Gideon Levy

The foreign minister's Nazi reference insults a human rights advocate who condemned Hamas' October 7 crimes as well as Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Apart from the Joint List and the United Arab List, all the other parties offer more of the same – little beyond replacing Netanyahu while preserving the status quo

Some 20 settlers descended on a quiet Palestinian suburb, armed with clubs and bottles of gasoline, setting cars on fire and trying to torch homes. It was the first pogrom in community of Safa

The West Bank is on fire, Gaza is devastated, Spain would not host Israeli lawmakers today, but I will never forget that trip, which proved, at least to everyone who was a part of it, that peace is possible

I have a dream: Gadi Eisenkot declares a historic undertaking and a strategic change. Five days before the election – that is, Thursday – he calls a dramatic news conference.

In the first of our pieces leading up to Israel's election on Tuesday, Gideon Levy returns to a 1997 photograph of Israeli and Palestinian lawmakers together – and to a political world that now seems almost unimaginable.

Moataz al-Atrash, 21, had never been suspected of wrongdoing. Israeli soldiers seized him in the dead of night a year ago and detained him without charge. His family heard nothing from the authorities until last month, when they were told he had died

Gideon Levy (via Haaretz.com) Moataz al-Atrash, 21, had never been suspected of wrongdoing. Israeli soldiers seized him in the dead of night a year ago and detained him without charge.

The list of looming catastrophes is far longer and far more frightening than just another pointless round of fighting with Iran

On the eve of Israel's election, Gideon Levy warns that another Netanyahu term would deepen war, democratic repression and international isolation, with sanctions no longer unthinkable.