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Security Cabinet Considers Admitting Syrian Victims of Chemical Attack

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Even the Arab Joint List party, which rarely criticizes excesses by the Arab world, had called the Syrian sarin gas attack a “war crime.”

Israel Elections 5775 / The Muqata

Naftali Bennett and Uri Ariel are Going to Lose the Elections

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.

Felafel on Rye

Voters Beware!

By Tzvi Fishman

Don’t cast your vote for a party that condemns Torah values and honest and dedicated people who have led the way in the education of our youth and the settlement of Eretz Yisrael.

News Briefs

National Union Chooses MKs; Uri Ariel Replaces Katz as Party Chair

By Daniel Tauber

The highest number of seats polls show the joint Jewish Home-National Union list is 13.

Op-Eds

And Now for Something Completely Different: Accountability and Unity in Israeli Politics

By Uri Bank

I will also work towards being your “Congressman” in the Knesset, with the level of connection and accountability that Anglos are accustomed to.

News Briefs

National Union: Obama Vote Boosting Israeli Left

By Jewish Press News Desk

The National Union (HaIchud HaLeumi) released the following short statement following President Barack Obama's reelection: "Obama's re-election gives a tailwind boost to the Israeli left-wing. The upcoming Israeli elections will be about building a national coalition that will help Netanyahu withstand the pressures put upon him. A Jewish coalition that is strengthened by the new […]

News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

Right-Wing National Union Facing Disintegration While NRP Is Thriving in Polls

By Jacob Edelist

Ben Ari attacked his current party, noting that "they know that the brand 'Ben Ari' is worth more than the two or three votes that each one of them would bring."

News Briefs / The Knesset

Bayit Yehudi Membership Drive Results Surprises

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Politics

To Unite the Nat’l Religious Camp, U.S.-Born Candidates Offer Themselves as a Sacrifice

By Daniel Tauber

Following Naftali Bennett's reported statement that he won't allow three-fourths of the National Union party to run with the Jewish Home, American-born candidates for the Jewish Home party’s Knesset list Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel say they would rather see a merger of the two National Religious parties even if it costs them their chance at the Knesset.

Israel / News Briefs

National Union MKs Demand Defense of Jews on Mount of Olives

By Malkah Fleisher

National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and Aryeh Eldad toured eastern Jerusalem’s A-Tur neighborhood on Sunday afternoon in an attempt to highlight the need for security in the area, famous for housing the millennia-old Mount of Olives cemetery.

Israel

Peace Now: MKs Protesting Illegals Promoted Racism, Violence

By Malkah Fleisher

The general director of Peace Now, Yariv Oppenheier, has urged Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to open a criminal investigation into MKs Miri Regev (Likud), Danny Danon (Likud), and Michael Ben-Ari (National Union), for making speeches Wednesday in Tel Aviv he says incite racism and violence.

News Briefs / The Knesset

Both Religious Zionist Knesset Factions Celebrate the Mimouna; Ketzele: We Run Together or I Quit

By Jewish Press Staff

Hundreds of activists who had arrived to celebrate the Mimouna applauded the MKs announcements that there was no other option for their two factions but to run a united list in the next Knesset elections. MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzele) repeated his earlier announcement that if the two factions do not run as one, he would remove himself from the campaign.

Knesset Corner

'Jewish Home' Blues

By Jeremy Saltan

The Knesset's Jewish Home faction is in danger of splitting, following the internal political maneuvering that has taken place in the National Union.

Knesset Corner

Nationalist Camp Grows to 76 seats in Recent Poll, Likud Opens Big Lead with 39 Seats

By Jeremy Saltan

According to the poll, PM Netanyahu could form a coalition of 62 seats with Yisrael Beitenu, National Union and Jewish Home without the need for any ultra-orthodox or center-left parties.

News Briefs

MK Tibi Praises Palestinian 'Martyrs'

By Jewish Press Staff

Tibi makes comments at event honoring Palestinian 'martyrs'.

News Briefs

Security Forces Clash with Activists in Outpost Community Evacuation

By Jewish Press Staff

Police dismantle Yissa Bracha, near Mitzpe Yericho, early Thursday morning.

MUSSAR – Avi Ganz

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