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Israel’s Domestic Policy
Shin Bet embraces cutting-edge AI to thwart cyberattacks
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Israel continues to explore innovative uses for artificial intelligence (AI) in various aspects of security and...
“There is neither a ministry nor a budget”: Israeli propaganda Minister on the failure of the information war
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Against the backdrop of another failure of Israel in the information war against Hamas, Channel 14...
Since 2009, the share of the Jewish population in Israel has decreased from 80% to 74%
TEL AVIV (Realist English). About 9.7 million people live in Israel, about 74% of whom are Jews, and 21% are...
Alexander Tsinker on Benjamin Netanyahu, the new coalition in Israel and the court trial of the prime minister
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The head of the international expert center ICES Alexander Tsinker answered the questions of the Realist...
Netanyahu has formed a new Israeli government
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Benjamin Netanyahu has formed the most right-wing government in Israel's history. This is reported by the...
Israeli counterintelligence spies on journalists via phones
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The Israeli counterintelligence service Shabak uses the database obtained from mobile communication companies to spy on...
Why Israel hates the Palestinians so much
GAZA (Realist English). Israel's hatred of the Palestinians is formed and driven by three main feelings — fear, envy and...
Israel will hold its fifth election in three years
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Israeli lawmakers will vote next week to dissolve parliament, paving the way for the country's fifth...
Israel’s coalition government is on the verge of crumbling
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Since coming to power in June last year, the coalition government in Israel has been under...
Japan weighs expanding defense budget to include space and infrastructure projects
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan is considering a significant expansion of what qualifies as defense-related spending, potentially counting space, infrastructure, and...
Putin convenes Security Council over Trump’s call to resume U.S. nuclear testing
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Friday to discuss Washington’s...
Putin appoints Vitaly Korolyov as acting governor of Tver region
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Vitaly Korolyov as acting governor of the Tver region, according to...
OPEC+ halts planned output hikes amid fears of oil glut in early 2026
VIENNA (Realist English). The OPEC+ alliance has decided to pause its oil production increases in the first quarter of 2026,...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
Putin, Trump and Zelensky: is a trilateral meeting necessary?
MOSCOW (Realist English). Although more than a week has passed since the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S....
Russia’s elite: from Soviet nomenklatura to state corporations
MOSCOW (Realist English). The specificity of the Russian elite is defined by the nature of its origins: it grew out...
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