Chemi Shalev

There is a certain clique of right-wing nudniks who get off on finding discrepancies between the Hebrew and English versions of Haaretz and spinning ridiculous conspiracy theories to explain them. I hope they have a field day with this, my final farewell article for Haaretz’s English edition, which will have very little in common with my parallel adieu in Hebrew.

Israel News | Israel Election 2021 Analysis | Former loyalist Zeev Elkin’s scorching condemnation of the prime minister provided political melodrama of Shakespearian proportions Frustrated by the government’s decision to impose an extended total lockdown from Sunday, overwhelmed by the ongoing misery of COVID-19, and increasingly disgusted by successive dysfunctional governments, Israelis were nevertheless stunned by the bloody political drama that unfolded on their television sets on...

Less than a week after finally acknowledging Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired a shot across the bow of the President-elect Joe Biden. "We must not go back to the 2015 nuclear deal", Netanyahu warned on Sunday, proving that he, like the French Bourbons, had learned nothing and forgotten nothing from his previous back-to-back failures on Iran.