“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s obsessive focus on Iran ignores a greater and much more immediate threat to the security of Israel: the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority and the West Bank’s potential transformation into an ungoverned space that could become a haven for terrorism,” write Ilan Goldenberg and Nicholas Heras. “The current state of relations between the Israelis and the Palestinians is grim and threatens an end to the decades-long negotiations process started by the Oslo Accords.”

The Jewish National Fund, known to Jews worldwide as an organization that plants trees in Israel, is once again trying to evict a Palestinian family from their home in East Jerusalem.

After being granted a scholarship to study in the United States, a Palestinian media lecturer struggled to reach the US Consulate in Jerusalem, where he was shocked to see Palestinians and Israelis being treated equally.

The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday that it is awaiting instructions from President Mahmoud Abbas regarding the cessation of security coordination with the Israelis. In a statement issued after its weekly meeting in Ramallah, the government said that it is committed to following Abbas’s decision regarding relations with the occupying power.

Owners of the Leviathan field said that the Palestine Power Generation Company had canceled a $1.2 billion agreement, signed in 2014, to buy 4.75 billion cubic meters of gas over 20 years.

Until a few weeks ago, Mr. Herzog, 54, the leader of the opposition, was considered by many Israelis to be a shrewd and able politician, but not quite prime ministerial material. But as the March 17 elections approach, Mr. Herzog, the leader of the Labor Party and co-founder, with Tzipi Livni, of a new center-left slate called the Zionist Union, is posing a credible challenge to Mr. Netanyahu of the conservative Likud Party.

Senior Likud figures are increasingly acknowledging that party leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may not win Tuesday’s national election. “Something isn’t going the way it should. Netanyahu’s speech to Congress last week should have created a turning point for us and strengthened Likud in the polls. It’s clear that we didn’t achieve the desired outcome,” a senior figure in Likud told Haaretz.

“Between the Joint List and the boycott movement, Palestinians in Israel need reasons to re-engage politically and rediscover hope,” writes Majd Kayyal.

Arab voter turnout is expected to dramatically increase in elections next week, reflecting a sense of optimism regarding the political unification of Arab parties in the Joint List, two new Israeli polls show.

“Israeli left-wingers who like to claim that intra-Jewish discrimination is a thing of the past also like to wonder loudly – and often sneeringly – why the poorest Israelis continue to vote for Netanyahu, even though his ultra-capitalist economic policies hurt them first,” writes Dimi Reider. “The question should rather be who and what they are voting against, and how the left-wing parties can address these grievances, past and present.”

Palestinian Authority security services have arrested some 50 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the West Bank over the last two days, acting out of apparent fear that a terror attack in the coming days would give the Israeli election to Likud.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for failed policies on Hamas and the Iranian nuclear program and has poisoned Israel’s relationship with the United States, former Mossad Chief Shabtai Shavit said Wednesday.

The Zionist Union placed squarely in the lead with 25 Knesset seats in a Channel 2 poll published Tuesday, with the Likud party trailing by four with 21 – the widest gap measured in surveys so far.

Hamas drones reportedly flew out of the Gaza Strip and into Egyptian airspace above the Sinai Peninsula several times last week as the Egyptian army stood by helpless to prevent the incursions. Under the terms of the 1979 peace deal with Israel, Egypt is not allowed to station any anti-aircraft weapons in the Sinai region, so its forces have been unable to prevent the Hamas activities.

Atef Abu Saif, who grew up in the Jabaliya refugee camp, saw first-hand the coastal enclave’s changing fortunes.

Although Israel agreed to respect the fishing zone as six nautical miles in the August 26 ceasefire agreement that put an end to last summer’s 51-day war in Gaza, fishermen and human rights groups alike accuse Israel of regularly violating that condition.

A poll of Palestinians published Tuesday showed overwhelming support for both the Palestinian Authority’s decision to turn to the International Criminal Court, and its boycott of Israeli products. The findings also indicated dwindling support for Hamas in past months.