https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AR-c1SHy6pw/daniel-gordis RSS for Node Sat, 09 May 2026 13:22:44 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-14/gaza-war-shatters-israel-s-new-internal-peace https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-14/gaza-war-shatters-israel-s-new-internal-peace Fri, 14 May 2021 15:22:04 GMT Israel's Iron Dome aerial defence system is launched to intercept rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, above the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, on May 11, 2021. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-26/israel-election-netanyahu-struggles-while-arabs-and-the-left-rise https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-26/israel-election-netanyahu-struggles-while-arabs-and-the-left-rise Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:00:04 GMT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, addresses supporters at the party campaign headquarters in Jerusalem early on March 24, 2021, after the end of voting in the fourth national election in two years. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-05/saar-s-anti-trump-republicans-take-aim-at-netanyahu-in-israel https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-05/saar-s-anti-trump-republicans-take-aim-at-netanyahu-in-israel Fri, 05 Feb 2021 08:30:10 GMT WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 25: U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu walk through a colonnade prior to an Oval Office meeting at the White House March 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. Netanyahu is cutting short his visit to Washington due to a rocket attack in central Israel that had injured seven people at White House on March 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2021-01-01/covid-vaccination-miracle-has-brought-israel-back-to-its-roots https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2021-01-01/covid-vaccination-miracle-has-brought-israel-back-to-its-roots Fri, 01 Jan 2021 15:36:23 GMT TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - DECEMBER 20: Medical workers vaccinate medical stuff members against Coronavirus disease(COVID-19) at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center as Israel starts the COVID 19 vaccination campaign on December 20, 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel. On Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first Israeli to receive the approved Pfizer/BioNTech covid-19 vaccine. The country of under 9 million people has reported 370,000 cases of the virus, with over 3,000 related deaths. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-12-02/a-new-strategy-for-israel-s-arabs-aiding-netanyahu https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-12-02/a-new-strategy-for-israel-s-arabs-aiding-netanyahu Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:00:01 GMT Mansour Abbas, a member of the mainly Arab Joint List alliance, gestures during an electoral campaign rally in the northern Arab-Israeli town of Sakhnin on September 15, 2019, two days ahead of the Israeli general elections. - Israel will hold general elections on September 17, its second vote this year after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government following the April 9 poll. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-10-07/failed-war-on-covid-19-may-spell-the-end-for-netanyahu https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-10-07/failed-war-on-covid-19-may-spell-the-end-for-netanyahu Wed, 07 Oct 2020 07:00:40 GMT TOPSHOT - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), wearing a protective face maks, speaks with his lawyer inside a courtroom at the district court of Jerusalem on May 24, 2020, during the first day of his corruption trial. - Fresh from forming a new government after more than 500 days of electoral deadlock, Netanyahu is expected to begin a new battle in the Jerusalem District Court -- to stay out of prison. The 70-year-old was scheduled to appear at a court hearing to formally confirm his identity to judges, after being indicted in January for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-03-03/israel-election-netanyahu-won-so-did-arabs https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-03-03/israel-election-netanyahu-won-so-did-arabs Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:30:21 GMT TOPSHOT - An Arab Israeli man votes during parliamentary election in the Bedouin town of Rahat near the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on March 2, 2020. - Israelis were voting for a third time in 12 months today, with embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking to end the country's political crisis and save his career. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP) (Photo by HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-01-28/trump-plan-for-israel-and-palestine-could-rewrite-2-election-maps https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-01-28/trump-plan-for-israel-and-palestine-could-rewrite-2-election-maps Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:05:44 GMT U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, left, during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. Trump announced what he called a detailed plan for Middle East peace that provides a "win-win" solution to make Israel, the Palestinian people and the region safer, skirting complaints that Palestinians have already rejected the proposal and didn't take part in drafting the plan. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-11-20/israel-s-arabs-are-having-a-political-moment https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-11-20/israel-s-arabs-are-having-a-political-moment Wed, 20 Nov 2019 07:00:30 GMT An Israeli Arab woman serves beverages in front of an electoral poster at a poling station during Israel's parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019, in Daliyat al-karmel in northern Israel. - Israelis voted today in a high-stakes election that will decide whether to extend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long right-wing tenure despite corruption allegations or to replace him with an ex-military chief new to politics. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP) (Photo credit should read JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-09-18/israeli-election-no-winner-yet-but-netanyahu-is-the-loser https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-09-18/israeli-election-no-winner-yet-but-netanyahu-is-the-loser Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:31:14 GMT Bye-bye, Bibi. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-09-12/the-netanyahu-show-is-finally-fizzling-out https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-09-12/the-netanyahu-show-is-finally-fizzling-out Thu, 12 Sep 2019 07:00:09 GMT HEBRON, WEST BANK - SEPTEMBER 04: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on the phone during an event marking the anniversary of the 1929 killing of 67 Jews by Palestinian rioters, on September 04, 2019 in Hebron, West Bank. Netanyahu is visiting Hebron ahead of Israel's elections on September 17th. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-07-17/why-u-s-jews-mostly-shrugged-off-israeli-s-holocaust-insult https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-07-17/why-u-s-jews-mostly-shrugged-off-israeli-s-holocaust-insult Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:30:01 GMT Mazel tov! https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-05-30/israel-s-new-election-is-an-opportunity-for-its-arabs https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-05-30/israel-s-new-election-is-an-opportunity-for-its-arabs Thu, 30 May 2019 19:20:18 GMT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands before a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset (Israeli parliament) on May 29, 2019, at the Knesset in Jerusalem. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) / The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by MENAHEM KAHANA has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [before a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset] instead of [during a party meeting]. 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(Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-04-17/mideast-peace-hopes-were-dead-before-israel-re-elected-netanyahu https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-04-17/mideast-peace-hopes-were-dead-before-israel-re-elected-netanyahu Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:57:58 GMT TOPSHOT - This picture taken early on April 10, 2019 shows Israeli Likud Party campaign material and posters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strown on the floor following election night at the party headquarters in the coastal city of Tel Aviv. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-03-29/jews-unite-at-aipac-over-u-s-anti-semitism-on-left-and-right https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-03-29/jews-unite-at-aipac-over-u-s-anti-semitism-on-left-and-right Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:26:14 GMT Getting uncomfortable. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-03-13/israel-election-netanyahu-is-willing-to-attack-his-own-democracy https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-03-13/israel-election-netanyahu-is-willing-to-attack-his-own-democracy Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:56:32 GMT RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL - MARCH 04: Israel's Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu attends the launch of the Likud party election campaign on March 4, 2019 in Ramat Gan, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-02-03/roots-program-for-jewish-and-palestinian-teens-works-toward-peace https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-02-03/roots-program-for-jewish-and-palestinian-teens-works-toward-peace Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:00:15 GMT What if your neighbor has never seen the ocean? https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-01-25/israel-s-labor-party-languishes-in-campaign-without-bold-ideas https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-01-25/israel-s-labor-party-languishes-in-campaign-without-bold-ideas Fri, 25 Jan 2019 07:00:20 GMT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) delivers a statement at the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on December 24, 2018. - Israel's government decided to hold early elections in April with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struggling to keep together a one-seat majority in parliament as he also faces potential corruption charges in the months ahead. (Photo by Marc Israel SELLEM / AFP) / Israel OUT (Photo credit should read MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/AFP/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-11-16/israelis-upset-with-netanyahu-s-hamas-cease-fire https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-11-16/israelis-upset-with-netanyahu-s-hamas-cease-fire Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:06:13 GMT Israelis wave national flags as they protest against a recent cease fire with the Hamas movement, in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on November 15, 2018. The banner in Hebrew reads "we demand security". - A truce, announced on November 13 by Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip, came after nearly two days of heavy shelling from both sides that had threatened to descend into full-blown war. Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas said they would abide by the ceasefire as long as Israel did the same. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-29/jerusalem-elections-arab-voters-will-show-change-is-coming https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-29/jerusalem-elections-arab-voters-will-show-change-is-coming Mon, 29 Oct 2018 06:00:27 GMT A Palestinian from Jerusalem casts his vote in the citys municipal elections on November 11, 2008. Israelis were voting in municipal elections today, with the Jerusalem mayoral race highlighting the country's polarisation despite pledges by the candidates to keep the Holy City united. Palestinians have normally boycotted the election since Israel captured Arab east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community. Palestinians want east Jerusalem as the capital of their promised state. AFP PHOTO/AHED IZHIMAN (Photo credit should read AHED IZHIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)