Jeff Barak

Jeff Barak is former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post (1996-2002). After leaving the Post, he moved to London, where he was the managing editor of The Jewish Chronicle. Jeff returned to Israel in 2006 and became the editor of Ynetnews.com for a short period. Jeff currently works in the high-tech industry and contributes a regular column on political and diplomatic affairs to The Jerusalem Post

MERETZ PARTY member Jida Rinawi-Zoabi attends a press conference in Tel Aviv in January.

Israel Elections: Voters must take stock of LGBTQ-phobia in parties

MK YAIR LAPID: Arab parties deserve being part of decision-making process.

Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid willing to cooperate with Arab parties

YESH ATID Party chairman MK Yair Lapid speaks in the Knesset in August.

Reality check: It's all down to Lapid - opinion


For Netanyahu, the ultra-Orthodox have always come first

Such rule-breaking behavior has been seen elsewhere across the Diaspora haredi world.

HAREDIM GATHER near the Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar synagogue in the South Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, last year.

Impeach Trump, vote Bibi out - opinion

The dangers of allowing unprincipled leaders remain in office.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, in September.

Thank you Benny Gantz, but goodbye - opinion

Gantz’s intention to remain in politics is as misguided as his betrayal of his supporters.

BLUE AND WHITE leader Benny Gantz –  not much of a politician.

Netanyahu's showmanship made COVID-19 vaccine arrival about him - opinion

With the vaccine’s arrival, one would think it was Bibi himself who had created it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the arrival of the first batch of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines in Israel

It's time to end the farce of this government

The government has been in power for all of seven months and already it’s time to put it out of its misery.

Alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Benny Gantz and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a vote at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on August 24, 2020.

What can explain Netanyahu's sudden concern for Arabs?

Bibi’s too busy with MK Mansour Abbas to phone Joe Biden.

MK MANSOUR ABBAS (middle front) and members of the Arab Joint List vote  in December to dissolve the Knesset.

Reevaluating Trump’s legacy as a friend of Israel

Even Netanyahu is no longer shamelessly fanning the US president’s ego

Us President Donald Trump uses a speakerphone to talk with leaders of Israel and Sudan, in the Oval Office at the White House last month.

Is Netanyahu turning Israel into an unhealthy democracy?

Not only our physical well-being but the health of our society has been sorely tested during lockdown.

WILL PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu turn a blind eye to mass haredi evasion and risk allowing coronavirus to spread again and set off a third wave of infection in the country?

Trump or Netanyahu, who to believe about the UAE – opinion

Once more, we have to turn to that most unlikely source of truth: the US president.

ISRAELI F-35 takes off from an airbase in southern Israel

Netanyahu vs. Gantz: A budget battle that has nothing to do with economics

If elections are the price Israel has to pay for providing Netanyahu with a chance of escaping justice, then he will make us pay it.

WITH HIS court case looming on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is launching a last-ditch campaign against the levers of civil society, in particular the judiciary, the police and the role of the free press.