Current sectionOpinionShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeHe has been desperately wooing quality people for his Likud party's Knesset slate only to be turned down time and again. Now he realizes that corruption isn't an asset but rather a burden11:51 PM • August 24 2026 IDTNow that we have completed the internal elections of the national corruption party, it is safe to assume that its leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is starting to sweat. From his perspective, what was will be: There were no surprises or new faces, and most disturbing of all is that among those chosen for the first 20 places on the Likud slate – Almog Cohen, David Amsalem, Moshe Saada, Yoav Kisch and the like – will not give the party the veneer of respectability Netanyahu sought.In the NewsNetanyahu, an Electoral Leper, Searches for Treasure in the Political JunkyardIsraelis Only See the Victim When It's a DonkeyU.S. Announces Expansion of Sanctions in 'Economic Onslaught' on IranPolice Who Assaulted Arab Man Got Light Sentences Because Attack Followed Oct. 7Abdul El-Sayed Distances Himself From Hasan Piker Over Remarks on Jews, IsraelRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIIDF Marks Detained Palestinians With Numbers as Northern West Bank Raids ExpandAn Israeli Startup Is Reinventing Salmon Farming. It May Upend a Global IndustryThe American Jewish Establishment Is Defending an Israel That No Longer ExistsDavid Remnick on Netanyahu, Mamdani and Israel's 'Failure to Face' GazaGermany Found Its Israeli Villain. Will It Continue to Ignore What Produced Him?AIPAC's Last-minute Spending Spree Fails to Block California Progressive