Itamar Ben-Gvir

Vandalism, missing ballots: Party leaders report crimes to CEC with Election Day in full swing

Rock-throwing terror attack reported in West Bank on Election Day • Channel 14 reporter verbally assaulted, harassed while covering voting in Haifa • Three arrested on suspicion of election bribery

Families vote in Israel's general election in Jerusalem on October 27, 2026.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embrace as they walk into Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.

Could Trump's allies push Netanyahu into unity gov't without his far-right partners? - analysis

 BILL ACKMAN, a billionaire Jewish investor and director of the New York hedge fund Pershing Square, made it clear that there was no context when it came to calls for genocide.

Israel must listen to its friends, not dismiss their warnings - editorial

Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to 'The Jerusalem Post' October 21, 2026

WATCH: Israel is 'Jewish territory,' gov't must send Gazans to France per Trump plan, Ben-Gvir says


Eisenkot leads Netanyahu as Winter, Hendel-Zelekha may not cross electoral threshold - poll

Whether Ofer Winter's People of Israel party and Hendel and Zelekha's Reservists-Economic party cross the electoral threshold of 3.25% could affect the balance between the political blocs.

A large election campaign banner featuring Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot is displayed on a building in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, October 18, 2026

'Not Ben-Gvir': Next defense minister should come from Likud, Netanyahu tells ‘Post’

"It's gonna be our government. We decide what the policy is,” Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post. He did not name a candidate for defense minister.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks with The Jerusalem Post, October 21, 2026.

Dear Heidi Levine, your attack should shame Israel into action - opinion

This October 27, let’s remind the world how safe, functional, and inspirational our remarkably successful experiment in the world’s only Jewish democracy continues to be.

Democrats MK Gilad Kariv (L) and party leader Yair Golan (R) meet with Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine in the hospital on October 18, 2026

Netanyahu promises Ben-Gvir will be minister in next government during Lod campaign rally

"Ben-Gvir will be with us," Netanyahu said in a video of the event shared on social media. "Ben-Gvir will be a high ranking minister with us. Don't buy the spins."

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on October 18, 2026, as he campaigns for the upcoming Oct. 27 Knesset elections.

'I love you': Ben-Gvir confronts Netanyahu over efforts to keep him out of government

Despite their close partnership throughout the current government's term, Netanyahu appears to be distancing himself from Ben-Gvir ahead of the upcoming elections.

Prime Minister Netanyahu sits with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Defense Minister Israel Katz as the Knesset votes on the Basic Law: Torah Study bill, Wednesday, July 1, 2026.

Ben-Gvir claims Netanyahu's office pledged to EU countries that he would not be in coalition

The PMO has "officially pledged to a number of countries in the European Union that Ben-Gvir will not be part of the next government," the national security minister claimed.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on October 18, 2026, as he campaigns for the upcoming Oct. 27 Knesset elections.

Ben-Gvir surges in polls as election campaign exposes deep divisions in Israel

The contrasting reactions to Ben-Gvir's campaign visit to Ramla offered a glimpse into Israel's deeply polarized society as his far-right Otzma Yehudit party surges in the polls.

Election billboards for Otzma Yehudit party and its party head Itamar Ben Gvir, in Ramat Gan. October 04, 2026.

Italy investigating Katz, other senior officials over alleged torture of Gaza flotilla activists

Investigators opened the probe after complaints from 50 Italian citizens who were detained by Israeli authorities following two Global Sumud Flotilla missions.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz attends a memorial ceremony for fallen Israeli soldiers of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, at the National Hall of Remembrance at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, September 22, 2026

Ben-Gvir plans to change IDF ethics code, emphasize 'Jewish values,' if named defense minister

Ben-Gvir's proposal also removes explicit provisions prohibiting harm to "non-combatants" and prisoners of war.

A pre-election billboard of Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, bearing the Hebrew text, "If he had been defense minister, October 7 would not have happened," is on display ahead of Israel's general election later this month, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 6, 2026.

Ben-Gvir accuses Netanyahu of planning to oust him, form unity gov't with Eisenkot

In late September, Ben-Gvir announced he would demand the defense minister post in the next government and called for MK Tally Gotliv to be justice minister after the upcoming October elections.

Otzma Yehudit party chairman and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attends a supporters’ conference ahead of the upcoming general elections in Netanya, September 1, 2026.