Analysis

After years of backsliding, the government is now trying to put the public finances on a more sustainable footing, but economists still see "red flags."

Parties have only until Aug. 1 to submit their final candidate lists to the Central Elections Committee ahead of the September 17 elections. Until then, everything is up in the air.

No one, not a single person, has been tried and convicted for their role in the AMIA bombing, in which 85 people died and more than 300 were wounded. Will a shift in leadership change that this fall?

The high-stakes sparring between Iran and the West is playing out while diplomats maneuver for the real prize: new negotiations to put tighter and longer-lasting wraps on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

Had Israel Democratic Party leader Ehud Barak attacked Netanyahu on any issue other than corruption, the embattled former prime minister might not have found himself fighting for his political life.

The nation-state law reinforces the Declaration of Independence; it doesn't replace it. The opponents of the law object on all sorts of bizarre grounds that have nothing to do with the content of the law itself.

Iran threatens further breaches of 2015 nuclear deal, denies willingness to negotiate on its ballistic missile program. Iranian supreme leader: "We have started to reduce our commitments and this trend shall continue." US president: "A lot of progress has been made" in missile talks.

In 2009, the pundits described him as a weak leader whose government was destined to fall. It was just the first of many journalistic prognostications he would eventually prove wrong on his way to becoming Israel's longest-serving and most successful prime minister.

Iran is chipping away at its nuclear-deal obligations, while emphasizing that its calculated breaches are reversible, and that it will uphold the agreement as long as the other side fulfills its terms.

While neither country appears to want a war, Tehran’s graduated nuclear escalation is inherently risky, introducing more variables into an already dangerous equation.