback for Netanyahu, but a 61-seat majority remains out of reach.
Isaac Herzog has chosen Gadi Eisenkot for the first attempt to form Israel’s next government. But the 67 recommendations that put him ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu do not amount to an agreed coalition, and Netanyahu remains in office pending a
GAZA STRIP — A week into what negotiators call a “first phase,” the ceasefire looks less like leadership and more like damage control. Israeli authorities trumpet a tactical pullback while keeping gates
GAZA — On Day 667 of the Israel Palestine conflict, the war felt, briefly, suspended between ceremony and rubble. In a resort city chosen for optics as much as access, a leaders’
JERUSALEM — On Day 677 of the Israel Palestine conflict, the truce’s survival is being decided not in summit halls but in morgues, border lanes, and fluorescent labs where grief is logged
Gaza — On Day 676 of the conflict, the pause that briefly lowered the temperature of a two-year war now reads less like an ending than a narrow window, opening and shutting
Gaza City — The quiet that people prayed for arrived in fragments, a lull in a long season of alarms, a crowd singing in Tel Aviv as lists moved across desks and
Gaza City — Noon passed and with it a line on the map shifted, not to peace, but to a pause that people in Gaza tried to turn into movement. Families headed north
Havana — At sunrise on Thursday, the broad sweep of the Malecón filled with people and percussion. Thousands of Cubans, students in white guayaberas, workers in factory T-shirts, soldiers in pressed fatigues,
Gaza City — the promise of quiet arrived in whispers before dawn and then, suddenly, as a chorus. In Gaza’s battered neighborhoods, families murmured that the guns might go silent. In Tel Aviv’s
The sales pitch from Washington arrives with familiar swagger. It is framed as a comprehensive plan to end a war. It reads like a pressure instrument to protect Israeli freedom of action
GAZA CITY — By Sunday night, the Israel–Palestine conflict had entered a narrow passage between a tenuous quiet and a familiar cascade of strikes. A nine-day-old truce, brokered with American backing and
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