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Recent Briefings
The confrontation with Iran has crossed another dangerous threshold, with Iranian missiles now triggering sirens near Eilat and Tehran claiming the US struck a nuclear site. Closer to home, the High C…
American casualties in Jordan have irreversibly changed the calculus of the US-Iran conflict, plunging the broader Gulf into a regional war. As the geopolitical landscape darkens, Israel's government …
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger, Israel is officially heading to the polls on October 27 following the Knesset's midnight dissolution, capping a legislative blitz that cements the coalition's agenda. Ac…
On The Jerusalem Ledger today, the Knesset's decision to strip the Attorney General of her binding authority opens a major new front in Israel's constitutional battles just as the parliament dissolves…
The ink is barely dry on the Knesset's contentious Haredi draft exemption law, yet Israel's High Court has already frozen it, elevating a bitter political dispute into an immediate constitutional cris…
The Knesset's pre-election legislative sprint has culminated in the passage of the contentious 'Basic Law: Torah Study,' bringing the long-simmering Haredi draft crisis to a full boil. Beyond Israel's…
Washington's declaration of a naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz is driving a new wedge into the Gulf crisis, sending global oil prices surging. Here in Israel, the coalition's final days before t…
The Strait of Hormuz is officially closed as the US and Iran trade hundreds of strikes across the Gulf. In Jerusalem, the religious-secular fracture is moving from the streets to the ballot box: Shas …
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: As kinetic exchanges between the US and Iran temporarily pause, Tehran is escalating its economic threats, now explicitly naming Israeli commercial ports as potential ta…
The regional map is once again defined by open hostilities. As the fallout from the collapsed Islamabad Memorandum brings the US and Iran back into direct military confrontation, Jerusalem is navigati…