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Labor party leader MK Merav Michaeli holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2023.

Israel's Labor largely unaffected after Michaeli's resignation, election poll shows

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

Israelis protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, December 4, 2023.

Jarring voices of internal division rise again - analysis

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cabinet minister Benny Gantz during a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv , Israel , 28 October 2023.

Israel's political identity crisis: Right divided, left reevaluating

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Israeli Minister of Justice Yariv Levin during a government conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023.

Judicial Selection Committee to convene for first time this year

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on October 26, 2023.

Lapid calls for new Likud-led gov't without Netanyahu, extremists

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

OUSTED US House speaker Kevin McCarthy walks back to his office after a motion to end his leadership passed on Tuesday.

Israel and the US are both divided nations - opinion

By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD

SUPREME COURT President Esther Hayut is flanked by other justices at the High Court hearing on the reasonableness standard law, last week.

Gov't: High Court is destroying Israeli democracy with incapacitation hearing

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

Prime Minis4er Benjamin Netanyahu and leader of the Likud party speaks with Miki Zohar during a Likud party meeting in the Israeli parliament on January 25, 2016

Likud to expel activist who told Ashkenazim to burn in hell

By TROY O. FRITZHAND

Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on March 30, 2023.

'Banana republic': Right-wing activists protest High Court's top justice

By MICHAEL STARR

Anti-judicial reform demonstrators protest against the judicial reform in Haifa, on July 20, 2023.

Israel sorely needs reliable information on judicial reform effects - analysis

Newly appointed Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara seen during a welcome ceremony for her in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022.

Knesset abused power to help Netanyahu, A-G charges in High Court letter

By MICHAEL STARR

The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel is located in Jerualem.

Is Israel taking a page out of the Hungary and Poland playbook? - analysis

By ELIAV BREUER

Israeli lawmakers such as MK Simcha Rothman (L) and opposition leader MK Yair Lapid (R) are seen at a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee amid debates surrounding the reasonableness standard and mass protests against judicial reform, in Jerusalem, on July 11, 2023.

Law committee votes on reasonableness bill changes after marathon debate

By MICHAEL STARR

RESERVE SOLDIERS, veterans, and activists protest against the intention of some reservists to refuse to serve, as part of the protest against the planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv earlier this year.

Israeli reservists call for unity and political transformation - opinion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference about the judicial reform following warnings from many economic experts.

Political divides in Israel run too deep and need a reset - comment

JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin and his Likud colleague David Amsalem, minister at the Justice Ministry and regional cooperation minister, talk while they walk in the Knesset this week

Which direction is the judicial reform wind blowing in?

By ELIAV BREUER

Demonstrators attend the "Day of Paralysis" protest, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government presses on with its judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 23, 2023

It will take a village to lead Israel out of its current crisis - analysis

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Letters to the Editor March 22, 2023: Internal affairs

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