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Amir Peretz

Politics / Government / Elections / The Knesset

President Rivlin Nominated Netanyahu to Form Coalition Government

By Jewish Press News Desk

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, …let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds."

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Gulf States / UAE

‘Now We Are Both Friends and Partners:’ Israeli, UAE Ministers of Economy Talk Shop

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Israeli Minister of Economy and Industry Amir Peretz spoke by phone with the UAE Minister of Economy Abdullah bin Touq Al-Marri on Sept. 17, 2020.

Israel / Politics / Elections / News Briefs

Meretz-Labor Merger Collapses

By Jewish Press News Desk

The forced merger of most of Israeli political parties fell apart once the anti-Netanyahu glue holding them together was dissolved.

Featured / The Muqata

Gantz is Betting Against the House

By JoeSettler

Gantz is trying to hard to push a very left wing government onto Bibi, and it may backfire on him.

Featured / The Muqata

A Bright Day for Israeli Democracy and the Lessons Learned

By JoeSettler

Who are the winners and the losers of the election crisis, and what did we learn from it?

The Muqata

Did You Catch That Brilliant Move by Yuli Edelstein?

By JoeSettler

Blue&White will lose if they try to force Amir Peretz to give up his cozy new chair as Knesset Speaker, and Peretz has his own long-term agenda.

Israel / Politics / Elections / Left vs. Right

Orly Levy Abekasis Says No To Minority Coalition

By Jewish Press News Desk

Levy-Abekasis's announcement came after reports that Gantz planned to form his minority government within two weeks.

Terrorism / Gaza / The Knesset

Knesset Internal Affairs, Defense Committees Meet near Gaza Border to Discuss Damage from Arab Arson

By JNi.Media

“We are preparing a new plan to support Gaza-vicinity communities, similar to that which was implemented after operation Protective Edge.”

Featured / Politics / Government / Elections / The Knesset

Poll: Likud Still Leading, Labor Weaker

By JNi.Media

The Joint Arab List would retain its power with 13 seats, followed by Habayit Hayehudi which would rise from 8 to 12 seats.

Headline / Israel / Politics

Labor Party Results In, Herzog Out

By Jewish Press News Desk

Another Labor party chairman is rejected after just one term.

Headline / Israel / Politics

Labor Goes to the Polls

By Jewish Press News Desk

Seven candidates are looking to rule the party that currently barely warm up the back benches of the Knesset.

Politics / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Arrangement Act Protecting Judea and Samaria Communities Approved in Preliminary Vote

By JNi.Media

Bennett promised that next the government will impose Israeli sovereignty on the town of Ma'ale Adumim, creating an urban corridor that eliminates any chance for a future contiguous Palestinian State.

Photo of the Day

Again with the Binoculars

By Photo of the Day

Ever since former Defense Minister Amir Peretz was photographed looked through binoculars with the covers still on, it's become the photo everyone looks for first whenever our political leaders visit an IDF lookout point.

Photo of the Day

Shelly Yachimovich at Cinema City

By Photo of the Day

A few days ago Cinema City in Jerusalem got into a little bit of trouble with Amir Peretz, after he found out that they had "Caveman" statue next to the popcorn concession that bore a striking resemblance to the politician, probably due to the binoculars. The statue was taken down and replaced with a new […]

News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Israel's Controversial Plastic Bag Law Delayed

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

The Muqata

Incitement to Murder? Amir Peretz Just a Sore Loser

By Jameel@Muqata

Here's some background these papers neglected to mention...

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Knesset Member Peretz Suspected of Vote-Buying

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Two Knesset Members from the last Knesset’s Labor party were involved in vote-buying in the party’s 2012 primaries, according to Yediot Acharonot. Labor leader Shelly Yechimovich named one of them as Amir Peretz, who ditched Labor to run with Tzipi Livni’s party in the January general elections. She told Army Radio Tuesday that she knows […]

News Briefs / Israel Elections 5773

Amir Peretz, Formerly of Labor, Embraces Tzipi

By Jewish Press News Desk

Amir Peretz, former Histadrut union chief and former Defense Minister, is now a former member of the Avoda (Labor) party. He is moving over to the Movement (HaTnuah) party of Tzipi Livni (former head of Kadima, and former Foreign Minister). Also moving over to Livni's party is former general Elazar Stern. Stern announced on the […]

Politics / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5773

Results in from Labor Primaries

By Jewish Press News Desk

Labor party primary results are in, and Shelly Yechimovitch did not come out a winner.

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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