If legislated, the bill would grant the prime minister, defense minister or national security minister, strip former senior security officials of their ranks, pensions and other benefits

At an unprecedentedly fragile time in relations between many U.S. Jews and Israel, Netanyahu's desire to appoint an eye-poppingly far-right conspiracy theorist and annexationist as consul general in New York is truly sadistic

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is focused on tax breaks for Israeli settlers living deep in the West Bank, a Likud MK is arming allies with bribe money and the Knesset speaker is leading an expensive delegation to New York