Zvika Klein

Kushner and Witkoff don’t trust Bibi. But they aren’t the president, and Bibi knows it, which is why every meeting becomes an attempt to convince an audience of one over the heads of his advisers.

Three years in, with four fronts still open and everyone who had power in December 2023 killed by Israeli fire, can this war ever end?

From the Gulf to Capitol Hill to my own readers back home, I kept meeting the same person.

In the winter of 1789, a French aristocrat named Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre stood in the National Assembly and argued that Jews should be made citizens.

“We do not have the privilege of refusing to work together, even when we disagree. If we learn how to do that, we will do good for all of Israeli society," a Kibbutz leader told me.

The writer who asks for anonymity has not abandoned the Jewish people. He is covering, trying to stay employable and safe in a world that has quietly decided his affiliation is a liability.

The Roman Gofman fight is about more than the Mossad. It is about who Israel's security elite is willing to let inside.

Bennett has never built a home. Bayit Yehudi was a vehicle. Yamina was a vehicle. Bennett 2026 was a vehicle. Together, his new merger with Lapid, is a vehicle.

He stood for what that generation of US Jews was able to do: leave the immigrant experience behind, build within the US, and climb the country's institutions far enough to actually use the access.

The October 7 massacre did not awaken Jews. It moved them – in every direction at once.