יום שלישי, ז׳ אב תשפ״וTuesday, July 21, 2026
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By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
One of the side effects of going to early elections is that all budgets are frozen at 2014 levels of spending.
Party faction leaders were actually able to sit together in a room and agree on something.
“Lapid and Livni worked as the Opposition within the government.”
The first poll released since the announcement of new elections.
Netanyahu laid the blame for new elections squarely on Lapid and Livni and the fact that the Likud did not have enough mandates to govern unhindered.
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, who until an hour ago was Finance Minister before Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fired him, called said the Prime Minister has failed as a leader. Shooting the opening gun and setting the tone in what is going to be a nasty, bitter and ugly election campaign, Lapid called Prime Minister […]
"I will not tolerate this opposition from within."
All of the rats are leaving the sinking ship.
MKs are busy talking about potential dates for general elections.
The Bayit Yehudi party will be running primaries to elect the head of the party on January 5, 2015.
Netanyahu, who once scored a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky, has everyone in check.
The rats run away from the ship so it won’t sink.
Barring MKs from the Temple Mount is surrender to murderers.
Liberal Jews are for tolerance until they also have to be tolerant.
On Monday evening, tTwo Arab MKs hurled epithets at MKs David Rotem and Feiglin from the podium. Here is Feiglin's response.
MK Miri Regev said the law is a difficult and complicated one, and it requires a serious discussion about its downsides, and therefore shouldn't be rushed into implementation.
Shas head Aryeh Deri said this evening on Radio Kol Chai that if Netanyahu met his two non-negotiable conditions, Shas could join the coalition.
The proposal includes some extreme measures to fight the current wave of terrorism.
MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) will be receiving additional security protection.
Does democracy allow even a legislator to call a fellow MK a “fascist?
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Fierce debate, both inside Israel and abroad, has been raging over a piece of legislation that would become a Basic Law. This legislation, dubbed "the Nationality Bill", would enshrine in law the definition of Israel as a state of the Jewish people.
Lapid has everything to lose and Livni has nothing to lose.
Government ministers are examining steps the state can take to deter more terrorist attacks.
Israel has a tough job trying to correct 20 years of concessions to terror.
The coalition likes to survive by blood-letting.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The legislation targets the free daily Israel Hayom, the country’s top-read print newspaper for more than four years.
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Israel and Kenya signed an agreement today, pledging to strengthen ties and increase cooperation between the two countries.
Will the US say that Glick ascending the Temple Mount to thank God for his recovery is inciting violence?
Peretz is not the solution, but the problem.
By Shalom Bear
Not getting a reaction from the first part of her bleating tirade, Zoabi then moves onto the Holocaust...
The bill, which morally shouldn't even be necessary, prevents the government from releasing terrorists as part of the diplomatic process.
We hope that Hotovely goes up with sufficient bodyguards. A platoon of armed Golani soldiers on the Temple Mount would be nice.
By Shalom Bear
Video: MK Shuli Moalem was visiting the Temple Mount when she was accosted by Muslim women, one of whom physically attacked her.
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Bill To Be Brought For Vote on Wednesday.
By Shalom Bear
The law would be a major step forward in promoting home ownership in Israel.
The Prime Minister believes that not inflaming the Temple Mount violence is somehow in the MK's hands.
Israel’s anti-Netanyahu media might regret their wishes if early elections are held.
Feiglin was standing next to Glick during the assassination attempt
He also chided Tel Aviv for encouraging violence by cancelling a school trip to Jerusalem.
By JTA
The bill would take power away from the Haredi Chief Rabbis but but does not authorize non-orthodox conversions.
This winter session is not expected to be an easy one for the government.
Let’s raise funds to send her to Syria where she can put some sense in her head, if it stays attached.
Barnum and Bailey’s three-ring circus could not have done better.
The new Bayit Yehudi forum hopes to better integrate English-speaking Olim into the party and the political process, and deal with issues important to Western Zionists.
By Shalom Bear
Gidon's Saar's quitting gives other Likud members the chance for promotion.
The poll shows that "Jewish Home" party members like and appreciate their current leadership.
Gidon Saar shocked and changed Israel's political landscape today with his unexpected resignation from politics.
Netanyahu said that since the Jordanians opposed the bridge, "Of course we agreed." Of course.
The Balad party now boasts at least two former MKs who aided or visited the enemy. Haneen Zoabi a candidate for number three.
For two-and-a-half years, residents of the Golan Heights understood that domestic interests in Syria would keep war away from them.
What other country would allow legislators to openly declare their allegiance to another entity?
Uzi Arad launches ferocious attack on Netanyahu, DM Ya'alon. Praises home front but says pols giving nothing but marketing spin.
Israel’s political landscape awoke Wednesday to the latest ceasefire with a sharp round of criticism for Prime Minister Netanyahu, and jostling for position amongst senior politicians who have begun to smell the aroma of early elections, possibly in the first half of 2015.
“The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan…but the city…was perplexed.” – Book of Esther
MK MIri Regev (Likud) has called on Finance Minister Yair Lapid to annul a special tax, levied on residents of the Gaza Belt region, to build bomb shelters in every home. According to a report on Israel Radio, Regev criticised the government for “capitlizing” on the frustrations felt by residents of the south. The government […]
Strategic Affairs Minister: Hamas fires actual rockets, Abu Mazen fires diplomatic ones.
The good news that Zoabi and two of her Knesset pals left the country. The bad news is that they are coming back.
The only non-coalition partner that gained popularity in the latest Knesset Channel poll was Meretz.
Lieberman comes up with his third solution in less than a month what to do with Gaza. The question is what to do with Lieberman.
The Fifth Column is alive and well in the Knesset.
New president to take office this evening; was elected June 10 following bitter campaign
Lapid: Operation won't end until Israelis along Gaza border can sleep soundly at night with out fear of terror attack
MK who fled Israel reappears; Hamas conditions include re-releasing all Shalit prisoners, opening Gaza port
Police commanders brief Knesset on activities over past month, take responsibility for messing up boys' SOS call
Moshe Feiglin won't let anyone call an IDF soldier a "murderer".
Physical and speech & language therapists may soon find it easier to immigrate to Israel, thanks to a new bill now before the Knesset.
2001 candidate for Prime Minister lashes out, says Jewish Home party comparable to Islamist party focused on genocide.
Mother of teenage hostage Gil-Ad Sha'ar expresses faith in Israeli system...if 'irresponsible' decisions not made
Zoabi takes full advantage of Israel's democracy to call the IDF and the state of Israel terrorists, while she sits as an elected official in the Knesset.
Veteran Shas MK says needs a break after years of working 'day and night' on behalf of all Israelis
Labor party chairman and opposition leader Isaac Herzog condemns Israeli Arab MK Hanin Zoabi for supporting terror kidnappers.
By Rachel Levy
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appears to be retracting his condemnation of the terror kidnapping of 3 Israeli teens.
Israel says it is unlikely to negotiate a prisoner swap with the terrorists who kidnapped the three yeshiva boys from Gush Etzion last week.
By Shalom Bear
Some Likud party leaders claim have been given marching orders to begin preparing for general elections.
The Knesset overwhelmingly voted down MK Stav Shafir's (Labor) Civil Marriage bill.
The bill will try to prevent the government from releasing terrorists who have received life sentences.
Prime Minister Netanyahu hugged MK Reuven Rivlin Wednesday and vowed to work together with Israel's president-elect Wednesday.
By Rachel Levy
The first round of votes is over and Israel does not yet have a new president. Rivlin leads, but not by much.
Apartments, money... what's next for Fuad?
By Rachel Levy
The coalition sharks are smelling blood - not from Israel's enemies, but rather from PM Netanyahu.
By Rachel Levy
The "only sane plan" is to annex Area C in Judea and Samaria, says Economy Minister Naftali Bennett. Coalition crisis ahead?
By Rachel Levy
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Islamist terrorism is "rearing its head" in Europe - and yet the EU praises unity with Hamas.
"Bring you own popcorn," says Minister Naftali Bennett on his Facebook page after the Knesset bill passed the popcorn bill.
The Knesset has passed an amending eliminating the term “single parent family” from the lexicon of the legal system.
Hosted by Speaker of the Knesset, MK Edelstein, the prize, awarded by Nefesh B’Nefesh was given to seven Olim from English-speaking countries who have contributed to the State of Israel in a significant way.
After Yesh Atid blocked an important anti-terrorism bill, Naftali Bennett hit back, hard.
Changing your driver’s license in Israel may get a little easier, thanks to efforts by U.S.-born Yesh Atid MK Dov Lipman.
Government finally moves to bar release of murderers; terror victims' families long sought this step
Public sees HaTnua leader Tzipi Livni as face of "peace" process. As a result, her party wouldn't make it into the Knesset were elections held today.
It won’t happen so soon, but it is only a matter of time until Jewish in Efrat finally can be like Jews in Tel Aviv.
Hotovely's family Facebook page was filled with "mazel tovs!" in numerous languages on Monday morning in response to the announcement.
Last week, the Haredi politicians and Aryeh Deri in particular couldn't get enough of Labor (Avoda) leader Yitchak Herzog. It looks like that party is over.
By Shalom Bear
Resistance to integrating Haredim into the coalition came from an unexpected source.
The Haredi Knesset Members who walked out of David Cameron’s speech didn’t miss very much.
The Knesset passed the bill to draft more Ultra-Orthodox Jews into the IDF.
A public opinion poll published by the Knesset Channel (Israel's C-Span) shows that if elections were held today, the ruling party, Israel Beiteinu would maintain it status, with 32 Knesset seats. The next largest party would by Labor, rising from its current 15 to 21 seats. Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid would drop from 19 to […]
The Haredi protest against Lapid’s drive to draft them is only the first shot in what promises to be an ugly war.
Moshe Feiglin unwittingly has brought out of the woodwork anti-Israel legislators from “peace partner” Jordan.
Incitement is not taken lightly in Israel since the murder of Rabin, and even warning of a murder can be dangerous.
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