יום רביעי, י״ב תשרי תשפ״זWednesday, September 23, 2026
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Labor leader Merav Michaeli and Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz both demanded of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that he ensure they never be surprised by such an announcement again in the future.
Levy-Abekasis's announcement came after reports that Gantz planned to form his minority government within two weeks.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Meanwhile, the small parties on the right are still squabbling.
Gabai and Livni agreed to appoint Livni as opposition leader, while letting Gabai keep his hopes up for the Prime Minister's position.
By JoeSettler
The American Jewish leadership don't realize yet how completely manipulated they were by Prime Minister Netanyahu.
The strike affected New Olim who were planning to complete the purchase of their new homes in August.
Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot is Israel's largest and most popular mortgage bank and the strike is affecting a lot of home buyers.
The giant ammonia tank was deemed a major health, environmental and security hazard for years.
Another Labor party chairman is rejected after just one term.
By JNi.Media
The discussion, then as now, revolved around annexation versus a two-state solution, although at the time the most these Israeli ministers could imagine was a Palestinian autonomy under Israeli rule (a solution that's to the right of today's Likud).
By JNi.Media
'Had Australia been a member of the Security Council, it would not have supported last Friday's resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements.'
Israeli Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog slams UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, notes his 'consistent hatred of Israel.'
By JNi.Media
"This is the beginning of a significant revolution. I stayed at home for three months with each of my children after they were born, and I enjoyed it very much."
By JNi.Media
"Tajikistan is a Muslim state that has close economic, social and cultural ties with Iran."
Man has two competing sides to him, each one crying out to fulfill it needs, each one demanding its fill.
By JNi.Media
Herzog did not explain how a 55% majority of the house can be considered "extremist" while the remaining 45% are the proverbial moderates.
By Shalom Bear
Both sides will be setting up negotiation teams to determine the terms of Liberman joining the coalition.
The politicians are insisting on sticking to their principles, but will they?
“If we can speak with Mahmoud Abbas, we can speak with Netanyahu,” Herzog said.
By JNi.Media
Israel has seen its share of wall-to-wall coalition governments, especially in the 1980s, and in each instance it has been Labor which acquiesced to join with Likud.
By JNi.Media
Shaffir called out the Netanyahu government for hypocrisy in its settlement policy.
The airport workers; committees new excuse to shut down the airport is to hold a solidarity strike with the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
Update: The union has called off the strike after reaching an agreement with the Airport Authority.
More Palestinian Authority workers also are working in Israel, but B'Tselem manages to find a black lining in a silver cloud.
Final voter counts are in, if Yachad doesn't petition the courts over voter fraud...
The overwhelming electoral victory by the Likud was nothing less than a revolution, and an absolutely clear mandate from the people.
Initial Exit Poll Results
Even if his predictions are completely wrong he can still be called an expert!
By Shalom Bear
We could see the Likud or the Zionist Union ending up as junior partners in a future coalition.
By JoeSettler
The polls currently don't look good for the Right, we may need Yachad to create a loud opposition.
The difference is significant enough in this poll, that the Left can finally form a coalition.
Unless Bayit Yehudi builds up seats, a National Unity government is looking like a strong possibility.
Eli Yishai is starting to surge upward.
The Left-Right division remains almost the same, but a National Unity government is also feasible.
The parties keep trading seats back and forth, but the right-left blocks remain the same.
The parties keep trading seats back and forth, but the right-left blocks remain the same.
Likud is siphoning off seats from Bayit Yehudi.
Haaretz may not be too pleased with the results of the latest election poll they ran...
The barbed-wire political fence was more than Lieberman could stand.
National religious voters favoring the new Yachad party headed by Eli Yishai may be wasting their votes.
Israel TV and radio turned a one-seat improvement for Herzog-Livni into a major victory.
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 […]
Labor primary election results are in...
The latest polls put Likud back on top, but its being able to form a coalition is less clear cut.
Herzog and Livni discovered some of their voters don't want to vote for a Zionist party.
By Shalom Bear
Livni's party is now down to 2 MKs (from 6). What did Herzog buy that was so expensive?
The results of the poll may cause people to start changing their minds.
Stern expressed dismay at Tzipi Livni's merger with the Labor party.
All of the rats are leaving the sinking ship.
Netanyahu, who once scored a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky, has everyone in check.
“It’s serious, there are now genuine questions being asked about whether we will be able to vote Labor next May.”
Israel’s anti-Netanyahu media might regret their wishes if early elections are held.
The Knesset overwhelmingly voted down MK Stav Shafir's (Labor) Civil Marriage bill.
Israeli MKs from Likud and Labor plan to submit a bill allowing Jews to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City.
Over Shabbat, a woman from Yitzhar began having contractions. Unable to get to the hospital because of the snow on the road, an IDF helicopter was called in. The helicopter landed in Yitzhar and transported the woman to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva. No news yet if it was a boy or a girl.
Deri is actively trying to rehabilitate his image among the Settlers and National-Religious crowd.
The Likud-Beiteinu party and the Jewish Home parties would collectively win six more seats in the Knesset if elections were held today, according to a new poll conducted by Smith Institute for Globes business newspaper. Labor, headed by Shelly, Yachimovich, would gain one more seat, while Yesh Atid, headed by Yair Lapid would sink form […]
Tzipi Livni, Israel's senior negotiator in talks with the Palestinian Authority and head of her own tiny six-Knesset Member “Tnuah” party, is sniping at the coalition partner Jewish Home party for being an obstacle to a peace agreement. She told Israel Radio’s flagship Reshet Bet station Tuesday morning that the peace talks would have greater […]
Bennett lost the battle for Chief Rabbis but he may have won the war. A Knesset Channel poll shows Jewish Home party as the second largest, only three seats behind the Likud and three ahead of Lapid.
For Lapid to successfully challenge Netanyahu, he will need to find the right time for a strategic exit from the government.
With just days left until the coalition deadline, any of these rumors and leaks could be true.
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 […]
Not exactly what Jewish Home voters thought they would get on election day.
The institution of party primaries in Israel needs to be expanded not shrunk, so that the government will be under the supervision of the people from which it derives power and the moral authority to govern.
If we in the Likud will understand the deep reason for our party’s decline we will continue to securely lead Israel with our national vision.
Conservative movements and parties cannibalize themselves.
Like Liberman before, Lapid will likely be Netanyahu's major partner as under almost any coalition figuration Yesh Atid can bring down the coalition.
These are the final results for the elections to the 19th Knesset.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
There are Israeli voters making some surprising and rather unexpected choices.
The Channel 10 report included the fact that none of the Likud's district candidates would get in and even MK Carmel Shama could be on the chopping bloc.
By Barry Rubin
Netanyahu’s impending victory is due to the fact that the prime minister has done a reasonably good job, the economy is okay, terrorism is low, he’s kept out of trouble.
A selection of videos from the Israeli election commercials.
The average of last week's nine polls in Israel
The right of center parties continue to maintain their lead, albeit by a slightly smaller margin in eight polls released December 9-15.
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 […]
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.
Labor party primary results are in, and Shelly Yechimovitch did not come out a winner.
The right-wing block would receive 70 seats, vs. 50 to the center-left, including the Arabs.
As Israel’s border with Gaza heats up, Israeli officials from the highest echelons have declared that the State will defend Israeli citizens.
This week’s average shows Likud Beitenu and Labor position similar to last week. Shas gains and takes the third position while Lapid’s Yesh Atid drops and falls into the fourth position. Hadash passes Meretz, while Kadima and Independence pick up gains. Am Shalem is also picking up steam. The right block gains ground this week with the help of Shas and Am Shalem’s gains.
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.
Weekly poll average: Likud-Beitenu at 38 seats; Labor at 22; the Right wing parties a little over 66 seats and the left has just under 54. The Jewish Home-National Union list rose to 9 seats while Kadima continues its decline into oblivion.
Israel's political party conventions make the Knesset seem polite and tame. At the Likud Central Committee convention the other day, the vote for PM Netanyahu's proposal for the Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu to run together in the upcoming election was conducted by a "show of hands" popular vote. Not the best way to hold a vote.
The New Israel Fund recently announced that it “is undertaking a comprehensive survey to identify those most involved in inciting racism and violence.” Incitement to violence and intolerance is a particularly troubling problem plaguing Israeli society today. This problem is all the more severe when the incitement comes from respected public figures and political leaders. But will the New Israel Fund will also include anti-Jewish incitement coming from the Israeli Left?
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s call to disband the government and call for new elections may serve him well, if two public opinion polls published Thursday pan out.
A joint JoeSettler-Jameel post. Left behind in the wake of Netanyahu’s surprise unity maneuver are some serious winners and loser. There is no doubt that elections would have shaken things up, but this unity coalition shakes up things even more. What Netanyahu managed to do today is of historic proportions and has some serious ramifications […]
By Barry Rubin
Israel is apparently going to have elections this autumn and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will almost certainly win by a big margin. Understanding why explains a lot about the country that people think they know the most about but in fact comprehend the least.
Speaking at last Friday's prayer at the North London Central Mosque, also known as Finsbury Park Mosque—and formerly controlled by convicted terrorist recruiter Abu Hamza al-Masri—Ken Livingstone, the Labor party's candidate for mayor of London, pledged to "educate the mass of Londoners" about Islam.
Shalit announced that he would talk with them if they agreed to it, and he would even shake the hands of Gilad's kidnappers, also saying he would kidnap Israeli soldiers if he was a Palestinian. He insisted that PM Binyamin Netanyahu was not solely responsible for the release of Gilad, and charged that the PM only released his son because the polls showed that 70-80% of the public supported the deal.
By Mati Wagner
Demonstrations last summer that protested exorbitant housing prices, high costs for basic necessities and growing income inequality managed to mobilize an unprecedented number of Israelis. Still, even if socioeconomic issues become a central issue in the upcoming elections, it is not clear that parties such as Labor or Meretz will be its beneficiaries.
Dahaf conducted two telephone polls for newspaper Yediot Ahronot on 10 February 2012 with a sample of 500 respondents and a sampling error of 4.5%.
Israel’s main labor union, the Histadrut, declared a general strike on Wednesday impacting services across the country.
Lapid continues to use Facebook as the main medium for his political proclamations.
The Freedom and Justice Party will lead the Labor, Planning and Budget committees.
The Jewish Press' Knesset Insider discusses the potential for electoral reform in Israel.
Former media personality dispels any notion that he would join Kadima, Labor
According to the poll, Kadima would plummet 17 Knesset seats if elections were held today.
By JTA
Noam Shalit, fresh off his successful campaign to have his son, Gilad, freed in exchange for over a thousand Arab security prisoners, will attempt to win a Knesset seat with the Labor party.
Noam Shalit will seek to run on the Labor Party list in the next election.
September 18, 2026 
