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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The daughter of Holocaust survivors is cheapening and ripping up the [memory] of the holy six million [Jews who were killed by the Nazis],” responded the Israeli National Security Minister.
Yair Golan's Meretz party couldn't garner enough votes to get into the Knesset, but he's calling for civil war.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Uri Zaki raised 734,000 shekels in 2017-2022 for his nonprofit from the New Israel Fund, a U.S.-based NGO that supports progressive groups in Israel.
The unexpected gesture was in response to the desecration of Tefillin earlier in the day.
Rinawie Zoabi refuses to quit the Knesset which is endangering the coalition, and might bring back Bibi Netanyahu.
When the Progressives take over....
Piasecki could prove to be a problem for Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his coalition government considering the very harsh words that she has had for him personally over the years.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rinawie Zoabi is a member of the left-wing Meretz party and is considered a political headache for the coalition.
By David Isaac
“Substantively, it’s not that big an issue. We’re not talking about a big defensive settlement, but in politics, symbols often are more important than substance,” said Yechiel Leiter, senior fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Herzog’s visit to Hebron is the first of many ceremonies he will be attending throughout the country in honor of the Chanukkah celebrations.
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.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Meretz minister of Health believed it was more important to meet with the head of the PLO than to sit in the cabinet meeting on the Coronavirus.
The Palestinian Authority wants very much to have a meeting directly with Naftali Bennett.
By Israel Hayom
Israel’s Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej argues that as past Israeli leaders dealt directly with late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, the government should do the same with Hamas.
Environmental Minister Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) opposes the oil deal.
In protest of MK Tamar Zandberg's bill that would outlaw part of Chabad's outreach, protesters put on Tefillin near Zandberg's home.
By Israel Hayom
MK Nitzan Horowitz’s remark “justifying the political and anti-Semitic action of the court at The Hague and its persecution of IDF soldiers is a disgrace to the Israeli Knesset,” says Yamina Party’s Ayelet Shaked.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
3000 hates crimes by PA Arabs against Jews were recorded by the IDF.
The forced merger of most of Israeli political parties fell apart once the anti-Netanyahu glue holding them together was dissolved.
Levy-Abekasis's announcement came after reports that Gantz planned to form his minority government within two weeks.
By JNi.Media
Attorney Ella Skat of the ITIM Institute asked, “Why not compel mohalim to carry malpractice insurance?”
By JNi.Media
"Since when does Ankara pull our moral strings? Does history change according the nature of relations with a leader like Erdogan?" Speaker Edelstein wondered.
Only Meretz and the Joint Arab List opposed the bill.
Up to the last minute, it wasn't clear the bill had a chance of passing in the Knesset.
'We have Arabs in our party and therefore by definition, we cannot be Zionist.'
Should this be filed under irony, hypocrisy or just simply hatred?
By JNi.Media
'The decision regarding eating chametz is personal and there is no place for the legislator to become involved by imposing limits and threatening criminal sanctions.'
Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi called the residents of the Jewish community of Amona "land thieves" while speaking to Ono Academic College.
By JNi.Media
MK Ghattas will be allowed by law to appear at the Knesset Committee and argue his case, following which the committee would vote on whether or not it recommends a vote at the plenum on removing his immunity.
By JNi.Media
Interestingly, several Muslim and European countries have enacted laws compelling their mosques to "muffle" their loudspeakers, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
Speakers and participants at the event sharply criticized organizers, saying the gathering was a “cynical political rally” for the Zionist Union.
By JNi.Media
Israeli courts maintain skeletal Shabbat and Holiday shifts to respond to the most urgent needs, like police requests for injunctions to prevent the smuggling of children.
By JNi.Media
When MK Slomiansky read from a list of just how much money some leftwing NGO received from abroad the opposition benches went on the warpath, drowning his voice with their angry shouting.
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 JoeSettler
When a Meretz councilwoman is thoroughly rebuked by her own constituency for her anti-religious hatred, it means there's hope after all.
By JNi.Media
Frej's bill calls for including at least one woman among the Qadis-Muslim jurists in Israeli courts that operate under Sharia Law.
At least two MKs want Trump kept out of the country. Several Opposition MKs demand Netanyahu cancel Dec. 28 meeting with Trump. Herzog mum.
The Muslim narrative of anarchy that played out in Iraq, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and Libya is going to destroy the Palestinian Authority, not Israel.
"I, Yaakov Litzman, pledge…to be faithful to the government of Israel and to its laws."
By JNi.Media
Labor MKs described threats from party activists, who promised political damage to MKs who chose not to tow the party line on this issue...
The left-wing party's problem is that the ministry spent more money to promote Judaism than democracy.
With nearly a dozen viable parties, the president choosing the one who pulls together the pieces, Israeli elections are complicated.
By Shalom Bear
Meretz doesn't seem to understand the Arab sector whom they imagine to be their natural partners and allies.
The Supreme Court may reverse the decision. The committee has not decided on Baruch Marzel's candidacy.
V15's stated goals for the Middle East would result in the end of the Jewish State.
Gafni's position: The Left would give the Chareidim more money, but the Right allows more Judaism in the public schools.
The trend in the polls is clear - the next government will not be muscled by the left.
The results of the poll may cause people to start changing their minds.
All of the rats are leaving the sinking ship.
Netanyahu, who once scored a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky, has everyone in check.
Bnei Akiva religious youth members joined forces with far left Meretz youth group members on July 4, 2011, to protest in front of the US Consulate in Israel, calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard. That was years ago, and as of today, Pollard has now spent 30 years in jail. Enough is enough.
The coalition likes to survive by blood-letting.
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, […]
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, […]
By JTA
Leftists may not like Moshe Feiglin’s view of the Palestinian Authority, but they love him for his pro-marijuana stance. Meretz MK says, “On this we have a shared goal.” Feiglin reveals, “I don’t smoke.”
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 […]
By JoeSettler
The Israeli government wants to track every single financial transaction you make - EVERY. SINGLE. TRANSACTION!
The Yesh Atid party, chaired by Yair Lapid, continues to lose popularity in the latest poll, with Meretz picking up the pieces and Likud, Jewish Home and Labor holding on to their strength. If elections were held today, Lapid’s party would win only 12 seats, compared with 19 Knesset Members that it won in the […]
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.
Small shop owners in cities outside of Tel Aviv may follow the example of Tel Aviv and campaign for their cities to uphold any laws that prohibit stores from opening on Shabbat. The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Tel Aviv has been mocking the law by simply imposing fines on stores that are open […]
Yair Lapid’s star is beginning to dim, with his Yesh Atid party losing two seats in the Knesset in a Knesset Channel poll released on Monday. The two-seat drop from its current standing in the Knesset is even more serious when taking into consideration that Lapid was sitting on top of the poll three months […]
By JTA
Approximately Jerusalem residents, including Meretz party supporters, protested on front of City Hall Saturday night against a plan to close a new movie theater complex on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. The complex, which includes restaurants and a 15-screen movie theater, is set to open this summer. It will close on weekends in keeping with an […]
Likud Knesset Member Miri Regev announced Wednesday she will visit the Temple Mount to try to understand the problem with Jews praying at the holy site. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf officially controls the Temple Mount, a power granted to it by the Israeli government shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967. MK Regev, who chairs […]
Of course there are no "Jews only" roads in Israel, just as there are no Jews only buses or even 'Palestinian only' buses in Israel. But if you tell a big lie often enough, well, Goebbels was the master and look where that took us.
It does not really matter who is in power in Israel: no Palestinian leader has a mandate to make any concessions to Israel, let alone sign a peace treaty.
July 10, 2026 
