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Head of Israel’s right-wing Yamina party Naftali Bennett who is to serve as Israel’s prime minister until 2023 addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 13th. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty
Netanyahu’s long reign as Israeli prime minister ends

Binyamin Netanyahu’s reign as Israeli prime minister ended on Sunday night after 12 consecutive years in power. The country’s parliament, the Knesset(...)

Binyamin Netanyahu, who this summer overtook David Ben Gurion as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has every incentive to cling to power as Israeli voters go to the polls on Tuesday. Photograph: Amir Cohen/AFP/Getty Images
The Irish Times view on Israel’s election: Netanyahu’s tired playbook

Israelis go to the polls on Tuesday for a second general election in six months. If opinion polls are any guide, the vote may fail to break the deadlo(...)

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu: Asked how he would like to be remembered, he responded: “Defender of Israel, liberator of its economy.” Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/AFP/Getty
What legacy does Netanyahu leave as Israel’s longest-serving PM?

On Saturday, Binyamin Netanyahu will become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, breaking the record set by Israel’s first prime minister, David B(...)

An ultra-Orthodox Jew prays on Mount Olive in east Jerusalem: Avigdor Lieberman, an ultranationalist ex-defence minister, wants to capitalise on a turn in public opinion against the Haredi. Photograph: Atef Safadi
Haredi exemption from military service in Israel under threat

At nearly 50 years of age, Yitzhak Pindrus would prefer the traditional life of an ultra-Orthodox Jew, sequestered in a religious school poring over t(...)

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu was left without a majority coalition failed to reach a compromise on the question of drafting the ultra-Orthodox into the army. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA
Israel to hold new election after coalition talks fail

Israel will hold a new election on September 17th after prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu failed to meet the Wednesday midnight deadline to form a gov(...)

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely at his Likud Party headquarters in Tel Aviv on election night in the early hours of Wednesday. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images
Netanyahu’s peerless political instincts bring him fifth term

King Bibi has done it again. Trailing in the polls to the centrist Blue and White throughout the campaign, Binyamin Netanyahu managed to siphon enough(...)

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara celebrate following the announcement of exit polls in Israel’s parliamentary election in Tel Aviv on Tuesday night. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
Netanyahu wins fifth term in office as rival concedes

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu secured a clear path to re-election on Wednesday, with far-right parties set to hand him a parliamentary maj(...)

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu casts his vote in Jerusalem. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AFP/Getty
Exit polls show Israeli election too close to call

Binyamin Netanyahu looked on course to secure a fifth term as Israeli prime minister on Tuesday night, but differences in exit polls from the three ma(...)

A billboard of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an election campaign poster in Russian, in Jerusalem, on Friday. Israelis go to the polls in a general election next Tuesday. Photograph: Jim Hollander?EPA
Prolonging Netanyahu’s premiership may come at a cost for Israel

Like any successful politician, Binyamin Netanyahu recognises the value of being underestimated. For him, it’s been a recurring theme. In the 1980s, (...)

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu: a poll shows an indictment would result in Likud falling to 25 seats. The Blue and White alliance would rise to 44 seats. Photograph: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner
Netanyahu’s political life in peril amid three cases of corruption

Binyamin Netanyahu has dominated Israeli politics for the last two decades and only a few months ago looked a certain bet to win a fifth term as prime(...)

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