Topic: israeli elections

Campaign billboard depicting Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, Tel Aviv, Oct. 26, 2026. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel's election paradox — and ours

Andrew O'Hehir
Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader/Ronen Zvulun/Salon)

Gantz rejects Netanyahu's unity offer

Matthew Rozsa
Benjamin Netanyahu (AP/Ronen Zvulun)

Netanyahu faces political crisis

Matthew Rozsa
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Getty/Menahem Kahana)

Netanyahu's gutless opposition

Guy Ziv - The Conversation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Donald Trump (Getty/Kobi Gideon)

Netanyahu is apparent victor in Israel

Matthew Rozsa
Benjamin Netanyahu; Benny Gantz (AP/Salon)

Israel votes today: Yet more Bibi?

Matthew Rozsa
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, addresses his supporters at the main market of Jerusalem on April 8, 2019, a day ahead of the electoral polls. (Getty/Menahem Kahana)

Why the Jewish state became an oppressor

Michael Lerner
(AP/Cliff Owen)

Did racism save Bibi?

Luke Brinker
(Reuters/Gali Tibbon)

Liberals thrown under the bus

David Palumbo-Liu
Bill Kristol (AP/Janet Van Ham)

Right gloats over Bibi win

Luke Brinker
(Reuters/Nir Elias)

Too close to call

Daniel Estrin
(AP/Cliff Owen)

GOP's Israel conundrum

Jim Newell
(AP/Gali Tibbon)

Panicked Netanyahu's new low

Luke Brinker
(Chuck Norris/YouTube screenshot)

Norris to Netanyahu's rescue

Luke Brinker
(AP/Oded Balilty)

Bibi loses the mask

Luke Brinker
Paul Krugman (Screen shot, Big Think)

Israel's reckoning

Luke Brinker
(Reuters/Nir Elias/AP/Danny Johnston/Photo montage by Salon)

Israel + GOP: A doomed love

Andrew O'Hehir
(Reuters/Nir Elias)

Bibi in big trouble

Luke Brinker
(AP/Gali Tibbon)

Bibi's bounce? Not so much

Luke Brinker
Salon logo

Associated Press
Salon logo

Associated Press
Salon logo

Natasha Lennard