To begin with what should be a frank acknowledgement of the obvious: a decisive portion of Israel’s electorate, like that of the United States and many other co...
One common lament of the Trump era is the populist backlash against expertise; it is the subject of a popular book by the political scientist Tom Nichols and mu...
Two weeks ago, I wrote that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be evincing incompetence if he did not facilitate an early election. Now that an election ha...
There is little use in making precise predictions in Israeli politics. The incredible volatility, combined with the sheer number of stakeholders, presents a pot...
Two years ago, opposition leader Isaac Herzog presented what he saw as an innovative alternative to both the status quo and the increasingly unpopular two-state...
At the beginning of the month, Jeremy Saltan, the Bayit Yehudi staffer who runs the popular Knesset Insider blog, summarized a few interesting surveys that illu...
Last month, I co-authored an opinion piece in the New York Times critical of the Labor Party's chairman, Avi Gabbay. As is well known to most Israel watchers, G...
Two years ago, after the European Union introduced guidelines to begin labeling products that originated in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a friend compl...
Last Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted 128-9, with 35 countries abstaining, to underline the international consensus of non-recognition of Je...
From the perspective of advancing the peace process, President Trump's formal recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and his intention to eventually follo...
Abe Silberstein is a Contributing Writer for IPF's Matzav. His work on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations has appeared in Ha'aretz, The Forward, The Jerusalem Post, and +972 Magazine. He lives in New York City.
