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Two-photo montage of Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Gadi Eisenkot, right

Israel’s President Taps Netanyahu Rival Eisenkot to Try to Form Government

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.

November 9, 2026

by Alexandre James

Image accompanying Al Jazeera's report on Israel's government formation

Herzog Picks Eisenkot, but 67 Recommendations Are Not a Coalition

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

November 8, 2026

by Jennifer Hicks

Image accompanying Ynet’s October 23 report on the Hebron shooting and military cordon

Netanyahu Orders Hebron Cordon, Prepares Wider West Bank Closure

Netanyahu ordered security forces to cordon off Hebron and prepare a wider West Bank closure after

Israeli patrol boats escort Gaza-bound flotilla vessels toward Ashdod, Oct. 2025

Gaza Flotilla Grab: Israel’s Navy pounces at dawn, hundreds in custody

GAZA CITY — Under the slate light of a churning Mediterranean, gray silhouettes fanned across the water and closed in. By dawn on Thursday, most of an international flotilla carrying activists and a

October 2, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Aid flotilla vessels approach Gaza in the eastern Mediterranean as crews prepare for interception

Gaza Genocide day 665: Aid Flotilla dares blockade as toll soars

GAZA CITY — Israeli strikes again battered the coastal enclave on Wednesday even as an unprecedented civilian flotilla pressed toward the shoreline in a direct challenge to the long-running naval cordon. By

October 1, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Gaza City skyline at night as explosions light the sky during renewed bombardment, September 2025

Washington meeting sells hope as Gaza bleeds again

Tehran — The bombardment of Gaza City intensified on Monday even as Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House for talks with Donald Trump over a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war.

September 29, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Donald Trump meets Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office ahead of Gaza plan talks

Trump’s Gaza gamble runs into empty seats, grim reality

Tehran — Donald Trump is betting that momentum and optics can do what 21 months of grinding war, failed truces, and serial “frameworks” could not: force a pivot from siege to settlement

September 29, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

U.S. Capitol as Congress faces a shutdown deadline in Washington

Shutdown brinkmanship returns to Washington as Trump drags talks to the wire

Washington — With just hours left before funding runs dry at midnight on Tuesday, the United States is again tiptoeing toward a partial government shutdown, a ritualized crisis that has hardened into

September 29, 2025

Government and Politics·News

Nuseirat refugee camp street filled with debris after strikes, a child walks past ruined homes in central Gaza.

Gaza’s displaced are hit again in Nuseirat as access collapses

Khan Younis — The war followed people even as they fled. Hours after families left cramped classrooms and tarpaulin tents to hunt for bread or a phone charge, blasts again tore through

September 29, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

UN Security Council meets in New York on Iran snapback sanctions

Washington’s snapback ritual punishes Iran and solves nothing

Tehran — The United States and its European partners pushed the United Nations back into a familiar corner this weekend, reviving a sanctions architecture against Iran that has repeatedly failed to deliver

September 28, 2025

News

Long-exposure streaks from air defenses over Kyiv during Russia’s overnight barrage

Russia’s overnight barrage exposes Kyiv’s thin air shield

Moscow — Russia imposed one of the longest, loudest nights of the war on Sunday, unleashing a massed wave of drones and missiles that rolled over Kyiv and other regions for more

September 28, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Empty UN General Assembly seats during Israel’s UN speech amid Gaza war walkouts

Gaza death toll nears 66,000 as siege starves the north

Gaza City — The arithmetic of Gaza’s war is now a ledger of mass death, hunger, and flight. This weekend, the Health Ministry in the enclave said the toll of Palestinians killed

September 28, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Washington punishes Colombia’s petro over UN street speech

Bogotá — The United States moved to revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro after he joined a surging pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the United Nations in Manhattan and told American servicemembers

September 28, 2025

News