Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament on Thursday, collapsing the government, installing a caretaker Prime Minister and sending an exhausted electorate to the fifth election in less than four...

Israel is headed for its fifth national election in three years after the collapse of a wobbly coalition under the outgoing prime minister, Naftali Bennett, plunged the nation into fresh political unc...

Germans have a word for transformative change — zeitenwende. Of late, it’s frequently used in relation to the Arab  world which is witnessing a quiet but  potentially seismic cul...

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Israel’s new government approved on Sunday an official inquiry into a stampede in April in which 45 people were killed at a Jewish pilgrimage site long deemed dangerously crowded by authorities....

To understand the political drama playing out in Israel and the tentative formation of a national unity coalition to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, you don’t need to speak Hebrew. You...

Israel has held four inconclusive elections in two years and has gone much of that time without a state budget, fueling disgust among voters with the nation’s politics. No one was able to cobble...

China’s Xi Jinping yearns to be loved. Anxiety neurosis, like narcissism, is inherent in the psychology of all absolute rulers. Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot probably also c...

This is not surprising as for more than a decade, in contrast to a more conservative lobbying group called the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, J Street, a liberal non-profit advocacy group, ...

Israeli Opposition parties announced on Wednesday that they had reached a coalition agreement to form a government and oust Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving Prime Minister in Israeli history an...