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Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israel's senior analyst. Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, arrives at a press conference in Jerusalem on February 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) A month before the elections, debate has broken out among Israeli pundits and politicians over whether a far-right politician and disciple of the late extremist rabbi Meir Kahane is, in fact, a “Kahanist.” Waged on news broadcasts and op-ed pages, in radio talk shows and news sites’ comment sections, the debate is unsurprisingly intense. The question: Is Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir, ...

Palestinians as targets through the crosshairs of a gun. More than  16,000 Israelis have joined a Facebook page that calls for the murder of a Palestinian every hour until three missing Israeli settler teens are located. The page is titled “Until the boys are back, every hour we shoot a terrorist.” (If it is a matter of killing terrorists, why the Zionists don’t head to Daesh Land in north Iraq?) The page was launched as the Israeli army continued violent raids, curfews and closures across the occupied West Bank and shot dead Ahmad Sabarin, a Palestinian youth. The Israeli new...

Follow Feb. 8, 2021 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded not guilty as he appeared Monday at the Jerusalem District Court to respond to the corruption charges against him. Netanyahu, who is charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three cases, confirmed the written answer his defense team submitted to the court on his behalf in January, arguing he was not guilty in all the charges against him.   Netanyahu's attorney Boaz Ben Zur requested that the evidentiary phase be postponed by three or four months, so it would begin only after the March 23 election. “The case is not re...

132 shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invested hours of effort over the last two weeks in ensuring that Otzma Yehudit, Israel’s most extremist right-wing faction — at least, the most extremist faction not actually outlawed on grounds of racism or support for terrorism — succeeds in getting elected to the next Knesset. Betzalel Smotrich’s right-wing Religious Zionism faction has been polling below the 3.25-percent electoral threshold. If Smotrich fails to clear that line, as many as three Knesset seats that would have gone to the pro-Netanyahu right could be lost. Faci...

Merav Ben-Ari (L) joins Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party, February 1, 2021 (Courtesy) Former Kulanu MK Merav Ben-Ari has joined Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party Monday, three days before the February 4 deadline for submitting final slates of candidates to the Central Elections Committee ahead of the March vote. “This is the most significant time for the state to change leadership and bring about a different government,” Ben-Ari said. Lapid welcomed the former lawmaker to the party, saying that “in order to form a sane government, you need sane people next to you who come to work with the goal...