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In Israel, grief and frustration about a long, brutal war is mixed with joy that some hostages may soon return.

The Prime Minister’s domestic popularity has rebounded to pre-October 7th levels, despite his refusal to prioritize a hostage deal in Gaza.

Even many of Benjamin Netanyahu’s harshest critics have supported the military campaign in Gaza. “We are seeing a different war than you are seeing,” the writer Yossi Klein Halevi says.

The Israeli government’s “triumphalism” may be premature given the American track record on counterterrorism in the Middle East.

The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has erupted, displacing more than a million people. Many in Lebanon fear a Gaza-like campaign of violence.

The Prime Minister sought to justify his broadening of the war—from Gaza to Beirut—with a Biblical reference at the United Nations.

What does the Biden Administration want Netanyahu to do in Lebanon and Gaza?

A co-founder of the Uncommitted National Movement tells the staff writer Andrew Marantz why Muslim voters in Michigan are turning in droves to Jill Stein—and Donald Trump.

How the response to alleged abuse of Palestinian detainees reveals a wider ideological war within the I.D.F.

The writer Nathan Thrall and the lawyer Raja Shehadeh on the occupation of the West Bank, and whether there can be any prospect for peace.

Months of fighting at the border threaten to ignite an all-out conflict that could devastate the region.

Rape is a shocking and sadly predictable feature of war. But the nature of the crime makes it difficult to document and, consequently, to prosecute.

Omer Bartov on his experience speaking with right-wing students who had just returned from military service in Gaza.

The former general, who resigned from Israel’s wartime cabinet this month, seemingly has the ability to oppose Netanyahu while remaining above the political fray.

Evaluating eight months of the President’s attempts to moderate Netanyahu’s bombing campaign in Gaza.

As Israelis mark their independence, the Biden Administration pushes for a regional alliance.

Analyzing the issues that are most important to young Americans and whether their votes will affect the Presidential election in November.

A hostage and ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is “not dead,” a senior U.S. official says, but only if Netanyahu holds off on invading Rafah.

As demonstrations roil American campuses, the Israeli right is using them to its own ends.

Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.