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Middle East & Africa

Trump rebuffs Netanyahu and gambles on a deal with Iran

Israel’s prime minister tied his country’s fate to Donald Trump. Now America is talking to its enemy

Middle East & Africa

Turkey and Israel are becoming deadly rivals in Syria

The Middle East’s beefiest powers are playing out their regional ambitions there

Middle East & Africa

The war in Gaza has unsettled the Jewish diaspora

They have found uneasy alliances with their new protectors on the right

Middle East & Africa

Israel courts the Middle East’s minorities

Why Israel seeks alliances outside the Arab and Sunni Muslim majority

Leaders

Israel’s expansionism is a danger to others—and itself

It risks turning hubris into disaster

Briefing

An unrestrained Israel is reshaping the Middle East

Its quest for hegemony will strain domestic cohesion and foreign alliances

Middle East & Africa

Netanyahu’s decision to sack his security chief will not end well

Another crisis in Israel looms

Middle East & Africa

Binyamin Netanyahu likens himself to Donald Trump

Israel’s prime minister is again under pressure from lawyers and security men

Middle East & Africa

Israel’s army adopts a high-stakes new strategy: more terrain

It remains present inside Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank

Middle East & Africa

Israel and Hamas have something in common

They both want to avoid a ceasefire collapse, for a few more weeks

1843 magazine | Why are so many Israeli Jews spying for Iran?

Unprecedented numbers are risking everything to help their country’s bitterest enemy

Middle East & Africa

Israel mounts an attack on Palestinian intellectual life

The arrest of a prominent bookseller in Jerusalem bodes ill for freedom of expression