Yair Lapid: An Interview with Israel’s New Power Broker ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Time by Karl Vick - (Interview) January 31, 2013 - 1:00am Yair Lapid is the Israeli anchorman and columnist who stunned Israel’s political world by finishing second in Jan. » Read more

Why Arab Parties Are Excluded From Israeli Coalitions ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast (Opinion) January 30, 2013 - 1:00am The media reports out of Israel these days are all about coalition-wrangling. Will Benjamin Netanyahu reach the magical 61 Knesset seats necessary to form a government by combining his 31 Likud-Beiteinu seats and the 19 from Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid with those of ultra-Orthodox parties like Shas (11 seats) and United Torah Judaism (7), which might create new opportunities to advance the peace process but could stymie efforts to force ultra-Orthodox Jews to serve in the military? » Read more

Iran, Israel and Their Red Lines Over Syria ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Meir Javendanfar - (Opinion) January 30, 2013 - 1:00am On Saturday [Jan. 26] the government of Iran drew a red line around Syria. » Read more

Israel Must Invest to Deter Iran ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Alon Ben David - (Opinion) January 30, 2013 - 1:00am It’s a safe bet that investing in building military capabilities vis-à-vis Iran will continue in the next government, regardless of its composition. » Read more

Israel’s election in a bubble ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Shlomo Ben-Ami - (Opinion) January 30, 2013 - 1:00am Forty-five years into Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, and four years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government became the undertaker of the two-state solution, an electoral campaign run in utter denial of Israel’s Palestinian conundrum has just ended with yet another Netanyahu government in office. » Read more

Calculated risk ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews by Alex Fishman - (Opinion) January 31, 2013 - 1:00am Israel, according to the foreign press, attacked at dawn Wednesday a Hezbollah weapons convoy along the Lebanon-Syria border. If an attack did in fact take place, was it a prelude to a broad military conflict on the northern front? We should look for the answer to this question, first of all, in the IDF's General Staff. » Read more

Criticize Israel – but without the vile and offensive cartoons ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Rachel Shabi - (Opinion) January 30, 2013 - 1:00am It’s a rare event for me to be in agreement with the U.K. Jewish Chronicle's editor, Stephen Pollard, but that is what happened after the publication of a cartoon by Gerald Scarfe in last weekend's London Sunday Times, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. » Read more

Despite results of Israeli elections, Palestinians still don’t see a partner for peace in Jerusalem ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Zvi Barel - (Opinion) January 25, 2013 - 1:00am Hamas knows that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lost big in the recent elections, but it also knows that whatever government emerges from coalition-building talks in Jerusalem is not going to be any more open to negotiating with the Palestinians.

Israel Ducks on Human Rights ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times (Editorial) January 30, 2013 - 1:00am Israel has increasingly isolated itself from the world with its hard-line policies on West Bank settlements, the Gaza embargo and other issues. This week, it unwisely set itself further apart with a decision to withhold cooperation from a United Nations Human Rights Council review of its human rights practices. » Read more

Israeli PM says only U.S. military strike can halt Iran's nuke program ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua January 31, 2013 - 1:00am Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that while American military action can eliminate Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, an Israeli strike will only temporarily set it back, local media reported Wednesday. » Read more