Tag: Avigdor Lieberman
Israeli government agrees on increased defense budget for 2022
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...
Gantz, Liberman agree to cancel plan to shorten IDF service
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 Finance Minister Lieberman describes budget as ‘national task’
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...
The differences between Israel’s 2020 and 2021 elections
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...
Bennett nixes joining coalition led by Netanyahu or Lapid
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...
Netanyahu: Opposition leaders’ calls to ignore COVID directives will lead to anarchy
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...
Lieberman: Israelis should flout gov’t COVID-19 directives, rely on ‘common sense’
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...
Amid political deadlock, will Gantz and Lieberman form minority government with Israeli-Arab support?
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...
Gantz agrees to Lieberman’s conditions for joining a center-left coalition
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...
Lieberman: ‘No more unity, we will form a government without Netanyahu’
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...