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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomes on Wednesday Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, touted as one of the top possibilities to be GOP’s presidential candidate in 2016. They traded the usual pleasantries, the Prime Minister stating his gratitude for American support and Rubio pledging to back security in Israel. “You live in a challenging neighborhood but […]
"Over-exposure of security and intelligence activities may seriously harm state security."
"Despite the mudslinging campaign against us before the elections, we recommended Netanyahu to form the next government."
this "State Department as Zionist lapdog" statement is a real zinger, but there were other statements made by Hagel at the Rutgers speech worth noting
It is not known why he was jailed.
The Case of Prisoner X: He hanged himself in Israeli jail cell in 2010. A gag order was clamped on the story. An Australian media outlet now says he was a Mossad agent who committed a terrible crime.
Two Conservative rabbis were among the women arrested.
And guess who had close to $100,000 in assets socked away right there in the Cayman Islands? Jack Lew.
"Until the committee receives full and complete answers, it cannot in good faith determine whether you should be confirmed as secretary of defense."
GOP Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin previously has likened Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Julius Caesar. Today he compared him with Hitler and quickly apologized – after the damage, mostly to himself, was done.
Netanyahu chose an Israeli satirist as his double for Facebook’s annual Doppelganger week. If Yair Lapid would double as Rabbi Lau and Bennett as Obama, Israel would be ready for Moshiach.
He explained at the time that he could not bear the idea that his body would have to leave New York City. "This is my home, the idea of having to go to New Jersey was so distressing to me."
By Ron Kampeas
Gina Campbell, the cathedral’s director of worship, “encouraged all the religious leaders to be faithful to their own traditions.”
In 2009, Naftali Bennett voluntarily took a lie detector test to prove his loyalty to PM Netanyahu, according to an Israel Channel 2 report. At the time, Netanyahu apparently thought that Bennett, possibly among others, was the one who leaked the information that resulted in the Bibi-Tours investigation. In order to clear his name, Bennett […]
Since the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident there have been many behind the scenes efforts to calm political tensions.
The (Conservative) Rabbinical Assembly shares remarks, photos from Yair Lapid’s address to its 2012 convention.
Israeli stocks and bounds advanced following elections, “as investors bet Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition would weaken ultra-Orthodox factions as the nation seeks to narrow its budget deficit,” according to a report by Bloomberg business news.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Yesh Atid perceives a possible peace process as a response to an ensemble of threats looming over the State of Israel.
President Obama was issuing a not so subtly veiled threat to the Israeli voters.
Jewish Home received only 12 seats.
In the past, Chareidi (Ultra-Orthodox) participation in election voting has never topped more than around a third of their potential voters. Chareidim have avoided voting for two primary reasons. The first is to minimize their participation in the Zionist enterprise, the second is that many Chareidim are actually disillusioned with the Chareidi political leadership, and […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
There are Israeli voters making some surprising and rather unexpected choices.
Still deciding who will get your vote? The Jewish Press team has interviewed several of this election's most newsworthy candidates - hear what they have to say about the issues affecting you most, and cast your ballot on January 22.
Rubinstein made clear that candidate lists running for election may not trifle with injunctions issued by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission.
Ron Nachman, the Mayor of the Samarian city of Ariel, passed away after losing his battle to bladder cancer.
Politics junkies and sports fans alike will enjoy the new up-to-the-minute poll updates being made available for this Tuesday’s Knesset elections.
Shas party spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef is urging Israelis not to vote for the party headed by Naftali Bennett, the Bayit HaYehudi Jewish Home party, calling it not a home for Jews but a home for gentiles.
Israel Channel 10 reported that the Likud's strategic campaign advisor, Arthur Finkelstein, quit the campaign. Finkelstein's office said the trip overseas today was planned well in advance.
Donald Trump, world-famous billionaire businessman, has officially endorsed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video posted to YouTube.
During a visit to an IDF base in Israel’s south on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a message to US President Barack Obama that Israelis will be the ones to determine what is in their best interest, rather than the American president.
JERUSALEM – While it appears likely that incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will head Israel’s next government, there are growing indications that his future coalition government could look substantially different from the current one.
During the interview Bennett refused to answer what ministry he would like to head.
The Einstein Museum will be built in the shape of the great scientist's brain.
The Musmus village council announced that the police alone would bear responsibility for the consequences of the visit.
Police are preparing for potentially violent riots against Michael Ben-Ari and his supporters.
By JTA
“I’m almost convinced that he’ll come out innocent."
Members of Israel’s Labor, Meretz, Kadima, Hadash, Yesh Atid and Hatnuah parties signed a covenant on Sunday pledging to close equality gaps between Jews and Arabs within 10 years.
Most House members called on Obama to shut down the DC PLO office as punishment for the UN vote.
Of course, both movies portray Israel in a negative light, so calm down before kvelling.
There are those who think a politician cannot be charged with anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism if the politician appoints Jews or Israelis to high positions. President Obama has just handed such people another shield to hold up against those charges. Bloomberg and other news sites are reporting that tomorrow, January 10, Obama will nominate his Orthodox […]
A selection of videos from the Israeli election commercials.
The spot shows a Russian born bride to receive her instant giur-conversion document by fax.
The campaign slogan is: "Smear a Bagel, Not Chuck Hagel."
The best most pro-Israel leaders were willing to do was downplay the policy-making role of the secretary of defense.
EMET focuses its attention on educating members of Congress about issues crucial to Jews and to Israel.
Bennett turns the tables on a political ambush.
Hagel once told an employee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that she was a "[expletive] tool from AIPAC."
JERUSALEM – High-ranking Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu ministers, as well as Knesset members and political activists, are furious with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman for the flailing election campaign strategy orchestrated by Arthur J. Finkelstein, the noted New York Republican Party strategist.
The poll numbers are shaky, but if they held until elections, even with the Likud-Beytenu's drop in seats, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would still most likely form Israel's next government.
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe "Boogie" Yaalon, during a visit to the Mount of Olives Jewish community of Maale HaZeitim to discuss Likud’s plans for the future of Israel, sat down with the Jewish Press's Yishai Fleisher to talk about the state of Israeli security.
From the Prime Minister's Facebook profile, posted at approximately 8:20 Jerusalem time on January 1:
Israeli former Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman was formally indicted on Sunday on charges of breach of trust and fraud, and could also be charged with moral turpitude.
By JTA
Hawaii's governor named his Jewish lieutenant governor, Brian Schatz, to replace the late Daniel Inouye in the U.S. Senate.
Shouts and slurs erupted between Zoabi and MK Michael Ben-Ari of the new Otzma LeYisrael party and other nationalists who called her a terrorist and a traitor.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
In the Middle East and North Africa, 21 regional leaders have Twitter accounts.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – On a wintry day at a small Iowa shul in November of 2003, John Kerry got all verklempt.
Likud-Beytenu punished for bad behavior, while inadvertently helping HaBayit HaYehudi again.
In a letter circulated to members of Congress by the PLO Envoy, Aerikat sought to dissuade Congress from responding to the PA provocation.
In a series of interviews with the Associated Press, Palestinian officials have detailed a plan of incrimination and isolation it expects to employ in the event that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is re-elected in January.
MK Haneen Zoabi has been banned from running for the 19th Knesset by the Central Elections Committee, which censured her for supporting terrorism and for denying Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state.
Wednesday's poll shows the highest right-wing share in the vote to date – 68 seats against 52 to the right.
JERUSALEM – With one month to go before Israelis cast their ballots, religious and nationalist parties have engaged in highly negative campaigns against each other, claiming that only their party will be able to pressure the next prime minister into promoting their domestic, economic and religious agendas. According to all polls, those parties are likely to be the basis of the next governing coalition – expected to be led by incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Yisrael Beytenu leader – and just-stepped-down Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman – is in legal limbo, with his anticipated indictment delayed at the last minute.
By JTA
"Senator Inouye deeply understood the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship."
By David Wilder
For election purposes, the expulsion was scheduled for next April, because the PM fears losing even more votes to the right.
The election of the next chief rabbis will take place after the 19th Knesset is convened.
Five seats have been allocated to Yemen’s Jewish community in the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) by President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi.
By JTA
“I have committed no offense but I wish to put behind me this issue."
With all the major charges against him dropped, FM Liberman debates whether the remaining charge is sufficient reason to step down. He probably won't.
Come the next American pressure, Netanyahu will fold.
Clinton's approval ratings have always been high amongst American Jews - this was true even after the infamous "Suha Smooch."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
According to Freeman, the rabbis and settlers are to blame for Israel's belligerent military actions.
Knesset Jeremy's average of last week's polls.
Danon came fifth in the primaries, which often means a ministerial position.
Intrigue and rumor swirls around Danny Ayalon's exclusion from the Yisrael Beytenu list, as no one is officially saying a thing. There's nothing nature abhors more than a vacuum.
Had Mitt Romney won the presidential election, Tevi Troy would be director of domestic policy on his transition team.
JERUSALEM – While it is almost certain that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next Israeli coalition government, the country’s confusing electoral system has created another medley of instant political parties headed by a variety of media celebrities and scorned politicians.
The US Senate approved a massive $631 billion defense bill authorizing new funds for weapons, air and sea craft, and pay raises for military officials.
Avigdor Liberman's campaign to unload the "stars" of his party, Israel Beiteinu, continues full blast into Tuesday, the day of submitting all the lists of nominees to the Knesset, Israel's Channel 2 News reported. The list of Liberman's party is shared this election with Netanyahu's Likud. After the untimely "retirement" of Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov […]
According to a report on Israel Channel 10, Shelly Yechimovitch, the head of the Labor party, said that if she is appointed Minister of Finance, she would increase healthcare taxes, legislate an inheritance tax, and increase the corporate tax rate.
The Cuban government should release Alan Gross and return him to his family, where he belongs.
The Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), firmly denounced the decision made the United Nations General Assembly to elevate the status of “Palestine” (the Palestine Liberation Organization) to non-member observer state at the UN. In a statement issued on the day of the vote, Nov 29, Cong. Ros-Lehtinen said that […]
On Friday, Nov 30, the RCA and the OU issued the following statement, criticizing the statement made by Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, and expressing disappointment in the vote that raised the status of the Arab Palestinians to that of nonmember observer state. The Rabbinical Council of America […]
Labor party primary results are in, and Shelly Yechimovitch did not come out a winner.
Watch the transformation...
An amendment to S. 3254, the National Defense Authorization Act would punish both the PA and the UN for a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian "observer state."
By JTA
Lieberman's apparent endorsement of Rice on Tuesday is largely symbolic.
This is not the first time Weiner has reared his head since his awkward exit from office less than 18 months ago.
By dvora
At a dramatic press conference in Tel Aviv on Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced his resignation from politics. Barak said he would remain in his post until the establishment of the next government, following the January 22 elections.
Israel no longer intends to dismantle the Oslo Accords if Abbas goes through with his UN gambit.
The right-wing block would receive 70 seats, vs. 50 to the center-left, including the Arabs.
An analysis of a recent New York Times article examining the presidential voting trends of all the New York precincts determined that almost all Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods voted for Republican candidate Mitt Romney over Democratic incumbent Barack Obama.
Due to computer glitches that have prevented many Likud members from voting, Likud primary elections which were originally extended until midnight on Sunday, have now been extended to 9 PM on Monday. Only 16% of Likud members were able to vote by 4 PM on Sunday and only 40% succeeded by 9 PM. Some Likud […]
Voting got off to a sluggish start with technical difficulties.
The Likud party is holding primaries on Sunday. The race is going to be a closely watched, as both candidates and voters look to see how the fallout from Operation Amud Anan affect the outcome. With so many Israelis upset with how the operation against Hamas concluded, that anger might provide a boost for the […]
The Resolution was introduced by Sabreen Shalabi, and seconded by Shadi Jafari, with support from Ali Abunimeh and Noam Chomsky.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – The Republican Party as a whole is reconsidering how it might have done better in an election that saw the party fail to win the White House and suffer modest losses in Congress, and Jewish Republicans and conservatives are coming forward with their own insights.
Given President Obama's win and victories of many of their candidates, a reasonable morning-after position for J Street would be quiet satisfaction, or even – why not? – gleeful rejoicing. But J Street, which has rarely met a critic of Israel it didn't like, instead tried to promote itself as an integral part of the campaign, a driving wind propelling Democratic victories. So eager to claim a starring role, J Street released details of several exit polls they commissioned which, upon examination, tell far more about how little J Street matters.
Noam Shalit has officially thrown his hat into the political arena and is running for a spot in the Labor party, with the goal of removing the Likud from power.
New York’s Republican party has little to celebrate Thursday, seemingly close to losing control of the state Senate in addition to losing the state for the presidential election.
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