Amit Segal

Two people made a major contribution to Israel’s public discourse this week: Avinatan Or and Brett McGurk. One spent the war in Hamas’s tunnels, the other in the White House. Both laid out this week, in plain language, from right inside the events themselves, two positions that

Retaliating against UK sanctions, Israel downgraded Britain’s historic East Jerusalem consulate to a "British Mission," expelling 20 diplomats. London avoided expelling Israeli diplomats in exchange for keeping 7 staff on site for talks, though the UK stands firm on sanctions.

May the people of Israel forever remember their brave soldiers, who went into the inferno on October 7 and who, to this day, remain wherever danger lurks. To ensure that never again will such a thing happen. Kibbutz Be’eri, Simchat Torah, afternoon.

Trump and Netanyahu spoke on the occasion of October 7.

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The Nova world’s error is subtler, and for Israel, more dangerous. Before October 7, Israel fell for a conceptzia of safety: the belief that Hamas was deterred, contained, and bought off. Three years later, it risks the opposite, a conceptzia of unsafety, in which every threat is

Today at 6:29 a.m. the post-October 7 world entered its fourth year. This new era was ushered in not by fireworks but by a massive barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, and baptized not in water but in the blood of 1,200 people. It was a moment as decisive as it was

“What does the Yom Kippur War have to do with our present day? Our reference scenario is a surprise raid with no prior intelligence warning.” “We’re not ignoring anything in Gaza—on the Suez Canal, too, they saw the enemy changing right before their eyes.” Asaf Hamami, the

Today at 6:29 a.m. the post-October 7 world entered its fourth year. This new era was ushered in not by fireworks but by a massive barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, and baptized not in water but in the blood of 1,200 people. It was a moment as decisive as it was

A moment of silence in the Knesset, before a discussion in the Constitution Committee on implementing the law to bring the massacre terrorists to justice.

Three years after the massacre, the IDF launched a large-scale operation overnight to demolish dozens of memorials glorifying terrorism in Judea and Samaria. The IDF sent a notice to residents stating: “The security forces will not allow incitement to terrorism or the

Deep down, everyone knows it. The only stable government that could plausibly form, by most polls, is a unity government with rotation. True, Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s last one collapsed loudly after just eight months. But one could argue the last two

On the evening before October 7, 700 soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade training base swore their oath of allegiance at the Western Wall.

In recent weeks, Benjamin Netanyahu has faced a dilemma: Which channel does he believe? Channel 12, which has the opposition at 54 and Netanyahu’s bloc at 53, or Channel 14, which has him significantly stronger at 63, while the opposition hovers at 45? It seems Bibi is putting

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Another point raised in the discussion: Since the beginning of the year, more than 1,200 aircrew members from countries that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel have entered the country. x.com/AmitSegal/stat…

Flydubai is considering extending its suspension of flights to Israel beyond October 15 amid the aviation crisis involving UAE carriers. The issue was raised today during a meeting of the Knesset Intelligence Subcommittee chaired by MK Boaz Bismuth.

Last night I went up against Mehdi Hasan on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” Also, Netanyahu sure of victory, a new special basketball team, and more. All in today's edition of It's Noon in Israel. open.substack.com/pub/amitsegal/…

The government will approve up to NIS 9 million for an operation to bring Israelis back from Dubai following the suspension of Flydubai flights.

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews broke into a police station overnight and forcibly freed a draft dodger who had been brought in for detention. The incident ended with IDF soldiers being evacuated with police assistance, while the draft dodger celebrated with those who had

The leader of the Lithuanian Haredi community, Rabbi Landau: “It would have been better if [the state] had never been established and we had remained under the Mandate; the Religious Zionist fighters are being killed because of a distorted Torah.”

According to Defense Minister Katz 6,000 terrorists crossed into Israel on Simchat Torah—4,000 have been eliminated, and 2,000 remain.