Israel Hayom correspondent Moria Kor joins Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a day on the campaign trail. 

As the election nears, Yamina leader Naftali Bennett tells Israel Hayom that he will be the next prime minister – despite what the polls and the electoral math would appear to indicate.

Gideon Sa'ar's New Hope party has plummeted from a dream of 20 seats at the start of the campaign to around 10, but he is not despairing. In an interview to Israel Hayom, Sa'ar says he expects "dialogue" with Naftali Bennett and says that PM Netanyahu's success with the vaccines does not lessen his failure to handle the COVID crisis. 

The Yesh Atid leader speaks to Israel Hayom about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "disastrous" government, and how he would handle the health and economic crises that are throttling Israel.  

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz's political naiveté proved to be a double-edged sword, but the now battered politician says that just because he didn't get to be the prime minister at this time, "doesn’t mean it won't happen."

MK Bezalel Smotrich lambastes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "humiliating" treatment of religious Zionism and the politicking that left Yamina out of the coalition. "Netanyahu stabbed us in the back," he says. 

Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz believes the Center-Left bloc has a real chance of winning the March 2 elections and believes the Labor-Gesher-Meretz faction "needs to be the influencing force over Blue and White." Labor-Gesher-Meretz "offers clear and precise solutions to people who need to ask themselves who really represents them in the Knesset," he says.

Bestselling author and special-needs advocate Lihi Lapid, the wife of Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, believes "the time has come for renewal and rejuvenation. Israelis are in need of calm and composed leadership, without any dramas, because we are sick of it."

Israel attacked the heavy water facility in Arak and a plant in Ardakan. The reactor in Arak, which was also struck in June, is capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium, while the nearby plant in Ardakan produces “yellowcake,” the raw material used in the uranium enrichment process.

The mission: hunt down Iranian missiles in real time, before a ton of explosives hits Israeli homes. The time allotted: only seconds. The "launcher hunters" offer a glimpse into the fateful chase, and admit: "The Iranians are no pushovers. We are not fooling ourselves into thinking we can reduce launches to zero."

Although Tehran officially maintains that it is not interested in nuclear weapons, the regime is holding an intense internal debate over whether to pursue an atomic bomb. A senior Iranian commentator said: “We must work to build nuclear weapons. Either we build them ourselves, or we buy them.”

The Iranian attack on Qatar has brought the emirate's ties with Hamas and its mouthpieces to a crossroads. Those who echoed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps propaganda instead of backing their host were silenced. Doha is promising a reckoning, but removing the terrorist organization's leadership is still a long way off.

Amid reports that the Mossad chief presented removing the ayatollahs as an achievable goal, it is worth to remember that uprisings are not sparked from the outside. To mobilize a mass opposition, one must identify an existing crack, then widen it. How is that done, and why has it not yet worked in Iran?

Extreme threats, surprise direct talks and a barrage of clichés about Israel being thrown under the bus and an unstable leader: everything Israel went through with Hamas in Gaza is now repeating itself with Iran. Still, there is one significant difference between the smaller enemy and the larger one, and it will determine what the endgame looks like. 

This is a particularly opportune moment for Donald Trump to alter the world order in the face of China and Russia and to reshape geopolitics in the Middle East. For now, Beijing and Moscow are hesitant to intervene and even abstained from voting on a Security Council resolution condemning Iran.

The US president disclosed the alleged "good-faith" gesture at a cabinet meeting Thursday, saying ten fully laden ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz under a Pakistani flag.

A 30-year-old man was killed and a man in his 50s left critically wounded after a projectile fired from Lebanon struck a residential building.

A senior Iranian official tells Reuters Washington's offer would strip Tehran of its defenses for vague sanctions relief, while signaling talks remain possible.

Three diplomatic sources say direct high-level contacts between Israel and at least two Gulf states have intensified as Trump signals progress in Iran talks, with both sides demanding baseline conditions before any ceasefire.

As the military campaign against Iran grinds on, evidence mounts that it is not toppling the regime but reinforcing it – leaving a nuclear-focused deal as the sole viable exit.

A senior IRGC official said on state television that children as young as 12 are now being enrolled for checkpoint duty and logistics – a sign of deepening desperation as the force struggles to find adult volunteers.

An actress's family tribute turned within hours into a battleground of violent political clashes on social media.

The Golani fighter from Petah Tikva fell in a face-to-face firefight with terrorists during an overnight ground operation; he was two months from discharge.

Ali-Reza Tangsiri, personally appointed by Khamenei, was struck in Bandar Abbas – Iran has neither confirmed nor denied his death.

First responders administered defibrillator shocks and resuscitation efforts in her bedroom as rockets fell; she is now hospitalized in serious but stable condition.

Trump is turning military achievements into diplomatic currency. Israel delivered the military goods, and now the time has come for coercive diplomacy. At the same time, the populist fantasy of a completely independent Israel has shattered.

Israeli security officials say the original war plan would create conditions for undermining the regime in Iran, but in practice reality developed in a far more complex direction: The Strait of Hormuz, shaped by global considerations of oil prices and supply.