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Levy-Abekasis's announcement came after reports that Gantz planned to form his minority government within two weeks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Blue&White Party leader Benny Gantz must abandon plans to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and reject the idea of a “Jewish majority” government, says Joint List's Ayman Odeh.
By JNi.Media
"The big battle is between Habayit Hayehudi, which will be pulling to the right in all areas, versus the center-left, which is Yisrael Beiteinu."
By JNi.Media
The satisfaction with Netanyahu and Liberman is reflected in the survey's snapshot of the election results, if said elections had been held today.
By JNi.Media
Today some government ministries maintain ties with the NIF and its proxies, and the Communications, Culture and Education Ministries fund Israel Social TV which promotes boycotts against Israel, according to Im Tirtzu.
By JNi.Media
The clash over the bill is reaching the point where the gloves would be pulled off and the political fisticuffs could start.
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
Disagreement over a rotation agreement is threatening to dismantle the Joint Arab List, which to date has been a monumental success story in Israeli politics.
By JNi.Media
'What's outrageous is Abbas's refusal to condemn the heinous murder.'
By JNi.Media
In the 1990s, European countries complained about Israeli citizens with Israeli passports who were engaged in criminal activity, which affected Israel's visa agreements.
By JNi.Media
Druze members of Knesset also responded angrily to the report.
By JNi.Media
Alon Friedman of the Hillel organization waxed philosophical: 'A Jew is not someone whose grandfather was a Jew but someone whose grandson would be a Jew.'
By JNi.Media
The pressure to go ahead with the bill came from rightwing Likud members, as well as from Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beiteinu).
By JNi.Media
North Korea called Israel the 'only illegal possessor of nukes in the Middle East under the patronage of the US.'
By JNi.Media
Justice Na'or's rage was outright Chekhovian.
By JNi.Media
It remains to be seen which way Netanyahu will cleverly evade this crisis, and whether or not he is prepared to either arm wrestle the high court or put down a rightwing rebellion in his own party.
By JNi.Media
Why would Israel be so invested in taking money away from the only PA Arabs who still have something good to say about it, and give it to the PLO?
By JNi.Media
The rightwing parties could possibly combine their numbers to boycott either Kahlon or Lapid, or both, from the future coalition government.
By JNi.Media
Among the privileges which will become outlawed should the bill pass are conjugal visits, canteen purchases, and possession of TV sets and game consoles.
By JNi.Media
In January 2015 Shamir announced he was leaving the party and would not run in the 2015 elections because of to disagreements with Liberman over foreign policy.
By JNi.Media
"Last year MK Yoel Hasson (Zionist Camp) tried to pass the Arab initiative in the Knesset and the Likud rejected it."
Sofa Landver, an immigrant from Russia, has returned to the office she headed between 2009 and 2015.
By JNi.Media
A Friday Channel 1 News poll gives Bennett's party 14 seats in a new election, with Likud shrinking from 30 to 27 seats, Labor chopped down from 24 to 11, and Lieberman gaining 2, from 6 to 8 seats.
By JNi.Media
Kulanu's vagaries in the coming weeks should be viewed in the context of a party on its way to extinction attempting to soar once more by flapping its arms with great vigor.
By JNi.Media
On Friday morning, a Kulanu politician, Environment Minister Avi Gabbay, announced his resignation on account of the Lieberman appointment.
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.
Netanyahu expressed his continued openness towards including the opposition Zionist Union faction led by Labor party Chairman Isaac Herzog in the coalition.
Levi-Abekasis is one of only six Yisrael Beiteinu lawmakers and currently serves as deputy speaker of the Knesset.
By Shalom Bear
Both sides will be setting up negotiation teams to determine the terms of Liberman joining the coalition.
Liberman has a plan to fight assimilation which will strengthen the Diaspora and increase Aliyah
Lapid is the only opposition party leader who is giving Netanyahu some kind of support instead of trying to bring down the house.
The "tough guy" also says to kill and not injure terrorists, cancel citizenship of Jerusalem terrorists and impose army rule where necessary.
MK Jamal Zahalka said everything that a right-winger thinks but would not dare say about leftists - "racist", "spoiled" and "engineers of expulsion."
"I, Yaakov Litzman, pledge…to be faithful to the government of Israel and to its laws."
By JNi.Media
It's apparently a little boring sitting in the opposition.
Like a squabbling couple Netanyahu and Liberman, are both probably realizing life apart is much worse than life together.
By Shalom Bear
Netanyahu is angry and he plans to get even, but whose fault is it really?
By Shalom Bear
The deadline is tonight, and if Bibi hadn't abused Bayit Yehudi, he wouldn't be in this situation right now.
By Shalom Bear
Netanyahu is short-changing Bayit Yehudi. But is Bayit Yehudi tough enough to take advantage of Liberman's sudden exit?
By Shalom Bear
Avigdor Liberman, unhappy with the coalition talks dropped a political bombshell today.
Bayit Yehudi settles for three Cabinet posts. Shas to head Religious Affairs with Bayit Yehudi as Deputy.
By Shalom Bear
Bayit Yehudi wants the Religious Affairs Ministry, Yisrael Beytenu wants the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and both feel Netanyahu is trying to short-change them. It's a match made in heaven.
By Shalom Bear
If there are no surprises, Netanyahu is expected to form a coalition, after some tough negotiations, with the Likud, Bayit Yehudi, Kulanu, Yisrael Beytenu, UTJ and Shas.
Lieberman won’t admit he is responsible for the increase in the number of Arab Knesset Members.
Netanyahu is expected to have 61 recommendations in his favor.
Netanyahu said he wants to have a government formed within the next 2 to 3 weeks.
With nearly a dozen viable parties, the president choosing the one who pulls together the pieces, Israeli elections are complicated.
The Supreme Court may reverse the decision. The committee has not decided on Baruch Marzel's candidacy.
The barbed-wire political fence was more than Lieberman could stand.
By Shalom Bear
Avigdor Liberman finally declared his political allegiances without the semantic games and ambiguity.
Lieberman's issues a disproportionate response to polls that show his party will barely squeeze into the Knesset.
Israel TV and radio turned a one-seat improvement for Herzog-Livni into a major victory.
She finally figured out that her lawyer, not Lieberman, will be defending her if she is indicted for bribery.
MK David Rotem (Yisrael Beitienu) announced today that he is retiring from politics.
Voters apparently like the Likud’s more centrist list of candidates. Lieberman hurt by bribe scandal. Shas survives.
Lieberman calls the police investigation a “witch-hunt” aimed at hurting the party’s chances at the polls.
The results of the poll may cause people to start changing their minds.
Lieberman is destroying himself politically before the voters do it for him.
The surprising results are a strong warning to Bennett and Netanyahu that the right wing is not in their pockets.
All of the rats are leaving the sinking ship.
Netanyahu, who once scored a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky, has everyone in check.
By Shalom Bear
The law would be a major step forward in promoting home ownership in Israel.
Israel’s anti-Netanyahu media might regret their wishes if early elections are held.
The only non-coalition partner that gained popularity in the latest Knesset Channel poll was Meretz.
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, […]
The Jewish Home took a stand against freeing more terrorists. It knew it would lose. The Likud won the battle but may have lost the next war – the one that is fought at the election polls.
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 […]
Egypt said it is “bewildered” over Erdogan’s blaming Israel for Morsi’s ouster. The US said he was “offensive.” But the piece de resistance came from Avigdor Lieberman, who called him the new Goebbels.
The “Likud Beiteinu” party, a merger of the Likud and the Yisrael Beiteinu party headed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, will remain, he told reporters on Monday. Israel Beiteinu had the option of backing out of the agreement for a period of time after the elections, but Lieberman said he is sticking with Likud. He […]
Netanyahu’s ground gets shakier every day. He promised to hold the Foreign Ministry for Lieberman during criminal proceedings. The Attorney General now orders a probe of the legality of the deal.
By Ben Sales and Uriel Heilman
TEL AVIV – Political pundits have long debated who is the real Benjamin Netanyahu. Is he a pragmatist handcuffed by his right-wing support base and fealty to his late father’s nationalist vision? Is he a true right-wing ideologue whose apparent concessions to Israeli-Palestinian peace are but feints?
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and guest Mordechai Taub talk about the pact between Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu and other current events within the Israeli government.
In an unexpected move, 10% of the Likud Central Committee members gathered enough signatures to demand a secret ballot on whether or not to run on a joint list with Yisrael Beiteinu.
The merger of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and the Yisrael Beiteinu party of Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday has left-wing parties scrambling for a solution to the sudden show of solidarity on the part of the pro-nationalist camp.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about attending the Yisrael Beiteinu conference, public transportation in Jerusalem, and how Exile is moving with the end of High Holiday services in Egypt.
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 […]
Sheikh Muhammad Hussein in response: "I can't change the Hadith."
Discussions follow recent legislation seeking to ban electronically-amplified muezzin calls entirely.
By Sam Ser
Tzipi Livni announces Kadima primaries; Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman faces indictment
According to the poll, Kadima would plummet 17 Knesset seats if elections were held today.
Ahmad Tibi recited poem about MK Michaeli before the Knesset.
The bill would have the greatest impact on the Arab and ultra-Orthodox communities.
MK Sofa Landver responds to claims of racism against Ethiopian Israelis.
June 26, 2026 
