A weekend poll highlighting the potential benefits of electoral cooperation is unlikely to overcome the inter-party differences that have historically split Israel’s three main Arab parties. Those parties mainly compete to represent the 20 percent of Israel’s citizens who are Israeli-Arab, and polls show that they would be more successful...

The alliance between Israel’s Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu parties – which will see the two center-right parties running on a joint list in the January 22 election and which was overwhelmingly approved by the Likud Central Committee last night – has sent other Israeli parties and politicians rushing to respond....

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey is in Israel to oversee the Austere Challenge joint military exercise. The drill – which brings together Israeli soldiers with 3,000 American troops spread across Israel, Europe, and the United States – simulates missile attacks on Israeli cities and tests...

The consequences of last Thursday’s surprise merger between the Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu parties continue to reverberate across the Israeli political landscape. Israel’s Channel 2 and Channel 10 published conflicting polling results on the share of Knesset seats that the joint list will receive in the upcoming January 22 election,...

Hamas claimed credit for some of the scores of rockets fired towards Israeli civilians over the last week and weekend. A series of barrages over the weekend saw 20 rockets hitting Israel on Sunday night and early Monday. Schools were canceled and over one million Israeli residents, including around 40,000...

In an electoral bombshell, the consequences of which are now being debated, Israel’s governing Likud party announced that it would be running in the upcoming election on a shared list with coalition partner Yisrael Beitenu. The merger between the two parties, headed respectively by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister...