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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 younger generation is decidedly left-wing and right-wing.
The Herzog-Livni gimmick of calling itself the "Zionist Camp" looks more absurd every day.
Israel TV and radio turned a one-seat improvement for Herzog-Livni into a major victory.
Two major supporters of Feiglin are sticking with the Likud.
But wouldn’t doing so “raise tensions?”
By JoeSettler
JoeSettler was surprised this morning when he saw that PM Netanyahu is adopting the electoral reform idea JoeSettler introduced on these pages.
The Likud is recounting some problematic ballot boxes. Hotovely reportedly helped dump Feiglin; Bibi wants her in the Knesset.
The scandals have affected the parties in the polls.
No one knows who leaked the video of Rav Ovadia, but it's a bombshell, and there might be more on the way.
Too much ideology spoils the political soup.
Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who was critically wounded in an assassination attempt several weeks ago, announced he is running “symbolically” on the Likud list for the elections to the Knesset. He is in 33rd place, and he will not be elected unless the party performs a miracle no less than his recovery and wins 33 seats. […]
The small Arab parties are talking about merging, and this could result in 14 seats for the Arab sector.
“Leftists don’t care about Arabs, settlers are the true Jews. Leftists warned me I will be the first in the gas chambers."
The latest Knesset poll has Labor down a bit, and Likud moving up again.
Deri is getting rid of Yishai, and Uri Ariel is making noise about dividing the Jewish Home Party.
At age 78, with health problems, he said enough is enough.
Election campaigns bring out the worst in all of the politicians, and Shas is a shining example.
Katz is the master wheeler-dealer in the Likud and hopefully won’t destroy the economy before the elections.
The Supreme Court indicates it won’t accept her twisted definition of free speech.
The Knesset came one step closer Monday afternoon to putting an end to 21 months of agony thanks to the Knesset House Committee’s approval the bill to dissolve the current legislature and schedule news elections for the Ideas of March + 2, otherwise known as March 17. Knesset Members are expected to unanimously approve the […]
Knesset Members are scheduled to sign the death notice for the current government and hold second and third readings on the bill for political euthanasia and give Israelis another chance to vote for another fractious government in March. Rumors, mainly from the center-left media and their favorite parties, are that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will […]
Knesset Jeremy Weekly Average #1 (week of Nov 30-Dec 6 2014) of 12 polls from 9 polling companies.
Both Herzog and Livni repeatedly claim they are qualified to become Israel's next Prime Minister.
By Shalom Bear
The Likud checked to see if anyone other than Bibi could bring them to victory.
By Shalom Bear
Meir "Big Brother" Sheetrit tried to sneak in a baby DNA biometric bill before it was too late, or even noticed.
JewishPress.com readers vote for the next Prime Minister...
Since Glick’s appearance would arouse Muslim anger, it is Glick and not the rioters who are kept off the holy site.
Lapid tries to ignore the economy, security and the middle class by making Netanyahu the only election issue.
As Obama would say, they act like they are married.
Wednesday’s Knesset unanimous vote on the first reading of the bill to go to elections gives Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a national unity government on at least one issue. He need not gloat because most of the country would prefer that the Knesset Members fight it out by themselves instead of wasting $500 million and […]
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.”
All of the rats are leaving the sinking ship.
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.
Does democracy allow even a legislator to call a fellow MK a “fascist?
Lapid has everything to lose and Livni has nothing to lose.
The coalition likes to survive by blood-letting.
Arab Israeli MK Basel Ghattas (Balad) wears a keffiyeh around his shoulders as he addresses the Israeli Knesset on November 12, 2014.
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.
A video of the shooting, probably edited, implicates the police as trigger-happy.
Israel trusts al-Sisi for now, but what about tomorrow?
By Shalom Bear
Not getting a reaction from the first part of her bleating tirade, Zoabi then moves onto the Holocaust...
Feiglin was standing next to Glick during the assassination attempt
By JoeSettler
The "bag tax" is eco-terrorism against the Israeli consumer. Have our MK's reviewed any studies on its environmental impact, or is it all just touchy-feely?
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.
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.
Gidon Saar shocked and changed Israel's political landscape today with his unexpected resignation from politics.
The Balad party now boasts at least two former MKs who aided or visited the enemy. Haneen Zoabi a candidate for number three.
What other country would allow legislators to openly declare their allegiance to another entity?
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.
Police commanders brief Knesset on activities over past month, take responsibility for messing up boys' SOS call
Physical and speech & language therapists may soon find it easier to immigrate to Israel, thanks to a new bill now before the Knesset.
"Jews were ethnically cleansed from what is now known as the Arab world, [they] were there before the Arabs even arrived,” MK Ohayon said.
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.
Israeli Knesset Members and workers gather for a prayer in the Kneseet for the release of three Jewish boys who were kidnapped a few days ago by Hamas.
By Rachel Levy
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Islamist terrorism is "rearing its head" in Europe - and yet the EU praises unity with Hamas.
The Knesset has passed an amending eliminating the term “single parent family” from the lexicon of the legal system.
Changing your driver’s license in Israel may get a little easier, thanks to efforts by U.S.-born Yesh Atid MK Dov Lipman.
By JTA
Likud MK Danon tries outflanking Netanyahu by telling US Jews he will quit as minister if more terrorists are freed.
By Shalom Bear
Resistance to integrating Haredim into the coalition came from an unexpected source.
Bye-bye to the right-wing extremists, left-wing extremists, weirdoes and maybe Tzipi Livni.
By JTA
British Prime Minister David Cameron will visit Israel and address the Knesset on March 12. Cameron was originally scheduled to visit Israel in February but had to postpone the trip because of flooding in the United Kingdom. This will be Cameron’s first visit to Israel since becoming prime minister in 2010. Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein […]
For the first time in a year, Moshe Feiglin was allowed to go up to the Temple Mount and pray.
Netanyahu may have to follow Sharon and form a new party if he insists on selling out to the Kerry-Obama-Abbas trio.
Thousands of people marched towards the “E-1” area of Maaleh Adumim east of Jerusalem Thursday night to demand that the government deliver on promises to build in the area.
One of the PM's goals while in the U.S. is to advance the "peace process."
An Israel Knesset Member got a whack on his tongue for angering the Diaspora.
Reform leaders too often make themselves look silly by bending the Bible for their own convenience.
A poll by the Knesset Channel released on Thursday confirms the trend of increased popularity for the Jewish Home party, headed by Naftali Bennett, and lesser support for Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party. Unlike recent polls, strength in the Likud-Beiteinu party dropped a bit. Labor and Meretz gained backing at the expense of Yesh Atid, […]
"Our view on Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state is absolute and non-negotiable."
Having made aliyah from Canada last August, I’m one of the newest Israelis, but this week, I’m also one of the proudest.
Two new polls show that Israel is marching rightward and that the nationalist and religious parties would even be stronger than in the current coalition if elections were held today, mostly at the expense of Yair Lapid The Likud Beitenu party, which reflects the merger of Likud and Yisrael Beitenu that still may be dissolved, […]
Like him or not, Netanyahu is a master of making mincemeat of Arabs MKs who heckled Prime Minister Harper.
The Tu B’Shvat holiday Thursday literally has roots in the Land of Israel
The Knesset easily passed on preliminary reading on Wednesday a bill that would make it illegal to use the word Nazi and Nazi symbols, but Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said the measure violates freedom of speech. Only 19 Knesset Members voted against the bill, sponsored by Likud Knesset Member Shimon Ohayon, with 44 in favor, […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Upon the news of the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon the Arab world expressed glee, as he is perceived by them as the great Israeli butcher of the Arabs. Palestinian Media Watch exposed that Sharon was also attacked and scorned by Arab members of Knesset, who joined the Arab world in their […]
Orange is a dangerous color to Bolsheviks
Knesset Members Nachman Shai and Ayelet Shaked, who head the legislative caucus to free Jonathan Pollard, presented President Shimon Peres on Wednesday with a petition signed by 106 MKs calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard. Peres added to what is most likely another useless exercise of frustration by stating, "It is both a right […]
Queen Elizabeth will grant Israeli Haredi Rabbi Yitzchak Shapira one of the Commonwealth’s highest civilian honors with an appointment as Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the British Embassy announced Tuesday. Rabbi Shapira is the son of former Haredi Knesset Member Rabbi Avraham Yosef Shapira. The Embassy said he will be […]
Finance Minister Yair Lapid called a press conference to announce great news for consumers – soft white cheese and whipped cream now will be under price control. Lapid’s move is a belated populist reply to the :”cottage cheese” protests of three summers ago, but Monday’s publicity stunt did not make an immediate positive impression on […]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will deliver a speech to the Knesset during his visit to Israel next month, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein announced Wednesday. Harper will lead an entourage of approximately 200 politicians, businessmen and journalists towards late January. ‘”I am happy and proud to host the prime minister of Canada, a courageous and […]
Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by nationalists Michael Ben-Ari, a former Knesset Member, and Itamar Ben-Gvir, to demand criminal charges be filed against MK Haneen Zoabi for her participation in the IHH terrorist-backed Mavi Mamara flotilla in 2010. Ben-Ari and Ben-Gvir took their case to the court after government prosecutors decided not to […]
A request by MK Hana Sweid (Hadash), to put up an official Christmas tree in the entrance to the Knesset was turned down by Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud), according to a report in Arutz-7. Sweid is from an Christian-Arab family. Edelstein made it clear that the Knesset will not officially host a Christmas display […]
A Be’er Sheva area man threw a lukewarm cup of hot tea in the face of MK Ahmed Tibi on Thursday during the legislator’s appearance at a protest against the Prawer Plan that calls for legalizing thousands of Bedouin structures on state land and moving thousands of Bedouin to other communities and cities. Police arrested […]
Google will have to pay 7 percent on revenue from Israeli Internet content that is copyrighted if the Knesset approves a bill submitted by Labor Knesset Member Erel Margalit and now under discussion in the Knesset Finance Committee. The proposed legislation calls for the royalties to be deposited in an account managed by the Finance […]
By JTA
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would be willing to speak to the Knesset, but only on the issues he chooses. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a public statement last week called on Abbas to address the Knesset and said he would travel to Ramallah to speak to the P.A. leadership. “Netanyahu comes […]
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