He met with the Security Cabinet Monday night to secure approval for the use of a heavy hand against terror.
Netanyahu wants to be remembered as the PM who preserved Israel's security.
Bibi: Enough with the UN's Israel bashing obsession!
The "Turkel Committee" acted swiftly to approve the nomination of a Shin Bet official and a former settler to command the police force.
A court order overruling Deri's "stop work" decision allows Israel Railways to continue maintenance and construction work on Shabbat.
The Givat Oz V'Gaon was among the sites overwhelmed with Sukkot holiday tourists from around the country.
A community in Samaria told the Supreme Court it is working through the offices of Peres and Abbes to find a solution to prevent the planned desecration.
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Erdan appears to trust that R. has had an ongoing working relationship with police brass, as opposed to Hirsch who was viewed as a foreign transplant.
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The security cabinet also decided to allow the police to open fire not only when they are threatened, but when there’s danger to the life of another person.
Shas Minister Aryeh Deri ordered a halt to working on Shabbat on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem train line and Israel Railways claims it will delay it for 2 years.
Minister Erdan announced Brig-Gen. Hirsch has been removed as a candidate. Netanyahu charges: "Slander and denigration."
On this year's 9/11, Netanyahu says Israel remains committed to fighting the forces of militant Islam.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visited the British Library in London Thursday night and viewed the original Balfour Declaration, in which UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour declared that Britain would support the establishment of a national home for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel. They also saw a book edited […]
The Knesset approves a gas outline which also transfers authority from the economy minister to the government.
MK Jamal Zahalka said everything that a right-winger thinks but would not dare say about leftists - "racist", "spoiled" and "engineers of expulsion."
Netanyahu called the firebomb-murder an "act of terrorism," but no evidence has been released that points to Jews being responsible.
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Israel's government is gambling with a Knesset vote in hopes of finding a way past the latest obstacle in the gas deal drama.
Abbas want Israel to allow Syrian refuges into West Bank, for the time being, but Herzog doesn't want to wait. Gulf States accept zero refugees.
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Deri threatened that should the issue of zero VAT on essential products not be resolved by the following voting round, his party, Shas, would oppose the budget.
"I, Yaakov Litzman, pledge…to be faithful to the government of Israel and to its laws."
Pressure from Gush Etzion leaders has convinced Ya'alon to authorize a site in memory of last year's three kidnap-murder victims.
Opposition MK Avigdor Liberman strongly criticized Netanyahu for making the agreement.
Hirsch nominated as police chief is a bold attempt to redeem a police force rotten in public's eyes
An Al Aqsa NGO official responds: "The Temple Mount is not part of Israel." PA accuses Erdan of "racism."
The President said, "Settling in the land of Israel is the right of the Jewish people."
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Deputy Minister Litzman is considered by most of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle to be one of the most competent elected officials today.
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Danon and Netanyahu haven't always had the smoothest of relationships.
Israeli officials are in Cairo for a meeting with top Egyptian authorities. No details were made available to media.
Thousands of tons of foodstuffs, goods and personnel are still crossing in to Gaza from Israel daily. Check the COGAT data.
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Shaked is trying to fix the problem, but the Left see it as an attack on their power base.
"Keep or Cheat," under this deal Iran will attain nuclear weapons, Bibi warned.
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This will allow the ministers to quit their Knesset positions and concentrate exclusively on their ministerial jobs.
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Former Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard will be freed in November after spending 30 years in a U.S. prison.
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Shaked said “a situation in which a government representative disagrees with the government’s position” after a vote “is inconsistent with the principles of law and proper governing procedures.”
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The law allows government ministers to quit the Knesset and be replaced with new MKs who can concentrate on their legislative jobs.
"Including the Kotel along with Yad VaShem and Mt. Herzl changes Zionism from 100 years to 3,000 years."
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The Likud explained that Netanyahu is promoting the settlement enterprise with wisdom and responsibility, in the face of a complex international reality.
Home Front Command tests rocket alert sirens in Haifa on Tuesday at 10:05 am.
Hamas brainwashes Arabs with lies, making it impossible for the release of the civilians.
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Israel doesn't plan to cooperate, just try and persuade the court that it does not have jurisdiction to hear the Palestinians because Palestine is not a state.
By Rachel Levy
Israel has a double standard for law enforcement when it’s Jews who are yelling “Allahu Akbar” in Jerusalem.
He refuses to consider Reform Jews as "Jews" but "welcomes them with love and joy" to be just like him.
"Unfortunately, there are those who seek to exploit the sanctity of Ramadan, and distort its meaning in favor of … terrorism."
Yochanan Danino also distributed 200 books written in his honor and called, "My Father, the Commissioner."
"The Jewish people and the State of Israel owe an eternal debt to Nicholas Winton who singlehandedly saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday after hearing of his death. Winton died in Britain at the age of 106. He saved hundreds of Jewish children from the gas chambers […]
A demonstration and call for action against terror are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday across from the official of residence of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Government officials got on the soap box after Monday's night murder of Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld and spoke beautifully against Palestinian Authority incitement and terror. Action is something else. […]
Not even Shimon Peres would have been so cold-hearted.
The UN's Schabes report against Israel relied heavily on reports and testimony from leftwing Israeli NGOs.
By Rachel Levy
MK Silvan Shalom's wife tweeted a stupid racist Obama line that raised world eyebrows.
In May, Deputy Minister of Health Yaacov Litzman announced he planned to reduce the waiting time for an MRI, to a maximum of 3 days. Last week, Litzman announced at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, that the Health Ministry will pay for half the cost of an MRI for any public hospital that doesn't […]
The Foreign Ministry succeeded in rolling back a boycott of Israeli products sold by a large supermarket chain.
Kachlon seems to be concerned about an apparent delusion that he will visit the White one day as Israel's Prime Minister.
Guess which ally helps the other, lets it take credit and then gets spat on?
ADL's Foxman slams Israelis as ingrates and believes they don't understand their existential threat the way he does.
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Hamas put weapons in schools, snipers in mosques and started battles in civilian areas, a new report confirms.
The figure amounts to triple the sum allocated in the last five-year plan, which expired in this year.
Israelis whose social security benefits were reduced due to their Israeli Old Age benefits are entitled to a refund.
Obama says no military solution to Iran problem while his advisers trash Bibi for the bad blood.
Bennett preached unity, but Herzog scolded him for crossing the "red line" in the elections.
A ministerial committee has approved tougher criminal standards for dealing with stone throwing.
Israeli Consul General refutes UJA president's claim that government insists NIF march in Celebrate Israel parade.
Netanyahu had promised that he would head the ministry and work with the mayor.
The Office of President Reuven Rivlin has denied reports that he will receive on Thursday a citation of honor from the left-wing New Israel Fund (NIF) on Thursday. It clarified that the Jewish-Arab Center at Givat Haviva, which is funded in part by the NIF, is awarding the President. Rivlin's office stated: The Jewish-Arab Center […]
Erdan is set to be sworn in as the new Minister of Internal Security, Strategic Affairs and Advocacy.
"You shall not take a bribe, for bribery blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts just words." Deuteronomy 16:19
Israel finally has a Foreign Minister who is not ashamed to say the word "God."
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Deputy Minsiter of Health Litzman advances MRI usage in Israel--again.
Netanyahu: Our first challenge is to ensure the security of Israel in the face of accumulating threats around us.
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard, but musical chairs might be a better analogy.
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The Bayit Yehudi party may be wondering if the coalition agreements it signed are worth the paper they're written on.
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Only in Israel will a Litvak MK go to a Chassideshe Rebbe to convince an "anti-Chareidi" MK to join the coalition.
Shaked: ' the judiciary, rather than the elected representatives of the people, wield the power to govern'
Like a squabbling couple Netanyahu and Liberman, are both probably realizing life apart is much worse than life together.
Do you doubt the full-throated democracy of Israel? Witness the swearing in (and swearing at) the Israeli cabinet?
The following is the list of Likud ministerial positions...
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein told PM Netanyahu that he would find it difficult to defend the ministerial appointments of Aryeh Deri and Yoav Galant.
Two Likud MKs are sick, and might miss tonight's swearing in ceremony.
Several holes remain on the road to a new government, which is supposed to take office at 7 p.m. Thursday.
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Haaretz is upset because the coalition guidelines don't list the delusional two-state solution as the only path to peace.
Herzog's idea sounds stupid, but if it is taken seriously, it might be a great brainstorm.
120 Knesset voted today on whether or not to allow the coalition to expand beyond its 18 minister limit.
Lapid won headlines for his grandstanding and now suffers an embarrassing loss.
Shaked is known as an outspoken and intelligent advocate for Zionism and democracy.
Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) has a goal.
The new coalition, like most of the 33 previous governments, was formed with an auction.
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Netanyahu is angry and he plans to get even, but whose fault is it really?
Likud Knesset Member Tzipi Hotovely said Thursday she is will to settle for any ministry so long as she can be the first religious women to hold a Cabinet post. Hotovely was a deputy minister in the last government She told Reshet Bet (Voice of Israel) radio, "It does not make any difference what [ministry] […]
Bayit Yehudi will bear full responsibility for settlements. Herzog insists he will remain in the Opposition.
A-G Weinstein's rejected a bill which proposed to limit the powers of Israel's High Court of Justice,
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With just a day to go, Bennett finally gives serious push-back to Netanyahu's threats and inadequate proposals.
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Netanyahu is short-changing Bayit Yehudi. But is Bayit Yehudi tough enough to take advantage of Liberman's sudden exit?
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Shas got a good deal. What Bayit Yehudi does with their offer remains to be seen.
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Avigdor Liberman, unhappy with the coalition talks dropped a political bombshell today.
"High noon" is 8 p.m. Wednesday. New elections, anyone?
The UN's BOI report about the 2014 Gaza War documents the exploitation by Hamas of UN facilities.
The left-wing party's problem is that the ministry spent more money to promote Judaism than democracy.
Bayit Yehudi settles for three Cabinet posts. Shas to head Religious Affairs with Bayit Yehudi as Deputy.
Biden gleefully announced two of his three Catholic children married Jews - not thrilling his Jewish audience.
Israel's president and prime minister have refused to meet with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
if Iran tries to move a Russian s-300 antimissile system to Syria or Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel will make sure it doesn't get there.