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Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman (left) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz in Ramat Gan on March 9, 2020. At the time, Lieberman was a member of Knesset and Gantz was head of the opposition. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Israeli government agrees on increased defense budget for 2022

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Defense Minister Benny Gantz have agreed on a defense budget to be passed as part of the state budget for 2022: 58 billion shekels...
Defense Minister Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on June 21, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90

Gantz, Liberman agree to cancel plan to shorten IDF service

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman agreed on Monday to cancel a plan designed to shorten military service for male and female conscripts in a number of roles, according to a...
Israeli Minister of Finance Avigdor Lieberman arrives at the President's Residence in Jerusalem for a group photo of the newly sworn-in Israeli government, June 14, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli Finance Minister Lieberman describes budget as ‘national task’

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Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman met on Monday with key members of his staff for an initial discussion on formulating a two-year state budget for 2021-22. Noting that passing a budget would be a critical...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Finance Minister Yair Lapid at a cabinet meeting on October 7, 2014. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90.

The differences between Israel’s 2020 and 2021 elections

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Israelis will head to the polls next week for the fourth parliamentary elections in two years. The voters will determine which of the 13 parties polling near the electoral threshold will enter the 120-member...
Former Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett attends the launch of the Yamina Party campaign, on Feb. 12, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Bennett nixes joining coalition led by Netanyahu or Lapid

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Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett on Wednesday reiterated that he will not back Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or join the center-left bloc of Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid after the March 23 elections. With...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a visit to a Jerusalem school ahead of the opening of the school year, on Aug. 25, 2020. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Netanyahu: Opposition leaders’ calls to ignore COVID directives will lead to anarchy

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday took opposition politicians to task for calling on the public not to cooperate with Health Ministry directives regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Such calls, said Netanyahu, would lead...
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman meets with heads of the Yesha Council in Judea and Samaria on Sept. 6, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90.

Lieberman: Israelis should flout gov’t COVID-19 directives, rely on ‘common sense’

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Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman urged Israelis on Monday to flout government coronavirus directives and rely on “common sense” instead. During a meeting on Monday morning of his party’s Knesset faction, which was widely...
Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman (left) and leader of the Blue and White Party Benny Gantz hold a joint statement after their meeting in Ramat Gan on March 9, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Amid political deadlock, will Gantz and Lieberman form minority government with Israeli-Arab support?

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With no clear path towards a government coalition for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the third round of elections on March 2, Israel’s political scene has entered a state of chaos that could...
Blue and White Party chairman Benny Gantz and Israel Beitenu Party chairman Avigdor Lieberman give a joint statement to the media after a meeting for negotiations towards building a new government, at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat Gan, on Nov. 14, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Gantz agrees to Lieberman’s conditions for joining a center-left coalition

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Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz agreed to Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman’s coalition demands on Sunday, tweeting a Facebook post by Lieberman showing his party’s preconditions for joining a Gantz-led government and...
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leder Avigdor Lieberman speaks at the Maariv conference in Herzliya, on Feb. 26, 2020. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Lieberman: ‘No more unity, we will form a government without Netanyahu’

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Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor Lieberman declared on Wednesday that following Israel’s March 2 election, the next government will be formed without Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking at the Maariv business conference in Herzliya, Lieberman discussed the...