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."

According to CNN, a the US now believes it has the upper hand in terms of denying Iran leverage in the shipping chokepoint. "We’re only going to talk to you if you want to talk about nuclear file,” an official said.

Pressure on Israel, or even punitive measures imposed against it, has never advanced peace. Instead, it has hardened Palestinian positions. Israel can continue down the path it has followed for decades, but it may also be possible to make a decision that could shape the region's future. 

In highly unusual move, Israeli military publicly dismantles the core premise of a new documentary that recently swept the Venice Film Festival. "The IDF has never planned, approved, or carried out a strike in Gaza in which 500 civilians or anything near that number were anticipated to be killed," the military said on X after alleged testimony by Israeli soldiers.

Global viewers say they were left shaken after watching the show's harrowing depiction of the Hamas-led massacre.

A Yemeni source tells Israel Hayom that Saudi missteps opened the door for Houthi advances toward the Bab al-Mandab strait. "Instead of building on the achievements of the UAE and the southern forces, the separatists, in the fight against terror and securing liberated provinces, the Saudis treated it as a position of influence that needed to be curbed."

der the proposal currently before the government in Oslo, citizens or companies that trade with businesses in Judea and Samaria could face up to three years in prison.

Longtime competitors Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk, converge on shared warning as concerns deepen over AI slipping out of reach.

Houthi takeover of Bab el-Mandeb strengthens Iran, leaves Saudi Arabia exposed and forces Jerusalem to prepare for renewed fighting. 

A colonel known as "Bravo" told CBS News how he survived for days in Iran after his F-15E was shot down in April.

Satellite imagery released late Sunday revealed a heavily charred pumping station along the 745-mile East-West pipeline. The world's leading petroleum exporter is already struggling to maintain output levels during a period of intense global inflation. Any additional reduction in Saudi oil flow will severely aggravate the international supply deficit that led to fuel price surging.

Asian markets tumble as rising crude oil prices and hot US inflation data fuel expectations of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan.

Mohammed bin Salman approached Israel indirectly through CENTCOM seeking intelligence assistance against threat to Bab al-Mandeb. Trump is wary of direct US intervention, but airstrikes remain under consideration. 

Hezbollah has been weakened, the Houthis grow in confidence, the militias in Iraq are under pressure and pro-Iranian cells are trying to regain a foothold in Syria. At the same time, tensions between Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have come into the open. Three years after threats of a regional war, Tehran is trying to rebuild its proxy network and adapt it to a new reality. 

The past year has transformed the nuclear debate: The last US-Russia arms-control treaty expired, Trump ordered nuclear testing to resume and China is rapidly expanding its capabilities. At the same time, countries that had never publicly contemplated going nuclear are now openly discussing it.

Diaspora Jews choose to move their lives to Israel despite an extremely challenging security reality, with 20,000 new olim from over 100 countries expected to celebrate the Jewish new year as Israeli citizens for the first time.

Trump’s Knesset visit, a landmark High Court ruling and one Israeli athlete who shone above them all. The Jewish calendar year 5786, now drawing to a close, was turbulent. And by next year's Rosh Hashanah, the next one will likely be no different. 

Gadi Eisenkot makes no secret of his plan to form a minority government with Arab parties abstaining, but he could end up helping crown another candidate as prime minister. Plus: A senior Israeli official reveals how the opportunity to eliminate Iran’s top leadership was nearly missed, until the problem was solved with some simple logic.