Noam has agreed to run with Smotrich and Ben-Gvir after Netanyahu intervened.
Until this past Friday, Ofir Shaked was an F-16i fighter pilot in the IDF reserves.
By JoeSettler
David Bitton started no small amount of rumors, that Netanyhau offered Shaked the slot right below his in the Likud party.
Bennett has been courting the Haredi community to expand the ranks of Bayit Yehudi voters.
“It’s a dramatic step but it embodies a clear message that we are not willing to accept the distortion of history ."
“I ask the prime minister to break the silence and adopt the proposal of the defense minister to legalize Havat Gilad. This is our consolation."
Critics warned the measure would detract from the status of Israel’s more established universities and "would turn the entire Israeli academia into an active partner in the 'occupation.'"
"You ... turned the word ‘leftist’ to a synonym for ‘enemy,'” Zionist Camp MK Isaac Herzog accused the prime minister.
"We did not gather the Jews from all four corners of the earth in order to turn them into a nuclear target."
"The answer is not to give Iran additional tools to fight ISIS now as this would serve Iran’s ultimate goal of building a Shi'ite corridor from Tehran to the Mediterranean Coast."
Israel's Supreme Court shot down Kachlon's social engineering plan to tax 3rd apartments.
"It is important to make clear, before the start of a diplomatic process, that Jerusalem will never be divided under any circumstance."
The police confiscated his gun after he defended himself and was extricated from the Arab lynch mob.
The center is modeled on the Efrat Medical Center, which is located south of Jerusalem in the Etzion bloc.
Minister Katz calls to renew a proposal that connects the communities of Greater Jerusalem to Jerusalem itself.
By JoeSettler
LIberman's entry into the coalition may bring about even more changes than expected...
By JNi.Media
"It's important that the Justice Minister have political power and political ability."
MK and Minister Uri Ariel was discharged home with orders to "rest for a while" after a blood clot was removed from his heart."
By JNi.Media
“At the moment I’ve decided not to build,” Netanyahu is heard in the recording, “That does not mean that tomorrow it won’t change, on the contrary, the way it changed before, it will change [again].”
The "Norwegian Law" that the Knesset has adopted allows a Cabinet Minister to continue even if he quits the Knesset.
Homosexual leaders who organized last night's rally in Tel Aviv demanded that speakers sign a pledge supporting their cause.
By Shalom Bear
This will allow the ministers to quit their Knesset positions and concentrate exclusively on their ministerial jobs.
Naftali Bennett, Education Minister and chairman of the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party, called today's agreement with Iran "grave and dangerous.” “Western citizens who get up for another day at work or school, are not aware of the fact that about half a trillion dollars has been transferred to the hands of a terrorist superpower, […]
Proposed law will place a 37% tax on NGOs who work for foreign governments.
Kachlon seems to be concerned about an apparent delusion that he will visit the White one day as Israel's Prime Minister.
Bennett preached unity, but Herzog scolded him for crossing the "red line" in the elections.
By Shalom Bear
The Bayit Yehudi party may be wondering if the coalition agreements it signed are worth the paper they're written on.
Herzog's idea sounds stupid, but if it is taken seriously, it might be a great brainstorm.
Members of the Bayit Yehudi party voted on Sunday for the coalition deal. From a quick look at the hands in the air, it appears that support was overwhelming. If you look more carefully, you can find Waldo in there, giving the thumbs up instead of waving.
A personal armed guard now is escorting Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) Knesset Member Ayelet Shaked following death threats. Shaked is slated to be the Justice Minister, an appointment that has riled up the left-wing, which usually goes to bat for women but not if they are on the "wrong side" of the road. The decision […]
By Shalom Bear
Netanyahu is angry and he plans to get even, but whose fault is it really?
Bayit Yehudi will bear full responsibility for settlements. Herzog insists he will remain in the Opposition.
By Shalom Bear
The deadline is tonight, and if Bibi hadn't abused Bayit Yehudi, he wouldn't be in this situation right now.
By Shalom Bear
Shas got a good deal. What Bayit Yehudi does with their offer remains to be seen.
"High noon" is 8 p.m. Wednesday. New elections, anyone?
Leftists and right-wingers remain silent in the demonstration they should be leading.
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.
Bennett drew his red line on Twitter, but don’t worry. There is a Jewish solution.
By Shalom Bear
Bayit Yehudi wants the Religious Affairs Ministry, Yisrael Beytenu wants the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and both feel Netanyahu is trying to short-change them. It's a match made in heaven.
Marzel not sorry Yachad party's loss cost Bayit Yehudi seats in Knesset. Bennett accuses Netanyahu of thinking he is a sucker.
With nearly a dozen viable parties, the president choosing the one who pulls together the pieces, Israeli elections are complicated.
Bibi recognizes the Two State idea will mean not only the end of Israel, but also the enslaving of the Palestinian Arabs.
By JoeSettler
The definition of elections is voting for the candidate you least dislike.
The anti-Bibi barrage last week cost him a grand total of two seats, which went to other parties but not to Bujie and Tzipi.
Bibi's speech will be during the U.S. workday, but prime viewing time in Israel.
The report, ordered but never implemented by PM Netanyahu, determined that Israeli settlements are legal according to international law.
They distribute ballots to elect the 'Savior."
Please pray for a full and speedy recovery to the People of Israel ben Sarah.
His death is a great loss to his family and to Israel at-large well as the Bayit Yehudi party.
But does one of the disguised "terrorists" look like Bennett?
The Supreme Court may reverse the decision. The committee has not decided on Baruch Marzel's candidacy.
The trend in the polls is clear - the next government will not be muscled by the left.
The Prime Minister has declared Orbach temporarily absent from the Knesset for medical reasons.
National religious voters favoring the new Yachad party headed by Eli Yishai may be wasting their votes.
The small right-wing parties will hurt their ideological allies and voters, unless they get past their egos and ideological perfectionism and help their side for a change.
He is suffering from a blood disease, His condition has improved slightly.
The popular right-wing Knesset Member now is in the 20th place on the list of candidates.
Results of the recount are good news for the Likud and bad news for the Jewish Home party.
35 candidates are running for 11 realistic spots.
Will American-born Uri Bank win a Knesset seat?
By Shalom Bear
After narrowing missing in the last elections, Michael Ben-Ari is trying to make a comeback and represent the "real right-wing" in Israel.
It takes an average of 140 monthly salaries to buy a home. Ariel plans to lower that down to 85.
The giant firm will build a cyber-defense center outside of central Israel and train Haredim and others.
Rabbi Rontzki began his IDF career as a special forces commando and 41 years later ended it as Chief Rabbi and Brigadier General.
By JoeSettler
If Bennett and Ariel split the party, Bayit Yehudi votes will go to the only party fielding a strong, stable religious bloc... the Likud.
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 JoeSettler
MK Mitzna compared Bayit Yehudi to Hamas, but doesn't his own HaTnua party have far more dastardly goals in common with that terrorist organization?
By Rachel Levy
The coalition sharks are smelling blood - not from Israel's enemies, but rather from PM Netanyahu.
It seems that just about everyone wants Justice Minister Tzipi Livni to leave the coalition.
Jewish Home announced today the formation of the first full-time English Language Social Media Division of a Knesset party in Israeli political history. Naftali Bennett's English Language Social Media Division will be in charge of Naftali's Facebook, Twitter and Youtube pages. The target base is a mix between the 250,000 English speaking immigrants, Jews in […]
Bayit Yehudi announced that NIS 65 million of government funding earmarked for Hesder and Haredi Yeshivas will be transferred before Rosh Hashanah. The money was supposed to have been transferred a while ago, but Yair Lapid's Finance Ministry has been holding up the transfer after they realized that Haredi Yeshivas would also benefit from this […]
The awful truth is that Israel invites foreign contempt because it shows contempt for itself.
Bennett turns the tables on a political ambush.
Bennett turns the tables on a political ambush.
Naftali Bennett goes on the offensive, questioning whether Netanyahu is planing another Expulsion/Disengagement based on his statements.
Party registration for running in the Israeli elections to Knesset finally closed, and the pollsters are busy.
The following poll result were reported on the Knesset TV Channel, after the Cease Fire announcement.
Chairman of the Knesset State Comptroller’s Committee MK Uri Ariel welcomes the new Bayit Yehudi list for Knesset: “I congratulate the contenders and those who were chosen in the Bayit Yehudi party. Now we are geared toward unifying the ranks and returning the National Orthodox camp to its historic influential position on the political map. […]
The National Union (HaIchud HaLeumi)’s reaction to Eldad and Ben-Ari’s announcement: “The Israeli political left-wing is elated at the news that our partners are splitting away and setting up a new party, because it means that tens of thousands of right-wing votes will be wasted, and that we have returned to the type of politics […]
Businessman and former Sayeret Matkal (Special Forces) officer Naftali Bennett parachuted his way into the top position of the Bayit Yehudi ("Jewish Home") party on Tuesday, at the first of two Primary votes in the party.
Following a short but intense membership drive, the Bayit Yehudi party announced that over 53,000 members have signed up. This number is expected to drop to around 48,000 once duplicates and disqualified applications are filtered out. More than half signed up via the Internet. While this number still falls short of the 70,000 that the […]
By Alex Abel
Jeremy Gimpel and Ari Abramowitz gave a Bayit Yehudi Party and many "Anglos" showed up. It started up looking too much like a late-night TV show, but then it got more interesting when they brought out two of the candidates running for head of the party: Naftali Bennett and Daniel Hershkowitz took the stage and started dreaming in earnest.