Ravit Hecht

Giora Eiland has become a very important person in this war. For decades he's had made the rounds among the country's top peddlers of influence, wearing different uniforms and hats.

By crawling into the Netanyahu cabinet from the opposition, Gideon Sa'ar, the head of the United Right opposition faction, becomes the government's

Israeli PM Netanyahu is advancing a compromise that would save his coalition without fixing the existing imbalance in the burden of IDF service.

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Likud and the ultra-Orthodox parties are overly confident in their new proposal – and they are once again overlooking the massive opposition to draft dodgers among coalition lawmakers whose voters do serve in the army

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The true scale of the damage the prime minister has wrought by firing Gallant will not be measured by the size of protests.

Politician say that the goings-on in Netanyahu's bureau are do not affect his popularity and have the added bonus of frustrating the opposition's efforts to focus on the hostages and the draft evasion law

Frustrated by his failure to push through the Haredi draft exemption bill and terrified he may have to testify in his ongoing criminal trial, Israel's