Founded in 1948 after the UN partition plan and the end of the British Mandate, Israel fought its neighbors in several wars and has occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967. It is a parliamentary democracy with a strong military that has shifted rightward since the 1970s. Benjamin Netanyahu has been its dominant leader, and the Gaza war that began in October 2023 has defined its recent politics.
Israel today
Its current leader’s position on the ten Caucus dimensions.
Prime Minister of Israel, 1996 to 1999 and 2009 to present
Subject of an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity
Israel's longest-serving prime minister has pushed market-oriented economic reforms and a hard line on security. He faces corruption trials, and the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him in 2024.
Benjamin Netanyahu sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly strength-first on war and peace, strongly interventionist on interventionism and strongly nationalist on nation.
Country histories are short summaries. Positions are simplified estimates of the leaders included in Caucus as of October 2026, and percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions.
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