Ehab Jabareen

Palestinian political analyst and researcher from inside Israel

About the author

Ehab Jabareen is a Palestinian political analyst and researcher from inside Israel, specialising in Israeli affairs. He worked in project management, strategic consulting, and crisis management, and focuses on Israeli politics, Palestinian–Israeli relations, transformations within Israeli society, and decision-making and national security.

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Religious fundamentalism is advancing through Israel’s institutions, narrowing freedoms and deepening inequality.

SOUTHERN BORDER, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 21: Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (C) attends a Sukkoth gathering calling for resettling Gaza with Jewish communities near the border with the Gaza Strip on October 21, 2024 in Southern Border, Israel. Far-right activists and members of the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, are gathering at an event billed as "Preparing to Resettle Gaza," near Israel's border with Gaza, on Monday. Participants in the conference are calling for the rebuilding of Jewish Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Prolonged conflict has upended the relationship between political authority and military judgement in Israel.

JERUSALEM - OCTOBER 13: Israel's army chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir gives thumbs up at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, on October 13, 2025 in Jerusalem. President Trump is visiting the country hours after Hamas released some of the remaining Israeli hostages captured on Oct. 7, 2023, part of a US-brokered ceasefire deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Nearly three years of open-ended war have made obedience inside the Israeli military increasingly conditional.

FILE - Israeli soldiers gather at the gate to the Sde Teiman military base, as people protest in support of soldiers being questioned for detainee abuse, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

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