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The Netanyahu Trial, Explained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is standing trial on corruption charges. Here’s a look at the context of the trial, the main charges and the political ramifications. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on Monday .Credit...Pool photo by Menahem Kahana Feb. 8, 2021 JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel pleaded not guilty on Monday in his trial on bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges, a case that has dominated Israel’s political life and sparked a debate about the state of Israeli democracy and the ...

This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print Even without the pandemic time-warp, it is mind-blowing to think that I have been back from my tour as The New York Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief for five years. But Facebook keeps surfacing those anniversary pictures — the four Rudorens with mountains of bags at the airport after our flight home was cancell...

Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process seen during a visit of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (unseen) at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem August 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) When I was a United Nations staff member a few years ago, I drew inspiration from former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld’s famous words about the institution in 1954. The UN, he said, “was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.” It could not liberate people from oppression, but international law and a rule-based, m...

Last week, Israel’s leading human rights group, B’Tselem, declared for the first time that Israel is an apartheid regime, a move that sent shock waves around the globe. But so far neither the New York Times or Washington Post have reported on it.

The Trump-Friedman legacy The Trump-Friedman legacy Ambassador David Friedman, who was behind President Donald Trump on matters Israeli, will be deservedly recognized as an unrelenting advocate for the security of the Jewish state. (January 14, 2021 / JNS) As Donald Trump prepares to leave his presidency, consumed by fury and self-pity after his second impeachment, it may be worth considering whether his parting words to the marauders who destructively invaded the U.S. Capitol were constitutionally protected speech. According to Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the guiding Supreme Court ruling, s...