As 2026 dawns, the picture painted of Israel by much of the world looks grim. Headlines scream danger. Social media amplifies ...

Lost in this framing was a basic truth: Hamas’s strategy depends on civilian death. Israel’s strategy, by contrast, seeks to ...

Israel’s growing engagement with Europe’s far-right movements is no longer an isolated anomaly, it is becoming a pattern. The ...

The Arrow family of anti-ballistic missiles serves Israel’s tiered air defense strategy alongside the Iron Dome. While the latter is able to intercept and destroy the vast majority of projectiles ...

This past June, Israel launched a devastating surprise attack on a country seventy times its size, managing in 12 days to destroy much of Iran’s nuclear program, eviscerate its air defenses, and ...

Readers respond to an essay criticizing U.S. Democrats’ failure to resolve the conflict in Gaza. Also: Trump’s Kennedy Center ...

Israel’s Defense Ministry confirmed the formidable new weapon will be ready for use by the military later this year. Israel’s high-energy laser interception system called the “Iron Beam” has ...

The Huckabee-Sanders crew goes all in with Israel. Credit: Will Newton, photographer for the governor's office When Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders returned from a trip to Israel earlier this ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. For Israel, as for Ukraine, defending against drones has been a difficult and ...

The governor of Arkansas brought her own photographer along to take pictures like this one of her with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netahyahu. Credit: Will Newton She also visited her parents, the ...

The Anti-Defamation League accused Mamdani of packing his transition team with people linked to “antisemitic, anti-Zionist, ...