Iran apparently has not abandoned this ambition to acquire nuclear weapons, but at the same time sees no urgency in achieving this aim, while also seeking to minimize the risks entailed pursuing it. Therefore, Israel's intelligence assessments on the timing of Iran's nuclearization have consistently proven wrong.
The thaw between Israel and Gulf States is rare welcome news in the region. But don’t expect America’s perpetual Iran headache to ease up.

The Israeli prime minister visited the United Arab Emirates this week, highlighting a number of current realities.

Naftali Bennett’s historic state visit was a sign of progress—with caveats.
Is the Joe Biden-Naftali Bennett honeymoon over? It would seem so. Everywhere one looks these days there appears to be disagreement and division between Washington and Jerusalem.

In an interview on the anniversary of the 1991 Arab-Israeli peace conference, Marwan Muasher looks back.

To bolster their influence in Israel, Chinese players have leveraged local Hebrew language media to calibrate their messages for Israeli audiences.

The challenge for Western policymakers is to avoid viewing Russian activism in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa through an exclusively zero-sum lens. The region’s political disarray, complexities, and especially the unpredictability of local rulers all present built-in buffers to Russian influence—as they do to all external players.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s upcoming meeting with President Joe Biden is almost certain to be one of the smoothest White House meetings with a U.S. president in recent years.
A survey of experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the viability of the two-state solution.