Yoaz Hendel

Eisenkot leads Netanyahu, but both blocs without clear path to 61-seat majority - poll

The polling average puts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc, including Ofer Winter's People of Israel party, and the Zionist opposition at approximately 52 seats each.

An election campaign poster featuring Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot is displayed on a bus in Jerusalem, October 5, 2026
Yoaz Hendel and Einat Wilf.

Hendel, Wilf's Reservists-Economic Party remains steady in polling with four seats - poll

Leader of the Reservists-Economic Party Yoaz Hendel  calls on Ofer Winter to sign surplus vote-sharing agreement ahead of elections in Tel Hashomer, Thursday, October 8, 2026.

Hendel calls on Ofer Winter to break with Netanyahu's bloc, form 'Zionist bloc' with Reservists

The Nova Music Festival memorial, pictured October 6, 2026.

Nearly half of Israelis equally blame government, IDF for October 7 failures, poll finds


Israel’s postal service is going private

Relinquishing control over the Israeli Postal Company will save the government hundreds of millions of shekels.

 Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (L) is seen with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel. The two have agreed upon a format to privatize the Israeli Post Company.

Will the government succeed in breaking up Haredi autonomy in Israel?

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov

 Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel

Breaking Israel's haredi autonomy via kosher phones - interview with Yoaz Hendel

How the Communications Minister became the unexpected leader of the fight for equality under law, and haredi society’s public enemy No. 1.

 Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel

Price of Israeli landline phone service to drop by 40%

Landline phone service in Israel will become about 40% cheaper over the next two years.

 Landline home phone (Illustrative)

Benjamin Netanyahu is like an Israeli false messiah - Minister Hendel

Yoaz Hendel on Benjamin Netanyahu: "What I see is a kind of Shabtai Zvi, where people think whatever he says is the truth."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches the stones of the Western Wall

‘Kosher’ cellphone service faces day of reckoning

Rabbinically supervised services have created a control mechanism for societal purposes and commercial interests that Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel seeks to break up.

 Smartphone with Google and Amazon apps are seen placed on keyboard in this illustration picture taken on June 25, 2021.

Israeli minister's social network regulation committee underway

The committee, headed by Communication Ministry director-general Liran Avishar Ben-Horin, was given 90 days to submit its interim conclusions to Communications Minister Hendel.

 BROKEN ETHERNET CABLES are seen in front of Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger logos in an illustrative photo taken this week.

Israeli minister attends Shabbat services at NY Conservative synagogue

Yoaz Hendel, who is Orthodox, attended the Sutton Place Synagogue in order to make a point about inclusivity and Israel’s ties with Diaspora Jews of all denominations.

COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER and Derech Eretz Party chairman Yoaz Hendel.

Israeli minister, UN chief agree to combat antisemitism online

Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel, who was also present at the meeting, said Israel will be a "pioneer in a global war for the truth."

 (L-R) Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel andUN Secretary-General António Guterres at the UN's New York headquarters on October 22, 2021

Israeli minister warns as US presses on China ties: 'We are in a 5G cold war'

'We are currently in a new, unfamiliar type of war – a 5G cold war,' Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel said at the Cybertech New York conference.

Workers install 5G telecommunications equipment on a T-Mobile tower in Seabrook, Texas. May 6, 2020