With thousands of members, a quarter-million social media followers, and a spot on TIME's list of emerging leaders, 'Standing Together' co-founder Alon Lee-Green is charting a new course for Israel's fractured political opposition

Lebanon's foot-dragging has allowed Hezbollah to restock its arsenals, funded by a renewed cash flow from Iran and prompting Israel's escalation. The U.S. must use its leverage on Beirut now before it's too late

'They're creating an atmosphere of ouster around me,' Boaz Balat, who is being attacked by politicians and those close to the government because of his refusal to incriminate Israel's attorney general, told his colleagues ■ President Herzog is trapped between the threats of Netanyahu and Trump and those of his former confidant

It's possible that the Israeli president wants to pardon Netanyahu, maybe even without a promise that he'll retire from politics. But it's hard to see Herzog daring to do that, as a huge majority of the political community from which he comes is opposed to such a step

People who have learned to turn their gazes away from the pain of people far away ultimately turn their gazes away even from the pain of those closest to them