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Featured / The Muqata

92 Redux: Is This the End of the Israeli Right, Or a New Beginning?

By JoeSettler

Bennett and Shaked's breakaway party will either strengthen Israel's right, or completely destroy it in the upcoming elections...

Featured / Politics / Religious & Secular in Israel / The Knesset

Netanyahu Plans Lowering Vote Threshold to Bolster Rightwing Parties, Rightwing Parties Enraged

By JNi.Media

Lowering the threshold would thus could give the rightwing block as many as 70 seats in the next Knesset—it now hovers around 65, and clip one or two Arab seats that would travel back to the Zionist leftwing parties.

Elections / Featured / Government / Politics / 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.

Elections / Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs / Politics

Understand Israeli Elections - Here's a Primer, Part 1

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

With nearly a dozen viable parties, the president choosing the one who pulls together the pieces, Israeli elections are complicated.

Elections / Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs / Politics / Religion

Can Yachad Appeal to Women? 'Yes' Say Yachad Women Making Policy

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The "ultra right wing" Yachad party has women working on policy issues of economic importance to women.

The Muqata

Why I am Voting for Bayit Yehudi

By JoeSettler

The definition of elections is voting for the candidate you least dislike.

Elections / Israel / Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs / Politics

A Yishai--Ben-Ari Mashup Would Hurt Bayit Yehudi, but No Mashup Will be Even Worse

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

Elections / Israel / Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs

Eli Yishai Wants Moshe Hager to Run in 'Yachad' Party

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The inclusion of Hager may help Yishai's party get enough voters to be elected to the Knesset.

Elections / Israel / Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs

Deri Returns to the Sound of One Hand Clapping [election]

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Deri ends his slaps-shtick and accepts a rabbi's command to humbly return to lead the baa-baa sheep.

Elections / Israel / Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs / Politics

Likud Beats Labor-Livni as Lieberman Sinks in New Polls

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Voters apparently like the Likud’s more centrist list of candidates. Lieberman hurt by bribe scandal. Shas survives.

Elections / Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

The Shas Council of Sages Responds to Deri's Resignation Offer...

By Jewish Press News Desk

Shas's Council of Sages have given their response to Aryeh Deri's letter of resignation...

Elections / Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

Bombshell Video of Rav Ovadia Trashing Deri Spells Doom for Shas

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

No one knows who leaked the video of Rav Ovadia, but it's a bombshell, and there might be more on the way.

Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs / The Knesset

Election Tidbits: Michael Oren, Rami Levi, Jewish Home and Shas

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Moshe Kahlon courts Michael Oren but rejects Rami Levi. Shas and Jewish Home divorces not yet final.

Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs / The Knesset

Shas to Split Up but How about the Jewish Home?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Deri is getting rid of Yishai, and Uri Ariel is making noise about dividing the Jewish Home Party.

Israel Elections 5775 / News Briefs / Police and Crime / Politics / The Knesset

Eli Yishai Receives Death Threats

By Jewish Press News Desk

Unlike normal MKs who receive death threats for their connection to the Temple Mount, Eli Yishai was threatened to be stabbed if he left the Shas party.

Israel / News Briefs / Politics

Shas Party Defies Deri, Goes to Amar Family Wedding

By Jewish Press News Desk

Rav Amar blessed Eli Yishai, saying, "May all your enemies fall before you, and may you be raised up, and succeed in all your undertakings."

Israel / News Briefs

Shas Party Appoints New Spiritual Leader

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Shas political party, founded and run by the late Rav Ovadia Yosef, has a appointed a new spiritual leader, according to a Galei Tzahal report. The rabbi chosen to replace Harav Ovadia and be the new president of the party's Council of Torah Sages is Rabbi Shalom Cohen. Aryeh Deri is the political leader […]

Government / Jerusalem / News Briefs / The Knesset

Eli Yishai to Not Run for Jerusalem Mayor

By Jewish Press News Desk

MK Eli Yishai, the former head of the Shas party has decided he will not be running for mayor of Jerusalem, according to a report in the Israeli, Chareidi La'Daat website. Yishai was the political head of the Shas party until Shas's spiritual leader, Rav Ovadia Yosef, kicked him out and replaced him with Aryeh […]

News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

Rebellion in Shas

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Saturday Night, Rav Ovadiah Yosef, the spiritual head of the Shas party said that he had to return political control of the Shas party back to Aryeh Deri, as it was promised to be returned to him (Deri) when he was sent to prison. Eli Yishai, the successful, but now displaced Shas party head, […]

Israel / News Briefs / Politics

Rabbi Ovadia Dumps Yishai, Crowns Deri as Shas Party Leader

By Jewish Press News Desk

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has given his blessing for the charismatic Aryeh Deri to return to his former position as head of the Shas political party at the expense of Knesset Member Eli Yishai. Since the return of Deri to the Knesset after the end of his seven-year banishment as a  result of […]

Israel Elections 5773 / News Briefs / Politics

Aryeh Deri to Head Shas

By Jewish Press News Desk

Reports are indicating that Aryeh Deri will return as the head of the Shas party, while Eli Yishai will receive the senior government position, assuming the party joins the next government. The reports say that both sides have, for the most part, agreed to the terms and assuming no major changes will sign on them […]

Israel / News Briefs

Did Ha'aretz Turn Eli Yishai Into a Racist 'White Man'?

By Shalom Bear

A missing sentence in an Ha'aretz translation is all that stands between Eli Yishai being a racist, and those he's quoting.

Israel

Interior Minister: We Must Deport African Refugees

By Malkah Fleisher

The day after police arrested four Eritrean and Sudanese men for robbing and raping a 19 year-old woman in south Tel Aviv’s Neve Sha’anan neighborhood, Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai said most African illegal immigrants should be rounded up and either deported or arrested.

News Briefs

Interior Minister Eli Yishai: Jewish People Survived Because of Torah

By Jewish Press Staff

Shas MK: Torah protected Jews before there was a state, the IDF, and Shin Bet.

Israel

Strike Ends, but Negotiations to Continue

By Sam Ser

The most significant outcome of the understandings reached by the two sides was the granting of discounts on water tax rates, which have already risen sharply over the past year, and a freeze on planned changes to municipal tax rates that would primarily benefit large families but dig into the budgets of financially strapped towns.

MUSSAR – Avi Ganz

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Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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