Explainers

A TV screen broadcasts the exit poll results of the Israeli election in Tel Aviv on March 2, 2020. After more than a year of political deadlock, Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz have agreed to form a government together. (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)

5 key takeaways about the Gantz-Netanyahu deal and Israel’s new government

Netanyahu remains in power, his chief rival is set to take over and more from a multifaceted agreement that ended a year of political stalemate.

By Ben Sales April 21, 2020 5:07 pm

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Yuli Edelstein, the speaker of the Israeli Knesset, shown on an official visit to Warsaw in 2017. (Maciej Gillert/Getty Images)

Israel is going through a constitutional crisis

It has to do with the coronavirus. Kind of.

March 24, 2020 5:32 pm

What the killing of the top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani means for Jews, the US and Israel

Washington has been gripped by talk about what comes next but has little actual insight. Iran has been known to violently retaliate.

January 4, 2020 11:48 am

Jeremy Corbyn

How Britain’s huge upcoming election affects Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 6, 2019 2:44 pm

Blue and White party chairmen Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid during a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Nov. 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel might be headed to a third round of elections in less than a year

By Marcy Oster November 20, 2019 5:18 pm

Netanyahu didn’t win Israel’s election. So why is he getting the chance to form a government?

By Josefin Dolsten September 26, 2019 11:44 am

The Trump-Ukraine controversy, and the Jews involved, explained

By Ron Kampeas September 24, 2019 12:35 pm

Netanyahu’s push to annex the Jordan Valley, explained

By Ben Sales September 10, 2019 4:33 pm

Here we go again: A beginner’s guide to Israel’s 2nd election in 2019

By Ben Sales September 9, 2019 4:20 pm

NY Jewish schools are fighting a proposal that would force many yeshivas to increase secular education (and they’re not alone)

By Josefin Dolsten August 13, 2019 4:30 pm

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