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Recent Briefings
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: Negotiators in Washington and Jerusalem are drafting a shortened five-year military aid framework to replace the expiring Memorandum of Understanding. Back in Israel, ul…
Israel’s political clock is officially ticking. Gadi Eisenkot now has 28 days to build a functioning coalition out of deeply fractured factions, balancing secular demands against ultra-Orthodox conscr…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: President Isaac Herzog will officially assign the mandate to form Israel's next government on Sunday, as the United States introduces new task forces and multi-million-d…
Avigdor Liberman is dropping his longstanding veto against sitting with ultra-Orthodox parties, breaking the coalition stalemate just before President Isaac Herzog assigns the government-forming manda…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: Gadi Eisenkot's unexpected 67-seat recommendation majority is accelerating the transition of power, while Israeli defense planners tally the multi-billion-dollar cost of…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: The post-election focus in Israel is shifting rapidly from parliamentary deadlock to the fiscal and strategic fallout of the newly reshaped US Congress. With Democrats s…
President Donald Trump's abrupt Election Day decision to terminate $4 billion in U.S. military aid has upended Israel's strategic calculus just as defense planners warned of mounting fiscal strain. Do…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: Unpaid defense liabilities topping NIS 17 billion and a fresh credit warning from Moody's underscore the mounting costs of Israel's caretaker governance. Meanwhile, oppo…
Today on The Jerusalem Ledger: As President Isaac Herzog prepares to open coalition consultations, the anti-Netanyahu bloc is racing to seize control of the Knesset's procedural levers, even as intern…
Israel's unbridgeable 53-48 parliamentary split is now driving a stark divergence between political paralysis and military momentum. While party leaders evaluate drastic constitutional workarounds and…