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."

A very well-informed source, well-versed in Israel-US relations, is looking at the developments of recent weeks with eyes wide open, and with less concern than most of us. Now he explains how two election campaigns caused the clash between Netanyahu and Trump, and points to a hidden clause in the agreement that will not please the Iranians.

The event was held at the US State Department, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing the agreement and stressing, “There is a lot of work ahead.” According to the terms of the agreement, a pilot program is expected in which the IDF will withdraw from one sector, which will be handed over to the Lebanese army.

Tehran rejects statements by IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi, while the IRGC forces three vessels to turn back from the strategic waterway.

Incoming Prime Minister Janez Janša ordered the immediate removal of the PLO flag from the government complex and signaled a historic realignment with Jerusalem.

The highly charged encounter between regional rivals Iran and Egypt positions the soccer field as a broader ideological battleground.

The Trump administration formally notified lawmakers of the major defense package, aiming to boost Ankara's domestic fighter jet program ahead of the upcoming NATO summit.

A decade after the world lost “Reb Elie,” the Holocaust’s most vital witness, his moral clarity is needed more than ever as vicious, unabashed antisemitism is back.

The Israel Opera’s performance this month of Nabucco – Verdi’s opera inspired by Nebuchadnezzar – in a groundbreaking co-production with the Opera House of Minas Gerais, Brazil, offers a stunning artistic reminder of an unsettling chapter in the ancient history of the Jewish people.

As AI makes software easier to build, GC Ventures is betting that the next great tech companies will be founded not by coders alone, but by industry insiders who know exactly which costly problems need solving.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar will bring a historic and particularly sensitive resolution to the government for official recognition of the Armenian genocide, including an explicit condemnation of Turkish efforts to deny and obscure it. 

The exposure of the strategic tunnel in Majdal Zoun and the "UAV airfield," alongside declarations by Hezbollah and the Iranian regime regarding their commitment to Israel's destruction, sharpen the necessity for the IDF to remain in the buffer zone in Lebanon.

Two earthquakes about 40 seconds apart, the strongest to hit the country in 100 years, struck Caracas and northern Venezuela, causing many buildings to collapse. The official death toll stands at 164, but estimates suggest it could reach many thousands. Testimony from the Jewish community: No members were hurt, "a tremendous miracle." 

The official described the move as “a gesture of goodwill” toward the Lebanese government. Israel has denied the report, while the IDF stresses: We were not instructed to withdraw.

Turkey was marked out as a potential dark horse before the World Cup, but it will go into the final round of group-stage matches with no chance of advancing. The stars are under fire, the coach is taking heat, but he has the backing of the federation. In Turkey, the demand is simple: Do not finish with zero points and zero goals. 

From Iran’s perspective, military pressure is not meant to defeat the enemy, but to influence the terms of the agreement reached through negotiations. Lebanon has become leverage over Washington and a means of increasing friction between the US and Israel. This is precisely the point that the Israeli government is struggling to internalize, or refuses to understand.

The US said it would send search and rescue teams, medical equipment and humanitarian aid to Venezuela after a powerful earthquake struck the country overnight. Trump: "Early reports are not good."

Tehran insists that only shipping lanes it has approved are legitimate for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned of measures against vessels that violate the directives.

More than 75,000 passengers will pass through the airport on incoming and outgoing international flights, the highest passenger traffic since the outbreak of Operation Rising Lion. These are the recommendations for travelers.