This legislation has no special connection to the LGBT, just as it has no special connection to Islam, or to skin color.
Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu called President Isaac Herzog to inform him that he [Netanyahu] is able to form the next coalition government.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Objectionable" speech? Well, there goes free speech.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This is what true peace looks like,” tweets the Religious Zionist Party head.
Netanyahu now has preliminary agreements with all of the parties in his right-wing coalition.
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has until Sunday to finalize coalition agreements, or ask for an extension from President Herzog.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Avi Maoz pointed out that teachers hide what they are teaching from the parents, and he plans to make sure parents know what their kids are being exposed to.
By David Isaac
Israel's outgoing PM urged municipalities not to cooperate with an educational department to be headed by lawmaker Avi Maoz.
Gafni has little patience for those who are implying that the religious parties planning on usurping Israeli democracy.
The Religious Zionists party will be responsible for civilian life in Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“If the extremist views of the soon to be formed Israeli Government become policy, the Biden Administration needs to step up,” tweeted Aaron David Miller, who served six secretaries of state as an advisor on Arab-Israeli negotiations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Israel places great importance on continuing to enhance and deepen our bilateral relations with Latvia as well as all three Baltic states,” says the Israeli president.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
Rabbi David Lau: Granting citizenship to anyone with a Jewish grandparent endangers the Jewish character of the state.
The two teams discussed trade in goods, regulation and standardization, customs, trade in services, government procurement, e-commerce and the protection of intellectual property rights.
Dafna Liel is reporting a significant breakthrough in the coalition negotiations between Likud, Religious Zionism and Shas.
By Ariel Kahana
Disagreements over the post of defense minister has lead to an impasse in coalition negotiations, with Netanyahu attempting to assuage concerns over the matter, asking his supporters for “a little patience.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli president will meet with party delegations to receive their recommendations for candidates to form a government
Biden waited nearly a full week to make the call, following the leaders of France and the United Kingdom who preceded him in offering their congratulations.
By JNi.Media
Strangely enough, the Knesset legislation known as the Aliyah Day Act 5776-2016 states that on the 7th of Cheshvan the country will celebrate the Israelites' entrance into the Land of Israel on the 10th of Nissan.
Regavim describes it as a blow to governance, democracy and security.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked asked Bennett to transfer his veto power to her if he steps down, "to safeguard the right's power."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Likud is taking credit for Lapid's backtracking, saying their public awareness campaign against the deal worked.
The public does not know the details of the agreement with Lebanon.
Shaked convinced Bennett who convinced Lapid that it was not appropriate for a caretake government to sign this discriminatory deal.
Michaeli also approved further evaluation of the airports in Nevatim and Ziklag.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Lapid thanked Erdoğan for the recent intelligence cooperation and the thwarting of Iran’s attempts to carry out terrorist attacks against Israelis on Turkish soil this past year.
The residents of Khan al-Ahmar demand to be moved inside the Green Line, anywhere else, they fear the Palestinian Authority will be able to target them.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Nafftali Bennett: The IDF’s rules of engagement “will be determined by the IDF commanders, independent of any pressure – internal or external.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A powerful earthquake in Israel is not a question of whether it will happen, but when,” says the director general of the Prime Minister’s Office.
No matter who has been in power, the government always backs down from its obligation to evacuate and relocate the illegal Arab outpost.
President Isaac Herzog spoke on Monday at the official memorial marking 50 years since the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Germany is the world’s leading country in funding Israeli far-left organizations.
Lapid didn't say who else would or wouldn't be in his coalition.
“The State of Israel is not a party to the agreement. . .and will utilize all available tools to prevent the Iranian nuclear program from advancing.”
The Bank of Israel raised the interest rate by 0.75% to 2% on Monday!
Israel is very much afraid that Turkish President Erdogan will appoint Ufuk Ulutas.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
The move is part of an effort to curb the incidence of Israelis traveling abroad to become doctors due to difficulties getting accepted into local programs.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
While the Islamic Jihad achieved nothing, the IDF emphasized its satisfaction with meeting the objectives of the operation – causing significant damage to the Islamic Jihad’s chain of command.
“Our fight is not with the people of Gaza. Islamic Jihad is an Iranian proxy that wants to destroy the State of Israel and kill innocent Israelis. The head of Islamic Jihad is in Tehran as we speak.”
By Ariel Kahana
The Israeli defense and finance ministries are operating a secret fund through which money is transferred to Ramallah, a reality revealed in the state’s response to a petition filed with the High Court of Justice by the Kohelet Policy Forum.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
It's estimated that in 2021 the PA spent NIS 841 million ($270.75 million) paying rewards to terrorists.
Nothing like an election to get a politician to take the right action.
Two terrorists are already lined up to lose their citizenship.
By Ariel Kahana
State official says the government is prepared to present existing financial agreements with Ramallah to the High Court of Justice, but only "behind closed doors."
For the first time in years, a Prime Minister of Israel, Yair Lapid, spoke directly with PLO / Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud "Abu Mazen" Abbas.
"The State of Israel is bigger than all of us. More important than any of us. It was here before us, and will be here long after us. It doesn’t belong only to us. It belongs to those who dreamed of it for thousands of years in the Diaspora, and also to those yet to be born, to future generations."
Exiting Prime Minister Naftali Bennett gives some advice and a blessing to incoming interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Mukhtar Protocol was used to establish ownership of land in Jerusalem based on the testimony of local village “experts,” instead of properly documented proof of ownership.
The work will include overtaking lanes, rest bays, lighting and road upgrades that will reduce traffic accidents on the road.
Netanyahu has about a week now to try and form a new coalition.
The Azeri official stressed the positive relations of the olim from Azerbaijan with their native country.
The leaders cited their achievements.
Yair Lapid also spoke and thanked Bennett, saying Bennett “put the country before the personal interest.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The stated purpose of the loan was to help Ukraine deal with the “catastrophic impact” of the war on the country’s economy.
One wonders if everyone is considering the potential consequences of their actions.
“There is nothing easier than to destroy,” Lapid added.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Head of the Samaria Council Yossi Dagan attacked the decision, saying that joining the fund “is a slap in the face to the country’s citizens and filmmakers” who live in the excluded areas.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This was their third meeting. They met previously in Abu Dhabi in December 2021 and in Egypt in March.
When the Progressives take over....
Shocking! MK Nir Barkat noted that less than 10% of firearm applications were approved.
95,000 Ethiopians have immigrated to Israel since the establishment of the state.
The aqueduct remained the main source of water for Jerusalem until 1917.
Bennett stressed repeatedly that social divides within Israel and the Jewish people were more dangerous to the country’s future than even external security threats.
The government said the ruling doesn't change the status quo, and the state would be filing an appeal in the case.
The software vendors managed to stop some of the damage.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Six Hamas-backed Waqf guards were removed from the Temple Mount, and 12 new Waqf positions were manned, “all within the existing standards, without any increase,” the Prime Minister’s Office stated.
There does not seem to be any interest among a majority of the Knesset’s members to move to new elections so soon.
Naftali Bennett: “The supreme task of the Israeli government is to restore personal security to the citizens of Israel.”
Whether or not this vote happens is almost completely in the hands of the Islamic Ra'am party.
“When it came to the Government's commitment in the [2021] Glasgow Climate Pact, I thought things would be different."
Gantz claims that Bennett, Shaked and Sa'ar all know he is going to make this happen.
PM Bennett opposes the Pascal sacrifice.
By dvora
Domestic critics of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he has lost focus on internal political considerations while taking on more international concerns, such as trying to intervene diplomatically in Russia’s nearly seven-week war with Ukraine.
In the past few years, Israel has been a leading country in the field of smart transportation.
The Chinese gift boxes included chocolates, thermal cups and what was suspected to be a listening device.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tishby has been charged with raising awareness of delegitimization efforts against Israel and advocating against hate towards Jews.
The findings could not can validate the claim of increased investor sophistication in identifying early-stage success.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Gantz wished Abbas and “the Palestinian people a blessed month of Ramadan,” his office stated.
Thirty thousand of the housing units are to be developed within the next five years.
It should be noted that Israeli Police did not point to any specific cause for Sunday night’s rioting, which followed a similar spate of violence the previous night.
After months of silence, the Ministry of Finance sent a “cryptic response."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The upcoming Ramadan terror and violence has everyone concerned.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The writers pointed out that Christians have been a target of ISIS in the Middle East.
Bennett's planned trip to India will have to be cancelled or delayed.
At least three of the participants in the hastily-organized Negev Summit share trepidations about the 900-pound mullah in the room.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel faces challenges to its food security due to the “worrying developments” in Eastern Europe, says Israeli Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli.
This follows the approval last week of the establishment of the new ultra-Orthodox city of Kasif in the Negev.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
Kinzinger’s unrestrained comments reflect the arrogance behind the colossal American failures in the Middle East in the past 20 years.
According to CNN, only 690 Ukrainian refugees have been admitted in the US since October 21, 2021.
In lieu of a comment on the shameful, anti-Israel speech of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before the Knesset, Bennett stressed what Israel has been best at.
"The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of people, including Americans. We refuse to believe that the United States would remove its designation as a terrorist organization."
“Both my father and my grandfather recalled, during their historic visits, how Turkey opened its gates and its heart to the daughters and sons of the Jewish People."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Certainly at a time when the international order is being shaken, it is good and proper that stability and partnership be maintained in our region,” says Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
The call center will provide assistance in a variety of areas including medical needs, bureaucracy, and coordination with professionals.
After severely criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu for his inaction on the removal of the illegal Arab outpost of Khan al-Ahmar, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is seeking to further postpone the evacuation, adopting the same line of the Netanyahu government.
In Israel, an affinity for Germany was tied to ethnic identification: Jewish or Arab.
“As of this morning, 97 passengers from different countries around the world have arrived in Israel with a Ukrainian passport..."
By Israel Hayom
Businesses that prove annual revenue losses of at least 35% in January-February 2022 compared to the same months in 2019 will be eligible to receive up to $185,000.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel has established an inter-ministry team that will examine the effects and consequences of the sanctions on Russia on the Israeli economy and policy.