Neri Zilber

Neri Zilber is a journalist covering Middle East politics. He also serves as an adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an advisor to Israel Policy Forum, where he hosts the Israel Policy Pod.

Articles by Neri Zilber

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

The New Pro-Israel Law That Could Backfire on Israel

Report

January 28, 2019, 2:00 PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a weekly cabinet meeting on Nov. 4, 2012. (Gali Tibbon - Pool/Getty Images)

Ever Cagey, Netanyahu Calls an Early Election He’s Expected to Win

Report

December 24, 2018, 4:08 PM

Copies of ballots and campaign posters for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2015. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

In Israel, a Coalition of the Barely Willing

Report

November 19, 2018, 4:16 PM

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The Rise of the Cyber-Mercenaries

Feature

August 31, 2018, 2:27 PM

Palestinian students at a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency on Aug. 29. (Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Trump Wants to Help Israel by Cutting Aid to Palestinians. Why are Some Israelis Worried?

Argument

August 29, 2018, 6:38 PM

Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad (right) and Saleh al-Aruri (left) of Hamas shake hands after signing a reconciliation deal in Cairo on Oct. 12. (Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)

Can Anyone End the Palestinian Civil War?

Argument

Grant Rumley, Neri Zilber

October 16, 2017, 6:45 AM

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Trump’s Mideast Peace Plan is Crashing Against Political Reality

Dispatch

July 11, 2017, 12:31 PM

Israeli Merkava tanks drive near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip as they return from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian coastal enclave on August 5, 2014, after Israel announced that all of its troops had withdrawn from the Gaza Strip. Israel completed the withdrawal of all troops from Gaza as a 72-hour humanitarian truce went into effect following intense global pressure to end the bloody conflict. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

Israel Plays its Trump Card

Dispatch

January 20, 2017, 7:31 AM

Palestinian demonstrators from the village of Kfar Kadum rally on November 4, 2011 in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as they hold pictures of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman as they chant slogans during a protest against the closure of a road by Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement of Kadumim during the Second Intifada which began late on September 2000 . AFP PHOTO/JAAFAR ASHTIYEH (Photo credit should read JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images)

Israel’s ‘Fascist’ Defense Minister Is a Pragmatist

Argument

August 3, 2016, 5:31 PM

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Could Bibi’s Big Right-Wing Gamble Be His Undoing?

Dispatch

May 31, 2016, 7:50 AM

Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for the traditional photograph in honor of the swearing in of the 34th government of Israel on May 19, 2015 at the presidential compound in Jerusalem. AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON (Photo credit should read GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Grade A Pork-Barrel Politics

Argument

May 26, 2015, 6:31 PM

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Hamas on the Ropes

Dispatch

June 26, 2014, 8:40 PM

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The Bad Cop Syndrome

Dispatch

November 25, 2013, 11:59 PM

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The 5-Star Tent Village

Dispatch

May 21, 2013, 8:58 PM

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The Most Powerful Woman in Israel

Argument

April 9, 2013, 3:30 PM

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